How To Use Swear In A Sentence
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I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald.
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Some menswear shops do sell more imaginative clothes - but the assistants have rarely met any customers over the age of 36.
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Her enthusiasm was undimmed by the paucity of choice on the high street at the time: 'My mum used to shop in menswear shops.
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Some newspapers still refuse to print certain swear words.
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If we fell in love again I swear I'd love you right.
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Broadcast watchdogs have censured him for swearing on his former BBC Radio 1 afternoon show.
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As well as knitwear, accessories, bags and jewellery in the womenswear department, the store also offers lingerie and sleepwear to suit all mums.
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Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue.
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They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
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So what interest has a purveyor of haute couture and 10,000 handbags have in a sportswear company?
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And I may not be an expert, but I could swear it is far quieter within the protective leafy screen.
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Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
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Before the swearing of any of the jurors, 15 the defendant or prosecutor in England and Ireland could challenge the array of jurors compiled by the sheriff.
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Chic jeans and related sportswear, which are primarily targeted to women, are marketed in mass merchandise stores.
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Soldiers must swear allegiance to the King.
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Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats, gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.
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Yet many people will swear that they produce almost instantaneous results.
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The flagship ladieswear brand increased turnover by 8 percent, while menswear grew sales by 12 percent, Identity up 18 percent and Daniel Hechter posted a 12 percent increase.
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Before God I swear I am innocent
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If you swear you will catch no fish.
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I swear to God I had nothing to do with it.
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I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this, — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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I swear he's a swindler.
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In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
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I swear Mom has bionic ears.
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His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
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It sounded nasty, but I didn't know if it was a spell or a swear word.
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I'm inspired also by my mother, who started a childrenswear manufacturing company.
Francisco Costa's Modern Aesthetic
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As I tucked into this steaming Bunter-sized platter out on the darkening waters, I swear I heard the seals give a loud bark of disapproval.
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The MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley was heckled by a gang of swearing, shell-suited neds.
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I swear that girl is going to make me smack her upside her head one of these days.
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I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. Socrates
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To get there, the Beaverton, Ore., sportswear giant plans to open more stores, put a renewed focused on recreational sports such as running and snowboarding, and emphasize its stable of local endorsers such as Chinese Olympic track-and-field star Liu Xiang and Chinese tennis player Li Na.
In China, Nike Sets Out to Alter Sports Mindset
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The day he sunbathed naked outside the kitchen window, I swear there was printing on the window that read "Objects may appear disappointingly smaller in direct sunlight.
Denise Vivaldo: Cut Your Turkey
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Examples of this include companies that are extracting the petroleum from discarded plastic bottles and using it to create the polyester fibers that they turn into sportswear, and those producing synthetic gypsum roughly 20 percent of U.S. raw gypsum use from the byproduct of manufacturing and energy-generating processes, primarily from desulfurization of exhaust gases from coal power plants.
John Friedman: Three Dimensions of Leadership
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Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
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Fans will revel in the snappy one-liners, the latex effects, the swearing and what sci-figeeks everywhere will be calling 'intertextuality'.
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When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
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Is there no constable, nor headborough, though, to take me out of his house? for I am sure I can safely swear the peace against him: But, alas! he is greater than any constable: he is a justice himself: Such a justice deliver me from! —
Pamela
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Anyone who forswears advertising also forswears any claim to a share of the market.
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Be especially careful not to swear in front of little children. Little pitchers have long ears.
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He is the chastest prince for women that ever was, for he would often swear that he never kissed any other woman than his own queen.
Will gay unfriendly Southern Baptists expel King James?
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The next range is sportswear.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do solemnly swear that I will obey all laws commands and dictates of our leader - for he has lovely teeth.
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But it's okay, we're allowed to live to excess this week, since on Friday night we will swear allegiance to a new, healthy regime.
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I swear that the Land Transport Safety Authority is goading us.
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Maybe yu wouldn’t mind talling us, my labrose lad, how very much bright cabbage or paperming comfirts d’yu draw for all yur swearin?
