June 2023

Rats communicate many viruses. Wild animals communicate many dangerous diseases.

During this freezing weather, the food put out by householders is the only form of sustenance that the birds have. A stick of celery does not provide much sustenance. When her husband died, she drew sustenance from in her religious beliefs.

Yet they would live long enough to know agonizing death. My life has become nothing but an agonizing wait for death.

The analysis used here was later to be known as the paramountcy doctrine. With this policy they established their paramountcy over one princely state after another.

This attack will exacerbate the already tense relations between the two communities. Her allergy was exacerbated by the dust.

His skin was tough and leathery

grinding poverty. these regulations grind down the local population with their obstructive laws.

The organization's aim is to link up people from all over the country who are suffering from the disease. We offer advice to Polish companies who want to link up with businesses in this country.

His performance slayed the audience.

Some in the party want to win back votes by adopting a harder, anti-Socialist line.

That lad is in league with satanical powers.

I peered through a chink in the curtains and saw them all inside. On a hot day it's nice to hear the chink of ice in a glass. The coins chinked lightly in his pocket as he walked along.

Her answer bemused us all. One's completely bemused with geological ages

The critics scoffed at his paintings. Years ago people would have scoffed at the idea that cars would be built by robots. I baked a huge cake this morning, and the kids scoffed the lot.

an ear-splitting explosion ear-piercing screams. deafening

a grasping, greedy man.

an admonitory remark She raised an admonitory finger at me. The most common parental admonition must surely be "Don't stay out late".

The government should be heedful of the impact of inflation on savings.

There was a bit of hanky-panky going on at the Christmas party. Wanna go quickly to one of the bathroom stalls for some hanky panky

their blueprint for economic reform

statewide elections

I would probably slur that mouthful. Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk. The brace on his teeth made him slur slightly.

a discontinuous process

The bottom line is that we must and will protect the children.

At the last minute they tacked on a couple of extra visits to my schedule. at the final rendition of the presentation I decided to just tack on a couple of final words summarizing the last paragraph.

We're all pulling for you (to get well). I'm pulling for the home team.

She waved goodbye with her cane.

In The Seventh Seal, von Sydow’s Antonius Block—a knight returning from the Crusades to find his country decimated by plague—is a strapping specimen of manhood coming face-to-face, literally, with his mortality.

She was rapping at my door.

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He has become a serious liability to our business, and that cannot continue. debts. After a certain age, a car's just a liability. Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability

You could have told me I had a snotty nose! I don't want to use your snotty handkerchief!

While not wanting to underplay the seriousness of the situation, I have to say that it is not as bad as people seem to think.

He thinks he's a real stud. a nose stud. Girls, look at that stud! There were five horses at the stud.

These effing children!

She used/put up her house as collateral for a loan. You've put in the shop and the house as collateral. collateral senses of a word a collateral branch of the family

News of the arrest perturbed her greatly.

be the teacher's pet. Good day to you, pet. Animals is his pet subject.

I dream about my late wife every night.

my father has a muscular, strapping frame. hunched frame

She couldn't hide the deprecation in her voice. The barman shook his head in deprecation.

The kitchen roof is apt to (= likely to) leak when it rains. She's in her eighties now and apt to be a little forgetful. He is apt to be irritable when people ask him why he isn't more cheerful. How often I was to remember the aptness of the description

Iron the collar before you put this shirt on. My dog doesn't wear a collar. I collared him to stop him.

an ugly creature or head cut from stone and attached to the roof of an old church, etc., often with an open mouth through which rain water flows away

we have fitted a brand new gutter

She rebuffed all suggestions that she should resign. Her desperate request for help was met with a rebuff.

The couch was upholstered with a bright, floral fabric.

the emotional pitch remained roughly the same.

the aptness of his comment was incredible accurate given his age and experience.

The entire family was demeaned by his behaviour. I wouldn't demean myself by asking my parents for money.

Don't employ any complicated vocabulary while talking to him. I will show you how to employ a bow.

Many of the artworks came to the museum through the benefaction of generous donors. The library is always grateful for the benefaction of supporters like you to keep its mission going.

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So the whole story about your acquaintance with Santa was nothing more but bogus. It is bogus of you to go without me.

I went to a violin recital today. He is giving a recital of Bach's sonatas. She gave us a long, boring recital of all her troubles. give a piano recital

Where did your daughter receive her primary? The prince received the best primary.

He achieved/gained notoriety for being difficult to work with as an actor.

I use an elliptical trainer at home for 15 to 30 minutes three times a week

New companies are mushrooming on the market. He's been mushrooming the whole day today but he barely found anything.

a short punchy presentation/speech The article is written in his usual punchy style. The collection comes in a number of punchy colours. The band burst onto the scene with the fresh, laddish exuberance and punchy melodies of their debut album.

Renewed fighting threatens to derail the peace talks.

hand the money back

Does he agree that that balance is not reflected in the priorities of broadcasters, which seem to be dominated by a laddish sports culture?

If you would just give me something to placate them. I do not want you to try to placate me, woman. But placating its Government at every turn is not the answer.

No American children's book would take such a derogatory view of fat people, for example.

She went into shock, shaking and hyperventilating. We had to call the doctor because she was crying and hyperventilating. The children are hyperventilating with excitement. I would never hyperventilate over the thought of meeting a celebrity.

the madcap antics of the clowns. It must also drop its madcap, profligate policies, and reduce management levels.

He spent the entire evening schmoozing with the senator.

pull back from acting. The army pulled back from the battlefield. My sponsor wants to pull back, I have to do something.

Don't read too much into John's call - I think he just had to tell you about the sale. Into his subtle hand strokes you could read a certain sign of anxiety.

It seems that the instantiation of the primary entities is not a random process.