How To Use Ramble In A Sentence
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She's getting old and she tends to ramble a bit.
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Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
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I sprinted through brambles and thorned blackberry bushes and pushed my way past overgrown, waist-high swordfern.
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Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
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Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
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She learned to scramble around and even run sideways, but not forward.
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They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arrival of the charity van set off a minor riot as villagers scrambled for a share of the aid.
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The family made the amazing find while on a nature ramble in the woods.
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Those buyers not up to speed might find they are left behind in the scramble to get onto the property ladder.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is the other side of a public bridle path and almost overgrown with vicious brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Th' Rambler fr'm Clare 'beautifully on what they call a pickle-e-o befure they sarved a rayplivin writ on him.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
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However, in a mad final scramble, the Vipers were able to hold on to win their fourth straight Stampede Challenge title.
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The law is predicted to bring benefits not just for ramblers but for the whole region by attracting more walkers and tourists.
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Carpenter scrambled out of the pocket, pulled up at the line of scrimmage and shoveled the ball to Thompson, who outleaped two defenders under the goal post.
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For a moment I feared I was going to drown as I lay pole-axed on the shingle, but scrambled free in time.
Country diary: Western Cumbria
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The group scattered and Justin scrambled to the school.
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On Seventh Avenue, slack-jawed visitors scrambled for digital cameras, and taxicabs actually slowed down for something other than a fare.
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And I've rambled on far too much, but only because I warmed to the subject as I was writing about it.
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I want to walk along a tropical beach at sunset or ramble through a ruined temple at sunrise.
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With more than 50 million Larsson books sold world-wide, publishers scrambled to anoint his literary heir—preferably a political and prolix Scandinavian.
Tattooed by Politics
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The riders, known as scramblers, are illegally riding their motorbikes, quad bikes and scooters across Crane Park and are tearing up the ground in the process.
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Taking the penalty was a bad choice, but I also don't know if Big Easy was ever going to unscramble it, Keoghan says.
Amazing Race: Phil Keoghan Explains Why These 11 Teams Have Unfinished Business
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The Russian air force scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a Manchester-bound airliner that had strayed into its air space
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The first uses what AirTight now alternately refers to as a "vulnerability" or a "limitation" in the 802.11 specification: a shared encryption key called the group temporal key (GTK), shared by all clients connected to the same access point, can't detect an address spoofing attempt (the pairwise keys, which are used to scramble data between a given client and the access point, can).
AirTight defends Wi-Fi WPA2 'vulnerability' claim
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The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its inner horseshoe of tables remains the premier spot for early-morning dealmaking over smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Again, if demand for rented accommodation slackens further, investors might high-tail it out of the market, pushing prices down in the scramble.
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I'll have tomato juice, waffles, scrambled eggs and tea.
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He dips his chin, and just as an expectant gasp ripples through the crowd, Eddie launches himself over the wall into a bramble of wild roses.
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Pascoe heard her scream and scrambled across junk and debris in the darkness.
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Jaworski says McNabb diminishes the impact of his inaccuracy by being an elite scrambler and rarely making stupid throws, and that was true even during his struggles.
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Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
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He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub.
Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
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She coughed, expelling the last of the water, and scrambled to her feet.
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Yet when it happens there is a mad scramble to see what is possible in terms of rescue and then what needs to be put in place to avert marine ecological disaster, prior to rescuing or salvaging the vessel.
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Dominion States of America tramble the country from sea to shining sea?
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Get out your DC decoder rings to descramble this message.
Timothy Karr: Change or Cha-ching?
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a scrambled plan of action
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He is a perfect rat in appearance, but he would rather astonish one of our English tom-cats if encountered during his rambles in search of rats, as the "bandicoot" is about the same size as the cat.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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I carried her with me and placed her on the ladder and she scrambled up, her little, ragged dress catching momentarily on the nails of the rafters.
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When you're all set, click the Start button in the Recording Controls option and ramble away!
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Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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We sat and watched the screen as it fizzed black and white shapes that during the course of the last three hours had scrambled my tiny mind.
