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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

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

Logan is hale and full of bluster in his limo on the way to his flight, giving no hint as to what’s coming.

From Salon Apr. 9, 2023

They lit a fire in a hollow, down among the roots of a spreading hawthorn, tall as a tree, writhen with age, but hale in every limb.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

My father took it for forty years, and there wasn't a haler man in the country.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

"And you—well, you look just the same as ever; only fuller and haler."

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Many a haler remnant than he had gone down on a last voyage. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

“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

Herbert George Wells, in a fit of Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut.

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

As the saints would have it, that very minute I oped the door, was Dame Elizabeth haling forth silver in her lap, and afore her stood the jeweller’s man awaiting to be paid.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)




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