Finnegans Wake
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He's also very keen to sell me on the merits of his new menswear collection, the very first deliveries of which are currently reaching his stockists.
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If we fell in love again I swear I'd love you right.
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They would curse and swear.
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I left out the swear words when I told the boss what the staff had said about him.
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The album is content to rely on the old hip-hop cliches, piling on the swear words and overloading each track with references to whores, pimps, hookers and drugs.
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The driver was cursing and swearing, but his fury stopped short of him actually getting out of the car.
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Scouts never grouse at hardships nor whine at each other, nor_ swear _when put out, but go on whistling and smiling.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
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I can foresee a long cult career for Andrew W.K., devoted acolytes swearing he is the best thing ever, and everybody else ignoring him because they don't know how to do anything else.
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By the end of the night we were swearing undying love for each other.
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Those in my tiresome generation who thought 25 years ago it was so very distinctive, so in, to swear.
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Or now, when they swear their biological father forced them to make the whole story up?
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While all the main UK banks swear passionate allegiance to the very British concept of free while in credit banking, costs are inching up on several fronts.
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Yet in menswear we are wedded to convention in a way womenswear is not.
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When she was with Lowell she was on a pedestal - she couldn't even swear - but his love-making was fantastic.
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Dent started to walk away, but was arrested after swearing at police. He had already been fined for two other drunken episodes in April.
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The reason is that Chavez cannot tolerate that the spotlight is taken away from him and when that happens he always burps something out that is sure to send the country into a newer chaotic spasm since Chavez underlings are unable to discern what is a mere dissimulated form of swearing and what might be actually a state policy.
Lapi, Chavez and private health care
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“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?”
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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But the French doctors swear by the treatment's cleansing and purifying qualities.
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Dugg for calling it "unaired" and not "BANNED FROM TV" ... on 05 / 07 / 2009, -0 / +1I swear it was aired though.
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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I swear by almighty God that I will tell the truth.
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That might have been disturbing enough for some of the residents if I hadn't been peppering the conversation with swear words every other syllable.
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One resident of the town claims to have seen him in these parts before, stalking people - but him swears he's never been there before.
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The cardinals on Tuesday filed into the chapel, chanting a Latin hymn to ask for divine guidance and swearing a solemn oath never to reveal the secrets of their deliberations on pain of excommunication.
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A compromise was reached whereby Lapsley would commit himself not to publicly associate with the ANC, while he would not have to "foreswear" his ANC membership.
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The witness is demanded to swear on the Bible that he will tell the truth.
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He swears by vitamin C pills.
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And before any person could take notice thereof, hee became (of a theefe) Ruffian, forswearer, and murtherer, as formerly he had-beene a great Preacher; yet not abandoning the forenamed vices, when secretly he could put any of them in execution.
The Decameron
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Sergeant-at-Arms elevated his mace -- that "bauble" of authority so distasteful to the Puritans -- and the Speaker began to swear in the members State by State.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
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I only wish only just got “brain freezes” because I’m so sick of afib that I’m not swearing off ice cream as a treat — at least that’s the plan.
Dr. Blog « BuzzMachine
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After all, I was merely forswearing a bad habit, forgoing a bad frame of mind.
Chapter 30
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The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of
Burlesques
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Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
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He made a complete idiot of himself over that, and I swear it wasn't done deliberately.
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The company said it was looking to introduce unbranded leisure and sportswear to compete with value-for-money retailers.
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I just lost it completely, cursing and swearing, but most of my comments were bleeped out.
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He now designs menswear and womenswear.
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I swear I nearly wrenched the door open to go in and do it myself.
The Sun
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I swear by Almighty God that the evidence I shall give ...
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Really, Holmes, I would swear there is something spooky or supernatural about cats.
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And how many men staggered out of Fatal Attraction swearing they'd never dare flirt with a woman again?
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Another friend of mine swears by rubbing dryer sheets on his exposed skin to repel mosquito's.
