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selected or chosen for special qualifications
the blue-ribbon event of the season
How To Use blue-ribbon In A Sentence
- This not-so-subtle slam at the dangers of genetic engineering depicts a Grant-Wood-Iowa country-fair display of square tomatoes, a multiteated cow and other oddities in an unmodified soybean field, plus a pathetically overbred Chinese Crested dog, presented on an oval insert like a blue-ribbon prize. An Illustrative Career Depicting Dystopias
- At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
- Snake eels, blue-ribbon eels, exotic dragonets, inimicus scorpionfish, stonefish, seahorses and a host of other well-camouflaged species will slowly reveal themselves.
- He won the men's blue-ribbon event, the 100 metres freestyle.
- A blue-ribbon panel is recommending that NASA shelve its goal of rapidly returning to the moon and instead focus on nurturing a robust commercial space industry that can handle short-term objectives of the nation's space program, such as ferrying cargo and crew to the international space station. Panel Urges NASA to Reset Priorities
- the blue-ribbon event of the season
- Fishing is pretty much limited to goldeye, sauger, and catfish, and in a state full of blue-ribbon trout streams, who cares for that?
- Snake eels, blue-ribbon eels, exotic dragonets, inimicus scorpionfish, stonefish, seahorses and a host of other well-camouflaged species will slowly reveal themselves.
- One sister, a lawyer with an old blue-ribbon Main Line Philadelphia law firm. BLACK EAGLES
- The best estimates that I've seen are from the blue-ribbon panel convened by Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation, which showed that the "reflow" effects would be generally in the neighborhood of 5-10%, with only one model showing possible effects of over 20%. Trade and Growth