How To Use Twine In A Sentence

An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.
With a good deal of difficulty, Anita cut a slot in it, then slung it from the gatepost with baler twine. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
It's a bizarre concept that intertwines issues of patriotism and sporting chauvinism.
Their journeys intertwine and overlap, and during sequences in which they go their separate but parallel ways, director Gustad employs jarring cross-cutting to remind us of their journeys' thematic parallelisms.
(That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.) Joy Preble: Not Lost at All: Texas Pines, Debut Authors, and the World's Largest Gingerbread Man

Obama is too intwined with Wright regardless of his denouncing of Wright's hateful rhetoric. Jeremiah Wright Steps Down From Obama Campaign
In no other situation is the contemplation of living and dying so intertwined with love and sex.
Silently, too, they walked under the IC, past the entwined hearts, the graphic drawings, the amazing suggestions. FAMILY PICTURES
I entwined my fingers with hers, experiencing relief and dissolved anxiety as I felt her squeeze back.
She caught students red-handed with their parts entwined frequently, and the rest of the student body talked about sex as if it was just as normal as attending a baseball game or playing video games. Daniel P. Malito: The Scarlet e-Letter
The vine twines round/up the pole.
The problems of crime and unemployment are closely intertwined.
In addition to the line, the secondary is a question mark for the Terrapins, who will be looking for Kenny Tate and Antwine Perez to step up their game now that they are the projected starters at safety, while redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle could find himself starting at corner. Around the Atlantic Coast Conference
The vine twines round/up the pole.
Oh, and did I mention the two red roses entwined on our bed by a single silk ribbon? Times, Sunday Times
The entire modern history of South Africa is inextricably intertwined with sport. Times, Sunday Times
These were substantially built of timber and talipots, thatched with cadjans and bamboo leaves, and festooned and decorated as the Singhalese only can decorate - leaves, flowers and fruit being entwined together with so much delicacy and airy tastefulness as to impart an almost fairy-like form to the pavilion.
This is neither surprising or unique, as nation and state have been closely intertwined concepts in the modem world.
Recycle beer or other decorative bottles into tumblers by soaking a piece of garden twine in kero and tying around the bottle at the point you want to separate.
The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.
By the early decades of the nineteenth century, Levy explains, consistent pressure on women's reading habits had caused cultural and biological reproduction to become intertwined.
Thus began my journey into astrology - a journey where law and astrology have been closely intertwined.
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
Shelley saw how, as the sun faded among the trees just as we would see it now: ‘pallid evening twines its beaming hair in duskier braids around the languid eyes of day: silence and twilight, unbeloved of men, creep hand in hand’.
It had arches and balconies entwined with bougainvillaea, and wide patios with tubs of vivid red geraniums. At The Spaniard's Convenience
The snake twined over the ground.
At sea, the sailors are continually engaged in "parcelling," "serving," and in a thousand ways ornamenting and repairing the numberless shrouds and stays; mending sails, or turning one side of the deck into a rope-walk, where they manufacture a clumsy sort of twine, called spun-yarn. Redburn. His First Voyage
My own family's history is deeply entwined with that of the Northcote electorate.
Tarred marline is jute twine treated with a tarred solution for water resistance.
The two are so entwined they are virtually inseparable. The Sun
The bottom should be drawn up tightly, with a needleful of raffia, and a ball of twine of some bright harmonious color slipped in.
It's a cliché, but also a truism, that love and hate are not opposites but, rather, intimately entwined.
The ivy and the vine and the poppy were closely entwined. Times, Sunday Times
In his mind, religion and politics were inseparably intertwined.
She peered through the glass walls of the vivarium at over a dozen intertwined snakes, boasting all sorts of exotic colors and markings. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
Around them are entwined canonic melodies of disarming ingenuousness. Times, Sunday Times
As she uncomfortably lowered herself onto the chair on the guest side of his desk, he pulled a sheaf of parchment tied together with twine from a desk drawer.
It is made of fine twine (one-inch mesh), preferably from the bark of one of the fig-trees or the brown kurrajong, tightly stretched on two pieces of lawyer-cane each bent to form the half of an irregular ellipse. Tropic Days
They walked together with their arms entwined.
But, of course, the two are inextricably entwined. Times, Sunday Times
Wizards, witches and sorcery twine with knights and kings.
I do not know how my life got so intertwined with all this. Times, Sunday Times
The appeal of Resnick's account is enhanced by the lure of Bohemia, which he and Passlof enrich with anecdote and intertwine with aesthetics and social history.
