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1. breath breath


Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Karl Lange's record breaking long jump took the crowd's breath away.
Possible side effects include blurred vision and shortness of breath.
You can save your breath. There is no use talking to him.
To our great surprise, she held her breath for three minutes.
fresh breath
In this harsh, petty world where money does the talking, his way of life is like a breath of fresh air.
Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.
I would maintain with my last breath that he is innocent.
The students laughed under their breath when they saw that the teacher had put on his sweater backwards.
My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use.
The excited woman tried to explain the accident all in one breath.
If you have bad breath it may mean that you have stomach problems. / Remember to take a few deep breaths before you enter the examination room.
breathing space
Breath through the bag.

2. control control


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control panel
When the flight crew has their aircraft under control, everything is working normally and yet it still crashes into the ground, that's CFIT.
As much as 90 percent of happiness comes from elements such as attitude, life control and relationships.
Herbal supplements sold in drugstores have poor quality control and high content variability.
During prohibition days, racketeers used to rub each other out to get control of the rum-running racket.
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
A device implanted in the spinal cord, dubbed the Orgasmotron, allows female patients to experience orgasm with the flick of a remote control.
Water law is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
Definition a control group is a set of people in an experiment who do not receive the medicine that is being tested, so that researchers can compare what happens to them with what happens to the people who do try the new medicine
If you have a positive attitude, you are looking for ways to solve the problems that you can solve, and you are letting go of the things over which you have no control.
Effective use of disinfectant is an important subject in relation to infection control in hospitals.
To control a class calls for all your skills as a teacher.

3. hand hand


Raise your hand.
I got this information second hand, so I may be wrong.
In order to make a phone call, I put my hand in my pocket and searched for a coin.
Give me a hand. If you do, I'll buy you a drink later.
I think it's better not to lend him a hand.
All students of English should have a good English-English dictionary at hand.
If our neighbors around the world are in need, let's lend a helping hand.
Off hand, I'd say her problem is shyness.
The rescue workers are going to hand out supplies to the victims of the earthquake.
There are two kinds of work in the world--head work and hand work; mental and manual.
A flush is a poker hand where all five cards are of the same suit.
Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?
In addition to taking the regular tests, we have to hand in a long essay.
You'll see the bank on the left hand side of the hospital.
I'll get in touch with Tom by telephone tomorrow and ask him to give us a hand.

4. order order


Check your order.
His claim is that there is a close relation between birth order and personality.
Let's order the all-you-can-eat special.
No matter what you do, you must follow the correct order.
Sir, that CD is available only by special order.
If your prices are competitive, we will place a large order.
Prosecutors in court have to substantiate their claims in order to prove a suspect is guilty.
In order to make a phone call, I put my hand in my pocket and searched for a coin.
We will ship the product immediately after receiving your order.
Her sewing basket, dresser drawers and pantry shelves are all systematically arranged in apple-pie order.
They confirmed the importance of strengthening global precautions in order to prevent devastating losses.
Your initial order is subject to a special discount of 5%.
In preparation for painting a portrait, my friend takes many photographs in order to study the subject closely.
In order to get some information about Japanese economic problems, you'll find this book very useful.
After decades of civil war, order was restored.

5. reach reach


I can't reach it.
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach out for the ballot.
At this rate, even independent film will never reach a true understanding of romance and relationships, so to hell with the movies, let's have dinner.
Today, through radio and television, mass advertising can reach millions of people at a time with its messages.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I have an itch right in the middle of my back and I can't reach it. Arrgghh!
They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with.
The departmental heads, lost in petty argument, could not reach a cohesive decision.
There is no act which Christianity forbids, that the law will not reach: if it were otherwise, Christianity would not be, as it has always been held to be, part of the law of England.
If every user added twenty a day to Tatoeba, it might be possible to reach one million sentences by Christmas.
What Alice, waiting for a reply, was faced with was a sudden howl. It was a resounding noise, sharp as to burst her ear drums, loud as to reach unto the heavens.
Skirts this year reach a few centimeters above the knees.
After John became manager, he told me he would never have expected to reach such a high position.
A math teacher says, "With a calculator, the child can reach the right answer, but have no idea at all how he got there."
From the corridor, you can reach the living room, the kitchen, and the toilet, or you can take the stairs upstairs, where the bedrooms and the bathroom are.

6. sight


Land came in sight.
Is there any end in sight to the deepening economic crisis?
Men in kimonos are no longer a common sight in Tokyo.
Sight is one of the five senses.
It must have been a frightening sight for them to watch.
As we went around the corner, the lake came in sight.
A magnificent sight presented itself before us.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
The sight was too miserable to look at.
Gentlemen, at the beginning of this century, France was for all nations a magnificent sight.
To his surprise, she was nowhere in sight, and he wondered if she had returned home alone.
The sight memory organ is below the hypothalamus.
I took care to make the letters large and be generous with character and line spacing in order for it to be easy to read for the elderly and those who have problems with their sight.
You'll have to pay a damn sight more than that for it.