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`No need to lock your door and switch on your scrambler, I'm not after His Lordship.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The machine had some other features to increase the complexity: There was a plugboard to further scramble the letters, and the machine came equipped with half a dozen or so rotors, of which 3 (later 4) were inserted at any one time.
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It was a real scramble to the top of the hillside.
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If you're a serious rambler , you'll be very specific about the season, the destination, the pace and even the goal of your hike.
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Some scramble for the freshly scrubbed MBAs; others want analysts who come from the industry they will cover.
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He uses terms like commensalism and epiphyte, and primary and secondary forest, and crepuscular; and our brains scramble to keep up.
Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
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The North West Air Ambulance was then scrambled to the area which is inaccessible to vehicles.
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He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.
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The girl scrambled over the wall.
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It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
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He scrambled to his little feet, his eyes were wild with something old, stronger and feral, panting and gasping for air.
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It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.
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Hence their scramble to divert domestic rubbish anywhere but landfill.
Times, Sunday Times
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“It could take a week to descramble the codes, but manual control should still be available.”
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
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In a sudden panic he began to scramble down.
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That is why the scramble to calm anger by launching an official inquiry has become such a tangled affair.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Scramble’ is the right word for this donnybrook.
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He scrambled to the floor and was about to dive under the bed when the door swung inwards and the light from the corridor blinded him for a moment.
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I'd like to zhuzh up my scrambled eggs - any recommendations on things to add to make them a bit more tasty?
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Carn Mor Dearg lies on the eastern arm of the horseshoe ridge that includes Ben Nevis and is a favourite with scramblers who climb ‘The Ben’.
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When my mom and dad came in a while later, I had the eggs scrambled and cooked to a nice golden brown.
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We descended and scrambled and zigged and zagged and trudged ever on.
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So when he started towards me, I scrambled off the oxsain, fled into the weaver 's.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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A roadshow hits the region this week to promote new walking rights which should open up large swathes of land to ramblers and countryside enthusiasts.
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A low-slung chassis, no more than 15 inches at the shoulder, enables the basset to tunnel through bramble and brush like a four-legged rototiller.
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The ground was rocky and Damian quickly scrambled over to Thera.
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She managed to scramble out of the vehicle as it burst into flames.
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For most of us that means a ramble across the North York Moors, or a bracing walk along the east coast before map reading our way back to the car for a flask of tea.
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Pedestrians took their lives in their hands running the tree-lined gauntlet, forced to scramble up steep bankings if two vehicles met on the narrow stretch.
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The arrival of the charity van set off a minor riot as villagers scrambled for a share of the aid.
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One of Robert's granddaughters slipped into the water as the family scrambled from one housetop to another.
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Bad scrambled eggs are beyond the pale: insipid, pale lemon yellow fading to a bilious grey - granular, curdling or lying in a puddle of whey-like liquid.
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Please also note that both of these pieces require rather more time/attention/concentration than your average hit-and-run blogramble.
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It warms from the inside with brambles, cherry and plums.
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In course of the Turkish empire declining rapidly, the great powers of Europe started to scramble for the empire's heritage. Among the powers, Russia was a chief director in the partitions of Turkey.
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Following a path without caring where it led as he pondered, he was brought up short when a doe and her young fawn scrambled quickly to their feet and bounded off.
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Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Your average Lakeland visitor will at the very least manage a quick hike around Windermere or perhaps a ramble around Grasmere.
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Scritch, scratch, scramble, through the thorny bushes!
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Craving the arancini at Galleria Umberto, she drove in the other day, hoping to win the scramble for parking before the pizzeria sold out.
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Your ramble is up the toboggan path and down by the stream through the pinewoods.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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A rambler had left the footpath for a picnic, despite signs saying ‘Please remain on the footpath’.
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Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world.
Personality in Literature
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Anyone with an interest in the countryside has a role to play in eradicating the disease: from the livestock farmer to the rambler and mountain biker.
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The ball shot through my legs and we managed to scramble two byes.
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The rambles are £5, for example, while gliding was £30.
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But, remember, you will have passed the Rubicon, when once you have been shaven: if you repent, and let your beard grow, your mouth will by-and-by show no longer what Messer Angelo calls the divine prerogative of lips, but will appear like a dark cavern fringed with horrent brambles.
