How To Use Muster In A Sentence

After a bit, we mustered a varry nice pairty ov abaat a dozen, an 'as iverybody wor tawkin at once we managed to mak a fairish din. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
During the mobilization of any Army organization, all personnel are required to muster at a designated site.
The team ensured that civilian airliners and local mustering aircraft were kept out of the way of the fast jets.
He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.

He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
This gave Louis time to muster an army, and on 22 May 1216, he landed at Sandwich.
I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade. How I Found Livingstone
They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
Their commander said that he could muster 150 armed men within minutes. Times, Sunday Times
However, she refers to the muster for a boat called Queen, 74 guns, with a ship's complement just of 300 men.
Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes, but Beth mustered only 11.
That omission has been put right by Mr Pappalardo, who has ploughed through the ships' musters - the individual records of pay to members of all 33 ships' companies are held at Kew.
Despite having only 53 seats out of 120, it has successfully mustered a majority for most of its legislation by turning to a number of parties for support.
U.S. soldiers are using the army camp as a training center for the new national army being mustered by the interim administration.
The transferable feature is no problem since the exerciser is the one who has to pass muster. San Diego to Arizona: “Look, just because we called you racist bigots…” | RedState
But a picket of soldiers followed the poor coffin to the grave, officers made speeches over it, and her old comrades mustered from all parts of France to say good-bye.
Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards the table, landing on his knees in crumpled posture. December 18th, 2007
And from the reckless way they were tacklin 'big platters of expensive food, such as broiled live lobster and planked steaks, I judged they'd been mustered out more or less recent. Torchy and Vee
But neither could defenders of the status quo point to conclusive proof that teaching passed muster. Times, Sunday Times
But I usually cannot muster enough interest to stick with any of these media for more than fifteen minutes at a time.
While some musicians endeavor to muster whatever synthetic emotions their contract requires, he prefers to let things come naturally.
It was a minor problem and didn't take long to repair, but while I was in the process of fixing it, another fella asked if I would give him a hand to muster some sheep.
If they could be improved, and the stylistic infelicities, misprints and translation inaccuracies removed, a second edition would pass muster as a useful introductory text.
By the time the scattered troops were mustered, the enemy was already returning home and had to be ambushed in passing while laden with plunder.
Before the war, the Prime Minister could barely muster a majority of public opinion in favour of action.
The Welsh National Opera has mustered its forces to mount its second production of Tristan in only 14 years.
Y'know, after watching Wednesday's RNC festivities, I'm rather annoyed with myself that I titled dismayingly chimpy Dubya notwithstanding, at least Fred Thompson can sometime muster up the ornery menace of an aging silverback. Ghost in the Machine
The King's son Edward escaped from imprisonment at Gloucester, and mustered an army.
These forms, which we may call form G, are exemplified in literature by the forms of the sonnet or of tragedy with the “three unities” (place, time, and action); in music, the forms of the fugue or sonata; in architecture, the peripteros (“array of columns”) or the Ionic order; the bosquet form in Italian and French gardening; the zwiebelmuster (“onion pattern”) design in Saxon por - celain. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Resolved, that the committee on finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of paying for clothing, & c. furnished to a portion of the militia of Roanoke when called out by the authorities, and the call countermanded before the said militia were mustered into service. Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1861-62
Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
Each left his work and ran to his hut, and immediately returned armed with both musket and cartouch box: apparently all the arms in the village were mustered, and all seemed ready for immediate use. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
A muster of peacocks sang out an alarm call and all the deer around the lake ran for cover.
These two develop the degree of intense chemistry that only mature actors can muster (and which might make some less experienced performers uncomfortable); their interaction feels entirely unfeigned.
During its 1864 season 41,000 sheep were shorn, providing work for an army of musterers, shearers, woolclassers, packers and teamsters.
Their bodies piled up in the streets before the authorities could muster the men needed to bury them.
If we're mustering cattle along the river, we'd never take water or anything like that but that's all changed now.
Just feed the electorate bullshit and all was possible withoutthe strainto muster courage and integrity. Rob Kall's recent "How to Erode and Destroy Democracy"
World music has long been mustered by both camps to provide evidence for new theories, whether they stress cultural relativism or universalism.
His book deals with memes and other cognate subjects less frivolously and with much more academic rigour than I can muster.
