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- noun Plural form of
windpipe .
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Examples
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Mere finger pinching of windpipes is dramatic and effective as a continued deterrant against incompetence, but we have learned (at the hands of lawyers) that there are much more painful ways to promote pain .... the removal of stock options and even longer hours of work in an effort to satisfy impossible conditions on Corrective Action Plans.
Calgon, Take Me Away 2005
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After three years of what amounted to prep school at Niagara, Father Egan convinced Donovan that the legal profession might be his calling he certainly had the windpipes for the courtroom and wrote him a glowing recommendation for Columbia College in New York City—which helped get him admitted in 1903 despite mediocre grades.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The deck was too hot to lie upon, and poisonous vapors, oozing through the seams, crept like evil spirits over the ship, stealing into the nostrils and windpipes of the unwary and causing fits of sneezing and coughing.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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He has performed about 10 implantations using donor windpipes since then, he says.
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Otherwise Neapolitans were eating chicken heads, the windpipes of calves and even, it was rumoured, cats.
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Last night, lions had brought down a bull by the water, and the screaming before the windpipes gave way had been extraordinary.
The Laugh T 2009
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After three years of what amounted to prep school at Niagara, Father Egan convinced Donovan that the legal profession might be his calling he certainly had the windpipes for the courtroom and wrote him a glowing recommendation for Columbia College in New York City—which helped get him admitted in 1903 despite mediocre grades.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Its drawers contain more than 2,000 objects that were accidentally swallowed and then retrieved by a master surgeon from the windpipes and gastrointestinal tracts of his patients.
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Last night, lions had brought down a bull by the water, and the screaming before the windpipes gave way had been extraordinary.
The Laugh T 2009
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Last night, lions had brought down a bull by the water, and the screaming before the windpipes gave way had been extraordinary.
The Laugh T 2009
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