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- adjective Not
shrunk .
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Examples
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No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.
Rev. Chuck Freeman: 2/11 Now Supplants 9/11 as the Narrative of Our Time Rev. Chuck Freeman 2011
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All submitted comments are subject to the rules set forth in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. from cooner wrote 38 weeks 2 days ago it wasn't taken to be a photo of the tom it was taken as an end to the hunt photo. by the way the unshrunk version is much better
Field & Stream 2009
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No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.
Rev. Chuck Freeman: 2/11 Now Supplants 9/11 as the Narrative of Our Time Rev. Chuck Freeman 2011
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 38 weeks 2 days ago it wasn't taken to be a photo of the tom it was taken as an end to the hunt photo. by the way the unshrunk version is much better
Field & Stream 2009
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This is the first year that it's taken place at the beginning of autumn and - now that my anatomy has unshrunk and I have verified that my vitals are normal - I can say with certainty that there are certain rituals and traditions that simply ought to be abandoned.
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"What are French soldiers made of, that they can't stand the wet -- unshrunk linen or flannel?"
The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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To try to mend an old coat with a bit of unshrunk cloth would only make a worse dissolution of continuity, for as soon as a shower fell on it the patch would shrink, and, in shrinking, pull the thin pieces of the old garment adjoining it to itself.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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[21] No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.
Latest Articles 2010
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Jack London's shrunken planet had unshrunk and swallowed a city.
Acephalous 2008
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Jack London's shrunken planet had unshrunk and swallowed a city.
Acephalous 2008
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