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- noun Attributive form of
bread line
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Examples
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Half of the afternoon I had stood in the bread-line; and after dark I returned home, tired and miserable, carrying a quart of rice and a slice of bacon.
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Bowery lodging-houses and ate scrapple in East-Side feeding-dens, and, on more than one occasion, stood in the bread-line at midnight and pondered whether or not I should faint before I fed.
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May 1992 -- Shells and Death CampsSerb shells kill at least 20 civilians in the so-called bread-line massacre in Sarajevo.
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Such bread-line unrest will likely affect local council elections in April, with the hard-line Muslim Brotherhood poised to benefit, says Steven A. Cook, Egypt expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Don't they have a bread-line to stand in or something?
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Mr Williams said rural and predominantly black areas were beset by a lack of domestic services, incomes below the bread-line, unemployment, violence, a breakdown in social structures, drugs and vagrant children.
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Workers must effectively demand their one-pound-a-day or else leaders in industry and commerce will go no further than piously acknowledging that you are paid starvation wages and that 80% of the African people live below the bread-line.
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In the bread-line on Monday was Eugene J. Parney, a multi-millionaire, whose gifts to charity have been very large and who recently included
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Googe, unknown, unidentified as yet by three men, Father Honoré and two detectives, who from the dark archway of a sunken area farther down the street were scanning this bread-line.
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We would stand in the bread-line just like the rest of them and get our roll and coffee.
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