How To Use Thrash In A Sentence
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* Got my project 5.9, with a lot of thrash and inelegance.
She's got to go away...
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Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal.
Hair fix #3
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You're likely to hear fragments of everything from classical masterpieces to thrash metal, from jazz licks to film music soundscapes.
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Rick Rubin's severe, thrashing beat to proper effect; Hov courteously brought his instant-quotation A-game for his label founder's return to rap.
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Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do.
House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Returned home he relates the incident, and only through his mother's intercession escapes a thrashing from his honest father, for telling a lie.
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There are also elements of thrash metal, cock rock and pop punk.
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If he calls her 'hussy' again I shall thrash him afterwards.
Dame Care
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Gomes said Atlantic City, which is being thrashed by out-of-state casinos, needs to lighten up.
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February 26th, 2009 at 3: 14 pm till bridge loans in anchorage ak says: till bridge loans in anchorage ak … tag antisocial torus temporary thrashes?
Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
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The Reds had clocked up what was then their biggest ever win by thrashing Gateshead 90-12 on Wednesday.
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After thrashing him, one of the youths pulled a pistol and shot him in the stomach.
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It's nice to think of them picturing Father Christmas and his sleigh whooshing across frosty rooftops, as opposed to me thrashing my way around a soulless out-of-town shopping centre.
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He got a sound thrashing once his father found out.
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The foreign ministers have thrashed out a suitable compromise formula.
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I was comprehensively thrashed in all four rounds.
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Michael thrashed his legs and jackknifed his body, just like the hooded man had done, but Angel and Jordan were too strong.
The Omega Theory
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The wounded soldier thrashed about with pain.
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Their thrashings were also, she presumed, merely instinctual.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Here he could thrash about without getting hurt - or hurting anyone else.
Times, Sunday Times
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G'day, Robbo - last time I had the pleasure of speaking to you, we were thrashing you Poms at the cricket.
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He got a sound thrashing once his father found out.
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A team stripped of core players were thrashed by the European champions who cruised into the quarter-finals with a game to spare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even while electrifying the cosmopolite yuppies with hard rock, heavy metal and thrash metal, he has pop and slow rock numbers in plenty in his quiver.
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Now there is a real potential that it could hold on to it for longer, while the politicians and civil servants thrash out a reshaped industry.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you want to swim really fast, stop thrashing about, relax and feel the water.
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The cow fell on its side and thrashed about wildly.
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They jumped into the thrash metal game very late, when it was spiraling back into the underground.
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It was Fairfax who created and trained the New Model Army that thrashed the cavaliers.
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Deals can take three to four years to thrash out, or up to a decade for complex ones.
The Sun
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Kids from the local village quickly got into the swing and gave the Brunei lads a sound thrashing.
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Meanwhile the players dressed to thrill when they turned out for their thrash at the hotel following their 1-0 win.
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I upheld the pride of Britain by being soundly thrashed at pool.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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Invariably, the winter sparrows head north again to resume their breeding activities, and I am left to enjoy my resident species, such as the spotted towhee, California towhee, scrub jay, and California thrasher.
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The group pioneered a new style of heavy rock, that came to be known as thrash metal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thrasher, or red thrush, sneaks and skulks like a culprit, hiding in the densest alders; the catbird is a coquette and a flirt, as well as a sort of female Paul Pry; and the chewink shows his inhospitality by espying your movements like a detective.
Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
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The musicians in the band are just as comfortable thrashing out with The Misfits and The Ramones as they are riffing with Ted Nugent or KISS.
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Once home, his father, a freedom fighter, thrashed him mercilessly.
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They say that expression is a need of the human heart; and I am also convinced that in many hearts there is a very strong desire at times to "thrash" some one.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors
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At times that means straighter pop tinted by shades of folk, country and indie rock and at other times, screaming hillbilly thrash.
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From the metallic zizz of the starter motor and the first flurry of revs to the final frantic thrashings of the crankshaft, this is swansong motoring.
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Incredibly, with Bryant idling on the bench, the Lakers shook off their distractions and managed to thrash one of their supposed title rivals in their opening game.
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All he asked was that his grandson should "thrash" somebody, and he could not be made to understand that the modern drama of divorce is sometimes cast without a Lovelace.
The Custom of the Country
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Like adventurers, we followed him up and up through the bracken, heather and gorse, thrashing the undergrowth aside with sticks.
