How To Use Rubbery In A Sentence
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Rubbery and viscid, this silk stretches up to about three times its length when pulled on and takes a good deal of abuse before breaking - an important quality in a material responsible for entangling prey.
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The mask is left on for about 15 minutes while it sets to a rubbery texture.
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The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
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Here we walked through a large lawn of uncut grasses dotted with early-summer bulbs and flowers following a winding, mowed path leading into shrubbery and woodland.
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The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
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So when I need to know what the black rubbery thingummy on a windscreen wiper is called, I can look up windscreen wiper in the index, turn to the appropriate picture, and learn that it's a wiper blade rubber.
The Naming of Parts
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The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside, accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.
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With a little shrubbery or plants, such fences can provide very attractive barriers along property lines.
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A blinding coat of white blanketed the thick shrubbery that defined my garden.
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The garden is split level with a paved area, a well manicured lawn and a shrubbery with water feature.
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The couple told him that it was'tough and rubbery' and he passed the complaint on to the head chef.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a big influence on Michael Richards - when Kramer enters a room, his rubbery legs and arms splaying almost out of control, he's partially channeling Tati.
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Somehow he endured it, but he felt light-headed and his legs were rubbery when he clambered up the conning tower ladder onto the bridge.
LOHENGRIN
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I have, however, already forgotten what that slightly rubbery shrimp roll I ate in the picture above was called; but you can bet it was something cutesy, which is probably why I took it.
Monster Munching
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the world.
Euronews
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So saying, the Robin trilled out a pleasant farewell, and returned to the shrubbery grounds, where, in an ivy covered wall, he had found for himself a snug little winter's home.
Parables From Nature
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Ask about this, as commercial mozzarella adds a rubbery texture and no flavor to a hero.
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Omitting the DVB produces a rubbery brown polymer, and using both styrene and DVB comonomers with soy or corn oil produces a relatively flexible brown or black material.
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Mother was a very keen gardener and under her supervision we grew all our own vegetables and looked after the flower garden and shrubbery.
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Sort of like a slightly rubbery proscuitto, the beef tendon is cut paper thin and served cold, covered in an oily hot dressing.
Szechuan Gourmet: Day 1 as a NYT 2 Starred Restaurant | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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If it is dense enough, shrubbery can provide a home to ground-nesting birds such as doves and thrushes as well as small mammals like rabbits.
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He drove the party through the grounds, sometimes over clumps of bush and through shrubbery as he lost the way in his excitement.
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Rubbery bands of scar tissue, called adhesions, may form.
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Potato chips aren't rubbery and blubbery like fat. They are crispy and crunchy like lettuce. That proves they are diet food.
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Loved the comfort it gave me as I drew on its slippery, rubbery tip.
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He has the rubbery features of a depressed albino bulldog and a thousand ways to express contempt, loathing and disgust.
Times, Sunday Times
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To avoid being intercepted, she took a circuitous route along a path through the shrubbery.
COMPULSION
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The front garden has shrubbery and a tarmacadam driveway with parking for up to three cars.
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It could be used to make artificial nerves, rubbery needles or wearable electronics.
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The couple told him that it was'tough and rubbery' and he passed the complaint on to the head chef.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was nothing more nor less than a box, covered with sheets of virgin cork, and standing on the floor just under one of the windows, where the light and air could get to a weird-looking, rubbery-leaved, orchid-like plant, covered with ligulated scarlet blossoms which grew within it.
Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
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Marshall Street, our local drinking hole, now has shrubbery, not just suds.
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Those huge, rubbery, blubbery, slobbering slabs of meat; oh, it was just gross!
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A peep of chickens, recently evicted from their nests along Highway 99 by road construction, has taken residence in parking lot shrubbery.
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The shrubbery was symbolic, and one particular tree was planted in memory of the Keller's lost son.
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Of course the shrubbery was to be the jungle, and the lawn under the cedar a forest glade, and then we began to collect the things.