I told him to be certain of the help of 2,000 armed riders whose chiefs would be wearing finely intertwined armor.
Rumors carried on the wind; the most prevalent, that the twine were one, carried a disturbing ring of possibility.
I am really talking about two intertwined strands--which I referred to as the subtle/subversive body earlier. Archive 2007-08-01
Apple, pear, plum and cherry trees shadow the hard tennis court which has full perimeter fencing entwined with climbing roses and clematis.
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
A skilled historian is able to entwine his inventory material with evidence gathered from a variety of other sources.
The genetic associations were latent and intertwined with acquired factors, particularly with the degree of prematurity, birth order and twinning.
Rolling the baler twine in a neat hank, he glanced towards the shore. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The paradox is poignant and the lives of the two drivers remain intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
As shore as the Vine doth the Stump intwine thou art my Lump of Sackkerrine A Child-World
Second, fiscal and monetary policies have become closely entwined. Times, Sunday Times
This also assumes that “political” and “income” are inseparably intwined. [TV/Movie] Awards and Gender | Mind on Fire
The garden is resplendent with California poppies, blossoming artichokes, and, at its center, a ramada built with kiwi vines intertwined with willow and recycled wood.
I didn't resist, both of us crushing the leaf until fragments fell and were scattered by the wind, her fingers twined in mine.
Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy. A Love Story
The stories of the seven characters intertwine impossibly in a story of identity and self-imposed oppression.
Its collection of entwined stories is brilliantly constructed, moving between satirical comedy and unforced pathos. Times, Sunday Times
It's a cracking read about racing and betting and how the two are intertwined. The Sun
Her particular study has been of the finely twined decorative borders known as "taniko," a technique that appears to be unique to the Maori.
Delicate gold filigree entwined itself around her lower arm, wrist, and hand.
Our status as compositionists and our status as computerists are intertwined.
Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is a classic Oates novel in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty. Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
The poles which make up the trellis walls are linked at the joints by lengths of twine threaded through holes.
Once again we see how the fortunes of modern European science intertwined with the vicissitudes of colonial expansion.
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Its collection of entwined stories is brilliantly constructed, moving between satirical comedy and unforced pathos. Times, Sunday Times
The lattice, with its entwined flowering twig pattern, was finished in pink, bronze, and green by brushing on copper-based colorants.
Without any hesitation, I entwine my legs with his and forcefully twist them, knocking him into the third guy there.
These threads are woven into textile yarns to produce sacks, carpet base, mats, rope and twine and many other materials.
Premodern societies often had animal totems, and they saw animals and humans as intertwined through reincarnation.
And on Mark's left hand a narrow footway twined in among the trees to a low-roofed hut some yards aside from the path. His Disposition
And there, with good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
Here, again, social capital and property wealth are closely entwined. Times, Sunday Times
Observers say this is the beginning of a new era which could climax in a movement for vilayet-e-faqih , a compulsory part of the Shi'ite faith that is intertwined with the concept of imamat or leadership all Muslims under one leader. THE NEWS BLOG
Their lips slowly finally touched as Kevin's other hand intertwined with her dark hair.
The two are intertwined, but I'll concentrate here on the Greek side of the story.
The crossvine, bignonia ‘Tangerine Beauty’ entwined with Killer on the clothesline pole posed a thorny problem if it was to be saved. Killer- An Update « Fairegarden
Guns and the gun culture are so intertwined with American culture that many Americans perceive guns as utterly, unremarkably normal.
The track exemplifies Twine's penchant for crafting beautiful tuneage that struggles through a software-erected forcefield.
Several narratives intertwine as Lovric charts Marcella's tortuous, Minguillo-instigated progress through crippledom, a lunatic asylum and eventually a convent, including that of the fanatical nun Sor Loreta, who mortifies her body and starves herself to attain holiness while being as vile as possible to the less saintly nuns around her. Home
Although their paths diverge, their lives remain entwined. Times, Sunday Times
Lord HASTINGS unites the Hungerford sickle with the Peverel garbe: No. 270; and the _Dacre knot_ is entwined about the Dacre escallop and the famous “ragged staff” of Beauchamp and Neville: No. 235. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Drape it over the lid, folding into little pleats around the edge, and secure with waxed twine or embroidery thread.
Rhodium - plated necklace with entwined clear crystal pav é loops; on snake chain.
