How To Use Dispensed In A Sentence

  • Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
  • Mind you, when it came to the US captain's decision to complete his fourball line-up with the rookie pairing of Bubba Watson and Jeff Overton, the Europe captain dispensed any need for interpretation. Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
  • The time-release solid scent beads are dispensed much like a salt-shaker.
  • San Antonio agencies limit the amount of food dispensed and the number of people they serve, according to the survey.
  • Freud called attention to preconscious dimensions that impinge on our behavior but never dispensed with them.
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  • New faces wander into the studio and warm greetings are dispensed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The druggist dispensed a prescription.
  • The spread of PCs has dispensed with the need for typists.
  • The writers have dispensed entirely with the usual gangster clichés of rap and hip-hop. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the cart house across the street, swept clean in advance, a barrel of Guinness was set on a trestle and the black stuff was dispensed to all comers.
  • The new way dispensed with carving in wood or stone or modelling in clay and casting in metal. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The duo have dispensed with plastic CD casings and fashioned their covers from stiff cardboard.
  • Calling themselves ‘America's sweethearts,’ the Cowboys cheerleaders dispensed bosomy good will at children's hospitals and posed for lush swimsuit pictorials.
  • The justice of the peace, like the jury, like irremovable judges, like the Bar, was resented by those who regarded justice as something dispensed by rulers rather than something administered by society for the benefit of society.
  • Also tiresome is the occasional foreboding advice dispensed by an astral deity called the Moon Lady. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Review: The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
  • The word comprehended all that was delivered or dispensed by the lord to his underlings or domestics -- money, victuals, wine, garments, fuel, and lights; but no doubt it was employed more particularly of external and distinctive garb. The Customs of Old England
  • However, when the number of doses dispensed in the different units was adjusted for, the differences were not significant.
  • Much of Gaius's squiredom was spent fetching and carrying for the knight, lugging spare weapons and armour around while his master dispensed advice, ostensibly teaching the youth the virtues of humility and laboriousness.
  • But in the Senate of the United States, both of these formalities are dispensed with; the breviate presenting but an imperfect view of the bill, and being capable of being made to present a false one; and the full statement being a useless waste of time, immediately after a full reading by the clerk; and especially as every member has a printed copy in his hand. A MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE
  • The new way dispensed with carving in wood or stone or modelling in clay and casting in metal. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The oral rinses were dispensed by pharmacists and were administered by staff nurses.
  • The hungrier it is the faster it will learn, and the strength of its response can be precisely predicted by the rate at which the food pellets are dispensed.
  • After the nitrogen is dispensed, the operator would then disconnect the supply line from the aircraft and redeposit the hose on the reel.
  • Selective assessment can not be dispensed with while there is a shortage of resources to meet individual needs.
  • We dispensed with cutlery for this dish as the delicious cheesy sauce was great for dipping bread into.
  • Water and soap were dispensed from a machine incorporating a sink and resembling a coffee dispenser, which also had a hot air dryer.
  • Meanwhile, a Florida effort to stanch the illegal flow of prescription drugs from so-called "pill mills" increases penalties on doctors who overprescribe painkillers and sets new limits on how they can be dispensed. Voter ID Laws Lead Flurry of New Statutes
  • Then the pope, considering the great perils that might ensue by his departing, dispensed with him, and assoiled him of his avow, of which he sent to him a bull under lead, and enjoined him in penance to give the goods that he should have spent in his pilgrimage, to deeds of charity, and to re-edify some church of S. Peter, and endow it with sufficient livelihood. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
  • If the hydrosulphite be weighed beforehand and the stock of the same be kept free from damp air, or great heat, for future vats the hydrometer can be dispensed with; it is simply weighed out and added slowly to the water. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
  • The nouveau roman or new novel, sometimes called the antinovel, dispensed with previous notions of plot, character, style, theme, psychology, chronology, and message.
  • In 1891 another Conservative administration dispensed with fees and made elementary education free for all. The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
  • Each time soap was dispensed, the device was triggered to record one count.
