How To Use Pesky In A Sentence
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It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand.
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Find out what those pesky acronyms and abbreviations stand for.
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This image evolved over the decades, and the moonshiner became fixed as a corncob-pipe-smoking craftsman filling stoneware jugs with a clear and tasty elixir while keeping an eye out for pesky revenuers.
Hipster Moonshine
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You won't be covering your ears from the lack of pleasantries coming out of the speaker, but if you get busy picking at a pesky hangnail, you won't even notice that Desmond is on.
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Guys (meaning "gunnies" of both genders) There is little use in argueing the FACTS with Paul and other anti-freedom zealots ... because the simple FACT of the matter is, when it comes to leftist liberal nut jobs they NEVER let them pesky little FACTS get in the way of 1) Their "Feelings" 2) a good tale.
A Hit From The Supremes
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So maybe our hard wiring is why we will never be wine-tasting robots, with pesky things like emotions and context getting in the way.
“Hocus-pocus” – The Taste Makers in the NYer | Dr Vino's wine blog
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They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from th ... read more crafts
A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
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Though you will have to look through the affixed mesh cage designed to keep those pesky angst filled teenagers from making life difficult for the street cleaners.
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They named the Pesky Pole (the right field foul pole) after him in Fenway Park.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
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Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher.
James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre
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Then came those pesky furrow lines.
The Sun
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And the image of a man being slurped on a moving toboggan by a pesky dog is too cartoonishly good to be true - unless the reader realizes how much universal Lab behavior is immortalized here.
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Widely known as a pesky hitter, Eckstein is looking for a new home after brief stints in
SI.com
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For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors.
Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
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They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from the dark wet dough, turtles swimming to its surface, bug-eyed devils rising from the mud, all brought to life by the magic touch of Antonia Cruz Rafael.
Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
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Cunning eyes, wily grins, pesky faces had beamed tenacity and aptness and survival.
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Still, you can leave feeling safe the disappearance of the polar ice isn't global warming at all but those pesky dancing penguins.
The Sun
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Every spring, people across the country purchase vast quantities of toxic chemicals and spray them on lawns and gardens to remove undesired insects and weeds like pesky dandelions.
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Then again, one pesky obstacle still stands in the way--that "overtaxed" island on the fringe of Europe, the U.K. In an interview with BBC radio Sunday, the head of News Corp. aired his frustrations about operating in Britain because business was "overregulated.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, Jan.23-27, 2006U.K. Faces Of The Week, Jan. 23-27, 2006
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Fifty-cents worth of mesh was all it took to keep those pesky sow bugs from taking up residence!
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Then last year, he made a comeback starring as the affable-yet-clueless dad of two teen babes and a pesky son.
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So insignificant, but I was walking home very late and in my rush almost barreled into a woman who was intensely trying to fish out some candy from a pesky wrapper.
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OK, now that I've got the willies, let's talk about the pesky critters.
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As with the aphid controls, we rosarians have an arsenal of weapons with which to combat these pesky critters.
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The obvious result, if this type of suit becomes successful and pesky, is of course for media to start blocking Internet traffic from British URLs.
Coyote Blog » 2005 » March
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It is our job to deal with these pesky varmints and stick fines on their windscreens.
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Every Colombian city has a sleazy shopping district called a San Andresito where you can pick up a bottle of Scotch without paying those pesky import duties that double the price.
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Any pesky remnants of feelings she used to have for him would just have to be dealt with later.
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The rest of the country constituted enough of a quorum for these powerful people - who needs those pesky Californian and Floridian votes anyway?
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Let's keep the unattractive, empty warehouses on the river front and make the city as unwelcoming as possible to stop the invasion of these pesky incomers.
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Pesky little deer nibbling at our pea flowers last week and they also found their way to the beanstalks cutting the buds off!
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Bug killer — Insecticidal soap kills most soft-bodied insects, such as pesky aphids, by dehydration.
How to use soap in the garden
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The Internet frees us from the pesky constraints of our physical bodies.
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Your not the candygram your that pesky land shark aren't you?
DAA-Dum
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Either the falls were moving or the pesky leprechauns in the wild West of Ireland were moving the signs.
The Sun
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You know, that pesky hyphen is just sooooo hard to get in there.
The ‘This has to be a Photoshop.’ Sunday Open Thread. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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No one knew where this pesky filament came from until 1987, when researchers discovered it was part of a larger molecule they dubbed the amyloid-precursor protein (APP).
The Disappearing Mind
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And if any more pesky journalists should come along looking for quality time, well, they better have some decent snacks in their pockets.
