How To Use Rimed In A Sentence

  • Your stepson could have been left in a dysregulated state whereby he is primed to be constantly hypervigilant to threat and to respond. Times, Sunday Times
  • He primed his last grenade and threw it into the group of aliens.
  • The powder charge and the ball and patch had to be rammed separately down the tight-fitting barrel and the pan primed with powder.
  • The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
  • We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint. Along the Battlement
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  • His clothes are begrimed with oil and dirt.
  • This sequence occurred around halfway through the interview, so the interviewees were primed by then into realizing that more details were expected.
  • Sail-trimmer, and Pumpman; a primed candle for each battle-lantern; a thumbstall and vent-guard for the 1st and 2d Captains of each gun. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
  • These big, freely painted, heavily collaged unprimed canvases together form something of a spiritual marching band, though they mostly seem to follow the beat of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
  • Maybe I had picked up the wrong gadget, and it was a calorie counter, primed to record a Big Mac and fries.
  • Both stories are agreeably self-deprecating and rimed with snark.
  • The guns are currently silent, but a number are being primed for action.
  • She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the _mal de raquette_, the shrivelling bite of the frost, the pain of snow blindness, the hunger that yet could not stomach the frozen fish nor the hairy, black caribou meat. The Call of the North
  • On Sunday night I pilgrimed to Dundas to see Pernell Goodyear and the Freeway with Darryl and Charlene Dash.
  • He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold.
  • The doctor has primed him to be told it may be prostate cancer and it may have spread to his bowel.
  • Will he demand that the burglary is crimed so that he can make an insurance claim or will he for the greater good ignore the matter and hence get his bonus but not the insurance pay out. See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • When the Cave family gathers for a reunion at their idyllic holiday retreat, everyone has an emotional hand grenade primed and ready to throw.
  • This road map was specifically formulated to create opportunities for students to continue their exploration of space throughout their educational careers; then once thier educational career is complete, the students are then primed for a career in aerospace industry. Today's Video: Inspire Me! Weightless Flights of Discovery - NASA Watch
  • In his opinion, a network can't depoliticize the culture with a constant barrage of empty entertainment and then expect a population primed for critical thought.
  • We know the feeling of eager anticipation in the hour or two before training, of running the workout through in our minds, of knowing before we even enter the gym that we're primed to unleash our best efforts.
  • Simon looked at the White Arrow clutched in his own sweat - grimed paw.
  • White primed hardboard is the usual support on which the initial drawing is sketched with charcoal. Improve Your Landscape Painting
  • This rapid platelet decrease suggests an anamnestic response (i.e. a rapid immune response to new antigens by an already primed immune system).
  • The metal should then be primed with a rust-resistant primer. Do-it-yourselfer Q&A
  • Captain is primed for the Park with a glass of curacoa; and where you see Hobby, of the Highland Buffs, driving up with Dobby, of the The Book of Snobs
  • It was rimed with dust and white mildew, but the cutwork around the ankle was distinctive. FALSE MERMAID
  • The priming effect in temporal order perception is a phenomenon in which a primed stimulus was judged as appearing before an unprimed stimulus.
  • They were curled up on the bare, frozen earth, rimed in frost, shivering and gasping in obvious anguish.
  • With Ohio set to lose two congressional seats in redistricting next year and primed to be at the center of the 2012 presidential fight, controlling the governorship is of critical importance. Ohio election results 2010: Portman wins; Kasich beats Strickland for governor's seat
  • Andre glanced down to his final blaze bringer missile, which was primed and ready to launch.
  • However, other supports such as acrylic primed canvas or board are also perfectly suitable.
  • She has created a large structure in bare, unprimed wood.
  • The daughter of a Broadway dancer mother and a violin maker father, Moennig was primed to perform at an early age.
