How To Use Readying In A Sentence
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They come upon the villagers from the town being taunted by donkey braying and find them readying themselves for battle.
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Now Mr. Roth, the hard-charging billionaire chairman of Vornado, is doing what can best be described as readying himself for the next Merrill.
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His powerful muscles bunched, tensing up and readying themselves to deliver a payload of suffering and torture.
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He loaded six capsules into the chamber, then clicked it into place, and spun the chamber, readying it for battle.
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He motions across the brambly yard to the aqua-blue tank that looms like a spindly-legged giant or a flying saucer just readying for flight.
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John's soldiers were readying themselves for the final assault.
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And worse was to come; we had many weeks ahead where I, I, was to scurry as maid and skivvy, coaching her in the art of being Florence Reynolds, readying her for marriage to my groom!
The wrecking of the 'Tayleur'
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These chemicals are pheromones: hormonelike substances released by one animal and perceived by another of the same species, and usually prompting a specific reaction—such as readying oneself for sex—or even changing hormonal levels.
INSIDE OF A DOG
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The Navy had been readying for a grapefruit-sized satellite called Vanguard, and this was rushed to Florida for a quick blast-off in December 1957.
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The cafe is full of people with synopses, readying themselves for a night of serious modern music.
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I stopped readying my clarinet and looked him in the eye.
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The fleet of merchant ships was as busy as Rome readying for war.
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His IQ was plummeting at each attempt, so to keep him from reaching zero I slowly edged by as he bumbled around on the roadside readying for another go.
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Readying ourselves for conventional war does not, however, absolve us from undertaking a major transformation in the way we think about, and conceive of, the use of military force.
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They were readying for setting out.
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The walk invigorated her, readying her for the fight.
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Liszt bit his lower lip, readying his roan horse for the long trip ahead.
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FRISCO - With developers readying to break ground on the Peak One Neighborhood affordable housing project, Frisco officials are supporting case-by-case flexibility to ensure the units are filled.
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I waited for her to try to scream again, readying myself to leap upon her and bear her down.
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Supervisor Mabel Teng is also readying legislation to impose an 18-month moratorium on owner move-in evictions of elderly tenants.
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John's soldiers were readying themselves for the final assault.
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And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary.
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As we meet here tonight, our men and women in uniform stand watch abroad and more are readying to deploy.
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We turned into bed early that night, readying ourselves for what we expected would be a long day.
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But for Jews, the start of this recess coincides with the start of the Hebrew month of Elul, a month long wake-up call readying ourselves for the holiest days of the year.
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Sonia grinned and crossed over to where the men were readying the grapples and cannons.
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Google is reported to be readying tests in several U.S. cities of a mobile-payment system that uses so-called near-field communications NFC, a high-frequency wireless technology that allows nearby objects to share data.
Google may soon be testing mobile-payment setups in the U.S.
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Instead of saying that the country is readying its most seasoned diplomats and lawyers to rebuff the claims, it highlighted the deployment of its aging fleet to protect an empty sea.
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That's why you could see Johnson seated behind the wheel of an almond sweeper, gathering almonds into windrows, readying them for pick up by a harvester.
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However, after some feverish activity, Volkswagen is readying its entrant and it should be on show at Frankfurt next autumn.
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The turnpike authority was readying to petition Hudson County Supreme Court for permission to remove remains from the project area and reinter them in a mass grave in a nearby municipal cemetery when it discovered in the county archives the decades-old paper trail of Andriani's hunt for his grandfather.
The Dead of Snake Hill
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They were not flowering, but had autumn leaves with some already browning, readying themselves for the winter that was to follow.
GWENDOLEN
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My brother Bruce and I were standing on the rear patio of my father's house, swigging beers as my dad was readying steaks for the grill.
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And forces with an interest in subverting the sanity of this Dominion may be readying themselves to celebrate that anniversary.
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Instead of saying that the country is readying its most seasoned diplomats and lawyers to rebuff the claims, it highlighted the deployment of its aging fleet to protect an empty sea.
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Bullen, who had been thinking how they would be readying the horses for the cubbing season at home, walked to the Rifleman.
Sharpe's Escape
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It had actually been a very difficult job to identify to hotel, where the duo had been presumably in deep sleep, readying themselves for the next day's parleys.
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His muscles bunched as his fur stood on end, and I could see that he was readying him self to leap.
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And what's that unannounced first-party title readying for Fall?
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They're two-timing Microsoft, though, by simultaneously readying models that run Google's Android operating system, like Samsung's Galaxy Tab.
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LOL - after writing and posting the first comment, I had this incredibly vivid image of a mad scientist writer woman, wild haired, hunkered down with laptop in garret by moonlight, readying for the evening's writing, hooking up an IV to the arm of the Universe itself.
Branded
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Readying these soldiers for active duty is a tough mission that begins in earnest upon reporting to mobilization stations.
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He loosened and then retightened his grip on the sword's decorative hilt, readying to attack.
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Progress in readying man biologically for space flight.
Men and Missiles
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I think everyone else is readying from the same press release.
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