  • The pharmacist dispensed the prescription with great care.
  • Most of the information here is new, but the "Fluconazole" medication is actually the same as our "Diflucan" - except using the generic name that was dispensed and containing more information about dosage, etc. Click the MSDN Blogs
  • The writer appeared to have been so anxious to commit the message to paper that the conventional opening had been dispensed with.
  • His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals. The Science of Success
  • Mind you, when it came to the US captain's decision to complete his fourball line-up with the rookie pairing of Bubba Watson and Jeff Overton, the Europe captain dispensed any need for interpretation. Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
  • Imprint lithography is a process in which a liquid is dispensed onto a substrate.
  • Referenced early on in the episode as the website responsible for catching filmed proof of a rogue vampire's feeding frenzy a misdeed punishable by the true death, which Mayor Bill readily dispensed on the busted fanger, the Cheaters-meets-feeders clip caught our eye as something that had to be something set up for the show's devoted online fandom. Watercooler: True Blood Goes Viral
  • The proposal for a user-friendly booking system for wheelchair users would have dispensed with the expensive phone calls that have been heavily criticised by many disability charities. Times, Sunday Times
  • Medicinal plants are predominantly wildcrafted and dispensed mainly by decoction, although prepared formulas are given.
  • The Red Cross dispensed charity to refugees.
  • Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar. Chapter 17
  • After my money was dispensed from the machine, I grabbed the receipt and started walking off, when I noticed that the ATM had spat out a second piece of paper.
  • Our eldest has dispensed with the wardrobe in favour of the floordrobe. Times, Sunday Times
  • After the tea and pleasantries had been dispensed with, Quiller-Couch launched his usual preemptive, presumptuous air strike. Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
  • Later, he dispensed with objects and photographs and concentrated on language itself, enlarging words and their dictionary definitions in black-and-white photostats.
  • People with gluttonish inclinations can easily and do make themselves sick while subsisting on an entirely fruit diet; hence, if discretion is needed in the use of the simplest articles of food, of course it cannot be dispensed with while indulging in other sorts. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.
  • The new way dispensed with carving in wood or stone or modelling in clay and casting in metal. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The writer appeared to have been so anxious to commit the message to paper that the conventional opening had been dispensed with.
  • And rules can be dispensed with in the Court's inherent power if the interests of justice require.
  • The Dutch advantage lay in a new technique, the Holland beater, that shredded fresh linen and that dispensed with the fermentation stage of the old technique.
  • Classes for dancers of differing levels of technique have therefore been dispensed in favour of mixed ability sessions.
  • These all depended on hand cutting and rolling of the pills, usually done by the druggist who dispensed the medicine.
  • The actinopterygians quickly jettisoned their ganoid scales and thus dispensed with the need for most endochondral bone.
  • The fee may be either an all inclusive flat rate or a fee for each service received (consultations, diagnostic tests, medicines dispensed, etc).
  • His impossible task is to reinsert his ego into a life that he claims has dispensed with it. Life in the Woods
  • A good listener, he dispensed wise counsel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Later in the evening the men would rejoin the ladies in the drawing room for conversation and card games and tea would be dispensed.
  • Well, some firms have dispensed with their in-house provision and now use the services of independents.
  • When Alf came to manage England, he dispensed with the winger altogether and built his wingless wonders.
  • Much more, therefore, can he be dispensed from the vow of continency which is about an act of chastity. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • In addition to the ability to be dispensed or stencil printed at high speeds, the liquid SMA must have sufficient wet or green strength to hold a component in position from placement through cure.
  • Advice and stamps are dispensed from a desk outside the sorting room. Tired of Puerto Vallarta? Try the mountains: the road to San Sebastián
  • The symbolic reiteration of traditional objectives dispensed with, it went on to suggest more seriously a federal or confederal state, and joint authority as alternatives.
  • Frequently, infantry units dispensed with their own mor-tars altogether and used the mortar teams as an additional rifle squad.
  • They dispensed the money to charity.