The Wouldbegoods
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
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On the Garden-side it is bordered by a shadowy, secluded grove, with winding paths among its boskiness, affording many a peep at the river's imperceptible lapse and tranquil gleam; and on the opposite shore stands the priory-church, with its churchyard full of shrubbery and tombstones.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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The circulatory systems of other vertebrates, as well as those of squids and octopuses, employ similar rubbery materials.
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Each had its gay little garden, its shrubbery of lilac, holly, or laurustinus, and its creeper-covered porch.
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Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms.
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Felt nice to hold a rubbery handle.
The Sun
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Synthetic biologists have genetically engineered E. coli to produce resilin, the rubbery protein that enables fleas to jump and insect wings to flex.
Boing Boing: October 9, 2005 - October 15, 2005 Archives
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The mouth was not so much cruel as lifeless; thin, rubbery and the color of veal.
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The Tidy Towns committee have been working rain or shine to keep the flower borders, rockeries and shrubbery areas trim, free of weeds and litter.
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Felt nice to hold a rubbery handle.
The Sun
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Dover, Delaware The house, overgrown with weeds and shrubbery, had no ostentation.
MAMBO
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Each egg was carefully marked, in pencil, with the date of laying so, when the rubbery shelled orbs were extracted, a memory of summer days was present.
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I geographically triassic what all the steinman is compulsorily on the bulge dissent norepinephrine so that i can canonization the shrubbery and tirolean. has to spear at its specifically fizzing, appropriately prophylactic haplotype, and stambul apogamy they jejunostomy to coot faker in mollification to do it.
Rational Review
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Be careful that you don't over-bake the pie or it will be "rubbery".
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Continuing our route we crossed some park-like glades, with scattered forest trees, and fringed by the graceful shrubbery, the _macchia_, common to both the islands of Corsica and Sardinia.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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And even a non- biology major could tell the rubbery item with the tentacles was obviously related to an octopus.
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The soles are thick and rubbery and a good inch deep at the heel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sauce is awesome, slightly acidic from the tomatoes, not too sweet, while the cheese is perfectly melted and very high quality-no rubbery mozzarella here.
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Well I think in any disaster situation the figures are rubbery and they're guesstimates at best.
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Hornets 'nests are usually found high above ground on branches of trees, in shrubbery, or on gables; one type nests in tree hollows.
Stinging insect allergy
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The puppets are back for more hilarious topical satire, but there are some very famous new faces in the rubbery mix.
The Sun
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The dim sum were hard, rubbery and horrible.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, if anything, anything, _anything_ would happen!" she breathed, stretching out both arms toward the snowy shrubbery-broken expanse behind the house which in summer was her garden.
Under the Country Sky
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When this stuff is ‘pressed’ together with the chip, it provides great insulation, and it's kind of rubbery to keep anything from shorting out.
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So-called cartilaginous fish, such as sharks and rays, with their gristly, rubbery flesh, are increasingly under threat from fishermen around the …
Euronews
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A graduate of Barnum & Bailey's Clown College, Irwin was best known for his side-splitting, silent slapstick routines in Broadway revues like Fool Moon and his rubbery antics as "Mr. Noodle" on Sesame Street's "Elmo's World" segment.
Cheers & Jeers: CSI and Lights Out — Fears of a Clown
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I don't like the dry and rubbery pre-shredded mozzarella from the supermarket and always seek out fresh balls of mozzarella that look like the one here.
Archive 2007-09-01
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Like everything else in the club, the stage and the floor had once been painted white, but the scuffing heels of a thousand boots had long since covered every surface in rubbery grey grime.
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A mass of cells, ‘grown’ on rubbery sheets of nutrified jelly, it will have no structure, no marbling, no resemblance to a ‘cut’ we'd ever get from a butcher.
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She'd gone as far as the shrubbery, to collect a sheaf of bright leaves for the music room.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Dense shrubbery can provide shelter, as can brush piles, thickets of rugosa roses, or tall evergreen trees such as coast live oak, deodar cedar, or redwood.
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Shrubbery and tree branches are used as sawdust and fodder for fires that generate steam for energy and land has been set aside for ecotourism.
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Instead of being mixed with liquid, they are mixed with a rubbery material that stays rubbery and doesn't harden like glue.
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There were no crumpets to be had, and the hot buttered muffins were tepid and rubbery.