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The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
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That was the only goal of the first half but Jimmy Spencer poked home in a goalmouth scramble just before the hour.
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Do not let your answers ramble on too long.
How to Face Interviews
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The highest rated are also the most colourful - dried fruits, brambles, strawberries, spinach, beetroot and sweet potatoes.
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Is it all this broken-up breccia or is there, maybe, a big old finger of basalt sticking up that we could scramble right on down?
THE FALLEN MAN
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Stand off Andy Hirst caused panic in the home defence with a high bomb which was scrambled out of play.
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Trade isn't exactly brisk, although there's a handful of regular commuters and up to 100 ramblers on good days, so ferrymen traditionally find something else to do.
Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool
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Scientists' careers depend on publishing studies, and they often have to scramble to get the money to do them.
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She scrambled to her feet and ran coltishly past him and over the bridge, hiding her face and calling gaily, "Come on!
The Judge
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They dumped their BMX bikes and scrambled over a fence to launch the merciless attack.
The Sun
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The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Getting dressed on the side of a logging road with no real place to park, we scramble to get our clothes on, gear stashed and snowshoes lashed to our boots before the first crazed logger sweeps around the corner in his big rig.
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Sorters had to unscramble a moving target, while tests had to resist a moving arrow.
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Two years ago he went there for the Seniors Open with his emotions scrambled.
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Please note that you cannot drive around Loch Katrine, but if you fancy a long country stroll, you can ramble right round the perimeter, and I doubt if there is a lovelier walk anywhere in Britain.
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An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole on Easter Sunday.
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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He uses terms like commensalism and epiphyte, and primary and secondary forest, and crepuscular; and our brains scramble to keep up.
Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
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The wine is very juicy with ripe berry fruit, brambles, a sprinkling of spice and round tannins.
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Here in my present picnic is the suggestive parallel, for even though no such actual episodes as those I have described had been witnessed by me, an examination of the premises beneath my bramble were a sufficient commentary.
My Studio Neighbors
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My own private story likewise, my love adventures, my rambles; the frowns and smiles of fortune on my bardship my poems and fragments, that must never see the light, shall be occasionally inserted.
Robert Burns
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In Story mode, unscramble moving puzzles to reveal a hidden story.
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Greek air force jets were scrambled when the plane lost contact with air traffic control Sunday morning.
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The lighthouse island was stencilled in bramble-black on a gold-leaf sea.
Try Anything Twice
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There was a plate of untouched scrambled eggs and a glass of orange juice on the table, which led her to guess that he'd fixed himself breakfast but had been unable to eat.
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The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
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Meanwhile, world leaders scrambled for new ways to prop up the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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To dispel my disappointment and any Irish duppies - ghosts - that might be hovering about we attacked the three hours scramble to the summit of Blue Mountain Peak.
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It was on scramble code, which automatically heterodyned the audio output so that Desai's wife could not hear what came to him a couple of meters away.
The Day Of Their Return
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Her hands grasped the tiniest cracks and protuberances and without thought to where they would take her, her feet scrambled for the slightest toehold!
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But they are also thorny like a bramble, not bristly like a wineberry.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stopped to pick brambles by the side of the road.
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When I finally managed to scramble down, my legs were all aquiver, and my palms were studded with splinters.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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LICHTMAN: I think I asked them about this, because I said, you know, if you see a parent and a kid on a jungle gym, you know, most of the times the kids are going to be able to scramble up quicker.
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We'd be asked sort of general questions, and then asked to ramble answers that might one day be useful.
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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There is also a scramble to fill the vacancies at the top.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had been talking about going home and making scrambled eggs - which would be quite a comedown from last night's glorious dinner.
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He scrambled against the outcropping, his feet slipping, his arms burning with stress as he fumbled to keep himself from falling.
Earl of Durkness
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The five children scrambled to their feet and hurried out of the tent leaving the men to talk.
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It's a quick scramble down from the summit to my skis.
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HOW can I get rid of brambles and nettles?