  • Villagers dispensed tea to people involved in the accident.
  • It's dispensed through a brush and looks almost like a new layer of radiant skin has been painted on. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is therefore not without significance that since the 1970s African social scientists have dispensed with the concept of tribalism and have displayed great hostility to its continued use by Westerners.
  • San Antonio agencies limit the amount of food dispensed and the number of people they serve, according to the survey.
  • As they dispensed care and advice to them, they realized a much larger audience could benefit from their advice if they put it in writing.
  • It's dispensed through a brush and looks almost like a new layer of radiant skin has been painted on. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will it be considered a pharmaceutical product that requires a prescription and will be dispensed by a pharmacy or will it be available directly to physicians via the laboratory?
  • The duo have dispensed with plastic CD casings and fashioned their covers from stiff cardboard.
  • She dubbed herself an official matchmaker and dispensed all sorts of advice to her brother.
  • Simplicity and genuineness were the foundation-stones of her character, and she certainly dispensed with many of the useless conventions of society, but she was a serious-minded woman for whom the cheap affectations generally labelled as "bohemianism" could have no attractions. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • It might be supposed that a grocer was beyond the breath of calumny; but no — the neighbours stigmatised him as a chandler; and the poisonous voice of envy distinctly asserted that he dispensed tea and coffee by the quartern, retailed sugar by the ounce, cheese by the slice, tobacco by the screw, and butter by the pat. Sketches by Boz
  • For ground vehicles, mines are dispensed 25 to 60 meters from the vehicle at ground speeds of 5 to 55 mph.
  • Hugs are dispensed infrequently, but if I do hug someone, I resemble Frankenstein's monster, arms extended to control contact.
  • His expression smoothly dispensed of his surprise and assumed a look of cunning which Em didn't like overmuch.
  • Yeast is dispensed into it and it is then plugged before the bottle is stoppered with the usual crown cap.
  • By the time he approached the turn, he had dispensed with his trademark cap along with the aura of controlled authority he usually brings to a golf course.
  • Logan told Esquire that the Egyptian government had dispensed with standard procedure and started using checkpoints that foreign journalists usually "breezed" through to interrogate them. CBS News: Lara Logan sexually assaulted, beaten while covering Egypt president Hosni Mubarak's exit for '60 Minutes'
  • Mike seemed to have dispensed with the normal rudiments of style, with capital letters for example. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • A good listener, he dispensed wise counsel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do Zagat and Michelin award extra kudos or contain comments like "the hors d'oeuvres, though engulfed by a sea of balsamico can only be described, politely, as dismal; the main course gave the impression of having probably been recycled several times; HOWEVER the sanitary facilities whither these" comestibles "were swiftly dispensed with justify an overall 1* criteria. Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • Is it not a fact that the worst brand of "fighting booze" is dispensed at the illicit doggery? The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
  • They enquired where was the machine that dispensed the parking discs.
  • The company has dispensed with traditional legal circumlocution with its latest court filings against its rival.
  • It can be dispensed during batching operations or added to mixed concrete onsite.
  • The Red Cross dispensed charity to refugees.
  • We examined data on all NHS methadone prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists in England.
  • Also dispensed with was the sounding of the great bell after the victims had reached Tyburn and had been hanged.
  • In 1867 a Dr Spencer was acquitted of manslaughter after a medication error in which strychnine was dispensed to a patient instead of bismuth.
  • He dispensed medicines all day; he listened to complaints. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
  • There is no longer a bottomless pit from which largesse can be dispensed.
  • The number of prescriptions dispensed to treat obesity increased by 16 per cent to 1.2 million. Times, Sunday Times
  • On Saturday morning my father solemnly dispensed pocket money to each of the children.
  • Stung by the case against Kenyatta and Muthaura in particular, Kibaki's wing of the government has mounted a last-minute challenge to the ICC over the admissibility of the case, arguing justice can and should be dispensed locally. Kenyan politicians going on trial in The Hague accused of crimes against humanity
  • There was the druid who explained religion, the brehon who dispensed justice, the brughaid or public hospitaller, the bard who sang the praises of his chief or urged his kinsman to battle; and each was an official and had his appointed allotment of land. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • The good thing about this grant is that it is not dispensed according to financial means.