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Farm labourers stand on top of the thrashing machine in shirt sleeves and braces, waiting for work to begin.
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As a machine that German workmen have invented and that is called a thrasher, but is at the same time a chopper — it has chains and knives, and cuts up the straw and thrashes the grain at the same time — so did Sprinkler and Razor work together, slaughtering their enemies, one from above and the other from below.
Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812
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She abruptly broke off the conversation to ask a man browsing through the thrash metal section if he could find what he was looking for.
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-- after cornhusking was all husked and the oats thrashing all thrashed and the rutabaga digging all dug, I took eight dollars and a half in my inside vest pocket and I went to the hardware store.
Rootabaga Stories
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I donned this ensemble and went to dark, smoky clubs where I thrashed around to ear-ringing, heart-stopping music.
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When the Muslim boys heard him calling them names, all of them gave him a sound thrashing.
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To the band's credit, this only seems to increase their pummelling potential, provoking them into walloping, abusing and thrashing their amps harder than ever.
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That boy deserves to be soundly thrashed!
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Although Schneider is a first-rate puck mover, Burke thinks he at least mitigated the damage by acquiring Ken Klee, a steady defenseman, from the Atlanta Thrashers and signing free agent Steve Montador, who played last season for the Florida Panthers.
Pacific preview: Sharks hungry for postseason success
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The copse was loud with birds; a gang of titmice was foraging in the oak clump to the left, and I could hear what I thought was a thrasher in the near distance.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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She and her colleagues collected a total of 30 individuals from among gray catbirds, Swainson's thrashes, and wood thrashes.
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Another popular name in the marketplace is the Atlanta Thrashers 'Bobby Holik, a wide-bodied center with a reputation for being at his best in the postseason.
Kevin Allen's trade deadline tracker
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Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience.
Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish
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When I come back we'll kind of thrash things out and see what's to be done.
Scattergood Baines
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The normally calm, sleepy pool at Dalry was a mass of thrashing flippers, heaving bodies and random limbs.
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I'll give you the thrashing you deserve.
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I upheld the pride of Britain by being soundly thrashed at pool.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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Fortunately the possible replacements, to appear alongside James Anderson and Stuart Broad , include man-mountain Chris Tremlett and increasingly pacy beanpole Steven Finn , whose bowling in similar conditions was one of the very few pluses of England's disastrous 5-0 one-day international thrashing in India in October.
Pakistan Transformed for Test vs. England
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The grain shocks would be off-loaded into the thrashing machines.
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The whale thrashed the water with its tail.
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He thrashed the horse with his whip.
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I was raised on a cattle/sheep farm, and if you didn't eat your meat for dinner you were thrashed about the head with a crowbar.
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One of our group had reeled in a length of free-floating fishing line to find it attached to a thrashing barracuda.
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Discovery of one of his drawings led to a thrashing.
Times, Sunday Times
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From what sounds like an amalgamation of hardcore and thrash metal, any promising musical ability is then shrouded by the raspy rap-rattled-off vocals, which are then accompanied by a dominating rhythm.
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While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first.
The Line Of Best Fit
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Conversation was limited by the roar of the engine and the thrash of the bow waves.
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The latter film is particularly memorable, with Udo Kier's Dr. Jekyll periodically excusing himself from his dinner guests (including Patrick Magee) to thrash about in a chemically-treated bath, emerging as the vicious rapist Mr Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), whose knife-like phallus is digitally opaqued in the only uncut version of the film I've seen (from Japan).
The Passing of a Eurocult Master
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The girl was thrashing about in the water.
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The sides must thrash out an agenda before agreeing to fresh talks.
The Sun
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Crystal Palace thrashed Nottingham Forest three-nil.
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Outside could be heard the creak and thud of damaged trees, and the thrashing of errant guttering and plastic garden furniture.
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These are where the commercial capital's movers and shakers met to socialise, pitch for cash and thrash out deals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The refuge's fan-shaped palms harbor migrating warblers, green jays, and long-billed thrashers, and are part of a wildlife corridor for two endangered wild cats, the ocelot and jaguarundi.
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The policy organization represents Defense in the inter-agency process, where its proposals are thrashed out along with those from State, CIA, the National Security Council and others.
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Gray stubble had grown on Thrasher's craggy, angular face.
