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hand-me-down
adjective as in previously owned
Example Sentences
Ma holds my gaze for a beat before glancing at the empty hand-me-down suitcase.
Or a White woman might give the Black woman who cleaned her home a piece of furniture that she was discarding or a hand-me-down dress for the Black woman’s daughter to wear to a social.
The chancellor could also offer partial payments, potentially getting smaller for each additional child to reflect that these children might use the same buggy as their siblings or hand-me-down clothes.
Nearly 250 years later, as we continue to debate what the Founders intended, we may find at times that we’ve been led astray by legend, hornswoggled by hand-me-down history.
This hand-me-down British Sea Fury constituted a significant portion of Cuba’s entire air force.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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