  • The bluestocking pair dispensed eccentricity and cheer.
  • I had long ago dispensed with my Southern childhood habit of gushing, cooing out words wrapped in molasses. SUMMER OF SECRETS
  • Villagers dispensed tea to people involved in the accident.
  • Apostolici, by Jacobson (Oxford, 1840), with a critical text and rich prolegomena and annotations, cannot be dispensed with by any Patristic inquirer. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • An antiquated water fountain and a battered Coke machine dispensed beverages on hot days.
  • The Tongan king on the other hand is happy to have dispensed with Nepotism after sacking his own bother from the job as PM prior, and has used Sevele for bleeding the country dry of its hard earned dollars and aid by handing over millions of dollars in exchange for public owned assets that the king claimed belonged to himself. Global Voices in English » Fiji faces suspension from Pacific Islands Forum
  • Information abounds - piste maps are dispensed beside lift queues, weather forecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly.
  • Each company had its business plan examined by a team of experts and advice was freely and willingly dispensed.
  • Classes for dancers of differing levels of technique have therefore been dispensed in favour of mixed ability sessions.
  • And on the simplest level, there was a disconcerting clash between the postmodern textuality dispensed by the singers and the humble captions on the screen.
  • in villages, the new pipeline marks the end of water as a precious liquid, to be dispensed frugally, weighed out drop by drop
  • He asked if we would like to share his water, dispensed from a tall and unglazed earthenware vessel. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • But it is dispensed with such style, coupled to such a mixture of absurd silliness and sly knowingness about human nature, that you can't help falling for its charms.
  • The Union had already dispensed £40,000 in grants.
  • medicines dispensed to the sick
  • The bride would liefer have dispensed with bridesmaids so much fairer than herself, and although unable to advance that reason, found fifty others against asking them. Springhaven
  • I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject.
  • Many households have dispensed with their old-fashioned vinyl turntable.
  • For charisma is dispensed according to fate's inegalitarian whim.
  • The number of prescriptions dispensed to treat obesity increased by 16 per cent to 1.2 million. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some said that Susan had given her young man the mitten, meaning thereby that she had signified that his services as a suitor were dispensed with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
  • In 2005, there were 15,767 prescriptions dispensed for mefloquine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Black To Comm-a name copped from the MC5-have suggested what would have happened had that band really kicked out the jams, motherfuckers, and dispensed not just with verse-chorus-verse songwriting, but with their instruments, their whole sound, and indeed their careers. The Line Of Best Fit
  • Dispensed medications are classically classified into three categories.
  • On Saturday morning my father solemnly dispensed pocket money to each of the children.
  • It also dispensed pastoral care to the white settlers.
  • To the uninitiated Brit I was back then, I can only describe the shock as stomach-churning, when Holbrooke immediately dispensed niceties over lunch in one of their grand board rooms, and blasted the industry's leaders for their inaction. Ben Plumley: HIV/AIDS Is Still Everyone's Business
  • The duo have dispensed with plastic CD casings and fashioned their covers from stiff cardboard.
  • A good listener, he dispensed wise counsel. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Sanfedists were made into the irregular troops of the Papacy and all justice was dispensed in Church courts.
  • Two lead singers of popular folk-rock bands duly dispensed with, she struck out on her own path. Times, Sunday Times
  • His more recent emergence as a hard-knuckled genre specialist, in tandem with the rigorously buff Mr. Mortensen, may have dispensed with the ectoplasmic jollies so dear to his base. Histories and Mysteries
  • Villagers dispensed tea to people involved in the accident.
  • All fluids, semifluids, creams and powders must be dispensed correctly with a disinfected spatula.
  • On Saturday morning my father solemnly dispensed pocket money to each of the children.
