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- noun Plural form of
foxtail .
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Examples
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Down and around the hump to Mandano and the razor wire marking the rez, through Tyree and Cochise into New Belfast by the Great Northern tracks, the roundhouse, the foxtails, the rutted roads involving sticky oil-partly dirt.
Rodeo Days James Robison 2011
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His head had slipped from the folded newspaper, and the straggling, unkempt hair was matted with the foxtails and burrs of the dry grass on which it lay.
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Down and around the hump to Mandano and the razor wire marking the rez, through Tyree and Cochise into New Belfast by the Great Northern tracks, the roundhouse, the foxtails, the rutted roads involving sticky oil-partly dirt.
Rodeo Days James Robison 2011
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I kept trying to pick foxtails off her dress, and the next thing I knew she had it raised up and we were flat on the ground balling again.
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She unlatched the creaking iron gate and waded through thigh-deep foxtails to the back porch.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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She unlatched the creaking iron gate and waded through thigh-deep foxtails to the back porch.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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He is a rough customer — hair matted with burrs and foxtails, several teeth missing, flies buzzing and lighting on him, remains of blood on his cheek bones, toil-distorted hands, alcohol breath.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008
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It was then that I found out that the pretty grasses I had admired waving in the breeze were really foxtails.
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It was then that I found out that the pretty grasses I had admired waving in the breeze were really foxtails.
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Now various HOckey Team studies drawing on substantially overlapping data bristlecones/foxtails, Yamal, etc have somewhat similar results, but there is precious little “additional data” in these studies – as Mann says, that would require going to “remote” sites with heavy equipment.
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