The revenge plot is intertwined with a romance between wagon train cutie Emily Hudson (a struggling Tamara Hope) and Jonathan (Trent Ford, not much better), the son of Samuelson who, in what may be the film’s only honest scene, tames an unmanageable horse. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
Cuscuta contains at least 158 species that no longer possess leaves, but their stems twine around host plants producing numerous haustoria to obtain nutrients.
I feel a hand slide down my arm and fingers intertwine with mine, and I look over to see Amanda standing beside me.
Our Savior Lutheran in Houston, one of the congregations we describe in Chapter 7, provides still another example of how ethnicity and Lutheranism often intertwine. American Grace
[A] wry new memoir … [Kamen] intertwines her journey (which, mercifully, is often comical) with the latest medical research. All In My Head: Summary and book reviews of All In My Head by Paula Kamen.
Intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of the myriad creatures that once inhabited the oceans, it seems poised to wrench itself free from the stone that entombs it.
Cool aqua marine blue entwined with canary yellow and feisty pink in intricate patterns and finely detailed paintings were printed onto the scarves.
Banks and governments are inextricably entwined in the eyes of creditors. Times, Sunday Times
A gerenuk on tiptoes, entwined in a thorn tree, lipping away the tender leaves. Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing
The tree also produces piassava, another major commodity of the 1850's Atlantic trade, which still has export value today, and could also support the twine and foot mart industries. Vanguard News
She saw the law of our country as deeply entwined with our national history, and as defining a unique and precious perspective on the world. Times, Sunday Times
A young man in a white chef's toque entwined with tinsel appeared from the kitchen. THE WHITE DOVE
Hop to It bines, oast Hops grow on 20-foot-long plants called bines that climb a trellis of twine and wire strung from tall poles. Week in Words
All I know is, while we're walking, he suddenly grabs my hand and entwines our fingers together.
There was an apotheosis in which all three figures were shown entombed, enshrined, mummified together but not entwined.
Her dark hair should have been twined in a missish braid to keep it from tangling as she slept, and instead it spilled in dark silken handfuls over her shoulders.
Overall, the storylines are engaging and skillfully intertwined, and the acting well-done.
Prisoners must file a formal grievance to appeal a medical decision, since healthcare is intertwined with strictly correctional functions.
Image above: This vintage metal bin is filled with some 45 records from my grandfather's collection and a mason jar that holds a ball of twine from Etsy.
She twined her arms around my neck.
He touched the entwined dragons that were blazoned onto his skin.
Red tape is entwined into our history. Times, Sunday Times
The root is then reduced to a pulp, by rubbing it up and down a kind of rasp, made as follows: -- A piece of board, about 3 in. wide, and 12 ft. long, is procured, upon which some coarse twine, made of the fibres of the cocoa nut husk, is tightly and regularly wound, and which affords an admirable substitute for a coarse rasp. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832
As he traces the evolution of intertwined ideas, he provides vivid portraits of Shannon and other pioneers of our Information Age, including Charles Babbage, whose unbuilt 19th-century "Analytical Engine" anticipated modern computers, and Alan Turing, whose machines helped the Allies crack German codes during World War II. Little Bits Go a Long Way
Political parody, irony, and satire have not only surged in popularity in recent years, but they have become complexly intertwined with serious political dialogue. Amber Day: Why More Americans Are Being Informed and Entertained by Satire Than Ever Before
So doesn't it follow that it should be closely entwined with our sense of identity? Times, Sunday Times
To understand brain and behaviour means rejecting that dichotomy and instead trying to interpret the intertwined dialectic of specificity and plasticity.
These three became intwined as a triad long ago, and as such, are entered as one. Archive 2008-12-01
In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread. The Monastery
In the hop growing areas of England, hop bines (the full length of the hop plant, twined up a string) have always been used for decoration along the beams of old farmhouse kitchens, on top of dressers and over the bar in pubs and hotels.
Plant a seedling next to each stake, and as the seedlings grow, coax them up the twine.
The two, though, are inextricably intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
This twine is now roped with a small thread of cotton, hemp or flax to keep the ends from projecting.
He was a droll sight, with a battered shako and trousers made of old gunny sacks tied up with twine.
The ends are now whipped with twine or yarn and finally "snaked," which is done by taking the end under and over the outer turns of the seizing alternately. Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise
Secure these with a raffia, string or green gardener's twine bow, before filling with your chosen arrangement.
