How To Use Carper In A Sentence
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Unfortunately, those who did return found the locals severely hostile and scarpered quickly.
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We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
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Inevitably the snipers and the carpers have done their worst to make life uncomfortable for him.
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If carper and anonymous are right, I've still a long way to go before professionalism!
Hobbyists
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Plus, somebody pranged my car in the parking lot and scarpered, leaving me with a $700 repair bill.
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Or are you going to scarper now the going's got tough?
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After establishing a history of paying bills he sought credit facilities before scarpering with the loot, leaving banks chasing a ghost.
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‘I can't do this,’ he said before scarpering.
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We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
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Team spokesman Tad Carper said the addition of Symon is part of a trend by NBA teams to localize the arena experience by connecting with area businesses.
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It remains unclear whether supporters can overcome opposition to the bill, a point underscored by Senator Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat.
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Almost three years on, the carpers and cavillers are still complaining about the huge sums extracted from the telcos in the European 3G spectrum auctions.
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A couple today told of their fury that the teen who ploughed a stolen 4x4 through their front garden wall and then scarpered was only cautioned by police.
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When the baby did arrive, the father scarpered for good.
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However, alive now to the unwisdom of staying, we scarpered.
Times, Sunday Times
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He picks up his Kroger bag full of second-story work paraphernalia and scarpers.
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If you felt good about Nixon pursuing an honorable end to the war in Vietnam, you were comfortable with his escalation into Cambodia and carper-bombing of the North.
Hullabaloo
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Once the payment is made the rogue trader will scarper with the cash or carry out a botch job.
Households warned against rogue doorstep traders
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The inmates mingle with the townspeople and pilgrims and when Fay refuses to identify them so they can be locked up again, she has to scarper to avoid arrest.
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The same use of _carpere_ at ix 121-22 'fortuna est impar animo, talique libenter/exiguas _carpo_ munere pauper opes' and _Am_ I viii 91 'et soror et mater, nutrix quoque _carpat_ amantem'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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In a show of machismo he allowed the fuse to burn down almost to the very last before his friends began to scarper.
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Let all keep it up and hope that the carpers and whingers will see the light and come on board.
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They scarpered without paying their bill.
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Vertir doesn't want his mate Kuikin to come to such a toothsome end, to the decide to scarper.
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James watched a spider crawl out of her ear and scarper to her mouth, disappearing as quickly as it had appeared.
Motherhood
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There is no such confirmed carper at the condition of his country, yet no one really so profoundly convinced of its perfection.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
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When he warned her that he had called the police she soon scarpered.
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But when I ask him how he sees himself at 60 (and it's quite clear that he'll be a desiccated carper to rank with William Burroughs) his hackles rise.
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*
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Professionals do the job, pinch the loot, kill the target and scarper.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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‘They scarper when the police come, but when they go, they're back again,’ he said.
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We don't need any more headstrong, litigious lawyers; we've been groaning under the weight of carpers and cavillers for years.
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And since the party starts at 7pm, I reckon I can scarper shortly after 10 to get to the pub for last orders.
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The rat, who, arguably, has been the cause of near tragedy, scarpers.
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Re the Norway trip; television coverage is gold dust, so the carper is an idiot.
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The next night Maddow had the intellectual integrity to write the speech she wished Obama had given, an exercise that, in my view, elevates her from carper to critic in the best sense of the term.
Criticism in an Age of Disproportion
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On the way, they'd been attacked by brigands again, but they'd scarpered as soon as they realised the team was capable of offering armed resistance.
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Let all keep it up and hope that the carpers and whingers will see the light and come on board.
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He, however, has broad shoulders and the skin of a rhinoceros, and an unabated passion for his subject irrespective of the carpers.
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By grief he does not mean what grief father caused him by scarpering, but the grief Davis might cause turning up.
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For it is the truth of my heart, dearest Lady, that thou hast inspired in me that which I had thought long lost, and whither it had scarpered I wot not.
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He actually lay in wait for burglars and shot them as a deliberate act, even though they were about to scarper.
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As the Manitoba carper, Ms. Ingram, told the Winnipeg Free Press, "There are things men need and things women need.
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Almost three years on, the carpers and cavillers are still complaining about the huge sums extracted from the telcos in the European 3G spectrum auctions.
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These were communal dunnies so every now and then someone would open the door, loudly sniff the air and promptly scarper.
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Who would have thunk it from our own Bull Moose, a Jewish carper: weary travels, religious epiphany, and a simple Menger.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Do we really want the carpers and complainers, of whatever creed, to get programmes banned?
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The bookshop man told him it would cost around £20,000, so Daniel scarpered.
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Determined to rescue the two, Holmes starts a diversionary fire and, in the confusion, scarpers.
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Do we really want the carpers and complainers, of whatever creed, to get programmes banned?
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By the time the police get there, they've scarpered and nothing gets done.
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Black cats have been known to scarper at my sight.
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As a gay American – I just want to thank all of you for picking up on the bigoted statement from Knotts and calling him on the carper for it.
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Professionals do the job, pinch the loot, kill the target and scarper.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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It wasn't noble, but I scarpered double-quick.
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Away with all these whining, pining Carpers, who are constantly talking & prating that the married estate brings nothing but care and sorrow with it; here, to the contrary, they may see how all minds & intentions are knit together, to consume and pass away these daies with the most superabounding pleasures.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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Except (he didn't add) that instead of keeling over and dying like canaries, they trouser the money and scarper.
Current Affairs
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When Harry saw her bearing down on him with an intent look he quickly scarpered and spent the rest of the evening hiding from her.
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But after a week of glorious weather, in which this sort of sunset action was de rigueur, a nasty southerly blew in on Sunday, scarpering plans the family had had for a big walk in the Tararuas.
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Once the guy had found out the truth, more often than not, he'd scarper.
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When the time is right, they will scarper to their Antibes or Marbella.
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