His undramatic story failed to pass muster with some evangelicals, but it is a moving testimony nonetheless: Briallen Hopper: Amazing Grace: How Conversion Really Works
It was a strange disjuncture, the visual narrative hinting at a post-modern playfulness that the plodding music couldn't muster. Times, Sunday Times
But the worrying thing is that it was far more effective than anything they had mustered to that point. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, the difficulty of mustering the parade had been badly miscalculated and it was behind schedule.
The Court majority offers the muddy suggestion that racial gerrymandering will pass muster if the resulting districts are not too aggressively indifferent to "compactness, contiguousness, geographical boundaries, or political subdivisions. Districting By Pigmentation
I've tried, but I just can't muster any enthusiasm at all.
There still are Trots in Ireland, but if they could muster up 100,000 for their own demonstrations I'm sure they'd be happy.
In essence, if a soldier was not present during muster, he could likely be counted as a casualty.
The team will need all the strength they can muster to win this game.
I was making some remarks upon what I termed a flock of them, that were basking under a sunny wall, when I was gently corrected in my phraseology by Master Simon, who told me that, according to the most ancient and approved treatise on hunting, I must say a MUSTER of peacocks. Old Christmas
Ihr Pyjama sind auch braun mit einem All-over Muster der Elche und Bären Silhouetten, wahrscheinlich Männer Schlafanzüge, aber sie ist ein bisschen männlich, mit Ausnahme von ein paar ziemlich bodacious Titten. Abendessen bei McDonalds
Mil. to pass muster: to undergo muster or inspection without censure; (later in extended use) to come up to the required standard, to be beyond reproach or criticism; to be taken or accepted as (occas. for) something. Battlecat « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
I could not pass muster in his language.
After scrimping and saving more pennies, we mustered the low budget to get some promotional pressings done.
Will does a muster and - so rugged is this country - finds they've actually got 7000 cattle.
It also purveyed the well-thumbed Roman myths: that everyone in the ancient world was a backstabbing, double-dealing, amoral schemer, and that none of them could muster the self-control of a priapic ferret or the wisdom of a brick.
His English up to this point would hardly pass muster.
He could muster only 154 votes at the election.
That's what happened last November as the Senate failed to muster enough votes to pass compromise energy legislation in 2002.
Yet even now the usual cavalcade of naysayers, spoilsports, and harbingers of doom are mustering their forces to oppose this latest face of the technological revolution that is rapidly reshaping society.
But these guns were supposed to be used only at musters and during emergencies.
He puts on the toniest accent he can muster, while the other guests drop names 'like a handyman scattering rawl-plugs'. The Times Literary Supplement
But I thought it was one aspect of whisker-growing I was going to be spared - maybe my pathetic attempt was so feeble it couldn't even muster the required bristliness to make it itch. BBC News - Home
The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
Outside, the crew are mustering for the day's shoot.
One television cameraman reportedly walked up a dry river-bed to snatch images of Harry mustering cattle.
Budgeted without an ounce of fat, his film required all the good fortune that it could muster.
Me and my fellow officer (which was all we could muster at 4 am on a sunday morning) just said “whose the chief grunger … …. all right mate we will be back about midday to kick you out” same everywhere. Rave On….. I think….. Or Maybe Not! Who knows? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
If it doesn't pass muster, a radio station could have its license challenged.
The birds in the trees sang happily to her as she walked along, praising God with as much vigor and thankfulness as they could muster.
The Welsh National Opera has mustered its forces to mount its second production of Tristan in only 14 years.
Even so, I had a delicious day, luxuriating in the suddenly speedy access to the websites I have had, until now, to visit with all the patience I can muster.
With all the strength she could muster, she raised her arm and cut the air. Times, Sunday Times
Stark's footnote references the muster book she used for this information.
Anthony is as lean and fit as his stockmen and they work together like a well-oiled machine, mustering the cattle through today's weaning, weighing and dipping with practiced ease.
Swan Lake has been central to the Royal repertory, ever since the company was the fledgling Vic-Wells Ballet and could barely muster a full-size corps. This week's new dance
Opponents are unlikely to be able to muster enough votes to override the veto.
I didn't think Charlie's parents would like me, but evidently I pass muster.
How many parents cannot muster the determination to discipline their children because they cannot bear inflicting the suffering it will require?
