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That's putting it mildly.
If you spend too much time in the sun without putting on sunscreen, you are likely to get a sunburn.
Putting his trust in God and taking the bull by the horns, the Christian gladiator defeated many adversaries.
John and Cathy have different tastes and different characters. Trying to get them together is like putting a square peg in a round hole.
Japanese seem to prefer picking a marriage partner as much like themselves as possible, finding a job that provides security and slow but steady advancement, and putting money in the bank.
There may be microscopes involved, bringing us ever closer to the heart of the matter; but even microbiology is objective, adding to knowledge by putting space between an object and its observer.
Since many organizations are putting effort into recycling in order to restore the natural environment, why won't you contribute to reforestation?
Instead of putting the car into gear, she put it into reverse, causing a great deal of damage to the store-front.
I gave it a try figuring that anything is worth a try. But putting together a program like this is something I'm no match for.
I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.
You kept putting off working on the fine details on this project so it ended up lacking the finishing touches.
I glared briefly in the referee's direction but he was putting on a calm face while picking his nose. "Dammit, the fight's a fixup!?"
Yes, that's me, said Al-Sayib. "But there's at least one of us in every country. And we all like Fanta, as well as putting noobs in their place."
In his essay "Esperanto: European or Asiatic language" Claude Piron has shown the similarities between Esperanto and Chinese, thereby putting to rest the notion that Esperanto is purely eurocentric.