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US
/ˈɛɫ/
]
[ UK /ˈɛl/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛl/ ]
NOUN
- a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
ADJECTIVE
- being ten more than forty
How To Use l In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
- When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
- I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
- He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
- He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
- Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
- The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
- If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843