Times, Sunday Times
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By comparison, the Miami series suffers from hambone David Caruso's showboating - the shameless way he slips into action hero poses, doffing his sunglasses to brush aside a pesky forelock when jumping from a car.
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Carbon dioxide acts like a homing device, guiding pesky mosquitoes to their dinner.
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All would be so much simpler, argued the Judaean king, if his henchmen simply eliminated the pesky Egyptian queen.
Still Under Cleopatra's Spell
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a pesky mosquito
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The topic was moles and how to get rid of the pesky creatures which cause havoc in fields and gardens - humanely of course.
The Sun
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And if you need a whiney, loud-mouthed woman to repulse those pesky telemarketers, throw your little sis some cash.
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It were a pesky wind that kep 'a-cuffin' me an 'whistlin' in the briers on my face an 'crackin' my coat-tails.
In the Days of Poor Richard
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Airy and snackable, its a great alternative to caramel corn, and won't leave you with pesky popcorn kernels stuck in your teeth.
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No, this was a uniquely charr torment—with churning water and buoyant hyenas and a pesky human and a starry-eyed sylvari leading a parade of fools.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Sheldon hires a black-leathered motorbike assassin with double-barrelled shades to exterminate these pesky interlopers.
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Both knawels are sometimes named pesky weeds, but every plant, which can survive in the poor soil, is important for the Spit.
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No democracy in the world would divide its citizens into two or three classes: Ashkenazi being first-class citizens, Sephardi and Falasha being arguably the second, and last & indeed least, the unwanted pesky Arabs put in some sort of non-citizenship status.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: On “Jewish Morocco”
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Then came those pesky furrow lines.
The Sun
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Kat raised her head momentarily and blew a pesky strand of hair out of her eyes, fluttering her lips so that a raspberry gently sounded.
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Birds boost tree height up to 33 percent by munching on pesky parasites that can literally suck the life out of the tall-growing plants, a new study shows.
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Then there are those pesky agreements known as Tampere I and Tampere II, which enabled the Commission to dismiss Michael Howard's election promises that he would tighten up asylum laws and border control.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Those pesky questions involving water, natural landscapes and social structures are somehow more important to the bilingual, binational towns riming the southern edge of the United States than who garners votes to Washington.
2006 October 04 « Eclectics Anonymous
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One zap with my racket and the pesky mosquitoes are dead.
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One of the biggest offenders, iguanas; one man in Boca Raton decided to take the pesky lizards on, inventing a repellant called iguana rid.
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009
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This motion will add to the exfoliation process and also help with the removal of fine facial hair, better known as pesky peach fuzz.
Xml's Blinklist.com
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There is no distinction between bold and ordinary text - which is a bit pesky.
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It doesn't involve any slurry sibilants and its only pesky, easy-to-drop vowel is held prisoner between two rugged consonants.
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According to the official figures, more than one in 10 of the adult population plays this pesky game at least once a month, while 250,000 are so enthralled that they pay annual subscriptions to a golf club.
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It'll be free of diversions and pesky ‘entertainment extravaganzas’.
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They are up to their pinstripes in pesky rattlesnakes.
USATODAY.com - Johnson too big for Yankees
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Pesky bobbled the ball, recovered, and threw to first baseman Walt Dropo but Rizzuto beat out the relay.
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All I heard constantly was the buzzing of mosquitoes and other pesky swamp varmints.
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Some force deep within truly wants to believe aliens cured that Montana farmer of his pesky hernia problem.
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This way they have ensured that we will put up a solid fight, and maybe be able to begg off to their foreign masters that they just couldn't swallow this time because those pesky peons just wouldn't let them.
Digital Lockdown
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It is somewhat troubling how convenient these security measures are in terms of keeping pesky reporters at bay.
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Yep, the guys that (may or may not have) beer-bonged malt liquor with me (or not me) are now designing the bridges you drive on or pulling you over and enforcing those pesky open container laws.
Wow, you are a downer. And we were having a pretty nice day. day.
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Idahi thought the Kickapoo was a pesky fellow—that was the problem with Kickapoos.
Comanche Moon
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Newton, that pesky little scamp, is still showing that entropy creeps into every system but we’re trying out best to keep it at bay.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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NIAGARA FALLS - Erie and Niagara counties have been added to the quarantine list in an effort to stem the spread of a pesky beetle that attacks and kills ash trees.
Niagara Gazette Homepage
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I can remember as a young boy growing up in Santa Cruz, California my grandfather showed me how to dig up this pesky weed called Bermuda Grass.