On my arrival at the wildlife conservation center, I was greeted by a muster of peacocks and peahens.
Television advertisements still sing of the untamed musterer, now a legend in his own primetime.
The Senate formally debated the measure this week, but, yesterday, failed to muster sufficient votes to bring it to the floor for a vote.
Reports on their muster fluctuated between four thousand and eight thousand warriors.
Okay, so they seem to only have a knack for the final flourish; and it would be nice if they actually won a series for a change, but I'll take whatever they can muster at this point.
With the best control he can muster, he makes the sign of the Median over Caidryn's body and utters a brief prayer for her soul.
I think claustrophobic inspector hit it spot on about being dressed in his best trackies, shitty old jumper and probably the ebst lizzie duke rings he could muster or thieve. Another satisfied “customer” walks away laughing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
There will be no holding back by Strange, then, when he musters his troops in September.
I pick my jaw up off the floor and muster my reply, which I hope is a carbon copy of his quiet smile.
The success of any conservation measure is directly dependent on the degree of public opinion mustered to its support.
In this way, the officials allegedly find an opportunity to misappropriate public funds by preparing bogus muster rolls.
Seemingly mustered for a last ditch stand they in fact conceded defeat after only six days.
Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out.
For the fourth time in four meetings, this pair failed to muster a goal between them. The Sun
Costa Rica might have scored twice before Brazil had mustered the first of their many shots; the Central Americans went on to hit the woodwork twice and miss a series of glaring chances.
But the worrying thing is that it was far more effective than anything they had mustered to that point. Times, Sunday Times
While it is quite possible that the Secured Creditors did in fact receive what they might have received in a liquidation, that conclusion is to a large extent pure speculation — valuation in bankruptcy is always a matter of some guesswork, but in most cases the parties fighting over valuation get the opportunity to muster evidence and present their cases to an impartial decisionmaker in the adversarial setting. The Volokh Conspiracy » Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy
In their past four top-flight matches, they have mustered just a single point. Times, Sunday Times
Too timid to risk present comforts, they never muster the spine to acquire or risk their own capital.
They exercise their power not by the support they can muster but by the actions they can block. MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES
She poises her pen over her paper, wearing as inscrutably sweet an expression as she can possibly muster. Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods
When asked about the recent hoopla surrounding gay marriage, he barely musters enough interest to dismiss the conversation.
It's taking everything I can muster to keep body, mind and soul together.
It is not clear whether the government, which does not have majority in the Senate, will be able to muster enough upper house votes to pass the legislation.
This was more disturbing given that there are over two million regulars on the muster roles of NATO's continental armies.
He met inquiries as to whether he would strengthen his hand in January with the most cutting retort he could muster. Times, Sunday Times
a list and 'muster-roll of the arts and sciences'; -- stopping to tell us plainly that he knows what he is about, and that he has not brought in '_these private and retired arts_,' with so much stress, and under so many heads, in connection with 'the principal and supreme sciences,' and _the mode of their tradition_, without having some occasion for it. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
And the tribes of the city have no other than one common phylarch, which is the court of aldermen and the common council, for which cause they elect not at their muster the first list called the prime magnitude. The Commonwealth of Oceana
He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement.
Oscar must have used all the strength he could muster. Times, Sunday Times
How can I muster the strength to return to the scene of such a crime against humanity, such a blatant dereliction of the dignity of persons (and personifications of Evil)?
Had the democrats mustered the balls to say no, it may have been a different picture today. State of the Union: Powell 'concerned' about Obama's agenda
Opera debut as Susanna, mustered a big, bright sound from her very small stature.
As soon as we could free her wrists and ankles, she sat up and I folded her into the biggest hug I could muster.
But neither could defenders of the status quo point to conclusive proof that teaching passed muster. Times, Sunday Times
The entire film is an exaggerated study in brainless women being used for decorative purposes, but it's so damn lousy that I can't even muster up any reactionary feminist offense to it. June 27th, 2005
But the only sound she could muster was a frothing in her tracheostomy tube. Times, Sunday Times
A closer examination, however, would find, IMHO, that they are already so far "afoul" and afield from their Constitutional authority that most of these earmarks, and quite possibly the process itself, would not pass Constitutional muster. EckerNet.Com
As we were steaming out of the Gambia I saw the commander of the Galibi on his bridge, in a state of violent excitement, with all his crew mustered before him, and appealing in the most vehement manner to his capitaine de riviere (river captain), the title borne by the chief of the negro crew. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
She paused at the edge of the woods, mustered her courage, and plowed into the underbrush.