The bars represent lines of print on a page, and the caduceus was the winged wand entwined with serpents carried by Mercury, the messenger of the gods. The World of 1975
Her eyes sought the monogram sculptured on the stone gate-pillars: 'E. L.' entwined in graceful curves on a rounded shield upheld by playful amorini. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
I can still recall that man standing there, the turkey standing beside him, with a loop of binder's twine around its neck.
In this case, media operations become intertwined with psychological warfare.
Second, fiscal and monetary policies have become closely entwined. Times, Sunday Times
The real star is director Ava Roy, whose masterful use of the entire island was both subtle and innovative; at times organic (the gravedigger scene was on a small mountain of rubble) and striking (Ophelia's madness was played inside a wide open hospital room threaded with white twine, empty birdcages, and lilting bird down.) Lauren Gunderson: Wild and Whirling Words: An Audacious Hamlet on Alcatraz
Oil and politics are inextricably intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
But these sectarian Baptists find their interests intertwined with the mineworkers, many of whom are their fellow members or clergy.
Virtually identical to the 2009 Geneva concept car—the exterior beautifully intertwines sinuous wave forms to form windows and fenders—the plug-in hybrid i8 will be fettled with a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic body over an aluminum substructure, thus canceling out the weight penalty of heavy batteries. The Face of Green?
His hand trailed to the nape of her neck and intertwined with her long black hair.
Hunched within its floodlit new-build, English cricket is now surfing the finest margins, dependent on the grande bouffe of the Saturday spree merchant, and not so much in bed with the purveyors of walk-up hospitality as sweatily intertwined on the main stairs. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Their lives would be closely entwined for six years. Times, Sunday Times
He could not have moved, had he attempted to do so, although somewhere deep down inside of him he felt that it was his duty to untwine those clinging arms and somehow to account for the appalling situation. The Last Woman
Our four nations are inextricably intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
These songs construct a vision in which the natural, human, and supernatural worlds are intertwined.
And, besides I’ll instruct you, like me to intwine The Dadlands Saloon
Whether they twine, cling, or ramble, climbing plants enhance good architecture and camouflage the not-so-good.
Her rich and lustrous dark hair was plaited into two long braids over her shoulders, intertwined with cords of gold thread, and lay upon the breast of her purple bliaut stirring and quivering to her long, relaxed breathing as though it had a life of its own. A River So Long
While trying not to damage the completely intwined and symbiotic relationship her and her brother share. To Montessori, Or Not To Montessori | Her Bad Mother
After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
She twined her arms round him and kissed his cheek.
Rope suspended upon poles, to which was tied by small twine two lumps of pudding drip'd in treacle, under which stood on stools, two boys with their hands tied behind them, whose business it was to catch the pudding in their mouths! Letter 292
The voices of the cello and gamba twined around each other in a simple musical form.
Ask him also for fine string or twine to tie up the meat.
It is interesting how nowadays the two worlds of pop music and politics are closely intertwined.
Intertwined around it are four strong cords, the material undefined.
The lower tier of the fountain had intertwined dolphin supports and was raised on a finely cast foliate stem.
These irregular metal components encourage bony ingrowth, allowing a patient's bone cells to intertwine with the irregular metal finish, which holds the implants securely in place.
The problems of crime and unemployment are closely intertwined.
The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. Anime Preview: Spring 2010 « Undercover
Their lives were intertwined in many ways, through weddings, funerals, christenings, parties etc.
Compared to swathers with conventional tines, twine tines guarantee optimum raking quality, even at high work speeds.
They started to untwine -- much quicker than the night before. Deanie Mills: How To Kill A Two-Headed Snake
The windows of his new room were fitted with green venetians; round the verandah-posts twined respectively a banksia and a Japanese honey-suckle, which further damped the glare; while on the patch of buffalo-grass in front stood a spreading fig-tree, that leafed well and threw a fine shade. Australia Felix
A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history. Father Ryan's Poems.
Then the demons arrived, but instead of claws, they attacked us with the twine-cutting hook-rings of a newsvendor, and we were powerless to stop them. Masked
It stands 36 metres wide by nine metres high and is intertwined with the fossils, skeletons and carcasses of creatures that once inhabited the oceans, all seemingly poised to wrench themselves free from the stone that entombs them.
She should have gotten out some old JFK and MLK books on their prior speeches and dusted off a few and intwined the passages with a few from the Bible and presto, she would be much further ahead. Full Text Of Obama's Big Race Speech: A Big Break With Political Precedent
Alan patted a small packet wrapped in brown paper and twine that protruded from his trouser pocket.
