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Examples
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Some day the reality is going to crash the myth like a Bald Eagle hitting a plate-glass window.
Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola 2010
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- Police say an intoxicated man crashed his speeding car through the plate-glass window of a North Hollywood restaurant and injured three people....
Aerosol Cans Found In Car Smashed Into North Hollywood Restaurant ktla.com 2011
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Signed, Your friend who gave her own self a nose job walking into a plate-glass door.
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One of the plate-glass windows was smashed in the process.
Fracas Curtails China iPhone Sales Owen Fletcher 2012
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I punched out a $200 plate-glass window and if I'd had ammunition in the gun I'd probably have killed them.
Bill English 2010
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Then I closed the door, and dragged my sad ass up four flights of stairs to the top floor, where I gazed out my fourteen-foot plate-glass window at the lights on the Capitol Records building and the Roosevelt Hotel sign.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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It has no bimbos, no tools, no misogyny, nobody being hurled through plate-glass windows!
TV review: Cultural zeitgeist, scored by Super Bowl ads Hank Stuever 2011
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From the street, passersby will see a plate-glass window striped in black.
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This, from a woman who drove a car through the plate-glass window of a neighborhood grocery and seriously injured an elderly man waiting for his blood pressure medicine.
A Light at Winter’s End Julia London 2011
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Before Suraiya had arrived to prop herself picturesquely in Sadhana's doorway, Sadhana had been seated, swivelled sideways in her chair, staring absently at the plate-glass windows across 18th Street into their reflection of blue sky and white clouds and sugar maples turning orange.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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