  • And when I say campy, I mean campy: gold-trimed uniforms, Cylon butt-capes, overacting from the whole cast, the cute kid and his furry robot (who tag along on dangerous missions for no apparent reason), and the supposedly super-intelligent yet motive-free robot villains whose only battle tactic is to strafe everything with fighters. Archive 2008-11-01
  • The big natural arch of rock that overshadows them all is grimed with the dead black of smoke, and two great white crosses painted on the cliff mark the shrine.
  • An army spokeswoman said the searches had found five concealed rifles and about 40 explosive devices, primed for use.
  • New Orleans failed to make the playoffs despite some great seasons by Archie, but his son seems primed for eventual postseason success.
  • Low clouds embraced the hilltops around the valley, tendrils of mist wending down into the frost-rimed trees along the slopes.
  • I would be very surprised if at year's end Caroline didn't take her crystal ball in for a polish - I think our captain is primed for 2003.
  • In the early '70s I paid $3.80 for a box of twenty.25 - '06 unprimed cases.
  • Aluminum siding, however, has a baked enamel finish so it can be sanded or scuffed up, then primed with a special etching primer developed just for this purpose.
  • Primed by Pissarro in color theory, Cezanne viewed the southern landscape through the prismatic lens of a modern color theorist as well.
  • For Sea Form, Bontecou raked wet printer's ink on a primed plastic surface to depict an ethereal, six-pointed star shape that evokes a feathery nest or squirming creature.
  • The room was a library, obviously rarely used; though volumes lined the walls, they were grimed with dust, as were the velvet curtains that hung across the windows. Clockwork Angel
  • For S-phase to occur, chromatin must be primed to initiate DNA replication at sequences called origins of replication.
  • The city is primed for a week-long celebration for this year's Sunshine Festival.
  • The pump's valve is put into the well and then its cylinder primed with water to start the process.
  • If your pharmacist assembled the unit for you, check to see if it has already been primed by pumping the unit once.
  • Any number of homemade traps and snares were primed at any one time, carefully crafted in his toolshed with top-quality materials, and placed with due care by spirit level and theodolite in the garden for maximum bloodletting.
  • The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • During CPB surgery, the CPB pump must be primed with crystalloid solutions to provide an air-free circuit.
  • The white Roman columns that supported the faded stucco were covered with cracks and lesions, and the windows were either boarded up or too grimed over to see through.
  • In the intervening two decades, equipment had become more portable; pictures could be taken in the thick of battle; civilian victims and exhausted begrimed soldiers could be studied close up.
  • I was leaning out with my heavy caliber machine gun primed, waiting for the order to shoot.
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  • The party representative had been well primed with the facts by Party headquarters.
  • said the man in the corner - shabby, pot-bellied, with a pink complexion and hands perpetually grimed from reading too much newsprint. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • The bomb was primed, ready to explode.
  • The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.
  • I open the dishwasher, a movement which is slightlyforeign to my repertoire because we had a new dishwasher installed a few weeks ago andmy fingers are still primed to release the lever on the old one, rather than simply press into the center as is required by this new model. 2008 September « Becca’s Byline
  • Darius was immensely relieved to see his begrimed, dust-ridden target in one piece, but wisely did not show it.
  • Because there are only a few primed cells likely to be in any region of tissue at any given time, it takes some time for the inflammatory response to develop and hence the term delayed hypersensitivity response. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad. The Black Bag
  • The stoical Pocket, unflappable, was working his way through several days ' backlog of begrimed dishes. ANTI-ICE
  • Repetition priming effects on temporal order perception are a phenomenon in which a repetition primed stimulus was judged to appear before an unprimed stimulus.
  • We were well primed for the journey with a big breakfast.
  • hedgerows were rimed and stiff with frost
  • This reduction in total germination percentage was accompanied by a higher rate of fungal growth in primed seeds.
  • He was standing on an old stone staircase, the mortar rimed with moss.
  • All the door staff were primed to leap into action when the ticket machines recognised the 10-millionth visitor and were waiting for the moment.
