When there was no response, he gave an aggravated growl and tromped to the kitchen, his heavy shoes thudding on the worn-out tile angrily. |
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Even though the value of scrap metal is currently high, motorists can no longer expect to be paid for their worn-out vehicles. |
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He too was dressed in his pajamas, a green thermal shirt and green striped pants, along with old, worn-out brown shoes and his jacket. |
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If the bearings in the turbo charger are worn-out, oil leakage can be the result. |
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As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup. |
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The fashion of worn-out jeans became popularized during the 1990s, along with ruggedness, haggardness, and thinness. |
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January has wrapped the worn-out city in a cold gauze of wood smoke and exhaust fumes. |
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Greene found himself helping to push-start the clinic's worn-out ambulance, a battered old mini-van whose back seats had been removed. |
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In the distant, lying on the summer grass is a body with a worn-out and raggedy cloak. |
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Then, with an ample supply of worn-out rasps on hand, he used the technique to make knife blades that held an edge longer. |
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Besides being a superb antioxidant itself, ALA recycles worn-out vitamin C, vitamin E and glutathione, and makes them useful again. |
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Volunteers there find a use for everything from used chip fat to damaged CD cases, old canal lock gates and worn-out cement mixers. |
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Sleep-deprived, worn-out adults can barely care for themselves, let alone an active, needy child. |
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He appeared to be older than he actually was, gaunt and tired, worn-out and thin. |
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She looked even more worn-out than ever, with her youngest child clutching her hand, tugging fiercely on it. |
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That is the sort of in-your-face political correctness that most of us are worn-out on. |
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Gabrielle works at nights washing car windows, and owns nothing but a pair of jeans, a couple of jumpers, a hat and a pair of worn-out shoes. |
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She shivered and began to pull up the thin, tattered and worn-out blanket over her head, while the cold damp air tickled her feet. |
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They pointed out that many of the children in the picture wore shoes with holes in the toes and worn-out soles. |
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Across from the courtyard were several shabby stone buildings reflecting the moonlight with their worn-out walls. |
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At a party, I met Todd, another solo walker, and we were soon comparing the worn-out soles of our shoes. |
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I have never, in all my years of being involved in the industry, seen such a cross-section of worn-out, broken and abused leather. |
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At the same time, the older, worn-out tools further damaged what little agriculture was on. |
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From their sun-tans and worn-out sports shoes, one could see the traces of a long journey. |
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But how often have you seen men slip up and wear derby shoes with worn-out jeans, or even casual loafers with suits, for example? |
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In Milan Kundera's clumsy new novella, a portentous, worn-out philosophy that borders on the ironic and absurd stands in for real thinking. |
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There is no reason to buy or rent this movie because the idea is old, worn-out, and stale. |
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This is exactly the kind of tired, worn-out, bland thinking we love to reward in this town. |
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Her claim that voice is a worn-out metaphor rests, in large part, on its associations with oral literacy traditions. |
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The door burst open and a worn-out man stepped in with a stack of papers under his arm. |
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Women folded their worn-out linens and few spare clothes, packing them into cloth sacks to be carried. |
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The labourers were in a bad condition, with tattered clothes and worn-out expressions. |
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Ricky and Fred love their worn-out clothes so much that the girls see no choice but to sell their rags to a local second-hand store. |
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Then there was the suit, which he wore well for a guy who lived in battered jeans and worn-out shirts. |
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Soon after this ordeal, Richard was bereaved by the death of his prematurely worn-out father. |
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Dig up and store tender bulbs from your summer garden, and cut back the worn-out perennials and biennials. |
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It's very quick and easy. I can upcycle a worn-out ordinary shirt into a designer handprinted B.Earley one. |
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Ryo was carrying a worn-out Chava on his back, and Zaila too looked tired and ornery. |
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Practitioners use ginseng as a tonic, primarily to treat patients who are worn-out, either from overwork, emotional stress, or old age. |
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I contributed some scarves, a pair of worn-out oxford shoes, and an old vest. |
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However, so many handwriting copybooks offer boring, worn-out sayings that do not interest most children today! |
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Later his feet grew hard to the trail, and the worn-out footgear was thrown away. |
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In warm weather, engines with fuel injection and electronic ignition start easily enough to hide a worn-out battery. |
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The legal procedural is such a worn-out television fixture, it's amazing that they keep being cranked out. |
