How To Use Aunt In A Sentence
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My aunt is very old-fashioned.
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She is daunted by the task ahead in the second of the six-part series.
The Sun
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A Scottish moor long bore the reputation for being haunted by a phantom flock of sheep, which were always heard "baaing" plaintively before a big storm.
Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
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He hadn't got quite enough money, but his aunt agreed to make up the difference.
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The size of the task ahead is daunting.
The Sun
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I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country.
Sailing Alone Around the World
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The American troops come home in disgrace and the American military is taunted and ridiculed by the American media, global media, Islamic terrorists, and the moonbats here and aborad.
Sound Politics: What It Means
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Scores of jurors were quickly dismissed yesterday as the judge tackled the daunting task of finding an unbiased jury.
Times, Sunday Times
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The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
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"Emily, my dear," said the spinster aunt, with a patronising air, "don't talk so loud, love."
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I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I pass my quizzical spirit of Christmas past along to you … Did you “hang a shining star upon the highest bough” or merely “muddle through somehow” this Christmas season?
Go ahead, hang a shining star upon the highest bough and... you know...
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Even though these involved rich Mexicans, it can happen at any time to extranjeros flaunting their wealth in a povert stricken town in a 3rd world country.
San Miguel crime spree?
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Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.
Jamaica Information Service
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Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of fruit cake on my plate.
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Meantime, the challenges of being Rector of Dundee should not daunt Kelly, with her empathetic skills, campaigning experience and endless enthusiasm.
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Sharing the tiny apartment were one of his grandmothers and a spinster aunt.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a slightly possessed, haunted, eccentric man; his enemies prefer to say ' insane '.
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I sauntered past, my eyes on that seething face.
Times, Sunday Times
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See it once and it will haunt your memory with the pleasant familiarity of an old friend.
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With Ahmed as our guide, we are taken to a gaunt, dilapidated building.
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Still breathing heavy from her brisk, morning jog, she sauntered into the kitchen for a bottle of water.
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They've all combined to form a huge black cloud that is going to taunt me all day.
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The area was a popular tourist haunt.
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Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati.
The War of the Wenuses
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There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.
The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories
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She evaded his grasp and left without another word, sashaying her hips tauntingly.
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You don't flaunt your wealth in a courtroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prosecutors said the committee had approved applicants who presented forged honours that carried dates pre-dating the actual creation of the vaunted title.
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And a younger, sprier Edwards fearlessly taunted his tormentor, U.S. Attorney John Volz, once rising to his feet for a toast in a French Quarter bar while trilling, “When my moods are over, and my time has come to pass, I hope they bury me upside down, so Volz can kiss my ass.”
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
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His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
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That daunting task was made worse by plentiful leanings, curves, twists and turns.
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Auntly devotion must go decorously unvoiced, but it is no less compelling for that.
Times, Sunday Times
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We used to go off on little jaunts on it while we were in Panama.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sauntering over, he saw that they were inspecting the wares of a very nervous jerboa vegetable seller.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Once well-deserved celebrations waned, the daunting task of finding a space loomed large.
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We meet in a tiny plush room in a posh London hotel which is the regular haunt for such interviews.
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I phrased it as a sarcastic taunt, but I genuinely wanted to know the answer.
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At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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While the other threads were developed and resolved, leaving one rather exhausted and peculiarly unsatisfied, this one remained outstanding, haunting the reader's memory.
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He was grey and gaunt and we both cried.
Times, Sunday Times
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When her great-Aunt (an Evil Stepmother) dies, Estelle is under suspicion by the authorities and hopes to be cleared by a member of the Static Society.
REVIEW: Extraordinary Engines edited by Nick Gevers
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Does it matter if they have always been extremely thin and kind of flaunted it?
I can't have ya'all thinking I'm such a nice person
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For a man so vain about his face, why is he content to flaunt his wrinkly torso and pot belly?
The Sun
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D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
Fiancée
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Uncle and aunt have moved back up north to have another go after her affair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The studio is midway between his aunt's old home and his cottage.
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The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
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It is one of the oldest pubs in the country and a favourite haunt of the rich and famous who mingle with the locals over a pint - or a royal gin and tonic.
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John Edwards says he's undaunted by John Kerry's commanding lead.
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She shifts effortlessly from folk and blues to upbeat tangos and haunting instrumentals, all interspersed with humorous tales of her life on the road.
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Imagine, if you will, the Bubba Keg (a gift from Aunt M-mv) filled to capacity (52 ounces) with Trader Joe's French roast, brewed dark and strong, the way a certain autodidact favors it.
Archive 2004-12-01
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So he died a bachelor and now he haunts it.
