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hale

[heyl] / heɪl /


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A hale and hearty speed signifies that your body’s systems—including your heart, lungs, muscles and nervous system—are working well together.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

He has gone to lengths to appear hale, skiing with a professional snowboarder and with an Olympic gold medalist who called him a “ripper” as they raced down the mountain.

From New York Times May 8, 2024

During the 1918–19 flu pandemic, however, doctors and other observers noted a high death toll among young, presumably hale adults.

From Science Magazine Oct. 9, 2023

Gaining any new clarity about surging reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, will take time, better data gathering and diagnostic tools and, perhaps most importantly, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny.

From Scientific American Jun. 9, 2023

"Stubborn or craven, what does it matter? Ser Cortnay Penrose seemed hale and hearty to me."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still hadn’t gone back to work, but I thought he never looked haler or heartier, or neater or spiffier.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Then he addressed the other ancient witness, who looked even haler than his companion.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables

You never could find a haler man, Tan-ta-ta-ran-tan-tare!

From Nights in London by Thomas Burke

"Fancy, indeed, sir; why, I never saw you looking haler."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 by Various

“Unsurprisingly, corporations did not relish the prospect of being haled into court for any claim anywhere they conducted business,” he wrote.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2023

“Once the president is haled into court, there are innumerable obligations that flow from that,” he said.

From Washington Post Dec. 19, 2017

At one point the miniaturized siblings are haled into court for boarding a train without tickets.

From Washington Post Jun. 28, 2017

In Los Angeles, Ramon Butler, 23, haled into traffic court for driving at 93 m.p.h.. ruefully told the judge that he tried to stop, "but my brakes didn't work."

From Time Magazine Archive

Or such-and-such a merchant had wept when haled before the Liberty Tree and sworn never to do trade with England until all grievances had been righted.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Some of the aircraft were given “vectors” that would take them around airspace over the haling warship.

From Washington Times Mar. 8, 2023

“There’s a special indignity that can cause diplomatic tension about haling a foreign official personally … into court,” John Bash, an attorney representing the fund and al-Rumayyan, told the court at a hearing last month.

From Washington Post Feb. 17, 2023

Kalanick was necessary for one part of creating the ride haling industry.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2017

Strange it may be, but for Jordi Savall the haling comes quite naturally.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2011

Advancing towards them, and puffing with exertion and importance, they beheld Nick Lee, haling along at arm's length an unkempt individual whom they judged to be the hobo who had disturbed his peace of mind.

From The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. Kendall




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