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The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
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I swear to you, I don't know anything.
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Since its launch in 2006 Target's Go International programme has been joined by the Designer Collaborations series, working with established designers such as Posen also revealed earlier this month that he is set to launch his own affordable diffusion line, named Z Spoke, to his womenswear offering.
Undefined
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After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
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And it takes an awful lot of pieces to become the world's biggest sportswear retailer.
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Presidents must swear allegiance to the US constitution.
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In April he was fined after swearing at a match official.
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I swear I saw this bloke banging one of the wheels of the undercarriage, with a massive adjustable spanner.
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The calming sound of sea waves lapping the boardwalk, they swear, is the ultimate antidote to urban stress.
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And then there are those who slyly attempt to make the commentator swear.
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The judge had no choice but to immediately discharge the jury and swear in another.
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And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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This is the same Senate that Blagojevich took part in swearing in today.
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He that had been accustomed to curse and swear for many years, now swore no more.
Christianity Today
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Government employees swear an oath not to reveal official secrets.
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So unless you're minded to cut 'em into collops and be done with it, you'd best make allowances for their prejudices when you're after asking them to swear that first oath.
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Wheat color skin to a healthy sense of vitality, wearing Nike a complete set of pure white pink edge sportswear, the tiny curly brown hair tied in a relaxed and lively braids, always the confidence of cute expressions.
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She hasn't worked out that gratuitous swearing doesn't make you cool.
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Tara St. James designs the collection and her degree in menswear is evident in the impeccable cuts and tailoring.
2006 October | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
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One of the big differences is that in Colombian usage most swearing uses contractions, or slurred pronunciation.
Humani nihil a me alienum puto « Unknowing
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Your inner Jack Nicholson pounds around in circles in your head, swearing and shuddering, decrying your overuse of the word snagged and your repetitive and/or awkward sentence structure.
Where I work...
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I swear I've told you all I know.
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Some people swear they gain more weight in the wintertime.
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Wheat color skin to a healthy sense of vitality, wearing Nike a complete set of pure white pink edge sportswear, the tiny curly brown hair tied in a relaxed and lively braids, always the confidence of cute expressions.
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Calista, I swear to thee, by the spotlessness of thy own soul, by the brilliancy of thy immitigable eyes, by everything pure and chaste in heaven and in thy own heart, that I will never cease from following thee!
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Their loyalty was to God; they could not swear allegiance to any temporal state.
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Swearing-in of new President On Nov. 1 Kaunda conceded defeat after about a third of the results had been publicly declared.
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We both got dragged of to the headmistress, but I swear from that day on she never bothered me again and nor did anyone else.
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But the noise of sailors swearing, pigs squealing, chickens squawking, children bawling and fathers threatening them with the backs of their hands brought them back to reality with a thump.
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Within a few months of his swearing the oath that he was to break in so many ways, the President receded from both these pledges.
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Before you know it, Hollywood starlets will be battling each other to be the first to wear his new womenswear designs
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The sportswear company Under Armour is doing something right.
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They will swear at them and rant and rave.
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The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve, however, if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar.
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‘It is the Lord's will that I forswear myself,’ he said.
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He replied that he knew damn all about it but would swear it was.
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Butter "(for my lady, like her Majesty the Queen, was somewhat given to swearing, though more modest oaths, as should become a subject) --" I 'fecks, Butter, "saith she," 'tis a most lustick plot.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
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I can't help laughing at a pimp who is swearing by the curb, wiping dog poo off his pointed boot into the gutter.
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Forget Hawkeye and the Snickometer, Channel 4 should be hiring a lip-reader and registering the verbals on a swearometer.
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She heard an angry voice swear outside the dumpster, then she heard a click and something that sounded unmistakably like dial tones on a phone.
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Leading by example, the United States announced a review of its nuclear posture - forswearing the use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, so long as they are in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review
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I swear quite a lot but even I draw the line at saying certain words.
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She ties the laces between fashion and sportswear.