Times, Sunday Times
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A busy owner could get to it cheaply from the UK and take it on little jaunts.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s next for the Obama Administration?
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from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration
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It's considered gauche to flaunt your wealth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent.
Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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Auntie and Uncle suggested she serve in the shop.
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That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom.
Chapter 13
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a race of long gaunt men
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The walk will recall the town's heroes and villains, history, hauntings and murders, ghosts and ghouls.
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Thuy came to Australia as a 24-year-old Vietnamese boat person, together with her uncle, aunt and cousins.
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But the most haunting of all the melodies is the warbling laughter of the Tulameen; its delicate note is far more powerful, more far-reaching than the throaty thunders of Niagara.
Legends of Vancouver
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I've got my aunt and uncle on my friends list.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the job can be daunting, unless that's a CEO, (or a mom skilled at color-coded chalkboards).
Your friend is ill, what can you do?
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The earrings were a gift from my aunt.
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We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
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The cousins and aunts and uncles left behind?
The Tribes Triumphant
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I like your uncle better than I like cither your aunt or you He likes me.
Sir Charles Grandison
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In the study, he pulled the drop cloths off the crates holding his books-his and his great-aunt 's and his father's and his mother's.
NEW YORK DEAD
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His aunt maintained him at the university.
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You need to have a strong constitution to visit some of the country's most haunted places.
The Sun
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He received a religious history book as a parting gift; she was sent to an aunt in Tiverton.
Times, Sunday Times
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The use of the word tilted in the sentence "Thinking caps tilted at a jaunty angle".
EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
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The last thing we want is to put ourselves in the position where he is taunted or provoked and reacts again.
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But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it.
GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
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Telli's sister, his grandmother and two aunts were busy round the fireplace preparing the night's meal.
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Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist.
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
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My aunt is very old-fashioned.
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The old lady is haunting her.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful.
The Sun
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In a gaunt and craggy landscape the soft, well-rounded Magdalen weeps over her past.
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It was light and breezy with jaunty incidental music and you could totally see what the producers had in mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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Daunting as it nonetheless was, I was quite wrong to be so awed.
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I can picture Kim, her snug stretch jeans tucked into high-heeled cowboy boots, a long plaid work shirt open at the neck, reassuring Aunt Harriet, whom she knew worried about her, that she was going to start school again in the fall and that she was doing fine.
History of a Suicide
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They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market.
Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
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Smart lads, they hadn't flaunted the loot, bragged about the heist, or written a rap song memorializing the event.
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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Her aunt is making over the baby again.
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Elena's back-stabbing ways may come back to haunt her on The Vampire Diaries.
Which Vampire Diaries Original Is Coming Back with a Vengeance?
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The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
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Her aunt scarcely looked her age.
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We move around every few weeks to a new destination (with the exception of the winter months when we stay in Bonita Springs, FL for several months in a row, with occasional jaunts on the weekends).
Zumbox: A Viable Paper Mail Killer?
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Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
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“Stop being such an old ninnyhammer,” chided Aunt Agatha, giving Hilda a sharp elbow.
Chasing a Rogue
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He also sends his friend Dr. Lefebre, an observant alienist, to check on the emotional well being of the distraught Lucy whose aunts insist she is deranged.
A Mortal Curiosity-Ann Granger « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel!
Sketches — Volume 05
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DiDonato took a broader and more dramatic perspective in two Rossini numbers, Desdemona's haunting "Willow Song" from "Otello" and a dazzlingly virtuosic encore of "Tanti affetti," the final showpiece from "La Donna del Lago.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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But her aunt is proved right in the end, for among all these nice well-brought-up people there is a baddy, which is revealed only towards the end.
Flaming June
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The Kansas program continues to be haunted by the collective legacy of Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce and Jacque Vaughn.
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A peculiarly subtle expression haunts the lower part, sensual and incredulous, like that of a man tasting good Bordeaux with half a fancy it has been somewhat too long uncorked.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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Luxury consumption is always connected with motivation of flaunt.
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Are you brave enough to spend Halloween night in one of the most haunted places in downstate Illinois?
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I hadn't even given my old home a thought during the last two months - I'd had too many things to worry about without my brother's death haunting my mind.
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake
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Obsessively monitoring lines and wrinkles, swollen ankles and grey hairs, they are haunted by feelings of self-hatred and inadequacy.
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A wrongdoer is constantly haunted by the fear of discovery.
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the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
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The writing maintains the suspensefulness that has pervaded this book since #26, and I’m really enjoying the character work Bucky’s targetless rage, Tony’s grief clouding his much-vaunted predictive mind, Sharon’s horror at being controlled as well as Epting & Mike Perkins art.