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It says something about our culture that the biggest film released during our biggest celebration of love is a story about one person mercilessly thrashing another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Byron himself had long been dead by this time, so that the aristocrat who, Clare imagined, might have "medi [t] ated a stripe on my shoulders with his cane" (CL 123) could safely be "thrashed" in writing.
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That's the thing about ‘interim’ constitutions: They're stopgaps and place-holders until the real thing can be thrashed out.
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Here was a band that seemingly had that bit of something that at the same time appealed to indie kids, seasoned metallers, thrashers and fledgling ravers.
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Suddenly there was a loud hissing sound and thrashing of water from behind the reeds.
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A radical agenda and innovative ideas for a second term of Labour-led government are being thrashed out by ministers and senior party figures in private this weekend.
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The gray green water behind her thrashed and churned.
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The men's gums had started to rot from the lack of greenstuff; he had had hard work to stop them from eating the horses, on which their lives might yet depend; he had kept the beasts exercised by having their forequarters hoisted up once a day in slings, and making the grooms shout and hit at them, so that they thrashed about and got into a sweat.
Funeral Games
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Someone was thrashing around in the water, obviously in trouble.
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They have thrashed out a compromise formula acceptable to Moscow.
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Although this is desert, there is an incredible diversity of bird life along the river and in other areas of the park - mourning doves, American kestrel falcons, nighthawks and brown thrashers are just a few of the birds that call it home.
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Violently, he thrashed around on the bed until he fell and hit the floor.
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You know how when garden hoses get all kinky, and then you turn on the water and they start thrashing around like snakes and the water jets out everwhere?
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The fishes thrashed about in the net.
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Councils will also be forced to implement pay equality measures under the public sector reform deal thrashed out in talks that ended at 5am yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scotland were involved in yet another thrashing yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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The creature roared in agony, thrashing about and spewing gouts of blood, until it lay quivering in a pool of its own gore.
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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If we were doing thrash metal, we would definitely dress the part.
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It followed a 4-1 thrashing at home to Charlton.
The Sun
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The Norwegian, the person for whom English is a second language, thrashed us at Scrabble.
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Or were his visions of an English "reefer" being thrashed on his own ship by a young American prisoner, who was thereafter to write his name in history as "Salamander" Farragut?
Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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Instead of playing Europe in 2013, as originally envisaged, Metallica will take a "European Summer Vacation" next year, including gigs at Germany's Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring festivals in early June—where the top-grossing thrash band will play its chart-topping 1991 record known as "The Black Album" in its entirety—before heading to Britain and Austria.
Overweight in Metal, This Band Tries to Play Tunes in Forex
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Neither is formal beauty a universally shared musical value, as much as film music or thrash metal are deliberately ugly.
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The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
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Excuse me folks, muzzle loader season is open and old thrasher and I have a date!!
On Guns In Airports
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Seconds later he was on the other side of the penalty box, thrashing in a drive that just skidded past the post.
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Edge it with shrubs to provide leaf litter where brown thrashers, towhees, and white-throated and fox sparrows can scratch for insects.
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And as a final jibe he remarked that it was always sad to see a politician at the end of his career thrashing around for an issue.
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As their fins thrashed through the water in fast pursuit, I saw the whale shark descend rapidly to the depths.
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Jeri and I thrashed ahead, following subsidiary ruts in the dried mud, and then tire marks in the grass.
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The thrashing wings of a mallard skimmed over their heads.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Councils will also be forced to implement pay equality measures under the public sector reform deal thrashed out in talks that ended at 5am yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just to make sure there was not a way on at the other end of the last entrance doline, they thrashed through the leech infested jungle, but found nothing.
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He became very angry with the President, said that that officer had a cowardly fear of Spain and Great Britain, and declared that he would go to Washington to "thrash" the President.
Stories Of Georgia
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The foreign ministers have thrashed out a suitable compromise formula.
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After defeating Burnley and thrashing Gillingham 7-1, the young Blues will find it much tougher at Goodison Park.
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The team managed to be in focus for a final berth till that thrashing by Australia, which won 8-3.
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The Welshman, who had stepped away from Livingston's timorous back line, seemed almost to be in the prone position when he wheeled to thrash a low volley inside the left-hand post.
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Although he held four rounds of talks with Vajpayee, extending his stay, the two leaders failed to thrash out an agreement or a joint declaration by the end of the historic summit.
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She would beat her until her arm was tired and then thrash her on the floor.
