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- noun Plural form of
uvula .
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Examples
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Our uvulas and dental work are on display for all to see.
Susanne Mentzer: Opera Up Close and Personal... or Not Susanne Mentzer 2011
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Our uvulas and dental work are on display for all to see.
Susanne Mentzer: Opera Up Close and Personal... or Not Susanne Mentzer 2011
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Our uvulas and dental work are on display for all to see.
Susanne Mentzer: Opera Up Close and Personal... or Not Susanne Mentzer 2011
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We have two children, both of whom have antecedents, as well as dangling participles—sort of like uvulas.
How to Snore in French Con Chapman 2011
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Our uvulas and dental work are on display for all to see.
Susanne Mentzer: Opera Up Close and Personal... or Not Susanne Mentzer 2011
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Our uvulas and dental work are on display for all to see.
Susanne Mentzer: Opera Up Close and Personal... or Not Susanne Mentzer 2011
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Our uvulas and dental work are on display for all to see.
Susanne Mentzer: Opera Up Close and Personal... or Not Susanne Mentzer 2011
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From such trifles as uvulas and tonsils they went on to ovaries and appendices until at last no one's inside was safe.
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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The father used to snip off the ends of people's uvulas for fifty guineas, and paint throats with caustic every day for a year at two guineas a time.
The Doctor's Dilemma George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Tonsils, vermiform appendices, uvulas, even ovaries are sacrificed because it is the fashion to get them cut out, and because the operations are highly profitable.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903
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