Captain America #30 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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There ain't many jaunty little anecdotes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's steal motorbikes and ride to Taunton!
Times, Sunday Times
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Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
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Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
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So my aunt talked three friends into skating down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
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She's a gun-shy divorcee whose surround-sound biological clock is ticking so loudly that everyone - from her senile aunt to her nosy butcher - is scrambling to set her up.
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With a boat, however, electricity is routed through a gauntlet of adapters and shore power connections that depend on friction to maintain contact.
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Where you usually have a nuclear family living together and nobody else, we will often have not just a nuclear family but cousins, aunts, great-aunts, uncles. The extended family lives together, tightly knit.
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In my Virginia hometown, people perambulated when they could not drive at a pace somewhere between a saunter and a stroll.
The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter
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Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
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His poetry was his attempt to externalise that inner dialogue, but his obscurity of expression, as opposed to his expression of obscurity, provided a most daunting translative challenge.
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Raised by his mean aunt and uncle, he learns on his 11 th birthday that he is a wizard of uncommon powers.
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I am still friends with my ex-husband who takes it on himself to be my personal agony aunt.
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As a little girl I used to watch my aunt embroider pillow-covers, handkerchiefs, dupattas, baby-dresses, you name it.
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After the girl's parents died, she was made a ward of her uncle and auntie.
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Tremain's novel is altogether jauntier, more various and energetic than these quotations imply.
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But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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This practice is still part of Middle Eastern cultures today, particularly for special occasions such as weddings, when along with the bride, her mother, aunts, and friends will henna themselves as well.
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The much vaunted Hunting Act 2004 (vaunted, that is, by Fascistic Bigots) has resulted in a piddling number of largely piddling prosecutions since coming into force.
Vigilantes Receive Smart Smack On Snout
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As I leave the reading and venture out into clubland, the question haunts me.
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Fortunately there's a six-game home stand stuck in the middle of the March gauntlet that makes those two weeks tolerable.
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There are thousands of unfilled jobs in the hospitality and retail sectors but applying without experience can be daunting.
The Sun
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Bantam, we wold pay him for his labor, he asked vs 5. rialles of 8. and a redcap, which we graunted vnto, and so one of the men in the scute came on bord the Mauritius, and was our Pilot to Bantam, where we passed by many
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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The most dull-witted, vulgar complaint about Gay Pride parades follows the form of ‘you don't see straight people running around with nipple clamps’ or ‘my wife doesn't dress up in latex and flaunt herself in the street ’, etc. and so forth.
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While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup.
Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
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It is in his practical views on tyrannicide and political murder that Sexby's real inheritance still haunts us.
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Uncle August was married to my Aunt Avice, a pudgy and round sort of woman.
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My aunt had invited me for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Jim Koch loves to talk about little companies that take on the Big Guys: artisanal-cheese makers who battle importers, the microdistillers who taunt liquor giants — and, most of all, the tiny microbrewer who elbows aside industry behemoths with a full-flavored beer and a well-crafted marketing pitch.
Beer Baron
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The jaunty incidental music that has accompanied her progress from bedroom, through kitchen, to surgery ceases.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
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The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth.
Rose in Bloom
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It's been a week and he still regards me with that disconcertingly haunted stare.
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He had a deep affection for his aunt.
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He scorned prudence in moderation at all times, and his behaviour, when the wave of Revolution at last carried him to power, gave point to the taunt of Thiers -- "c'est un fou furieux.
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
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Mary graduates from a tense, haunted guilt about her role in the murder of Darnley to a radiant, assured queenliness in the spiritual honesty and dignity with which she faces death.
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He knew that he was as one under temptation, but he was not strong enough to bid the tempter avaunt.
He Knew He Was Right
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He was gaunt and extremely pale, with parched lips and a beak-like nose.
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In fact, her aunt Florie Taylor runs the business day-to-day.
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“There was one circumstance which, though he did not appeal to it, had much weight with me in his favour, and that was the word jointure in the taylor’s letter, whereas my aunt never had been married, and this Mr. Fitzpatrick well knew. —
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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When Ann gets home, she's ashamed, haunted by her moment of kleptomania.
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Phillis," said he, after a long silence, "do you know, it is my opinion that that old creature," pointing with his thumb to Aunt Peggy's house, "is so long used to grumblin 'and fussin', that she can't, to save her life, lie still in her grave.
Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
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Strange phantoms haunt this room day and night.
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I had half expected Oscar to be a little daunted by the bearded guy but he knew what he was there for.
The Sun
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Just watch what happens to your "vaunted" Ruble Rubble? in the coming months.
