at one's disposal
Example Sentences
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By taking better-known meanings and associating them,—the attained store of meanings of the community in which one resides is put at one's disposal.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
In any case the impulse is to investigate the form and structure as far as the means at one’s disposal will permit.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.
From Second Plays by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
"I cannot see," Patricia had said to Sylvia, "why one should feel it necessary to stick to hot, smelly offices when a library, looking out over acres of country, is at one's disposal."
From The Shield of Silence by Loughridge, George
But what is fifty miles when one is under the wing of the Railway King and can have a special engine at one's disposal.
From Letters from England by Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis
