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  • noun Plural form of lining.

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Examples

  • I was reminded of my fist home - swags & tails were very "in" and I made mine from peach curtain linings and a staple gun.

    A Plain House - Inside Windows 2008

  • Excellent post, David, It has indeed been a brutal year for critics, but one of the silver linings is sites such as yours, which rope together the disparate commmunity of film writers and film enthusiasts.

    GreenCine Daily: Random bullet-point-fire. 2006. 2006

  • There is also danger of a hotbed getting too cold instead of being too hot, and, when this is the case, the heat should be renewed by the application of dung linings, that is, a quantity of fresh stable manure round the outside of the bed.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • If you are looking for silver linings, that is about as big as you are going to find in this report.

    unknown title 2011

  • "Also, the neck joints are no longer fitting together the way they are meant to so that even common daily activities cause irritation and a wearing away of the joint linings, which is the beginning of arthritis," she adds.

    WBAY Action 2 News 2009

  • On the contrary, should the heat fail from any cause, beds built up on the surface possess the advantage of being more easily renewed by the application of fresh fermenting materials, or "linings" as they are usually termed.

    Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings 1867

  • At the same time, about a third of the couples surveyed said the recession had prompted them to work harder on saving their marriage - a finding that the report's author described as one of two "silver linings" to the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

    Study shows recession has weighed heavily on American marriages Annys Shin 2011

  • At the same time, about a third of the couples surveyed said the recession had prompted them to work harder on saving their marriage - a finding that the report's author described as one of two "silver linings" to the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

    Study shows recession has weighed heavily on American marriages Annys Shin 2011

  • Canned foods are often contaminated with an estrogen-like chemical called BPA, or bisphenol A, used in plastics and linings of metal cans.

    Keeping her a kid as long as possible 2011

  • At the same time, about a third of the couples surveyed said the recession had prompted them to work harder on saving their marriage - a finding that the report's author described as one of two "silver linings" to the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

    Study shows recession has weighed heavily on American marriages Annys Shin 2011

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