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The Professional Footballers' Association-linked sportswear firm has even offered £50 for the best mankini photo.
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The notion that bankers should have to swear an oath of ethical conduct, pledging to do no wrong, has been much derided.
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He was an accomplished bushman, a great drinker and swearer, short-tempered and generous-hearted, a man not to be contained by parliamentary etiquette.
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I was here the other day for rehearsal and I swear to you there was a camera - there it is.
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I swear she swigged the stuff from a flask in her purse.
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His voice doesn't even inflect this, I'd swear he was dead if he wasn't about 30 seconds away from fucking.
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Profile, now in its 9th season, is an opportunity for fresh fashion creatives – promoting the very best in new and emerging ladieswear and menswear designers.
Topshop And Hobbs Announce Their Sponsorship Of FashionExpo 2008
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I swear, if I hadn't been holding on to him I probably would have fallen to the ground due to weak knees.
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A: Some cooks say that basting does nothing to ensure moist meat; others swear by it.
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I swear that musclehead across the hall from me does nothing but smoke pot all day.
Everything Is Pissing Me Off. Even You. Not That I Know You're Here...
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Though women are swearing more today than before, it is still regarded by many as "unfeminine".
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From the car park we walk down to the South West Coast Path, past the white daymark tower, used for navigators at sea, then meander to the village of Kingswear on the banks of the river Dart, passing the Forward Point gun emplacements used in the second world war, and now the location of a revitalised lookout station of the
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The show culminated with Rivers swearing at Nielsen unleashing a torrent of Italian curses.
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I swear I'll never fail you again.
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The laid-back star, who turns 40 next year, swears she loves getting older.
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If you ask people to stop swearing or blaspheming, some people will silently respect you while others will go out of their way to turn the air blue.
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It's not that Paul swears a lot or that I'm prudish about bad language, it's just a surprise to see his glossy showman veneer crack a little.
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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The actors are uglier, and they swear more, but I still maintain that the Milch-speak of NYPD was more creative, and the 11-year redemption of Andy Sipowicz is a glorious affirmation of hope and positivity which is actually more “realistic” than the acceptance of despair in The Wire, The Shield, and other “gritty, realistic” TV dramas.
Mentalist « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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We were both thrilled by the use of swearing, which seemed both judicious and reckless at the same time.
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I swear, I could skin him, protect myself from all decoys, prevent us from meeting, even in dreams, within the same 100 yards, but no worries, I don't need protection; you follow the law and stay gone, as maybe you feared last year's blizzards and that's what kept us inside ... all that unrestraint, all that To Be Continued -- now you're just another Where Are They Now?
Ben Evans: The Poetry of Michael Tyrell
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Even today you will find experts within the insurance world who will swear an endowment is the very best way to repay a homeloan.
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I swear to God, Tor makes me feel like a pretty-pretty princess.
Second verse, same as the first
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I watched as the militias picked out their victims, swearing at them, insulting their mothers and hurling sectarian insults.
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He told the judge that he stood before her with ‘my right hand on the Bible’ to ‘swear a solemn oath promising to do what the claimants want’.
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I get offended, and upset, by children running around, out of control, by their mothers shouting at them, smacking them or swearing at them, should I call for a ban on that too?
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I'm stuck at a place where I swear they're drugging the drinks.
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Times Square can't shine as bright as you. I swear it's true.
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He blows up, and in impassioned language forswears and disowns Rosalia, the five children, and all memory of them and responsibility for them, forever and forever.
Lawgivers
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Some swear the best medium is horsehide for its fiber density.
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But the main problem is noise nuisance from large gatherings of youths, with some shouting abuse at passers-by or swearing at them.
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For instance, von Rossbach took care never to swear in her presence.
T2: INFILTRATOR
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With everyone decked out in capacious sportswear and complicated trainers, it's hard to tell who belongs to which group, but the cops clocking up overtime in the corner seem to have it worked out.
