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BB guns poised, we'd spend the afternoon shooting at the cans from the trailer deck where my grandparents 'singlewide was set in cement.
Jules 2009
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A couple of those passes, my feet felt like they were in cement. ''
USATODAY.com 2007
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We must all try as the ‘lifetime’ job will set the jerk in cement.
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But the concurrent championship series promised to bury those memories like a mobster in cement.
USATODAY.com - Devils-Nets home doesn't look like the home of champions 2003
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I came to the sidelines after the first timeout and my legs were shot, it felt like I was running in cement.
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~ When limestone to which clay and sand have been added in certain proportions is burned until it is partly fused (some natural marl is already of about the right composition), and the clinker so produced is ground to powder, the product is called cement.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson
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Outside the dentine of the root is a substance closely resembling bone, called cement.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The mortar began to fall out of the walls, and it became necessary to case the shelters in cement.
As I Please 1944
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Free Gaza Group spokeswoman Greta Berlin said Thursday that 36 people would make the June 25 trip from Cyprus to Gaza on a fishing boat and a small ferry loaded with building supplies such as cement.
I Sent a Message to the President about My Trip to Gaza . . . 2009
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Water-based, or latex, paint can be recycled into new paint or it can even be used to create nonpaint products such as cement.
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