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  • He comes off about 20 seconds later - his skate's broken, so I made him go out there with a broken skate, unfortunately, but I just wanted him to maybe have a chance to score a hat trick in one shift. ''

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Trying to be light, I joked with the dentist's receptionist through my swollen jaw that I considered pulling a “Tom Hanks” move — his bit from Cast Away where while suffering with a badly infected tooth, he removes it brutally with a blow from an ice skate's blade edge.

    Pain: Pt. 2 2008

  • Having eaten "skate's wing" in a Cornish restaurant, I can confirm that that their bones are relatively soft.

    Things inside a skate egg case AYDIN 2007

  • And there is ample precedent for a clean skate's like Sale and Pelletier's last week losing to a slightly flawed one.

    Our Sport Has Gangrene 2007

  • Two eyes staring up at him like a child's, like a person's, but brown and pupil-less, and a mouth that could not be a skate's or ray's, even though the fleshy wings were rippling against the sand just as a skate's or ray's would, one whose spine was locked in the head of a spear and hurting terribly.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Suppose you had the utility-and-nothing-but-business bug biting you, like that skate's got?

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • "Well" -- again Merton faltered -- "the old skate's tired out from a hard week, and I'm not feeling any too lively myself."

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • After this Tobias advanced, embraced his father, and then rubbed his eyes with the skate's liver.

    My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884

  • I felt rather sick, for I was holding in my hand a skate's liver and the heart and gizzard of a fowl.

    My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt 1884

  • It is evident that these facts also point to the skate's organ being in course of phylogenetic evolution.

    Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871

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