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The two sides have been thrashing out the fine details of his performance - and the all-important pay cheque.
The Sun
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Four years later though, and I was the only one still thrashing around in the shallow end, terrified of getting his head underwater.
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Her thrashing solo builds into a tantrum, fists and feet thumping the floor, only for her colleagues to glide across the stage like the coolest of cats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thrashers D Martin Schneider returned after missing eight games because of a shoulder injury, but D Garnet Exelby was scratched after learning he has been playing for two weeks with a hairline fracture in his lower right leg. ...
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The gram pradhan was also thrashed for taking side with Parasuram†™ s family.
The Times of India
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Shaggy yaks stomp around threshing circles, ears of barley are thrashed with sticks and winnowed by singing villagers in twos and threes.
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Ashley Giles is confident that England will recover from the thrashing.
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A family who went to confront an intruder in their garden were surprised to find a young deer thrashing around in their swimming pool.
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A group of strangers bopped around the remains of a fatal car accident; I sang and can-canned my legs, like I did as we passed a moshpit of people thrashing themselves together into a mush.
Ballspenden
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The old man was thrashing the soy - bean crop.
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At | anta Spirit paid $250 million last year to buy the Hawks, Thrashers and operating rights to Philips Arena from Time Warner.
USATODAY.com - Belkin leaves as Hawks owner; Johnson deal done
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Regarded by many as the album that started thrash metal, it was fast and furious and it is no wonder that many regard it as the greatest thrash / heavy album - the father of them all.
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The deal was thrashed out by bosses and unions as the British car industry faces a crisis.
The Sun
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Among birds that can be attracted in the summer are brown thrashers, catbirds, robins, thrushes, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, cardinals, towhees and grosbeaks.
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It was a brief but animated struggle, the flex of the rod and the 6-pound-test line absorbing the runs, thrashes and splashes of the creature that had been hiding in ambush in the roots of the cypress tree.
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A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage.
CHAPTER XV
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He thrashed the poor servant with his stick.
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Fullback Percy Montgomery spearheaded the Stormers to a 40-13 thrashing of the Hurricanes in a Super 12 rugby match here last night.
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But whenever he tried to fight higher levels of competition, he was soundly thrashed.
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Their latest album is proof of this, smelting the finest elements of thrash, death and black metal and ruthlessly pouring the molten result down your throat.
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Black blood jetted from the wound, and Narajao thrashed wildly.
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If he can get African-American fannies in the seats, Kane could have a greater impact on pucks here than any Thrasher ever, save perhaps Ilya Kovalchuk.
As one Evander sinks, another Evander rises - sports
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Betsy made bleating sounds of passion; our thrashing limbs rearranged themselves several times; my clutching fingers dug deep into her meaty buttocks; the mechanical thrustings went on and on and on.
Up The Line
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BellaVida said ... ooh, i like ur blog. it really appeals to the hard core thrasher living inside me.
Misstallica Will Take Your Feeble Werewolf and Raise You a Master of Puppets
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Joshua grabbed the whip, thrashing the master again and again.
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I would have thrashed him well at the start but for the letters I constantly received from home warning me against offence to the parents, and knew that to set my foot on the children's larrikinism would require measures that would gain their mother's ill-will at once.
My Brilliant Career
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Pretty soon I sat up with a jerk as something was thrashing like mad in the thorn bush above my head.
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Thrashing wildly, she flailed her arms and legs in a desperate attempt to move upwards, to the surface, to salvation.
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Besides, there was a belief that at some time or another the faceman had thrashed Shine, who was searcher at the Stream in his week-day capacity, and for that reason was despised by the miners, and regarded as a creature apart.
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
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This is a thrashing,' said a presidential aide.
Times, Sunday Times
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Men took a verbal thrashing as they were labelled unromantic (57%), thoughtless (35%) and inconsiderate (24%).
Men encouraged to think outside the chocolate box
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The latest dud from the Maple Leafs came Tuesday night with a 6-3 home loss to the Thrashers.
USATODAY.com
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Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink.
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Richmond clinched promotion with a 50-3 thrashing of Roundhay.
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They are thrashing their wheat.
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Almost all the streams round the Chesapeake, in spite of their being perpetually "thrashed," and never preserved, abound in small trout; but farther afield, in Northwestern Maryland, where the tributaries of the Potomac and Shenandoah flow down the woody ravines of
Border and Bastille
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The EFSF will eventually have the capacity to spend €440bn under the terms thrashed out by eurozone leaders last month.