In addition, a muster also registers whether the sailor was either ‘pressed’ or volunteered and whether he was discharged or reserved.
I could not pass muster in his language.
Now if she could relax with a stripier shirt, be more Middleton in bearing and not flash those gloves, she'd pass muster. Archive 2009-06-01
I just can't muster the enthusiasm for it that I used to have.
Then muster the courage to do so. Times, Sunday Times
They need time to muster the courage to face these. Times, Sunday Times
A decade later, a Constitutional amendment was again put to a vote, but the Senate failed to muster a two-thirds majority.
Tanzania's nickname is "bongo," which means clever, and they'll need all the intelligence they can muster. CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009
A descent into this kind of carnally driven pulp should be conducted boldly and without apology, which is a courage that Cristofer cannot seem to muster.
As we were steaming out of the Gambia I saw the commander of the Galibi on his bridge, in a state of violent excitement, with all his crew mustered before him, and appealing in the most vehement manner to his capitaine de riviere (river captain), the title borne by the chief of the negro crew. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
Mikey gave her the most sympathetic look he could muster then pushed her hair back.
I am not so sure of their total digestion, but I do recognize their omnivorousness, their heaping the plate with every piping-hot vice and outrage they could muster.
As things stand, a presidential candidate must be able to muster a certain number of supporters.
Yet he vowed to stay in Berlin so long as even a minyan was left, kept his vow, hence was deported to the Nazi Musterlager, Theresienstadt.
he was thrown in the brig for missing muster
He mustered up enough courage to attack the difficulty.
Prior to their Week 5 bye, the Dolphins could only muster 92 second-half yards with Moore under center in a 26-16 loss to San Diego. Statistics Can't Explain Jets' Recent Losses to Miami
Under conductor Will Crutchfield, the orchestra and chorus brought richness and bel canto lyricism to the score, from the galloping motifs of the overture to the antiphonal horn playing that evoked the echoes of the Swiss mountains, the lively, fugal mustering of the cantons in Act II, and the victorious tremolos of the finale. Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production
Some viewers complained about the mustering of pregnant ewes and newborn lambs.
While Pfizer (PFE) is seeing reduced economic value in reinvesting in its cholesterol franchise (Lipitor), AstraZeneca appears to be pumping as much air in the cholesterol bubble as it can muster.
There is another muster of peacocks living not far from me.
Mobile data will allow remote access to all the databases and software applications a firm can muster.
Obligated militiamen were required to arm and equip themselves, and take part in occasional musters and training sessions.
Mustering my meagre knowledge of the 8th arrondissement, I remember a museum on the Boulevard Haussman that had a rather good café-restaurant attached.
Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out.
But neither could defenders of the status quo point to conclusive proof that teaching passed muster. Times, Sunday Times
I find it hard to muster the sympathy within myself to understand his plight.
Muster Richard's been back above a week, and he and the Old Un is up to their same tricks again; but that ain't awl -- there's a black-haired pale chap cum with a heye like a nork, as seems to me the baddest of the lot, and that ain't sayin 'a little. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
He'll need to muster a turnout great enough to give the poll legitimacy.
When she surfaced, she gave his laughing form the best glare she could muster while her body shook uncontrollably from the cold and her teeth chattered loudly.
Ellyrian cavalrymen mustered beside the elite White Lions of Chrace.
How lonely and worrying it must have been when John was away for days and weeks at a time, mustering wild cattle in country as dangerous as it gets for horses and men.
He pulled his shoulder back and hit Nathan in the face with as much strength as he could muster in his current position.
In their past four top-flight matches, they have mustered just a single point. Times, Sunday Times
The pilgrims then muster in great numbers; but the soldiery is reduced to a small escort. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
I asked with as nonchalant a tone as I could muster, as he jumped angrily at my sudden appearance.
Sometimes, he is shown on television mustering up a public scolding of a ham-handed government agency, as if he were trying out a few tough - guy mannerisms picked up from his mentor, Mr. Putin.
