slot in

• “The cylinder-shaped contraption was hinged in the middle and had a thick slot in the top.”

  Chainer's Torment

• “In plain, unembellished Hungarian, he describes his life as a young man, thwarted at every turn by the metastasizing virus of hate: turned down for university though he graduated with top honors from his Gymnasium, he was compelled to abandon his original plan to study law, and accepted a slot in what he considered the less desirable faculty of economics.”

  Simon & Schuster: Enemies of the People

• “I fed the floppy disk into the drive slot in the computer body and got no further than a single unhelpful word on the screen: PASSWORD?”

  Come To Grief

• “We seal the deal by adding a short hike of Little Wild Horse Canyon, a nontechnical slot in Goblin Valley, to the plan for tomorrow morning.”

  Simon & Schuster: 127 Hours

• “She flipped her sword up and dropped it, point-first, into the slot in the stone.”

  The Warslayer

• “He touched a slim remote and one of the wood-panelled garage doors silently lifted to allow the car to slot in beside a boat-trailer loaded with an inflatable rubber surf dinghy.”

  Mistress For A Weekend

• “She looked down at the sword-blade-shaped slot in the stone on the floor, and then at the sword in the air, and then at the one in her hand.”

  The Warslayer

• “In most other countries, drivers believe in offensive driving, which makes a novice American driver feel as if he is slipping into an unwanted slot in the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.”

  Simon & Schuster: MORE WEALTH WITHOUT RISK

• “Chrysler, convalescing under the care of Italy's Fiat , bested Toyota Motor to take the number three slot in terms of market share for the first time in years.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Detroit: Don't Sell on May and Go Away

• “The process may be just slightly easier than inserting a credit card into a slot in the pump, but streamliners appreciate even modest savings in time and energy.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE NEW MARKET LEADERS

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