  • Neal Dikeman, co-founder of CarbonFlow, said the company was now "primed to deliver" its first wave of products, and was expected to see strong demand from a burgeoning global carbon market that is "clamouring" for software platforms similar to those used in the financial markets. The most recent articles from V3.co.uk
  • The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object.
  • Sara leapt at Rin, clawing at her with inch-long nails grimed with dirt as though she had clawed her way up from the grave.
  • The habitations are begrimed with smut and dirt.
  • On either side were workingmen's houses, of weathered wood, the ancient paint grimed with the dust of years, conspicuous only for cheapness and ugliness. CHAPTER I
  • The noise echoed in the caves, and the first four girls loaded and primed their guns before continuing.
  • The star of I Love You Phillip Morris, The Truman Show, Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind teams up with the primed-for-prime-time players to lacerate today's headline-splashing people and events. Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011
  • Dressed in camouflage, gripping his .357 caliber Magnum, Demar was primed to shoot.
  • Painted on unprimed European paper and bound in true codex form, manuscripts such as the Codex Mendoza sever the image as such from its earlier function as written language.
  • Lacklustre reviews had primed me for disappointment with this one, and perhaps that's why, as I turned each page, my delight and fascination grew.
  • After all the promise they displayed on their first album and all that positive publicity, Priestess were primed to take that important next step with their much-ballyhooed follow-up, but much to many people's surprise, all that momentum came to an abrupt halt when their label RCA refused to release the album upon hearing the more aggressive and less commercial direction of the new songs. PopMatters
  • One by one, then ten by ten and twenty by twenty, the frail sacks of flesh stirred and began to pick themselves up, the stronger aiding the weaker; they climbed to their feet or rolled to sit up, groggy, shaky, hair a mess, unbelieving and begrimed. Dead Zero
  • Worse, the statue my fellow citizens once erected on Canal Street in my honor now languishes begrimed and deliquesced from the dark floodwater onslaught! BatesLine: October 2005 Archives
  • The party representative had been well primed with the facts by party headquarters.
  • The monumental heaviness of the helmet is offset by the thin, unprimed canvas on which the image floats. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Examining the brain-imaging data, Bengtsson found that the students' brains responded differently to the mistakes they made depending on whether they were primed with the word clever or the word stupid. The Optimism Bias by Tali Sharot: extract
  • These are hectic days for him and the Irish Chamber Orchestra is now primed for a serious assault on the competitive world of concert performances.
  • They say she keeps a hareem of muscular young bucks, primed with love-potions - Fiancée
  • The witness had been primed by a lawyer.
  • His eyes were bloodshot, and his face, all begrimed with smoke and gunpowder, wore an expression haggard, gaunt, and very weary. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • He depicts the human condition by flaying his subjects and smearing them over unprimed canvas. Times, Sunday Times
  • To address the foregoing question, we applied the arbitrary primed polymerase chain reaction technique.
  • He opened one of the Reiven's cargo units and reloaded and replaced his two pistols, strapped on a bandolier of explosives and loaded and primed a rifle.
  • The warplanes and helicopter gunships were ready, their crews primed to deliver precision strikes.
  • Part of the problem is that the movie presents a heroine primed with empty ambition, but makes no comment on it.
  • Working on unprimed Belgian Linen and her 20 year collection of handmade Japanese papers, she enhances each piece with gold and silver leaf, glass frit, threads, metallic paints, inks and iridescent paints.
  • The bangalore torpedo may be primed by assembling alength of time blasting fuse and a nonelectric blasting cap in a priming adapter and screwing the assembly into the cap well of a torpedo section (A, fig 2-31). Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester
  • All metal surfaces will have to be primed.
  • The witness at the trial had been carefully primed by defence lawyers.
  • He crossed to the begrimed window and watched in dismay as Rabbit was led away, surrounded by three armed guards.
  • Keown thinks Wenger could be primed for a summer clear-out should his players fail to impress in their remaining games against Blackburn and Fulham.
