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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sneeze .
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Examples
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Palin sneezed real hard one morning, and the deed was done.
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"What's the matter?" then he sneezed, which is what people sometimes do when all of a sudden they look up and the sun gets into their eyes, which it did in Dragonfly's eyes right that second.
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek Paul Hutchens
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K&G note that this theory provides an explanation for certain novel uses of verbs, such as "sneezed" in the following sentence:
I Typoed a Whole Post for the Language Log Chris 2005
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Hilarity ensued when Thomas Bills of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History "sneezed" droplets of water from a spray bottle onto the third-grade class of Midview Elementary teacher Andrea Richardson.
Chronicle-Telegram 2008
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Just yesterday I was walking down 6th Avenue at 1 p.m. when I sneezed.
Giulia Rozzi: A Cure For Cat-Calling? Giulia Rozzi 2010
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Just yesterday I was walking down 6th Avenue at 1 p.m. when I sneezed.
Giulia Rozzi: A Cure For Cat-Calling? Giulia Rozzi 2010
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He sneezed, a blast of air that shot through the proboscis, inflated the mosquito, and popped it.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns had discussed the idea but it was catalyzed when someone sneezed on the set of The Informant!
Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Infected by Steven Soderbergh’s CONTAGION – Collider.com 2010
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Lucy—I had called her Pepper because I sneezed if I was around her for any length of time—had had a rare blood disorder, a disease doctors gave up on soon as they made the diagnosis.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Just yesterday I was walking down 6th Avenue at 1 p.m. when I sneezed.
Giulia Rozzi: A Cure For Cat-Calling? Giulia Rozzi 2010
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