wire
Example Sentences
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Ms. Noonan writes that “the wire services, plus independent big-city newspapers, gave the nation a shared factual floor. We need to get it back.”
Nets have been placed over certain streets; in previous years metal kite strings have fallen on to electricity wires giving an electric shock to anyone holding them - and causing the wires to short circuit.
From BBC
"So, I think it's between Forest, Palace and West Ham. It is going to be so tight. I really think its going to go down to the wire."
From BBC
But it was helping his uncle wire his garage that clinched it.
On opposite sides of the makeshift barricade, fronted by coils of barbed wire, Cambodians lamented their lost homes and livelihoods as Thailand's military showed off its gains.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