American companies little by little took control of the Mexican supply, making sisal twine cheaper and more reliable than it had been.
Even if he won't admit Leone as a direct influence, the film reinforces the sense that samurai movies and spaghetti westerns, gangster pics and Hollywood ‘oaters’ have long since become completely intertwined.
They were too tightly bound together; their destinies intertwined. SACRAMENT
A lot of his advisers want us more closely entwined. The Sun
A stream twines across the valley.
However, I always love to receive gardening gadgets; so if your mother is a fanatical gardener you could get her a new trowel, some copper plant labels, a trug to stash cut flowers in, a plant pot or a twine dispenser.
The issues are deeply intertwined and hugely complex, and no single set of rulings will be definitive. INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
The two for me are inextricably entwined, as I suspect they are for most artists. Improve Your Landscape Painting
So, as we learn more about stratospheric ozone and climate change, what were once two separate problems have become more and more entwined.
The relationships between Supplier, Manufacturer, Distributor and customer are becoming increasingly intertwined, which is having an impact on the way Distributors do business. PR.com Press Releases
The two for me are inextricably entwined, as I suspect they are for most artists. Improve Your Landscape Painting
Undaunted he would retreat, threading the twine between his fingers and thumb, before blindly pushing forward in a new direction.
The ageing process might have begun for him then - his forehead wrinkled, like an unironed cloth, with the worries of the world entwined in each strain of the fabric.
A dark green ivy plant twined around the pole.
At the bottom of the bell, a white silhouette of a boy holds a rope entwined to the clapper.
You won’t turn a five-corner into a quince, or a geebung into an orange, twist and twine, and dig and water as you like. Robbery Under Arms
Passing under the breezeways, there was no sound but the scrape of plastic and concrete, twine and dry skin.
The education of the third in line to the throne is closely entwined with the question of privacy. Times, Sunday Times
The "knotter" tying device had to be moved frequently to keep the binder twine around the middle of the sheaf according to the length of the straw. SIMCOE - Home
We are closely intertwined with economic growth. Times, Sunday Times
The periwinkle is a kind of shrub; it grows at the foot of the oyster-tree, and twines round it as the ivy does the oak. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Teaching should not be viewed as dichotomous because these factors of effective teaching are intertwined in action.
I thought about a lot more in that minute, too - freezing my tail off at barn-like arenas across Ontario, lobbing softballs towards home plate during practice, seeing her first goal tickle the twine on the soccer pitch.
The two, though, are inextricably intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
Affection twined with their life, which no shocks of feeling can uproot, which little quarrels only trample an instant that it may spring more freshly when the pressure is removed: affection that no passion can ultimately outrival, with which even love itself cannot do more than compete in force and truth. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
And thus it comes about that the ecclesiastical model of marriage entwines the lay one without a hitch, and in its embrace foreshadows a revolutionary way of looking at marriage.
The two, though, are inextricably intertwined. Times, Sunday Times
But this was fuchsia, big as you please, escaped from Irish gardens to the roadsides to intertwine with native brambles in tangled hedgerows.
Here one walks beside deep, grassy trenches, which appear to continue without end, along the forest level; farther, the wild mint and the centaurea perfume the shady nooks, the oaks and lime-trees arch their spreading branches, and the honeysuckle twines itself round the knotty shoots of the hornbeam, whence the thrush gives forth her joyous, sonorous notes. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The swing was in font of a beautiful lattice, with white roses that intertwined with the pale wood.
It is also clear that moral principles and political judgments are inextricably intertwined.
The weed had twined itself round the branches.
From cover to cover they are filled with sketches, cartoons, poems, limericks, designs, intertwined calligraphed initials, new tunes, birdsong fragments - in fact anything that captured his fertile imagination.
And all I had to use for a bowstring was some cotton twine.
But, of course, the two are inextricably entwined. Times, Sunday Times
The strands are the sections of the hair that are twined together to form a braid.
Watch out for the bold solo show of Algerian-born of Adel Abdessemed's at David Zwirner's space: among the highlights are Taxidermia, a cube (1.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 meters) composed of taxidermied animals intertwined using steel and wire, and Silent Warriors, a wall-mounted installation of over a hundred masks, each uniquely colored and patterned to resemble those used in Mexican wrestling, or lucha libre. MutualArt's Top 10 Things to See During FIAC Week in Paris (PHOTOS)

How To Use Twine In A Sentence

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