The Sun
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Unfortunately, by the time they arrived, my tastebuds had changed their mind and started eyeing my Timothy's scrambled eggs in an acquisitive manner.
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Once, out picking blackberries, he over-reached and fell headlong into the prickly bramble.
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The property was fenced in and Mr. Phipps was not given to wandering, so I imagine Aunt Lavinia enjoyed her pastoral ramble without concern.
THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
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Locomotives once used by showmen to haul and power fairground rides; road rollers like Blackberry Jack, which was submerged in brambles before its acquisition for restoration; and more manoeuvrable tractors, including Bo Peep and Hot Favourite, encircled by a procession of their miniature counterparts.
Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
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Fighter jets scrambled into the clear blue skies above the American capital.
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This recipe is based on mu shu pork, the popular Chinese restaurant dish that combines deep-fried or stir-fried strips of pork with a colorful array of Chinese vegetables and some scrambled eggs, all of which are rolled up in a thin, cigarlike pancake and dipped in hoisin or plum sauce.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is hard to avoid stormy waves when you are sailing in rivers;and it is hard to avoid brambles when you are climbing rugged mountains.We hope you can fearlessly fight the stormy waves and hack your way through the jungle.
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The scramble is on to get projects onto lists for a coming logrolling of epic proportions.
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My eyes and throat begin to burn as I scramble beneath my cot, feeling for my gas mask with shaking hands.
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However, the giant pre-empted him by the simple expedient of hauling the prostrate felon off the ground by his hair and then dropping him when Grundle had scrambled clear.
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Nocturne – a term taken over by Chopin from the Irish composer John Field, but frequently employed by painters, too, particularly Whistler – is written in the relaxed, ambulatory tone of an 18th-century rambler's tale.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review
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They warm my heart somethin 'braave; an' they let the gray mosses cling to 'em an 'the dinky blue butterflies open an' shut their wings 'pon 'em, an' the bramble climb around theer arms.
Lying Prophets
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She wriggled off the windowsill and scrambled onto the stone wall, ignoring the twinges of pain in her damaged wrist.
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Maria scrambled to her feet as the soft sand shifted beneath her.
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* I rambled gushily on the subject for fully fifteen minutes, but I shall do my best to avoid such untidiness here.
Why it's worth it
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If he does pull off an upset, there will be an almighty scramble to find some people who do know him.
The Sun
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When we negotiate, our clients certainly want a program, which scrambles a signal so you can't copy it.
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He was carefully conveyed to the boat; the _Osprey_ was safely beached, high and dry, and loaded with stones to prevent her being buffeted by the winds again, until such time as she could be removed; and the boys, with lightened hearts, scrambled into the haaf-boat, carrying with them all their campaigning effects.
Viking Boys
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Gates in a roadside fence enable residents to cross to Dibden Inclosure, which is popular with joggers, ramblers and dog walkers.
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The second half was again scrappy and Farncombe's winner came after a goalmouth scramble.
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Dog roses, bramble, nettles and thistles provide good for birds such as goldfinch, greenfinch, chaffinches and the occasional rarity such as brambling or bullfinch.
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The crew scrambled into rescue boats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Slieve Bloom Rural Co-op Walking Club's weekly rambles have now begun.
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They scrambled out the door like bloodhounds on the scent.
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As we walked, the gunman rambled about his hatred of doctors.
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The cragsmen scrambled onto the rocks from their boat at the one landing site that gave them access to the summit.
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My Dad was a Southerner so his favorite Sunday breakfast always included some fried fish (whiting, porgy, Virginia spot or croaker), with grits, scrambled eggs and cheese and corn bread.
Dining With Mis Lil: Father’s Day Potato Salad «
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She scrambled up the ladder and shots cracked from guns and ricocheted off metal and pocked brick wall.
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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I admit, that spinach/mushroom scrambled egg thing sounds delicious, but again - I either have to dethaw frozen spinach or risk mushrooms going bad.
Nutrition Facts
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The driver started honking and had already started pulling out again as I pulled my keks up and scrambled back onto the bus.
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She managed to scramble over the wall.
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Patrick scrambled aft and snapped his safety harness around the binnacle support.
