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flat tire

noun as in blowout

noun as in puncture

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For another, the woman who had incurred the flat was a new rider who was extremely grateful for the assistance, and the last thing we need is people giving up on bikes because of the twin indignities of flat tires and condescending schmucks.

His voice breaking at times, he recounted the story of a young disabled veteran who helped Powell when his car got a flat tire on the Beltway.

He fixed his own flat tires—seven of them as of Sunday, when he answered a few questions for Outside—and when his last spare inner tube punctured, he used the repair kit from his sleeping pad to patch it until he could buy a replacement tube.

In terms Wall Streeters can understand, it would be like your Porsche getting a flat tire.

The only cure that I know of for a boy or girl with a flat tire is more of God's uplifting strength.

Because of a flat tire, the driver stopped the car beside a little stream in which two extremely pretty girls were bathing.

A loud report like a pistol shot: a flat tire down on our car: that was all.

The lamp was loosened from the wheel and turned on the flat tire, and both boys got close to find the puncture.

He covered that half block on a flat tire and went in for help.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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