  • When we get back the New Belgium kegs get tapped and we start getting primed for the night.
  • Colored shadows from the square-tiled disco floor flash against finger-grimed black walls. PodCastle » 2010 » April
  • Sometimes paint has bled under the tape - in particular when it was applied to an area of bare, unprimed canvas - and blurred the edge of the line.
  • It seemed normal practice to make up some previous experience, put in a primed friend's name and number as a reference and, bingo, work rolled in.
  • Days of heartache and suffering were now primed to pay off in the form of unlimited free food.
  • He also went with a Steeda wing and then the LX was primed and painted in Chevrolet Electron Blue. You Know You Wanna Cap That Ass | Kung Fu Rodeo
  • Yet there were 18,600 offences concealed in burglary and robbery. 1000′s of car damage offences are switched to simple damage and often not crimed if even reported. ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • I am generally a rational person, and could tick off many a reason why dashing my body against a rock club's begrimed floor isn't a good idea.
  • Morton told him, and the old man ruminated a while, as he industriously cleaned, primed, and loaded his gun, while Morton waited, watching a long, plume-like line of smoke along the distant horizon, which he knew was from a Portland steamer. Sara, a Princess
  • On site was a huge amount of tantalising and succulent primed meat and the barbecued food was also tasty.
  • His clothes are begrimed with oil and dirt.
  • He stood up, and from the dim rafters, grimed with the smoking of countless heads, where day was no more than a gloom, took down a matting-wrapped parcel and began to open it. THE RED ONE
  • A thousand shared looks in a life together, they both knew this one: Lena primped and primed. Three Stages of Amazement
  • The prospect of war means satellite uplinks, mobile phones, and global positioning systems are primed to bring you live vision of a place where telephones are rare.
  • In the mid 1700s the Chapel, at Chapel Plaistow, in Box, was home to the infamous John Poulter, who regularly primed his pistols in the kitchen of the nearby Bell pub.
  • One sinister saurian lies along the grassy banks, as patterned and prim - and primed - as a killer handbag.
  • Enter our humble cottage; but, prithee, take care that my smoke grimed walls soil not thy robes; now wilt thou offer to the gods Electra
  • As a general example, clicking on the member's name that was primed to pop up with a Google search for the phrase "raising debt ceiling" would cost taxpayers approximately $4.70 per click. And a Happy Festivus From Congress Too
  • In his barrage of strategies in which folk music could be used to inspire a united fighting force, Lomax paused to take a jealous swipe at a hit record that had won over a nation primed for patriotic fervor: "I need not overstress my opinion that 'God Bless America' and Kate Smith are both extremely dull and mediocre," he wrote. The Catcher of Songs
  • But what holds his attention is a man in a dust-grimed tuxedo hurling knives at a woman strapped to a huge spinning wheel. . . Black Dust Mambo
  • Mr. Pinchin could understand French, though he spoke it but indifferently; but he, being fairly Primed, and in one of his Obstinate Moods, musters up his best parleyvoo, and tells the Ancient with the Golden Key (and I saw that he had another one hung round his neck by a parcel chain, and conjectured him to be a High Chamberlain at least) to go to the Devil. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
  • Today Starline manufactures more than 60 unprimed cartridges cases from the 380 Area to the 50 Alaskan, then offers them at factory direct prices.
  • Signs of Burnette were everywhere, from the paint-splattered easel with the rustic ‘World's Fastest Artist ‘plaque to the piles of unprimed masonite waiting for the master's rapid touch.’
  • Antiseptics, such as hexachlorophenes, chlorhexidines, centrimedes, benzylchonium chloride, or mercury laurel, should e used only to disinfect the skin.
