Ways
[weɪz] or [wez]
Definition
(noun.) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
Checker: Stella--From WordNet
Examples
- Al-ways rusty! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Or even if I any ways should want a wink or two,' added Sloppy, after a moment's apologetic reflection, 'I could take 'em turning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They are all remarkably clever; and they have so many pretty ways. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Musical instruments maybe divided into three groups according to the different ways in which their tones are produced:-- _First. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This is only another effect of nature's distillery, and might be performed various ways. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I was quite helpless, and his ways with ladies were very endearing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He had had time to recollect all that he had read of the ways of men and women in the books at the cabin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Our family; our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They enter into action in ways which are unacknowledged. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If you know anything of the ways of young women, you won't be surprised to hear that Penelope wouldn't take it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The explanation of this is, that a string may vibrate in a number of different ways. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I should say so, but that I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I must learn new ways of helping people. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His silence appears to me to cut both ways. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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