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The dancing is ace, but if psychoanalysis isn't your bowl of chutney, bring along a brainy friend to guide you through those pesky talky bits.
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It's not the first time a pesky fly has chosen to target Obama.
The Sun
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Jack needs to get rid of these pesky aphids and he needs the money to buy insecticide.
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Oh, how I hate how those pesky hangers scrape up my wooden closet rod.
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Keep away pesky cats and squirrels with this wooden catapult.
Times, Sunday Times
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I just tend to dislike certain pesky things like the "droit du seigneur" (did I spell that right?
Free to be Home
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To revitalize the stale sci-fi franchise, director J.J. Abrams has compiled a cast with the kind of plasticine perfection that emmotes volumes in a galaxy overrun with Klingons, Romulans and other pesky intergalactic scum.
CTV News RSS Feed
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Teh pesky tusky marine animule has cried “bukkit” too meny tiems.
Ohaiena. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Yes, dear ... and let's not let any of those pesky facty things get in the way:
When stupid Blogging Tories revise history.
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Then again, one pesky obstacle still stands in the way--that "overtaxed" island on the fringe of Europe, the U.K.
Murdoch Complains U.K Overtaxes Business Murdoch Complains U.K. Overtaxes Business
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Nor must we forget M Chirac's other best friend, President Putin, who must have approved of l'escroc's attempt to bully those pesky East Europeans.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Still, even that slim of a chance could be slightly disconcerting seeing that the pesky asteroid that hit the Earth 250 million years ago was likely the cause of 90 percent of life on the planet dying off also, as a worrywart points out to me, those are better odds than winning the lottery.
Doomsday Apophis asteroid? Could the Earth be on a collision course?
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It uses its key fruity ingredient to ditch dark spots and pesky pigmentation in four weeks.
The Sun
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Often, wearing a helmet or certain kinds of padding can make the difference between ending up in the hospital after a wipe-out and walking away with a few pesky bruises.
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Try as Emilion might, he could not teach me to throw and catch the pesky things properly.
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As the week draws to a close, we have yet to see one of those pesky creatures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course there is going to be a ton of more police on patrol and they seem to be building a five mile long fence around the Gleneagles hotel as I write this, to keep out pesky protesters from rushing the hotel.
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Irritated eyes: as the name suggests, it implies dry eyes, burning eyes, light sensitivity, eyestrain are the most pesky and irritative symptoms that trouble the computer user.
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No more having to wipe the botties of pesky hacks.
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It turns out that mosquitoes are a pesky problem on his island in the South Pacific.
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But the reasonings don't seem based in that pesky Constitution itself, and the very idea of using foreign law as some sort of guide for American law unnerves me as much as it angers me.
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This is a sledgehammer approach to hitting a pesky mosquito - don't get me wrong, the mosquito is carrying malaria, but this is not the way to fight it.
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It's that pesky, invisible specter called ultraviolet light.
HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
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This game had a great premise: Take the coolest decade this side of the Enlightenment for bad-assery, remove all those pesky laws and government, pile up a bunch of jacked-up cars, guns and funk, and have it take place in an alternate-universe American Southwest.
4 post-apocalyptic games that should be remade today
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PUERTO RICO BEATS NETHERLANDS: Yadier Molina's go-ahead double keyed a three-run rally in the eighth inning, and Puerto Rico beat a pesky Netherlands team 3-1 on Monday night in San Juan, Puerto Rico to advance to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
Undefined
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Most of the place is a volcanic wasteland, which is cold much of the year (and has two small ice caps) and that pesky polar cycle of seasons where the sun goes down for only two hours a night in summer and not at all for most of the winter.
Eric Lurio: Iceland Is Melting!
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Interestingly they do seem to be hearing this from somewhere though. and the "sunray" hmmm I bet it's all those pesky seniors that are winding them up
Army Rumour Service
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And I would have got away with it too, if it hadn't have been for that pesky unbreakable glass.
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So you'd think it would be hot and muggy there, and people wouldn't want to be bothered with wearing too much pesky clothing, right?
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I tape off the very outside 1/4 inch behind the rabbet of the frame and use that margin for the perspective grid marks for those pesky remote VPs.
Line Drawing
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That was the year when, as little bro Jay wrote, Big Mark decided to go off deca-durabolin (allegedly the drug of choice for Roger Clemens and old-school weightlifters) and switch to androstenedione so he could get that needed testosterone boost without the pesky drawback of back zits and shrinkage.
