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wale

[weyl] / weɪl /


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The fugues, meanwhile, weave something more like the wale of a domestic fabric.

From Washington Post Jan. 8, 2022

So there will be swimming, swinging, climbing, leaping and harpooning from tall, bent-steel pipes that form the ship and ribs of the great white wale.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2016

The rapper then launched into a not-suitable-for-work rant against a former magazine editor who tweeted, “if i’m trump i’m pushing the narrative that obama really put wale on his playlist in an effort to undermine his administration.”

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2016

Resoled in Saratoga, riveting in a wide wale suit, I use law, Ed.

From Time Apr. 4, 2015

"Licht are ye to loup, Jamie,45 Licht are ye to loup, Licht are ye to loup the dyke, Whan I maun wale a slap."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

But just as I was growin' vext He waled a maist judeecious text, An', launchin' into his prelections, Swoopt, wi' a skirl, on a' defections.

From Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson

All nite long the bereaved inmates uv that wunst happy but now distracted home wept and waled in agony wich wuz perfectly heart rendin.

From "Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. by Thomas Nast

“At our lang wars, in fair Scotland,I fain ha’e wish’d to be,If fifteen hundred waled wight menYou’ll grant to ride with me.”

From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang

Cast yourself at His feet, and see if you do not get at His hands as rare an outgate and as wonderfully waled a cross as the very best of them got.

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

‘I might have been proclaimed on the crown of the causey,’ says Rutherford, ‘but He has so waled my cross and His vengeance that I am suffering not for my sin but for His name.’

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

Through sobbing and waling, he said he was sorry and couldn’t believe it had happened.

From Washington Times Apr. 18, 2015

Forced crying and waling is a big thing is North Korea.

From The Verge Dec. 28, 2014

White Sox starter John Danks lasted six innings, giving up one run on three hits while waling four and striking out three.

From Chicago Tribune Apr. 17, 2014

“It was all so beautiful,” she said, waling past the headquarter’s once grand entrance.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2012

The walings split, and the cross-braces cut into the waling pieces from 1 to 2 in.; in other words, the pressure seemed to be almost irresistible.

From Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 by J. C. Meem




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