| Not long ago, teams fashioned their engines from junkyard castoff engine blocks, and a good length of plumbing pipe made a nifty set of headers. |
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| Janiak purchased Takeover Target as an unraced castoff from the stable of his friend, the late trainer John Morrish. |
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| Using castoff biological evidence collected through suspect surveillance, police were able to conclusively link the suspects to the crimes. |
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| He was a castoff from a passing ship, and both of his legs had been surgically amputated above the knees. |
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| They're too big to fit in the chicken coop, so last year, I bartered with a neighbor for her huge, castoff dog house. |
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| The vessel is to remain secured until the Seaway officer in charge of the mooring operation gives castoff instructions. |
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| The underdog franchise, then only five years old, was led by a bowlegged castoff named Johnny Unitas at quarterback. |
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| He lay in his bed, staring at his bookshelf, another castoff that Laurel had picked up in Slab City, the old gunnery range where Richard, along with the other assorted snowbirds and wanderers, stayed every winter. |
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| When Congolese asked relatives in Europe for money, sometimes the relatives instead shipped over valuable objects that they had around the house — which might include a castoff violin or clarinet. |
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| A bronze fleece pullover conveys both the pathos of the castoff and the absurdity of the talisman — like a filthy, once cherished security blanket reëncountered in adulthood. |
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| So, where some may see nothing more than castoff scraps, she conjures up the underwater settings, sandy plains and embracing bodies of some dream world. |
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