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Rachel inched along the edge of the shrubbery towards the opposite side of the fountain.
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Some have a subtle sheen; others look rubbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the Tishman Speyer-led team in control of the property's fate thanks to their superhigh bid, the East Side property was on course to be a luxurious Manhattan enclave, complete with shiny granite, a new movie theater, a thick forest of added trees and shrubbery and, eventually, a full stock of market-rate-paying renters.
Stuy Town: What's Next?
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His body reminded me of a strip of bacon, thin and rubbery.
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We feel death in these shows in ways we don't in the rubbery cartoon world of humanoids that comprises the Hollywood epic and action film.
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Halfway through the meal the pasta is congealed - a rubbery blob of gooey stuff fit only for use as paste to stick fliers to subway walls.
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The mask is left on for about 15 minutes while it sets to a rubbery texture.
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However, the rubbery material was brittle and broke too easily.
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Something about his rubbery features and squeaky voice trigger my cootie detector.
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These cottages are in themselves as ugly as possible, resembling a large kind of pigsty; but often, by dint of the verdure on their thatch and the shrubbery clustering about them, they look picturesque.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
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There were no crumpets to be had, and the hot buttered muffins were tepid and rubbery.
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The texture of a banana tree is rubbery and is softer than a person's shin.
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We lurked in the shrubbery until the last light had been extinguished, then broke in using the side window that Raffles had jemmied the previous evening -- the butler had evidently not thought it worth bolting the stable door, so to speak -- opened the safe, and took the stones, which were, Raffles whispered, quite undisturbed.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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As we threaded the shrubbery, which is very thick about the place, she explained to me the cause of her abrupt departure.
The Millionaire Baby
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Our young piony at the foot of the fir-tree has just blown and looks very handsome, and the whole of the shrubbery border will soon be very gay with pinks and sweet-williams, in addition to the columbines already in bloom.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
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Collagen, a strong rubbery protein, supports the ear flaps and the tip of nose in humans.
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Alan had backed away until he'd felt the rubbery darkness looming behind him.
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Sheltered by trees and shrubbery, with mature hedging on both sides, it has an extensive patio and is pleasantly secluded.
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It always seemed that there was a place to cross somewhere and even though it involved at times crossing very thin ice - salt water ice is different from fresh water ice in that when it's thin, it's quite rubbery, almost like wet cardboard - and it will bend when you walk on it.
Across the North Pole
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Corn on the cob cooked on the grill had a rubbery texture; it was stale.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ruins are now completely overgrown with shrubbery and valonia oaks.
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The person Eleanor had seen in the shrubbery was the first one found, as Mr. Rhys had said.
The Old Helmet
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What did the scavengers think of this intrusion into their domain by a rubbery multi-octopus?
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Disappointing; sweet, rubbery bouquet and a dominating, coarse, fiery spirit with a nasty aftertaste to it.
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And even a non- biology major could tell the rubbery item with the tentacles was obviously related to an octopus.
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The Captain obeyed, and as he turned from the bookshelves Daisy took his hand again, and drew him, child-fashion, out of the house and through the shrubbery.
Melbourne House
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Every one (rustic pork, guinea hen, rabbit, and suckling pig) was rubbery, dry, and nearly flavorless, which is everything Bloomfield's food ordinarily is not.
Men.Style.com: Latest Features and Articles
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Low shrubbery, especially berry bushes that also provide a food source, makes an effective shelter.
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Resisting a strong urge to groan, Vane, Patience's hand locked in his, led the way back through the shrubbery.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Neat, it delivers a rounded middle palate, but the rubbery flavour is disgusting.
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The chef's favorite offal product, tripe, graces the menu, as do rubbery coxcombs (braised, with green chilies), and sweetbreads fried like chicken in a crunchy, salty batter.
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A truck door clicks open but Boland pulls himself onward, the rubbery soles of his Chuck Taylors scudding at the asphalt.
The Last of Boland
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On one level, it's all very exciting - what if we find a potful of coins under the shrubbery?
Times, Sunday Times
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The head, if that's what it is, is crowned with a tuft of rubbery antennae serving various functions.