Like it or not we gotta live with these folks, and we need every swinging dick we can muster to help overthrow our corporate masters. dogtown, Well put. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
I am incredibly appreciative, but manage to only muster a weak smile.
Mustering help from other whites, the mob returned to burn houses and shops.
Now all McCain can muster is some snarky, empty drivel comparing Obama to Moses. New McCain Video: ‘The One’ Returns - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
And yet we decided, with all the “no matter whatness” we could muster, that she would give up on us long before we would ever give up on her. Tattoos on the Heart
However, she refers to the muster for a boat called Queen, 74 guns, with a ship's complement just of 300 men.
At that point the new regiment would be mustered into federal service and thenceforth paid, fed, and equipped at national expense.
The Welsh National Opera has mustered its forces to mount its second production of Tristan in only 14 years.
Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives of the fair sex who were present in large numbers while, as it proceeded down the river, escorted by a flotilla of barges, the flags of the Ballast office and Custom House were dipped in salute as were also those of the electrical power station at the Ulysses
Let me assure you that all the spelling and incanting you can muster will not find a chosen card in a deck, nor will it materialize a bunny in an empty hat.
I argued against this delay with all the force I could muster; but Traveller was unmoveable. ANTI-ICE
The popular conscript army mustered by revolutionary France would demonstrate its superiority over the state commission style, but its abilities were not immediately apparent.
She looked lovingly at the muster of peacocks and gushed, beguilingly: “Aren't they beautiful!”
She ran her finger along the large bills in the wallet before mustering the courage to grab the cash and thrust it into the front pocket of her apron, where she kept tips.
You know after that skrimmage at Hubbardton, Warner could scarcely muster more than two hundred men, and we who were sent from The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773
Italy, like Britain, is mustering its troops for a possible war in Iraq.
The army mustered on 11 March 1296 and the long peace was over.
There was no time to muster wider family. Times, Sunday Times
Credit card offerings from 46 providers failed to pass muster. Times, Sunday Times
The success of the surge in pacifying Iraq has been so swift and decisive that it’s easy to forget how difficult it was to find the right general, choose the right strategy, and muster the political will to implement it. Iraq
He argued that the Senate had a right to debate our resolution once it became the business of the day and that, since standing rules required a two-thirds majority to end debate, he should be able to debate it until we mustered a two-thirds majority to stop him. The Good Fight
Finally mustering the courage to act, Blue reaches into his bag of disguises and casts about for a new identity.
I mustered up enough gall to snatch the rose from his spinning fingers, toss it away, and interlace my fingers with his own.
Nope, one-liners that are fallacious is the best you can muster I suppose. Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated)
Time to muster up the willpower to cut ties. The Sun
In one instance an entire black regiment had entrained for Charleston to be mustered out of service when someone uncoupled the cars and isolated them on a high trestle bridge. Between War and Peace
Leicester failed to muster a shot on target in a league game for the first time since May 2015? Times, Sunday Times
Myself and three colleagues went to the muster point but there was no one there and we went back to our office. The Sun
A countdown led by the Wales Tourist Board chairman, a coastguard maroon and one of the loudest fireworks that the fireworks company could muster, sent the swim on its way.
His fingers sailed across the piano keys as he sang with all the feeling that he could muster.
Now all I can muster is a sulky “my cups otherfloweth” when I survey the ill fit before my husband. They’re Real, And They’re Not All That Spectacular | Her Bad Mother
The women had to provide all the meals for the shearers and the musterers, sometimes feeding twenty extra men.
Slipshod work will never pass muster.
I had too much adrenaline to answer back Carlozio who had taken advantage of my quietness and was barraging me with the most annoyance he could muster.
They need time to muster the courage to face these. Times, Sunday Times
If it doesn't pass muster, a radio station could have its license challenged.
muster the courage to do something
The team will need all the strength they can muster to win this game.
He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement.
These mindful bureaucrats limited payments to state militias that had been directly mustered into federal service or those that had been called out with authorization.
They still failed to muster a single telling shot in the entire first half, but they kept Waterford at arms length without too much difficulty.
Unfortunately, the difficulty of mustering the parade had been badly miscalculated and it was behind schedule.
Crystal Palace will need all the bouncebackability they can muster, and despite what Iain Dowie might say, it's definitely Lucky Pants Time.

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