We need strong leaders in the eurozone | Editorial
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It is a stellar performance - Keith Moon's orgiastic flailing, mugging, and thrashing behind the kit leaves one utterly transfixed, and that's just a quarter of the group's dynamic.
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The deal was thrashed out by bosses and unions as the British car industry faces a crisis.
The Sun
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She spat and thrashed like a cat, and Darrow unhooded the creature as my men held it.
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His future father-in-law came round to dinner one evening and attempted to thrash him with a horsewhip.
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By thrashing around for solutions to the ‘politics of behaviour’ in this way, the government is helping to fuel the spiral of fear and alienation across society.
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But Magician could be an Epsom ace judging by the way he thrashed his rivals.
The Sun
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Deals can take three to four years to thrash out, or up to a decade for complex ones.
The Sun
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In meetings with government officials to thrash out problems, participants typically chew khat, a mildly narcotic plant that is widely consumed in Yemen but banned in many places around the world.
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Why, because at times, an egotist sense of self is so diminished and endemic, its false survival unknowingly depends on thrashing, belittling and insulting others to maintain a continuous sick illusionary story in their head necessary to misleadingly feed and encourage a diminished sense of self.
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I thrash around until I'm physically exhausted and finally fall asleep at about three in the morning.
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West Bowling A handed out a 56-4 thrashing at bottom club Rotherham.
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Her lawyers have been ruthless in thrashing out a divorce settlement.
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The carriages were inside, and as the first wagon followed with its wailing occupants-all but Aphrodite, who was thrashing the tail-board with the remains of her gamp, in a fine berserk fury still-I hurried through the gates.
Isabelle
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Sources claim they are still thrashing out the details of the announcement.
The Sun
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It is a further example of the way Capello is thrashing around in the dark.
The Sun
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We can't resist one last thrash.
Times, Sunday Times
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The three party leaders will meet today to thrash out the details and satisfy their concerns.
Times, Sunday Times
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He insists that after hearing what specialists had to say he was even more convinced he was right, and that Howard was an old political leader thrashing around for an issue.
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The man thrashed his legs and jackknifed his body, but the soldiers lifted him off the ground, raising him so high that his feet pedaled the air.
The Omega Theory
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The teams thrashed out policy details on education, tax and green issues.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may be their collective hardcore or thrash metal backgrounds.
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Together, they are caught in a mesh of crosses and double-crosses like a shoal of herring thrashing around in a net.
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On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.
Walden
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Bond further noted that all the Antillean thrasher and trembler species have immaculate, greenish blue eggs, like those of Melanotis, Melanoptila, and Dumetella, but unlike those of any species of Mimus.
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The accused were armed with sharp edged weapons and thrashed him brutally.
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The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher.
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Kicking and thrashing, Jennifer desperately struggled to break free.
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Many commentators have spent the week thrashing around in an attempt to discover what it means.
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He said the terms thrashed out since secret negotiations got serious about three months ago did not give the Islamist group Hamas, who hold Shalit, everything they asked for.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Effondrer, to thrash a man, to give him what for; otolondrer, to annoy or to "spur" him; cambrioler, doing anything in a room; aubert, money; Gironde, a beauty (the name of a river of Languedoc); fouillousse, a pocket -- a "cly" -- are all French of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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After being obliterated at tennis on Saturday, I was thrashed at squash this afternoon.
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The girl was thrashing about in the water.
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Does it start to look though as if the Government is trying to thrash around a bit, trying to make a bit of policy on the run in an attempt to try and get back on the front foot?
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I hope we can give those Americans a jolly good thrashing.
The Sun
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This is a thrashing,' said a presidential aide.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had concluded long ago that all possible relations, even those of enmity -- practical enmity at least -- were over between them, and that Mr Beauchamp considered the bejan sufficiently punished for thrashing him, by being deprived of his condescending notice for the rest of the ages.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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When we started, thrash metal was still really underground.
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But the sight of me thrashing around on my funboard, for some reason, excited him to hysteria.
Kook
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So, to a screech of whistles the band plunge into a set full of jangling guitars and thrashing drums.
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He would move his arms suddenly and thrash about in bed.
The Sun
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Since his public standing hit an all-time low following his divorce he has been thrashing around for some means to enhance his popularity.
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He thrashed the poor servant with his stick.