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Trolls are savage, rubbery grey - green skinned giants with a voracious appetite for flesh.
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After a lengthy walk down the alley, and behind the back of the store, he noticed a lone car parked behind some bushes and shrubbery.
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For those that didn't grow up in 80s arcades, Dig Dug is another classic Namco game where you work your way through the underground playing exterminator: rubbery monsters Pooka and Fygar wander around the caverns seeking you out, and to take them out you'll need to plug an airhose into their keester and pump them up to bursting.
IGN Wireless
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Agent Orange was the code name of a herbicide developed for the military to prohibit enemy concealment in dense terrain by defoliating trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide.
Agenge Orange Study R.A. West
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Shrubbery around the find was badly scorched from the attempt to set the bodies on fire.
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On top of the castle is a beautiful garden, full of rare plants and handsome trees and shrubbery.
Six Months in Mexico
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Where the public prefers sliced, pasteurised cheese—a bland, rubbery substance—the artisanal cheese market is tiny.
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Dense shrubbery can provide shelter, as can brush piles, thickets of rugosa roses, or tall evergreen trees such as coast live oak, deodar cedar, or redwood.
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The soles are thick and rubbery and a good inch deep at the heel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shrubbery replaced a hard area and was designed to prevent accidents at a blind corner where the city wall meets South Esplanade.
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I've tried to give them more grip by spray painting them with a rubbery coating (Plastidip), but it's not as "grippy" as I had hoped.
Make - All Discussions
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And even a non- biology major could tell the rubbery item with the tentacles was obviously related to an octopus.
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He started walking toward the light shrubbery surrounding the area.
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With his rubbery frame and vertical hair, Bob Kingdom looks right for the role, and we catch a glimpse of Laurel's nimble mind when he informs us that ‘a myth is a moth's sister’.
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Then she bounded through the shrubbery, fleeing, her trousers flapping round her, her shoes left behind.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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I geographically triassic what all the steinman is compulsorily on the bulge dissent norepinephrine so that i can canonization the shrubbery and tirolean. has to spear at its specifically fizzing, appropriately prophylactic haplotype, and stambul apogamy they jejunostomy to coot faker in mollification to do it.
Rational Review
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A combination of homely suburbs and hot sunshine; unblemished beaches and boundless bush; manicured parks and tropical shrubbery.
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Jenny bent down to grind out her cigarette stub in the lank grass and then tossed it with a stone-skipping twist of her white wrist into the tangled shrubbery.
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Mature lawns surround Lakefield House while the manageable garden also features a shrubbery and rockeries as well as the two patio areas.
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Thrushes sing in the green shrubbery; rooks caw in the elms.
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This new device, which was jointly developed by the Japanese company Hyper Drive and uses SRI's rubbery material, called electroactive polymer artificial muscle - what a mouthful for the name of a rubbery material.
Undefined
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The show thrived on Ritter's rubbery pratfalls.
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he took a header into the shrubbery
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With a ready-cooked lobster you might end up with a dry, rubbery texture rather than deliciously succulent meat.
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A few strides from the teller, she slipped on a rubbery President Clinton mask, one of the most popular masks in America and probably the one hardest to trace.
Excerpt: Roses Are Red by James Patterson
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The bay window looked out onto the street, a wide stretch of paved road, pocked with grass and lined by a dozen more houses, spaced out by tens of feet of lush grass and shrubbery.
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The low viscosity and enhanced molecular mobility in the rubbery or liquid state would permit certain deteriorative reactions to proceed rapidly, which are otherwise retarded in the glassy state.
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It looked like old phenylephrine paste, or rubbery caulk one would find in the bathroom corners of a rehab center.
Nexxus Products Company
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It is seen only in brief flashes, possibly to distract from the fact it looks rubbery.
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South Africa has limited its capacity to plant more vineyards because it wanted to preserve the unique Cape Floral Kingdom which consists of indigenous "fynbos" (shrubbery) as a critical ecosystem.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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We went out to take some photographs in a marble courtyard replete with shrubbery and elephantine urns where uninterested figures dined al fresco.
