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He hobbled home on his twisted ankle.

Zoom out and aim at Uncle Dave flipping burgers on the grill.

Italy was a popular destination among transient workers in summer. There was a transient relationship between them, but it didn't work out.

The game was cancelled because of a waterlogged pitch. Water the plants regularly but do not allow the soil to become waterlogged.

You may notice jitter on the screen. aircraft jitter

The newspaper reports of the discussion only roughly approximated to (= were not exactly the same as) what was actually said.0

But I'm sure it aggravated him quite a bit early on.

you can pqss. We are only dawdling. He found himself dawdling, looking at the water rather than his watch.

John is (the) skipper of the team this year. Ready to go, skipper.

a carpenter's/plumber's mate. He had worked as a ship's mate for ten years.

She absconded from boarding school and hitchhiked to the city. Two prisoners absconded last night.

Yet our position was far from being an enviable one.

a small North American animal with black marks on its face and a long tail with black rings on it

Every time we have this argument you wheel out the same old statistics, and I'm still not convinced! Year after year they wheel out the same third-rate celebrities to entertain us.

They have a stockpile of weapons and ammunition that will last several months. The rebels have been stockpiling weapons.

He is known not to take payoffs.

fish spittle? He wiped some spittle from his mouth. "Hey," he hissed, spittle flying from his lips.

The Federal Capital Commission, had, meanwhile, been busy increasing the social amenity of the fledgeling city.

It is a brave and unflinching account of prison life.

The audience was very partisan, and refused to listen to her speech. partisan politics

He was exultant at the news of his team’s victory. exultation

Her words were eating away at me. Is something eating away at you? the europe-global recession crisis is eating away at out finances

Bloodletting is the procedure performed in order to regulate the patient's four humors:

It is my conviction that this idea, although subversive, is what is needed here. He was persecuted for being a subversive. There was a streak of subversiveness in both young women.

He felt a sense of incredulity, anger, and pain at the accusation made against him. A lot of people expressed incredulity that somebody of her age would want to die.

This company has purveyed clothing to the armed forces for generations. The president's speech was intended to purvey a message of optimism.

She stomped up the stairs and slammed her bedroom door. He woke up in a bad mood and stomped off to the bathroom. I wish those people upstairs would stop stomping around. Why did you stomp on that insect?

Euro tanked last morning. The artist's paintings suddenly tanked. I tanked the match in order to have a weaker opponent in the next round.

You look a bit peaky, love, are you all right?

He turned his friend in on the police station.

It's customary to tip the waiter. This is her customary behaviour.

Mobile phone technology is developing so quickly that many customers are concerned about obsolescence.

In the sentence "We went to the airport", "went to the airport" is the predicate. It would be unwise to predicate that the disease is caused by a virus before further tests have been carried out.

We want to ingrain good financial habits in people.

They were trying to institute mandatory drug tests at school. They instituted the mayor for the president position.

It's high time we stopped soldiering.

The total diameter of this henge was around 200 feet.

This sanitization of death is comparatively recent. He says something must be done to stop the sanitization of literature.

Sea water percolates down through the rocks. He did so a couple more times as an idea began to percolate through his head.

The army will toughen him up. They toughened up, though both knew it would never get easy.

It still seemed to be coming from more or less dead ahead. And I believe that dead ahead is just what we are looking for.

The manager told me to fill in for Jim in tomorrow's meeting.

The pilot had to eject from his burning plane... Small splatters of molten lava were ejected from the crater. The coffee machine suddenly ejected a handful of coins.

The company went bankrupt owing $2.4 million of interest in arrears.

My heart overflowed with love when I saw my son for the first time. Overflow of people in one room can be very dangerous.

Andy's going through a rough patch at the moment - his wife wants a divorce.

"The guy had a lot of pockmarks on his face," he said.

Now he looked at the figure in front of the triptych.

She found a cooked partridge for herself on the table.

Do you have any idea how crummy life seemed when I was your age? After two crummy years for the economy, how can that be?

It was never subjected to a cage or a feedlot.

He was hanging on a ramification of a big oak tree. We went straight for hours until we reached a ramification.

They're going to their neighbours' for a shindig.

preventive healthcare preventive medicine. Antibiotic prophylaxis refers to the use of antibiotics to prevent infection.

the lion's maw. She fears that the matter will simply be swallowed up by the maw of bureaucracy.

Some people believe that the family is the bedrock of society

It seems God is taxing you. I don't want to tax you with the burden.

She raised her hand to screen her eyes from the bright light. She screened her diary from her mother. This film will be screened in all cinemas.

I'm sorry but your answer is off the mark.

Smallpox is clearly the worst of the pestilential diseases. In the story, a pestilential fog envelops every population centre in the country. Part of the delight of Venice is its freedom from the pestilential motor car.

She spoke to her family from her deathbed.

The two envoys have succeeded in mediating an end to the war

Do you think I had time to meet every hireling in person?"

He has a voracious appetite (= he eats a lot). He's a voracious reader of historical novels (= he reads a lot of them eagerly and quickly).

Pseudo-melanistic tigers have thick stripes so close together that the tawny background is barely visible between stripes.

It's bad when phones garble conversations.

The new skyscraper will dwarf all those near it. This new crisis may well dwarf most that have gone before.

When her eyes shot to his, he knew she was looking for a double entendre. She smiled as though the question were a double entendre.

The teacher is very genial/has a genial manner.

Over the past 18 months, there has been a precipitous fall in car sales. a precipitous mountain path

The documentary intersperses graphical animations with film clips of the actual event. Her handwritten notes were interspersed throughout the text.

Some of the old fortifications still exist. The fortifications of the castle were massive and impenetrable.

the drudgery of housework

municipal authorities municipal tennis courts municipal elections

I have to say that last question flummoxed me.

They've got blood and grease on them. He always worked some grease into convincing people. The dinner plates were thick with grease.

You shouldn't denigrate people just because they have different beliefs from you. He denigrated my contribution to this project.

It's every women's signature feature. The team has executed its signature strategy.

With a short exhalation, he prepared for the work ahead. You could hear every ragged exhalation.

The hotel complex was a honeycomb of rooms and courtyards. The tomb was honeycombed with passages and chambers. The mountains are honeycombed by mine tunnels.

a naval chart. There is a chart on the classroom wall showing the relative heights of all the children. The doctor keeps the charts of the patients in his office. The explorer charted the island.

Your story doesn't add up. Now it all adds up!

I was using a pen that I'd purloined from the office.

I read press releases to learn about current events.

It had been cut almost in two at its midsection. And most Americans in the great midsection knew nothing about military intelligence.

Is the matter lucid to you? The substance is completely lucid and very light. In rare lucid moments she recognized me and smiled at me.

Collagen implants don't help the blemishes left by chicken pox or acne.

His smile was perfunctory.

The government's spending limits will seriously impinge on the education budget.

The company has been very successful while it has been under the stewardship of Mr White.

He has his shoulder in a splint.

Many parts of an aircraft are riveted together. It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted

She looked as if he'd hit her between the eyes with a mallet.

She was booted out of her highly paid job.

sagacious guide that makes a daunting decision slightly more straightforward. a sagacious person/comment/choice

They looked askance at our scruffy clothes.

The coach decided to send him off because he wasn't playing well.

Sinuous movements of a snake frighten me. Do not enter the sinuous path. He enjoyed watching the sinuous bodies of the dancers. The hikers followed the sinuous path through the trees.