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- noun Plural form of
inset .
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Examples
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The larger image to the right of the insets is the galaxy M74, as seen by Spitzer's
Image Gallery 2010
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The crate was big and comfortable, bedded down with soft sacking and with "insets" at either side containing food and water.
Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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No one can justly blame him, though any one may most justly refrain from praising, from the general point of view, as regards the "insets" of Miss Williams's story in _Roderick_ and of that of Lady Vane here.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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Mrs. Winters presents herself at the heavenly gate and there is asked what she has done to make the world better, and when she has to confess that she has never done anything outside of her own house, and nothing there except agreeable things, such as entertaining friends who next week will entertain her, and embroidering 'insets' for corset-covers for dainty ladies who already have corset-covers enough to fill a store-window, -- I wonder if she will be able to put it over on the heavenly doorkeeper that 'the Doctor would not let her.'
The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Nellie L. McClung 1912
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"insets" are sometimes mere pornography, and the whole thing is evidently scribbled at a gallop -- it was actually a few days 'work, to get money, from some French Curll or Drybutter, to give (the appropriateness of the thing at least is humorous) to the mistress of the moment, a Madame de Puisieux, [375] who, if she was like Crébillon's heroines in morals, cannot have been like the best of them in manners.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Lace insets, like hearts or shapes that you want to use as appliques, also work okay.
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-- For what it's worth, Ollie Queen and Dinah Lance also appear with Roy and Hal in the insets.
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The faintest objects, circled in yellow in the insets on the left-hand side, represent galaxies as they appeared about 13 billion years ago.
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Paul Newman and Steve McQueen ham it up in the insets of The Towering Inferno.
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Both his eyes were perfect circles, white plastic insets that could see in the dark and look through walls.
365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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