  • Compliance was determined by subtracting the number of capsules returned by the subject at the final visit from the number of capsules dispensed at the outset of the study.
  • I use the term direct acting, because I dispensed with the beam and parallel motion, which was generally considered the correct mode of transferring the action of the piston to the crank. James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
  • After the method was complete, we would determine the actual volume dispensed by gravimetric means, and calculate the percent error for each tool at each volume.
  • Absinthe was also put up in so-called mignonettes, comparable to the one-drink miniatures from which spirits are dispensed on airplanes today.
  • He dispensed medicines all day; he listened to complaints. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
  • Remember Pez, those pink pastilles that taste like raspberry-flavoured chalk and are dispensed straight from your favourite cartoon hero, Donald Duck's beak or Popeye's larynx?
  • A good listener, he dispensed wise counsel. Times, Sunday Times
  • Banquo's ghost was dispensed with, though Ian McKellen's astonishing evocation of Macbeth's mental collapse made any physical manifestation redundant.
  • Ireland's popular gardener Gerry Daly dispensed barrows and pots full of helpful information for all types of gardens in a varied and interesting talk in Abbeyleix, Manor Hotel on Thursday last March 23.
  • He erred, however, in the readiness with which he dispensed them from residence in their dioceses, while, as to abbacies, he too often availed himself of them to reward services rendered by laymen, and gave them as means of support to impoverished nobles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • The elder Mr. Paul, 74, dispensed behind-the-scenes advice during his son's bid for the Senate seat, in which he upset the favorite, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.
  • _presumption_ in favor of a proposition; not sufficient for belief, but sufficient to cause the strict principles of a regular induction to be dispensed with, and creating a predisposition to believe it on evidence which would be seen to be insufficient if no such presumption existed. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • So do flasks, used for a variety of purposes, including to hold perfume, which could also be dispensed in the popular ball-shaped pomanders (pommes d' ambre) and musk-balls.
  • Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar. Chapter 17
  • Such medicines may only be dispensed under a prescription, made usually only by a medical practitioner or dentist.
  • I was dispensed from this terrible task
  • During the winter, when the large back-log, often as much as two men could handle, was brought in and fixed in its place, and a good forestick put on the andirons, with well-split maple piled upon it and set ablaze with dry pine and chips, the old fire-place became aglow with cheerful fire, and dispensed its heat through the room. Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
  • The writers have dispensed entirely with the usual gangster clichés of rap and hip-hop. Times, Sunday Times
  • The figures exclude prescriptions that were dispensed by hospital pharmacies and medicines purchased over the counter.
  • ‘Digestive enzymes,’ vitamins, and tonics were frequently dispensed as ‘psychological medicine’.
  • The last hospital I worked at had castile soap in a huge pump bottle from which we dispensed little cups for the parents to bath their children.
  • Classes for dancers of differing levels of technique have therefore been dispensed in favour of mixed ability sessions.
  • I am no fan of laboured expositions and the pat wisdoms dispensed by many academic writers on this subject.
  • Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question — no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it. Clarissa Harlowe
  • At the centre of the hearings is Schmidt and Umbach's admission that they had taken the amphetamine Dexedrine, dispensed by Air Force medics.
  • He asked if we would like to share his water, dispensed from a tall and unglazed earthenware vessel. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
  • In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises.
  • These things she enjoined us not; but desired only to have her name commemorated at Thy Altar, which she had served without intermission of one day: whence she knew that holy Sacrifice to be dispensed, by which the hand-writing that was against us is blotted out, 59 through which the enemy was triumphed over, who summing up our offences, and seeking what to lay to our charge, found nothing in Him, 60 in Whom we conquer. The Ninth Book
  • The good-natured Kentons had dispensed his Lordship from the encumbrance of a valet, and though my Lady could not well be allowed to go maidless, Lady That Stick
  • It is far from the first time a country has dispensed with excess noughts - some 50 countries have done so since Germany in 1923.
  • The conmen had constructed a full fake metal fascia decorated with bank logos and then put it on the front of the cash machine with slots for the card and for a receipt to be dispensed.