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From the tip of its rubbery duck-bill to the end of its blunt tail it is no more than 50 cm long.
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These were pleasantly rubbery but although punctuated by bits of juicy broccoli, Chinese leaves and dusted with ground peanuts, their mild sweet and sour sauce left them too gummy.
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It could be used to make artificial nerves, rubbery needles or wearable electronics.
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They were at some little distance from the big flower-garden, and the path that led to them was heavily shaded by shrubbery on one side, and on the other by a hedge which, though "quickset" as a foundation, was now a mass of honeysuckle and everlasting peas.
Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls
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Students sketched ‘attractive lawns and backyards and [gave] suggestions of what native shrubbery to use and when to transplant it’ in this class.
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He has the rubbery features of a depressed albino bulldog and a thousand ways to express contempt, loathing and disgust.
Times, Sunday Times
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The soles are thick and rubbery and a good inch deep at the heel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smooth shining laurels in the shrubbery were the only things in nature that seemed no worse for the perpetual downpour.
Vixen, Volume I.
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Felt nice to hold a rubbery handle.
The Sun
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Quentin came down the stone steps from the front door and paused briefly in the shrubbery to remind Will Palmer that the incurved chrysanthemums they were nursing for Kingsmarkham flower show were due for a dose of liquid fertiliser.
A Guilty Thing Surprised
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Wipe down and then dry the gasket the rubbery band around the doorthe cold inside.
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The rubbery consistency was surpassed only by the amount of sediment in the liqueur.
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Training ones either have a plastic or rubbery doohickey attached at the apex of the chopsticks or are actually attached.
PhotoHunter: Belated Utensil…. « Mudpuddle
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Some have a subtle sheen; others look rubbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The calamari was similarly hot and good, and came with a tomato-based dip - I prefer it when the calamari isn't pre-cut, but the breading was clearly done on the premises and it wasn't rubbery.
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And even a non- biology major could tell the rubbery item with the tentacles was obviously related to an octopus.
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He gave me a sad smile, dug the heel of his combat boot into the rubbery ground and spun in the opposite direction, striding down the hallway.
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I checked if there is a removable covering, but the whole pad is a strange pink rubbery substance.
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The final proof, or perhaps the first, is the chub's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips.
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Performing will be rockers Ash Black and Thrust, accompanied by the latest in rubbery attire provided by Hydra.
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The players took fistfulls of wet sand to build a little hill to elevate their balls made of gutta percha, a material from the rubbery dried sap of sapodilla trees.
The Founding Fathers of Golf
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It causes sharp pain in the costosternal joint - where your ribs and breastbone are joined by rubbery cartilage.
All MayoClinic.com Topics
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A combination of homely suburbs and hot sunshine; unblemished beaches and boundless bush; manicured parks and tropical shrubbery.
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In between other jobs, pinch the side of the rubbery skin and squeeze out the bright green bean.
Times, Sunday Times
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
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Specimens grown as trees in a shrubbery or semi-wild garden can be left to grow as they want, with branches removed only when access is required or they are dead or diseased.
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In this operation, known as a thoracotomy, an incision was made between a pair of Clinton’s ribs, and doctors spread them apart to make room for the insertion of surgical instruments that peeled off tissue surrounding the scar tissue and then the hard, rubbery rind.
The Comeback Id
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And I betcha in that flick, somebody would have at least demanded a shrubbery.
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Razorfish are a little like squid and can be rubbery when mishandled.
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Low shrubbery, especially berry bushes that also provide a food source, makes an effective shelter.
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They were at some little distance from the big flower garden, and the path that led to them was heavily shaded by shrubbery on one side, and on the other by a hedge which, though "quickset" as a foundation, was now a mass of honeysuckle and everlasting peas.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
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I did genuinely love the elmy quiet of the dear old Cambridge streets, though, and I had a real and instant pleasure in the yellow colonial houses, with their white corners and casements and their green blinds, that lurked behind the shrubbery of the avenue I passed through to Mount
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
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It seems they're necking on the decking, whispering sweet nothings by the sweet peas and what they get up to behind the shrubbery is nobody's business.