Finger Food
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I quickly sat up starting a combination of burps and breath holding to get rid of the pesky hiccups I'd gotten.
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She did not - as she told it - interrupt the man with pesky questions about his pain but rather listened in an analytical way as if he were a character giving a soliloquy.
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Trim as necessary and adhere to the top of the wood making sure to get out any pesky air bubbles.
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In Glasgow or on the west Coast, you can barely walk down the road without bumping into a pesky little trattoria.
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Probiotics may be the solution to those pesky bladder and urogenital infections that many women can't shake.
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He had stripped naked in an attempt to free himself from the pesky pests.
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Maybe somebody outraged by the idea of pesky women ruining good soldiers 'careers, and then quitting anyway.
Running Blind
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Pls tew nawt…I heers skientistz sayin dat eben finkin abt rly iresistbLOL Noms mks U hang on tew dem pesky caloriez…fooey.
Video: Kitteh Noms A Grilled Cheese Sandwich - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Ahead of them, Pesky moved unheedingly along the narrow companionway.
The Cruise of a Deathtime
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Mock the gods as you cut into the turducken, 2. defying nature by carving directly across the middle, where that pesky skeletal structure used to be.
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I just won ` t be buying the next two books unless they follow those pesky "constraining" "adventure fiction" staples ...
Robot reviews: LoEG Century: 1910 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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To do it, he'll be clad in a shoe called the TNF Sentinel BOA that features a proprietary tightening system free of pesky laces.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The reason is that non-consensuality is its engine, and it carries as much menace and danger as a mainstream thriller, without being bothered with that pesky “plot” thing, which usually derails most feature porn.
Scary Minds (DVD Review) « Skid Roche
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He insists that her veins were swimming merrily with a drug called Nembutal, which would have made the superstar a teeny-weeny bit too unconscious to go about fiddling with those pesky tubes.
SLACKERJACK – Superstar Chefs
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Keep away pesky cats and squirrels with this wooden catapult.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stripey, pesky, stinging, buzzing blighter better known as the wasp.
The Sun
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Also good is the news that the SEC won’t be enforcing any action for the pesky circulation overstatement from a while back.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Belo Be Strong
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The built in assumption is that market forces and normal human nature can regulate the behaviours of individuals, companies and nations so that peace and prosperity will reign without those pesky elected bozos ruining everything.
Going somewhere I don’t usually | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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The two counterprogramming flicks Letter to Juliet and Just Wright should wrangle in the third and fourth spots respectively while that pesky Dragon movie rounds out the top five.
Flixnjoystix.com! » Last Week@The Movies: ROBIN HOOD, JULIET, & More! McJeffrey Looks At Last Weekend’s Cinematic Offerings!
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Here we have Charlie Brown and his insecurities with the Little Red-Haired Girl, Linus running for class president, Lucy being the eternal fussbudget, and Snoopy dealing with a pesky flock of birds (who would eventually evolve into one bird, Woodstock).
2009 March : Scrubbles.net
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Most of those pesky pumps on beauty products are the recycler's nemesis — they are 100% unrecyclable.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're on the prowl at a handful of police stations, keeping pesky rodents in check.
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Sign in recline: Former Red Sox great Johnny Pesky made sure giving autographs were a comfortable operation Monday.
Menu is slim on Boston fare
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While “progressives are not interested in dismantling the employer system,” the Chamber of Commerce wants to dump that pesky health insurance onto the employee.
Wonk Room » Can Republicans Scare The Public Away From The Public Option?
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Liberals keep trying to forget the original "pesky" Bill of Rights on their dash to the Socialist State. please
Five states join lawsuit against health care bill
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In fact, according to the ghostly murmurings of Mary Alice’s narration, there is a lot more depth to the term sabotage than those pesky Beastie Boys would have us believe.
Televisionista
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Further study might usefully consider a correlation between the constant sending of pesky emails and doziness, lethargy and the inability to focus.
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The groundbreaking computer graphics that made the original show so spellbinding have been improved to depict all the pesky hairiness of mammals.
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A lot of people will be getting their election news from the Internet, but what we really want is for them to get it direct from the campaign, by email, so the message doesn't get fuzzed by those pesky media, right?
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And they're talking about something else these pesky kids wouldn't understand - the snap, crackle and pop that an old gatefold album sleeve made when you opened it up.
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And the image of a man being slurped on a moving toboggan by a pesky dog is too cartoonishly good to be true - unless the reader realizes how much universal Lab behavior is immortalized here.