7. stock


Please ask the secretary to stock the office supplies in the storage room.
Stock investments do not always yield profit.
stock exchange
If you gamble on the stock market, you are an investor... If you gamble on the derivatives market, you are a trader... If you gamble at the casino, you are a loser... Morality?
Stock prices soared in active trading as corporations announced good financial results.
I polished for all I was worth. The trouble is that my stock of low-grade gems was surprisingly low.
An inexperienced stock speculator could easily let his business go to pot and lose his entire fortune.
According to informed sources, ____ Ltd. is preparing for the move up to the first section of the Tokyo Stock exchange.
Limited stocks – offer closes on March 31st!
Definition the stock of a shop or company is the amount of goods it has that are available and ready to be sold or sent out to customers
Because the store is so small, he has to wear many different hats, from accountant to stock boy.
This shop sells its old stock at a very low prices. We'll be getting our new stock in on Friday. The new edition is in/out of stock (= available/not available) in major bookshops.
A reserve of money or goods are money or goods held back in stock often for an emergency.
The first one concerns the problem of cereal prices and intervention stocks.
stock = an amount of something that you keep so that you can use it when you need it

8. use


He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.
I use Firefox.
Even though computer programmers may use semicolons every day, nowadays most people only use semicolons for emoticons.
In all likelihood, you will pass the entrance exam if you use this textbook.
Time is a precious thing, so we should make the best use of it.
Recently there are a lot of young people who don't use respectful language to their superiors.
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.
If it's badly insulated, it won't warm up regardless of how much heating you use.
That knife was so blunt I couldn't use it to cut the meat so I had to rely on my pocket knife.
In the end, because of the disease, he became unable to walk and had to use a motorized wheelchair to get around.
The USSR will only use air strikes in the country as a last resort.
It is illegal in the United States for law enforcement to use torture to get information.
I used to use Twitter, but then found it a bit boring, so I stopped using it.
Instead of using disposable chopsticks, it's better to use plastic chopsticks that you can wash.
Even at the end of the nineteenth century, sailors in the British Navy were not permitted to use knives and forks because using them was considered a sign of weakness.

9. into


You'll get into trouble.
This time I hadn't converted my money yet, so I needed to change Yen into Yuan.
A freezing beggar was brought into the hospital for treatment. However, he didn't have even one cent with which to settle the bill.
Kyowa Bank and Saitama Bank merged into Asahi Bank ten years ago.
I'm so embarrassed I could dig a hole and crawl into it.
The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.
Freud's insights into human behavior led to him being honored as a profound thinker.
Tom hasn't yet heard anything definite about whether he got into Harvard or not.
Make a good translation of the sentence that you are translating. Don't let translations into other languages influence you.
One day this caterpillar will turn into a beautiful butterfly.
What do you think you're doing letting the loyalists into the castle?
Last night Mizuki, very drunk, fell into the water while walking along the lakeside.
He had heard that war had started, but it didn't sink in for a long time until his father was drafted into the army.
The Tatoeba Project, which can be found online at tatoeba.org, is working on creating a large database of example sentences translated into many languages.
All at once, the Buddhist priest burst into laughter, spoiling the solemn atmosphere.

10. from the inside to the outside of something



11. talk


Don't talk!
Cats are like girls. If they talk to you it's great, but if you try to talk to them, it doesn't go so well.
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Many things are easy to talk about, but difficult to actually carry out.
He needs a few jokes to lighten up his talk.
He expected that their talk was going to be long.
Talk like that will raise suspicion.
Talk about the weather, the food at the party or your favorite drink.
He's shy, and never speaks unless spoken to. You have to talk to him.
The talk between labor and management yielded no definite results.
Tom and Mary always talk about the same old things. It gets kind of boring.
You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you'll never convince me.
If you heard him talk, you would suppose he was the master of the house.
She doesn't talk much, but once she does speak she is eloquent.
Can you take notes for me during the professor's talk?

12. pull


After it rains and the ground is damp, it's easier to pull weeds.
Horses used to pull road-rollers, but the steamroller arrived with the invention of the steam engine.
Don't pull.
The operation was really touch and go there for awhile but the doctor thinks he'll pull through.
If we all pull together we should be able to get the country out of the mess it's in.
Traditionally on April 1st, people pull pranks on each other.
If I get a good mark, I can pull off an A in biology.
Since the favorite and his rival were running against each other a dark horse like him was able to pull out in front.
From time to time, a proposal to pull down a much-loved old building to make room for a new block of flats, raises a storm of angry protest.
Look, if push comes to shove I have no doubt she'll pull rank on you to get her way.
About the wedding ... It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be the main attraction, so instead of doing it on a shoestring, why not pull out all the stops and make a great show of it?
How did you pull off that agreement?
leaning back against the pull; the pull of the moon; the pull of the current
He looks like James Dean, no wonder he pulls all the ladies.