bench

• Yesterday I got an e-mail about the Clippers cutting two players at a time when their bench is almost threadbare, thanks to injury. —  BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs
• What matters for any nominee for the bench is her / his decision-making history, and that's what the high drama obfuscates. —  Political Animal
• For instance: a person standing on an insulated bench, that is, a bench with glass legs, or having the legs resting on glass, and having one hand on the conductor, can send sparks, with the other hand, to everything and everybody about. —  A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
• He spoke with consummate ability to the bench, and yet exactly as, according to every sound canon of taste and ethics, the bench ought to be addressed. —  The Art of Public Speaking
• Near a bench was a figure--the figure of a woman whose grace, he fancied, was familiar Her back was apparently turned as he drew near. —  A Husband by Proxy

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