Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birdlime
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Two adults were pronounced dead at the scene, and one young female passenger was trapped inside the vehicle, authorities said.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025 -
What Causes Smelly Feet? According to WebMD, the main cause of smelly feet is trapped sweat.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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Warner, one of the highest profile figures snared in a federal investigation of Americans using Swiss bank accounts to avoid U.S. taxes, had pleaded guilty to a single count of tax evasion.—
Michelle Chapman,
Hartford Courant,
20 July 2025
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In 2020, he was hurt while trying to snare a foul ball hit by slugger Shohei Ohtani.—
Chuck Murr,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Recent data released by Modern Health captures just how stark the reality is.—
Jennifer Jay Palumbo,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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But rather than capturing the madness of the era, Lee drowns in sub-Scorsese excess, confusing saying a lot of things bluntly with saying something meaningful.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
16 Aug. 2025
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These situations provide an ideal opportunity for evil doers to set up bogus charities to entrap unsuspecting people.—
Norman B. Gildin,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2025
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The second method for estimating water in the parent melt uses the melt entrapped in minerals of CE6 basalts.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 July 2025
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Now the G-men head down there to collar Massachusetts cops — sheriffs and crooked state troopers.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
10 Aug. 2025
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According to Kautz, panthers were routinely collared around the Everglades and elsewhere until budget cuts curtailed surveillance around 2018.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 Aug. 2025
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So, the owner and principal of Muskoka Living set out to craft a family oasis from the ground up—one that would seamlessly mesh refinement and comfort.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
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While there have been differences on strategy and scale, that simply perception never meshed with reality behind the scenes.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
31 July 2025
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Netflix's The Sandman has love stories that are tangled, tragic and anything but ordinary — a stark contrast to the cast's real-life romances.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
31 July 2025
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Indeed, the dogs didn't even reach the end of the porch before managing to wind up tangled and in need of help.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
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In the rush to understand the formation history of solar systems like ours, one big conundrum still ensnares this field of research.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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In the end, Rothstein—a master spider—was ensnared in a web even more ingenious than his own, woven, maddeningly, by lesser spiders.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Birdlime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birdlime. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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