Ruts
[rʌts]
Examples
- The wheels only pulled sideways against the ruts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But the phrase is also used to mean ruts, routine ways, with loss of freshness, open-mindedness, and originality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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