He will be in the hospital for the duration of the school year.
We implored him to act before it was too late.
She muffled her throat in a warm scarf not to catch a cold.
On April Fool’s day people often play pranks on each other.
Soapy took the umbrella and sauntered off with it slowly.
There was a trickle of blood from the wound on his face.
She was astounded / amazed by the news that she had won the speech contest.
The people living in that valley are all members of one clan.
Newspaper accounts of political and international affairs are often distorted.
While travelling, they entrusted their children to the care of a baby sitter.
Sometimes the gets hungry and eats like a glutton.
Unless a check is signed it is invalid.
He became invalid as the result of ill health and lack of exercise.
His words were polite but there was an overtone / implication of anger in his voice.
They probed his past career to judge his qualifications.
There are many sacred / holy shrines in the Near East.
The statute increased the taxes we must pay.
The wounded soldier writhed uncomfortably in pain.
Watching the first man land on the moon, we beheld a sight never seen before by man.
They should change this bad habit and condescend/deign to be pleased what is pleasing.
More than 5,000 years ago the Chinese were controlling the Yellow River floods withdikes.
The farmers dug a deep dike to carry water to the rice field.
He flipped a coin on the counter to decide whether to go to the theater or not.
My uncle who had traveled to many countries in the world told a grisly story about people who ate human flesh.
The knave/ rogues who set fire to the barn have been caught and sent to prison.
The general held a parley with the enemy’s leader about exchanging prisoners.
There is not a shred/fragment of evidence that missing money was stolen.
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