2008 Chess Olympiad: Some Final Thoughts
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Winter, readers, has arrived, taking up residence with all the bulk and temerity of a spinster aunt come to visit, laden with cats and carpet bags.
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But what makes the melody haunting is its unusual structure.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was true, but also significant, because by trotting out the figure of 20%, he created an expectation and sound byte that will come back to haunt him and the Chinese currency at the end of the summer if unattained.
Diane Francis: Chinese Cheating
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A student and his aunt were shot dead by a gang of five men who burst into her home hunting for another man, their family said yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Merseyside, in 1958, a disaster that still haunts the argument for de-accession, the decisions then made on grounds of fashion rather than quality.
Evening Standard - Home
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Dole survived with a tactic that haunts him to this day: He used the abortion issue to defeat his opponent.
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Not surprisingly the nine-year-old is subjected to cruel taunts at school because of her weight.
The Sun
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There were the black, the white, the brindle, the grey and the grisly, the rough and the smooth, the crop-eared and the lop-eared, the gaunt and the grim.
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Those who watched the train leave were haunted for long afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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He defiantly skirted the Italian coastline aboard his luxury yacht, taunting the authorities who had steadfastly refused to allow him to set foot in his native country for more than half a century.
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So what began as a daunting challenge actually became an advantage.
Smithsonian Mag
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Her eyes were a dark, haunting green, and she wore thick-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses.
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A recent recruit from Liverpool who joined his Stafford Street office was welcomed with a few jaunty choruses from a sea shanty.
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They took me back to the house and my aunt cleaned me up then gave me a manicure, filing my nails and painting them maroon.
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The haunting became so intense that in 1999 Buddhist monks were invited to the museum to offer foods to propitiate the restless souls of the victims who had been murdered there.
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Why does my hair, which is short on top and usually stands up in a jaunty sort of manner at home, go flat whenever I go to London?
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These things have a habit of coming back to haunt you.
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The vote comes as the new National Intelligence estimate shows Iraq is facing what it calls daunting challenges over the next year and a half.
CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2007
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In recent years Pete suffered grievously from stomach cancer, but his courage and commitment remained undaunted.
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The ghost of Lady Margaret is supposed to haunt this chapel.
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But so did your father, your aunt.
Times, Sunday Times
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So my Dad calls in after a trip to visit Aunty Wilma, who's recovering from a stroke.
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But then we're back to the love birds cooing and chuckling and visiting haunted houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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So my Dad calls in after a trip to visit Aunty Wilma, who's recovering from a stroke.
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And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
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All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles.
The Wind Bloweth
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He might surface, gasp for air and taunting by his pirate comrades and then be keelhauled back underwater.
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Her glossy hair's done up in a jaunty black ponytail and she's sizing me up from behind a cool, guarded smile.
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The person I'm trying to trace was my great grand-aunt, who left some time in the 1850's.
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A few birds cheeped in bird innocence, but that was the only sound as the man sauntered toward that purse like some tough sheriff in a Western, though then again, maybe it was just the leather chaps, well, chapping, that made him walk that way.
The Six Rules of Maybe
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Her aunt was well-spoken and had a pleasant manner.
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The nature and behavior of these proboscideans have also haunted South African naturalist Lyall Watson, who evokes their world in Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant (W. W. Norton).
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Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure.
The Devil's Novice
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It turned out that Matt's Dad was a naval captain and his mother worked in Hong Kong, so he had to live with his Aunt.
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taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
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Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North.
A Renegade History of the United States
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He loves to tease and to taunt.
The Sun
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But he was unable to speak or write Marathi and fellow students taunted him.
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He taunted, and I merely stumbled back as I felt more blows upon my side, my front, and my back.
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Tyros get kick-started by taking shoeless jaunts around their house, back yard and neighborhood before hitting the trail.
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Following the interval came Schubert's haunting Trio in B flat D898.
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It gave his face a lean, rather surprisingly attractive ascetic look—the look of long-distance runners, saints, martyrs, and fanatics, the kind of elongated, soulful face that El Greco painted so hauntingly.
Twilight
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This report of the UK media awards describes a an apocalyptic scene, as scribes, put beyond use with alcohol, heckle and taunt their peers; standing on stools, booing the MC off the stage.
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What comes next is the matador and he approaches with his tight-assed, pouter-pigeon walk, flaunting his coleto, the pigtail that is the professional mark of a torero who has taken his alternativa and is no longer a novillero.
There is no such thing as a bullfight
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As opposed to the guy who sits in the same spot every day asking for a hand-out, the bum [from the German for "saunter"] roams freely throughout the city, the country, the planet: He is king of the road.
Boing Boing
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There are almost no reports of hauntings or malicious spirits these days.
