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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rent .
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Examples
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The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis.
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A home, when owned as opposed to rented, is in part a savings vehicle.
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Increasingly they are turning to weekend classes in rented public schools or storefronts taken over by bare-bones Chinese language programs.
Adopted Chinese children fill Chinese language schools in U.S. Kevin Sieff 2010
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He spent the night in the little country hotel, and on Sunday morning, astride a saddle-horse rented from the Glen Ellen butcher, rode out of the village.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Increasingly they are turning to weekend classes in rented public schools or storefronts taken over by bare-bones Chinese language programs.
Adopted Chinese children fill Chinese language schools in U.S. Kevin Sieff 2010
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Increasingly they are turning to weekend classes in rented public schools or storefronts taken over by bare-bones Chinese language programs.
Adopted Chinese children fill Chinese language schools in U.S. Kevin Sieff 2010
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In 1992, Joyce was one of the Arkansas Travelers, a merry band of activists who drove around the country in rented vans to support Bill Clinton's presidential campaign.
As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas Sandhya Somashekhar 2010
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Martin rented a typewriter and spent a day mastering the machine.
Chapter 11 2010
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It remained in the abbey's hands until the suppression of the monasteries in 1539 when it was rented from the Crown by Sir Anthony Kingston who was to provide forty deer, annually, for King Henry VIII, who used the House as a hunting lodge.
Prinknash Abbey 2009
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Our office is rented from the company which owns the airport.
You Heard It Here First (Bulbgate) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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