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- noun Plural form of
cushion . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cushion .
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Examples
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The leader may say, for example: "It being a beautiful spring day, the _old lady with the bandbox_ [here the old lady must get up and turn around] decided to visit her daughter, and so took a _seat_ in the _stage coach_ [everybody turns around]; she found the _cushions_ [cushions turn around] very comfortable until the _fat old gentleman_ [fat old gentleman turns around] got in, when the place seemed to her very crowded, and she was glad to open the _windows_; the _driver_ cracked his _whip_, the _wheels_ creaked, the _horses_ strained at the _harness_, and away they started on their journey," etc.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium Jessie Hubbell Bancroft
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Each understood how putting their name on a ballot robbed them of sleep, took them from their families and made them pin cushions for ridicule.
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Each understood how putting their name on a ballot robbed them of sleep, took them from their families and made them pin cushions for ridicule.
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When it comes to cushions is a wise option to unzip them and see what exactly is on the inside, to make sure you get only the best.
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He got the cushions from a man he once shared a trailer with, and they turned out to be infested with cockroaches.
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Each understood how putting their name on a ballot robbed them of sleep, took them from their families and made them pin cushions for ridicule.
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He got the cushions from a man he once shared a trailer with, and they turned out to be infested with cockroaches.
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The páramo sensu strictu has a predominance of scrublands and low shrubs and the superpáramo has grasses in cushions with scant coverage.
Santa Marta páramo 2008
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I always build in cushions because there's ALWAYS someone who misses the deadlines.
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I-R-I, With the current left-wing cultural mantra advising bed-hopping “pin cushions” (The Mr. and I loved your description) to run down to the nearest abortion mill as an alternative form of birth control, is pitiful, selfish and degrading.
Think Progress » New Bush Policy: All Gays Should Be Celibate 2006
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