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Examples
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The round pins of the Thermomix power cord went into that plug's female end.
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The plug's wild wobble runs nodeeper than a foot, which means it easily skims the top of barely submergedweedbeds.
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The plug's prongs disassociated themselves from the plug.
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Because of the plug's wedge shape, he knew that pushing on it would only jam it more tightly into its socket.
Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993
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The plug's outer coating is the same composition as on the rest of the casing.
The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven
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The pressure scraped the plug's surface, but remain fast.
The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven
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This plug's a seven-year-old, and he couldn't do seven furlongs in seven weeks.
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Now my eyesight's strong enough to see through a two-foot hole after the plug's out, and I can see that you and 'Bije's children won't shed tears if I say no to that will.
Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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But when automotive engineers consider the subject, they're thinking in terms of replacing the spark plug altogether, finding alternative ways of performing the spark plug's function and doing it better.
Thestar.com - Home Page Gerry Malloy 2011
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The spark plug's role, as it's name implies, is to generate a spark to ignite the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber of an engine cylinder.
Thestar.com - Home Page Gerry Malloy 2011
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