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- noun Plural form of
beeline . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
beeline .
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Examples
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Arriving late and empty-handed, America tracks motor oil across their carpet, beelines to the hosts' liquor cabinet, finds the most expensive, unopened vodka, and proceeds to swill it directly out of the bottle.
Cintra Wilson: C-Word 40: A Man Like America Cintra Wilson 2011
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Arriving late and empty-handed, America tracks motor oil across their carpet, beelines to the hosts' liquor cabinet, finds the most expensive, unopened vodka, and proceeds to swill it directly out of the bottle.
Cintra Wilson: C-Word 40: A Man Like America Cintra Wilson 2011
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When my Dad arrives home from work, he beelines for the backyard where his little boy impatiently awaits with multiple tennis balls in or near his mouth.
Millie Kerr: Child vs. Dog: One Couple's Canine Obsession Millie Kerr 2011
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When my Dad arrives home from work, he beelines for the backyard where his little boy impatiently awaits with multiple tennis balls in or near his mouth.
Millie Kerr: Child vs. Dog: One Couple's Canine Obsession Millie Kerr 2011
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New York Magazine checks in with Rahm: A fifty-something woman named Diane in a raincoat and rainbow-colored rims beelines toward Emanuel.
HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 4TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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When I take him inside he pushes away from me and beelines for his favorite toy or person (whichever gets into his line of sight first).
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No accident, that: When he choppers back to terra firma, he beelines for the New Orleans airport and, after changing planes in Houston, is in San Diego and then is riding the Pacific waves -- all in the same day.
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New York Magazine checks in with Rahm: A fifty-something woman named Diane in a raincoat and rainbow-colored rims beelines toward Emanuel.
HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 4TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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This can often lead to people making beelines to their grocery stores to stock up on candles and canned food items in order to prepare for a natural disaster that never comes.
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This can often lead to people making beelines to their grocery stores to stock up on candles and canned food items in order to prepare for a natural disaster that never comes.
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