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- noun Plural form of
tow .
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Examples
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Millions of Americans struggling for their basic needs are relying on food bonds, standing in tows for hours.
Adult Illiteracy In The U.S. « Illiteracy Videos « Videos « Literacy News 2009
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They were ascending the current, and pushing their "tows" of two, four, and six long, wide coal-barges fastened in pairs in front of them.
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a company which gathered them up into "tows," and with powerful steamers dragged them down the river until the sorting grounds were reached, where they were turned into the "booms" to await their time for execution -- in other words, their sawing up.
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The play tows the line between autobiography and documentary theater.
Charity Tooze: A Play About Iraqi Refugees Strives to Inspire Action Charity Tooze 2010
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Though most of his towing is done with a small boat, he occasionally tows bigger loads.
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The painting shows the great ship on the Thames, still beautiful though by then too rotten even for her ignominious last service as a "hulk" floating prison, silhouetted against the sunset, as a dirty little steam tug boat tows her to a yard to be broken up for scrap.
Trafalgar account is rare voice from below decks Maev Kennedy 2010
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Mr. Bost also does tow surfing, a similar sport that entails standing on a surfboard while a jet ski tows the rider into two- to five-foot waves.
Work Out Hard Monday to Play Harder Saturday Jen Murphy 2011
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The play tows the line between autobiography and documentary theater.
Charity Tooze: A Play About Iraqi Refugees Strives to Inspire Action Charity Tooze 2010
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We would have paid CAA over $1000 over the 13 years, instead, we paid a couple hundred or so for a couple tows and, a tire change, and I think once you locked your keys in your car.
Tyler's secret shame revealed Tyler 2009
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Not for the rock polishers the simple goal of flying high once the winch, inside a Land Rover-drawn horse box, that tows their graceful-looking gliders 300ft into the sky from the top of Latrigg has finally released them to wander the heavens at will.
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