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The main reason of constitute of shrubbery and its distribution of Qilian Mountain is environmental change.
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Don't, however, use Greek - or Turkish-made halloumi which is made from cow's milk only; it's unbearably salty and rubbery in texture, and provides little in the way of flavor.
The Traveler's Lunchbox
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My crème caramel was tasteless and rubbery.
Times, Sunday Times
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She'd gone as far as the shrubbery, to collect a sheaf of bright leaves for the music room.
A RAKE'S VOW
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While there is a shrubbery to the front, the main outdoor attractions of this house lie at the rear where a large patio area has been developed on two levels in a real suntrap.
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Elliott had also called the Mestrovic restoration "highly questionable" because the coating gave the bronzes a rubbery, dime-store look and wouldn't allow them to patinate naturally.
Chicago Reader
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Johannes, watching her, had a sense that he had willed her existence from the shadowy play of starlight on shrubbery.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Yet here she was, her knees as rubbery as calamari and what felt like a triple shot of ouzo firing her blood.
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The circulatory systems of other vertebrates, as well as those of squids and octopuses, employ similar rubbery materials.
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I'm a Celebrity, X Factor, 2009 "Rubbery pirate ship figurehead" Jordan and Simon Cowell ( "he prepares for each episode by dipping his head in matt-black Dulux and painting his dressing room wall with it") are the hapless cannon fodder in this double-barrelled reality showdown.
Charlie Brooker: 10 of the best Screen Burn columns
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Cat pointed toward the shrubbery, the secluded stand of laburnum, Leda and her god hidden away in eternal orgasm.
Earl of Durkness
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And before Anna could respond, he was off, vanishing into the shrubbery.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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In the midst of her studies, a light step bounded down through the shrubbery from the house, and Daisy had hardly raised her head when Nora was at her side.
Melbourne House
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In between other jobs, pinch off the rubbery skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was past the time she usually fixed herself a little something for lunch, and her knees were beginning to go rubbery.
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Now instead of the dappled shade of an old oak outside their front door, the Beagles have a weathered brick patio on which 24 neatly trimmed boxwood globes seem to swirl in a beautifully choreographed shrubbery ballet.
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It is there in a yoga class, with the rubbery smell of the mats and the sweat-stained T-shirts and dusty windowsills, when the width of my sun salutation takes in the great possibility of the widest imagining of my world.
Shelly R. Fredman: A Place Called Hope
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Sometimes they strolled in the garden, where winter had peeled the leaves from the bare shrubbery, exposing the earth beneath, swollen with rain.
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I Made A Lover's Prayer," a Gillian Welch cover, featured a rubbery guitar line and an ear-grabbing groove.
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
March « 2009 « Sentence first
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He told of places where under-gardeners had trembled at his looks, where there were meres and swanneries, labyrinths of walk and wildernesses of sad shrubbery in his control, till you could not help feeling that it was condescension on his part to dress your humbler garden plots.
Memories and Portraits
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He has the rubbery features of a depressed albino bulldog and a thousand ways to express contempt, loathing and disgust.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jenny bent down to grind out her cigarette stub in the lank grass and then tossed it with a stone-skipping twist of her white wrist into the tangled shrubbery.
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At the end of the bridge leading into the shrubbery there was a stile, high indeed, but made commodiously with steps, almost like a double stair case, so that ladies could pass it without trouble.
The American Senator
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Michael collected sticks from the shrubbery and threw them on, making small flames leap up.
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Under life sentence in my wardrobe are a pair of rubbery silver trousers, a black boob tube and a fluffy white jumper which sheds whenever I walk, making me look like a giant dandelion.
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It could be used to make artificial nerves, rubbery needles, or wearable electronics.
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I caught sight of the familiar shrubbery and gardens, and even the shape of a monumental manor.
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If the calcium balance isn't right when you use low-methoxyl pectin Pomona's, you can end up with a rubbery and unpleasant product!
Archive 2007-02-01
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Until her shoulder bag was found in the shrubbery of a garden she would have passed on her route home.
AFTERMATH
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Hungry cats will raid trash cans, and playful kittens will destroy shrubbery and soil lawn furniture.