CORMORANT
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Bristling at the term "preservationist," the Ramblers articulated their quest in manifestoes that appeared in album booklets, along with detailed song explications, always honoring the sources.
Better Than the Real Thing?
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Tied together by a length of rope, Whymper and the guide scrambled up the steep slopes until they reached a tall slab of rock known as the Chimney.
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He also said a weak signal could be scrambled and be undetected by another broadcaster.
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If access was the aim, its target would not be tangled in these political brambles.
Times, Sunday Times
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And whatever happens, after May 3 they're predicting a mad scramble for one-way only tickets.
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When the brambles became impassable, we would scrabble up the canyon sidewalls and work our way along slopy, discontinuous ledges.
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Then you can start to do science by working on the values of isolated elements instead of the hoge poge we get now with everything scrambled.
Climate Insensitivity and AR(1) Models « Climate Audit
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The enraged men caught him just outside the door, slammed in his face by Macklin, and I had one glimpse of him as I scrambled in along the footrope.
The Grain Ship
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Jake scrambled downstairs at a run and launched himself at Jonathan with a cry of joy.
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He rubbed his eyes and scrambled to his feet, brushing down his clothes to cover up his embarrassment.
POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
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It is set in the beautiful, mysterious landscape of the Peak District in the North of England, populated by a bizarre collection of campers, ramblers and hikers.
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Hedera blanched and scrambled to her feet, far more alert than her parents, who were rubbing whatever parts of their anatomies had been injured in the tip of the boat.
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I wonder if they can be trained to chase ramblers in their ridiculous coloured cagoules, and look for food under caravans.
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The aircraft are designed to scramble and intercept incoming enemy jets before they can pose a threat to the carriers.
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He scrambled through 14 tonnes of waste to find the tiny jewellery case - no bigger than a large matchbox.
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We skirted up the valley side towards a stile that entered into the wood, marked by a painted yellow arrow for the benefit of country ramblers.
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When the manager retired, there was a scramble for his job.
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The Russian air force scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a Manchester-bound airliner that had strayed into its air space
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After that psychological barrier was passed, the remaining scrambles and squeezes were negotiated with relative ease, and any mutinous murmurs were thankfully subdued.
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For the last two summers we've had lousy crops of mushrooms because it was too hot and it was too dry," agroforester Bob Beyfuss said during a recent ramble through a Catskill forest.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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Gasping for air, I scramble towards the raft and, with my four bobbing companions, swim to the safety of the shore pushing the raft in front of us.
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The scrambled data can only be unlocked with passwords that you determine.
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Other walks will also include rural rambles, a walk around the town centre, short strolls, hard moorland walks and family walks.
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Add the eggs and stir gently until softly scrambled.
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This is the sort of film critics go for, because they know the bourgeoisie will hate it and they're afraid if they don't ramble on about its brilliance and authenticity, they'll look like philistines to all their peers.
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They unlocked the door and I skedaddled out past the yellow tape perimeter and then scrambled home.
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A fire engine and two support vehicles were scrambled and trains to the airport were temporarily suspended.
The Sun
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He took around with him on his rambles his vizier, Giafar (a vizier is a composite of a chauffeur, a secretary of state, and a night-and-day bank), and old Uncle Mesrour, his executioner, who toted a snickersnee.
Roads of Destiny
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The company has benefited as three major industry segments suppliers of memory chips, microprocessors and other logic chips, and build-to-order companies called foundries scramble to add production capacity to keep up with rising demand.
Applied Materials Boosts Revenue Forecast
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They set fire to bramble, seedlings, and fallen twigs, lest this underbrush “overgrow the Country, making it unpassable,” in the words of a contemporary traveler, William Wood.
The King's Best Highway
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The film is a picaresque ramble through a half-real Rome in which gridlocked cars are turned into living spaces; cardinals, monsignors and fawning aristocrats preside over Vatican fashion shows; and the district of Trastevere becomes a huge fairground teeming with local characters, guitar-strumming hippies, uniformed carabinieri.
Finding Fellini
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This year the scramble in Claremorris will be on the first Saturday in July and John has already made preliminary arrangements for the event.