  • He was a miner, of course, for he was dressed in mine clothes, and was as begrimed as the sootiest delver of them all, but who was he? Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines
  • She was repelled by those lacerated hands, grimed by toil so that the very dirt of life was ingrained in the flesh itself, by that red chafe of the collar and those bulging muscles. Chapter 2
  • The trees were rimed with frost and there was a stillness over the land that only came with extreme cold.
  • Simon looked at the White Arrow clutched in his own sweat - grimed paw.
  • Shiro waited his turn patiently, but he was fully primed and when his name was finally called he went to the microphone with confidence.
  • Another jemadar prowled, revolver in one hand, primed grenade in the other, and kukri clenched between his teeth.
  • Mr. Russo had guided his young son's hand as Dominic gingerly dipped the wide brush into the bucket of white paint and then slowly wiped it over the unprimed wood.
  • Components available this way include rifle and pistol bullets and unprimed shell cases.
  • His hands were begrimed with oil and dirt.
  • So, it seems, the Earth's primordial soup was primed with the monomers for making the polymeric components of primitive life.
  • The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
  • Now, high-tech foundations turn skin into a perfectly primed canvas, without a heavy-makeup look or feel.
  • Shah Jahan rose to grab the vessel from his begrimed hands. Shadow Princess
  • All painted walls should be primed with a good quality pigmented acrylic wallcovering primer.
  • He took off his shirt, by now grimed with sweat and dust, and laid it out in front of where he knelt.
  • Their squadrons were ready, and all weapons and shield systems were primed and ready.
  • ¶ But Fabian and others doo as it were point out the place of his interrement, saieng that he lieth intoomed on the south side of saint Edwards shrine, with an epitaph expressing partlie his proportion of bodie and partlie his properties of mind, as after followeth in a rimed hexastichon: Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
  • Starting now, we're riding more, eating less and maxed out on energy bars - a combo that leaves us primed for some pretty bad bonks.
  • I would love to know who primed the interviewer with the questions.
  • We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
  • As a reporter(Sentencedict), you must be well primed with facts before you start to write your article.
  • Harlem, however, was primed at the turn of the 20th century with the advent of steamboats, cars and electric trains.
  • They were large-knuckled, sinewy and malformed by labour, rimed with callouses, the nails blunt and broken, and with here and there cuts and bruises, healed and healing, such as are common to the hands of hard-working men. SAMUEL
  • At five minutes to twelve the soft tuning was again heard in the back quarters; and when at length the clock had whizzed forth the last stroke, Dick appeared ready primed, and the instruments were boldly handled; old William very readily taking the bass-viol from its accustomed nail, and touching the strings as irreligiously as could be desired. Under the Greenwood Tree
  • By now he's quite refreshed by his meal and primed by a good deal of political conversation, and this question momentarily stumps him.
  • Booker T. put on his grimed and greased coat.
  • Their incendiary performance culminated in the title track and primed the audience for the havoc yet to be wreaked.
  • If the vaccinated person ever encounters the actual SARS virus, his or her immune system will be primed to neutralize it.
  • The party representative had been well primed with the facts by Party headquarters.
  • McGee, who had clearly been primed, did not move and Julia took her cue from him.
  • Last week's tests confirmed the capability of the new missile; the missiles will be primed for firing and the warheads armed for detonation.
  • . Sometimes, people can see different things in a movie when they're primed and ready to watch for them.
  • Only 2% of our patients were primed with sex steroids, and priming would have increased growth hormone secretion in many of the others.
  • The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.
  • Create the experience and build the anticipation over time, satiate the crowd, and then come back when the market is primed again. Joe Favorito: UFC Deserves Its Fight in New York Now
  • While I'm not sure that science fiction needs mainstream approval, I can't help thinking that our sales would improve if we weren't grimed with flat-out disdain. MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1)
  • It is a case-actuated system similar to one used by Hornady where a funnel inside the powder die is pushed up by contact with the primed case.
  • Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts. Desert Dust
  • We were well primed for the journey with a large breakfast.