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A former fêtarde* myself and still a bit featherbrained from it I shake my head and cluck my tongue on hearing those birds, beaks-a-begging, try to get out of jail time by pleading with the French cops, swearing that they are merely scatterbrained and not at all soûlard!
étourneau - French Word-A-Day
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Like other peoples of the Mediterranean region, Damascenes favored a relatively dramatic style of self-presentation which made plenty of allowance for swearing and other flamboyant forms of expression.
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I swear to you, if my father starts wearing his beige and brown leisure suit again, I will make the fashion mavens responsible for this pay.
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Yet it is worth noting that, by forswearing future acquisitions of recently looted work, as the Getty did under Ms. True's leadership, the museum actually did what no other major acquiring museum would do for many years.
The Beautiful and the True
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He was a very vulnerable hard-swearing, full-blooded agnostic, or possibly an atheist.
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I could swear I saw Stephen Murray do tabletop backflips years ago.
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
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The menswear department was full of mothers and sons.
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There is an almost endless stream of Con loving chunder heads with their hackles all raised, swearing up and down that this is desperation.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Down-market restaurant chains Long John Silver and Red Lobster resist an enviro campaign to swear off engineered seafood.
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ALIX SPIEGEL: Mathew Webb left a sales job in menswear for a sales job in pharmaceutical drugs 10 years ago and suddenly found himself surrounded by money.
How To Win Doctors And Influence Prescriptions
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Worse than ever -- for the elder -- for the little fellow, really shocked, now called to his sister, "Come awa ', Jeanie, here's a man swearin' awfu '.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
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Forget optical… Just before 4 am the wind around here died down, and even the crickets quited down I wonder what THEY knew! and I SWEAR I heard the impact.
Moon Impact Data and Images from LCROSS: First Glance | Universe Today
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Don't accept him swearing but make sure you and your fiancé spend time with him each week so there's no risk he feels pushed out.
The Sun
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I admit that we've got a parking lot full of (employee) cars, and therefore it may appear to the casual glancer that this is still an establishment dedicated to the pursuit of wearing ugly pants while swearing at nubby white balls.
March 11th, 2005
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He heard her swear under her breath.
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They were shouting and swearing at the officer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now it is not uncommon to hear an adult swear in front of their children in public, and the kids to curse back.
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Servicemen have to swear an oath of loyalty to their country.
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It's ostensibly a menswear label, but women also wear it.
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They were shouting and swearing at the officer.
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A combination of the two would be enough to make many people swear off the box.
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Many people swear by vitamin C's ability to ward off colds.
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He has recently launched Little Marc Jacobs childrenswear, Bark Jacobs dog accessories and a fragrance for men called Bang.
Marc Jacobs becomes first top fashion label to create plus-size line
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Burrows vehemently denies being anywhere near here, and swears he didn't commit the murder.
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Page 185, Volume 2 learned the lesson of Darwinism will “forswear inquiry after absolute origins and absolute finalities in order to explore specific values and the specific conditions that generate them” (1910, p. 13).
EVOLUTIONISM
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There's swearing and sweaty closeups, offset with tender optimism by an exciting comic presence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you swear to tell the whole truth?
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Nowhere is the mention that Senator Levin "cursed" (as the headline said) or did any swearing.
Levin swears repeatedly at Goldman hearing
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The range of swear words in the modern English-speaking world is tiny, as you know.
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He swears in an affidavit that he received no payment for assisting Pepper with the book.
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'The Denim Gang' in Sportswear International #227 is an editorial shot by Ryan Kelly and styled by John Tan that recalls the greaser culture of the 1950s.
TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
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Why isn't one signature and swearing a blood oath good enough?
Times, Sunday Times
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Some may be prepared to swear to an affidavit and say they were told and verily believe that this was so.
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For those innocents among you who don't know what this is (bless you!), it's a jar placed in a prominent position in the office and every time you swear you have to place money into it.
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I swear they get a kick out of it: `Oh, no, I'm afraid that doesn't go up to a EE ', they shout across to the cubicle.
LOSING IT