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Toy Story belonged to worn-out Woody not brand-new Buzz Lightyear. |
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And, repeatedly, Mr Forbes denounced worn-out names from Republican campaigns past, as well as the scions of political families. |
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He looked completely worn-out and exhausted, and his eyes were shadowed. |
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Finally, as the evening cooled, Graham took himself up to the loft to replace the worn-out ballcock float and valve that's been giving us a problem for some time. |
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Once a commodious pasture for worn-out MPs, the committees have in recent years become more independent, assertive and effective. |
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Instead he comes across looking like a lazy, tired, worn-out Premier. |
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A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn't hackneyed and worn out to them. |
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Vintage jeans are usually worn-out and frayed in strategic places. |
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However, routine vaccination levels have dropped due to a lack of refresher courses, as well as to erratic supervision of staff and worn-out equipment. |
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This appropriation is intended to cover the purchase, hire, maintenance and repair of furniture, including the purchase of ergonomic furniture, the replacement of worn-out and broken furniture and office machines. |
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Roads exposed to tremendous loads will sooner or later be worn-out. |
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Bob Dole had the good sense to obsolesce himself, now likely joined by the worn-out Liddy Dole. |
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To those well-meant but worn-out bromides I say, first, what wild? |
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On her view, such integration would help both architects and philosophers think of space in dynamic and creative, rather than static and worn-out ways. |
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The American Red Cross said it needs 40,000 additional volunteers in the next few weeks to replace worn-out relief workers helping Hurricane Katrina victims. |
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Many of the books we see these days perched perfectly in high street seasonal window displays are written by static, worn-out, curmudgeonly blatherskites. |
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We have to clean our minds by rejecting worn-out dogmas which impede the clarity of our perception. |
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He believed that the worn-out academicism of the day could be revitalized by direct contact with peasant life and with the genuine folk art of the people. |
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Japan used to be the place where worn-out American players went to die, but with expansion, those American players can continue their mediocre play right here in the States. |
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Standing in queues is not easy for us old fogeys with worn-out joints. |
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When a cutting edge of a multipoint tool has become dull, the tool life management function marks all cutting edges as worn-out. |
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The Gospel is also the new cloth woven with threads of love that has nothing to do with the old and worn-out cloth of our egocentrism. |
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Ideally, several more animals would be kept in reserve to replace those that became lame or worn-out along the route. |
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Who would want to drive hundreds of miles to spend a week in a field surrounded by worn-out parents and their snotty-nosed kids? |
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Its innovative tool design gives a simple method of breaking off the worn-out cutting edge and replacing it quickly thus reducing unproductive downtime. |
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Seasonal crop failures continue today, as in Malthus' day, and in addition there are worn-out lands which we must rehabilitate if they are to produce crops as luxuriantly and as readily as in Malthus' time. |
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And there's one small and lanky boy wearing nothing but rags and worn-out shoes, competing with the horses on the double, easily overtaking one carriage after the other, waving at the farmers, smiling. |
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Do I have a thick, throaty, worn-out voice? |
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Men fell out, worn-out, and there were sunstroke cases. It was an eight-mile march upgrade. |
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In his greying vest, worn-out jeans and scruffy donkey jacket, Les Battersby is hardly a picture of sartorial elegance. |
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The worn-out soccer players lined up to congratulate the other team. |
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Although barnstormers and acrobatic fliers all too often tarnished the image of aviation by performing foolhardy stunts in worn-out military castoffs, the phenomenon of utility aviation attracted increasing numbers of users. |
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Travel writers are wont to gush about ChimayĆ³ in worn-out terms, but at the same time, the media often sensationalize the plight of ChimayĆ³ as a haven for crime, violence, and drug abuse. |
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But it would be illusory to think that social development can be achieved through the worn-out myopic approach of economic development pursued up to now. |
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Someone needs to repair that worn-out old bridge. It's an accident waiting to happen! |
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The worn-out brushes in a dead starter or a short circuit in a sparkless ignition distributor would eventually be revealed to a mechanic who carefully dug through the clues. |
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The violations include filling old bottles with sulfonic acid, a worn-out site floor, lack of safety equipment and sewage water and bird droppings in the production area. |
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To lay the foundation for an all-weather dock at Shelter Bay, he filled an old barge with worn-out grindstones from the Thorold paper mill, then scuttled the vessel. |
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