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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of skewer.

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Examples

  • The French officer's sword skewered past Sharpe's swerve and a Marine, instinctively seizing the blade, screamed as Briquet withdrew and cut the Marine's fingers to the joints.

    Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

  • Another favorite is grilled seafood such as skewered spicy shrimp with adobe sauce or mussels and lime leaves cooked with - more beer.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Another favorite is grilled seafood such as skewered spicy shrimp with adobe sauce or mussels and lime leaves cooked with - more beer.

    A Week of Grilling And Beer - Day 5 2008

  • We can only hope that the vice president will be given the chance to testify about this before a grand jury, after the election, when the Democrats take Congress as the kind of skewered logic that condones torture by linguistic sleight of hand is impeachable, in the best sense of the word.

    "a little silly" 2006

  • Arguably, the larger question is what kind of skewered logic finds value in a preemptive military action that comes about from leadership that demonstrates no knowledge whatsoever of what the word "proactive" means.

    "Consider the Mindset" 2006

  • Patterson, however, did quote me though when I "skewered" the Buisiness Journal of Phoenix for this same attitude in this year's CD 7 race.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Please share with me a recipe for any kind of skewered meat or kebabs.

    WN.com - Articles related to Spinach: The Superfood for Your Eyes 2010

  • This kind of skewered presentation reminds me of an objection that Rabbi Samuel Dresner raised to certain stories and novels by Isaac Bashevis Singer which suggested that East European Jewry was not the paradigm of morality that many of our grandparents remembered it as being.

    unknown title 2009

  • It presupposes that they just can't help it and that being black means having some kind of skewered morality.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Princesses Diana, Margret's relations soured after 1995 interview 'skewered' Charles

    dailyindia.com News Feed 2009

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