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But of all the Oscar nominees it has racked up by far the biggest domestic grosses so far.
She gave him a slightly scornful glance, and he racked his brains to see if he could find the reason for the non sequitur.
The irrelevance of the streamer headline in a world racked by wars and threats of wars alarmed some of the newspaper's well-wishers.
Balls one to nine are racked up in a diamond with the nine ball in the middle and the one ball nearest the baulk line.
Then he tells me that he is racked by self-doubt and is never satisfied with the interviews he has conducted.
Over the course of their 11-year recording career, they released 10 albums, earned critical acclaim, and racked up more than a few hits.
Gray-brown stratus clouds in the upper atmosphere flew at high speed as though the planet was racked by a perpetual storm.
It's already spent 241 days in orbit and racked up an incredible 158 million kilometres of space travel.
She dumped herself in one of the upright chairs in the room and racked her brains for one more idea.
It was desperate and helpless and came from somewhere deep inside her in huge loud sobs that racked her entire body and soul.
He's also racked up three goose eggs and appears to be well on his way to taking the next step in his hockey career.
I was racked with convulsions as I tried to muffle the incessant hacking by stuffing my scarf in my mouth.
Although the food industry has been racked by crisis, Scottish ministers still favour intensive farming with chemicals.
Keith David, an imposing figure, does well by Leontes's rant but not by his regality, racked psyche, or repentance.
At worst, it may see the world racked by explosions of racialism, xenophobia and ultra-nationalism.
By 9.30 I was kneeling beside the phone and the pains were now bringing tears to my eyes but bizarrely I was still racked with doubt.
Opodo was a late arrival in the online travel business and racked up huge losses.
I quickly racked my brain for the answer, only to turn up with nothing but a blank.
With no practice swings or loosening up the Fulford ace let fly, despite being racked by pain in his neck and shoulders.
Joseph has racked up 16 sacks and 34 quarterback hurries since moving to tackle.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Eyes streaming, bull throat and barrel chest racked by his sobbing, he watched the passing of his people and his city.
The joints of the bucentaur are racked by time and many voyages to the Lido.
The hardness of the ice beneath the snow surface had racked his body in every joint.
It is an error to suppose that beauty must be racked on a Procrustean bed of formula.
I racked my brains for something to say, but everything that occurred to me seemed the flattest of uncomforting commonplaces.
In the past Terra had been racked by wars of religion, one fanatically held opinion opposed to another.
Here it is racked and lotted to get rid of impurities, and has brandy put to it to keep it.
He racked his brain for a stray gleam of retrospect, but it was not forthcoming.
De cakes would be put right into the fire, and would be washed off clean after they were racked out from de coals.
I'm sorry I hurt you, Linton,' she said at length, racked beyond endurance.
I racked my brains to try to understand her and finally I worked out she wanted a ladybird pram but I had no idea where to find one.
In silence the three of us racked our brains for a means of defence.
You racked your brains to discover the cause of this change.
His body was racked with pain, and his head seemed enormous.
He had racked his brain to find so much as one, all day long.
So that the zemindars were dispossessed, the country racked and ruined, for the benefit of an European, under the name of a farmer.
His brain, inflamed and racked by the strain, throbbed in his head.
I hover over my racked body like a ghost, and exist in an interregnum.
Six tries later though and Launceston had racked up a half-century.
Patriarch John X came to the United States to enthrone Metropolitan Joseph at a time when his homeland, Syria, is racked with strife by ISIS extremists.
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