  • - "I can walk!" almost put my wife and me giggling onto the begrimed and surely-diseased floor. Archive 2010-06-01
  • An alternate experimedirect measurement of contact angle appears to be promising.
  • The party representative had been well primed with the facts by party headquarters.
  • They were intended for wash-faded blue jeans and dusty elbows and knees and hands grimed with rosin from the bat. The Convict and Other Stories
  • Top tip: fill gaps between primed woodwork and walls with a mastic gun.
  • The windowsills and doorways were sanded and varnished, and three new beaverboard panels were installed in the ceiling upstairs and primed and painted.
  • Travis primed his rifle by tearing back on the lever, others followed as they neared the surface of the planet.
  • His clothes are begrimed with oil and dirt.
  • The remaining two-thirds of the trials were unprimed, in which there was no relation between the distractor letters of the prime-trial and the target letters of the probe-trial.
  • She saw the dying and exhausted dogs, the frost-rimed, weary men; she heard the quick _crunch, crunch, crunch_ of the snow-shoes hurrying ahead to break the trail; she felt the cruel torture of the Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest
  • The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
  • Lorna, who works in the town square's newsagent, believes the town has been primed for a celebrity shindig since the 1960s.
  • Shrines fallen into desuetude were primed with sequestered objects and reprimed with new castings.
  • The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their back-ground, and the stars of the dead calices of flowers, and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music. Nature
  • In other words, the body is primed for rapid and explosive muscle growth.
  • 'Horatian' ode forms, that is in regular short stanzas, the 'Ode Written in the Year 1746' and the 'Ode to Evening' (unrimed), are particularly fine. A History of English Literature
  • ‘Once, when a rookie, I was crimed at the Tower for paradin’ with a button missin ’.
  • All the other females in the population are splitting their reproductive effort between males and females even though it is only the females, primed by a few sperm, who go on to contribute offspring to the next generation.
  • All the world loves a dramatic comeback story, and this pop icon is primed to prove she's still got what it takes to make the kids yelp and shriek with glee.
  • They have primed the explosive device.
  • The witness at the trial had been carefully primed by defence lawyers.
  • Activated T-cells have the Fas molecule - the receptor for FasL - on their surfaces and are primed to attack disease-causing organisms.
  • They stretched from corner to corner of the smoke-grimed ceiling, they fell in clumsy festoons from the cheap gasalier, they framed the fly-blown mirror and the tawdry pictures; and I know tired hands and eyes worked many hours to fashion and fix those foolish chains, saying, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
  • Inside, strips had been ripped from the cloth upholstery, exposing pitted, begrimed padding, and the dashboard sagged as if some behemoth had used it as a chair unable to support its weight completely, yet the windshield, though filthy, remained intact. Styx Freeway (A Dream)
  • The raw and unvarnished wood, with the parts between the threads swollen from damp, begrimed and repeatedly washed by repairers, presents anything but a pleasing spectacle even when the interior of a fine "Strad" or Joseph is laid bare. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
  • Some carefully juxtaposed moments: elderly fiddlers playing for money in front of pricey boutiques; begrimed miners gouging for silver ore as tonily garbed skiers schuss the pristine slopes. Rocky Mountain High Life
  • The focus on early 20th century history might have played no small part in that, and the fact that he's an opera afficionado might have primed him for the trick of telling the same story in different time periods. What is Literary Fiction?
  • In the pink room, again, there are allusions to bare canvas, rather than unprimed canvas as such. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
  • Who could tell under all the layers of soil, dust, toxins, and smog that begrimed both their flesh and the sewage they wore? Godot Finally Shows!
  • The repaired deck was then primed with a two-component epoxy primer, followed with a basecoat of single-component, highly elastic urethane.
  • If the rudder and daggerboard are made of plywood and glassed they will need to be primed and painted.
  • He had a shower and primed himself for action.
  • For my second reflection on this white-rimed night was that even an otter's prosaic, eventless passage along a dyke expressed a kind of triumph. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk

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