  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme figures for oxycodone, which is sold as OxyContin, OxyNorm and Endone, reveal there were 148,833 scripts dispensed in WA last year, up from 114,181 in Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • The Germans also dispensed uncooked rations for the kriegies to prepare in their makeshift kitchens: worm-infested potatoes, margarine that looked like axle grease, and blutwurst, a sausage made from onions and congealed animal blood. Masters of the Air
  • The oral rinses were dispensed by pharmacists and were administered by staff nurses.
  • But Woolrich pretty much dispensed altogether with the ratiocination of traditional crime fiction.
  • At this historical juncture, the conflict was too open, too widespread and too significant to be dispensed with merely by ignoring it. The Making of Neoclassical Economics
  • The writers have dispensed entirely with the usual gangster clichés of rap and hip-hop. Times, Sunday Times
  • On Saturday morning my father solemnly dispensed pocket money to each of the children.
  • Just as structuralism dispensed with history, so it also had no place for the reader in the production of meaning.
  • Sufis have occasionally dispensed with the traditional observances of Islam, such as the haj to Mecca, although most have observed the customary rules.
  • The weighing cup protruded from the top of the box and was placed below the end of a blow tube from which mealworms could be dispensed.
  • As part of this contract, orders for NHS medicines are dispensed for patients on demand with reasonable promptness.
  • They've dispensed with the catchy choruses and the larking around, replacing them with introspective musings.
  • Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question -- no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2
  • And he was fed the information from myriad channels, to be dispensed with the holy water on Sundays.
  • The very presence of the Laureate at the inaugural harkened back to antiquity and to sacred investitures of Irish kings, where poets, from a place of honour, dispensed the wisdom of the tribe.
  • The General Medical Council has also been informed, and hospital managers have revealed that they have dispensed with the services of the locum registrar on duty during the delivery.
  • The visita was supposed to ensure that pharmacists were operating with a proper license, that medicines were being prepared and dispensed correctly, that the shop was properly stocked with the basic ingredients, that the boticario was not overcharging the public, and, most important, to ensure that medicines were not "corrupted or altered. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • Steve and I would always stop in a little laundromat that had a coffee machine that dispensed really good hot chocolate and we'd each have one.
  • It showed the client, today’s trainee, along with his fellow executive retreatantsdoubtless exhausted after a hard day of budget cutting and crunching numbersdrinking rum punch dispensed from the breasts of anatomically correct female ice sculptures, to the accompaniment of a steel drum band, a limbo bar, and scantily clad waitresses dressed asoh dearmermaids. Excerpt: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
  • When the ale is dispensed from the cask, air is allowed into the cask. Long Island Beer Events
  • New faces wander into the studio and warm greetings are dispensed. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's dispensed through a brush and looks almost like a new layer of radiant skin has been painted on. Times, Sunday Times
  • By our leading English druggists are now dispensed a _succus verbasci_ (Mullein juice), of which the dose is from half to one teaspoonful; a tincture of _Verbascum_ (Mullein), the dose of which is from half-a-teaspoonful to two teaspoonfuls; and an infusion of Mullein, in doses of from one to four tablespoonfuls. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • A good listener, he dispensed wise counsel. Times, Sunday Times
  • The elder Mr. Paul, 74, dispensed behind-the-scenes advice during his son's bid for the Senate seat, in which he upset the favorite, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson.
  • All rites, rituals, and worship of god and goddesses have been dispensed with.
  • On Saturday morning my father solemnly dispensed pocket money to each of the children.
  • Today he may omit the dalmatic for a good reason, and many bishops have dispensed with it as unnecessary.
  • The biggest brands have long since dispensed with that method, and stir barely gingery syrups into carbonated water. The Spice Is Right
  • In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only ‘in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises.’ Proof That the World Is Nuts « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
  • The programme dispensed with its most popular presenter.
  • Rothko would have justly replied that it was precisely in order to convey humanist content that he had dispensed with subject matter.

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