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duds example sentences
duds
1. Yesterday, at 2:00 am, I woke up with extra loud folk music in my ears! The duds across the street were having fun once again, right at that time, so I decided to call the police at once
2. Another hour later I disappointedly drove my mate home thinking I'd been sold duds
3. After designing more than fifty planes, some big, some small, some duds and some real masterpieces; the fact was that you really couldn’t compete with nine-year old Chinese kids making, ‘almost ready to fly,’ planes for less money
4. He mugged a bus boys duds off a rack
5. She had said if they muzzled him in the classroom, he should borrow some duds from the cache of costumes and set himself up
6. You and I also know plenty of senior officers, even of general or admiral rank, with decades of service time, who have proved to be duds in this war
7. Hell, some of those duds are still in the chain of command above us!’’
8. Vandegrift didn’t have to mention the said duds by name, as Geiger knew who he was thinking about
9. The succession of humiliating naval defeats at the hands of the Japanese around Guadalcanal had also revealed quite a few more duds in command at sea, while Vandegrift had on his part to get rid of a few duds in his division at the start of the campaign
10. bullets were duds? Unless of course there was something
11. Making a fashion statement became a matter of what color plastique looked best with one’s funeral duds
12. I always found it funny that actors star in some of the best movies ever and then suddenly string together complete duds for five years straight
13. He'd never change duds otherwise, she thought ruefully
14. But even if he had nothing in his hand but duds, he could still finish the game with dignity
15. The king's duds was all black, and he did look real swell and starchy
16. Many manufacturers cut corners, with the result that huge numbers of duds or – worse – shells blew up inside the gun
17. Here it is: "Ohe, Titi, oheee! Here comes the bobby, here comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with you!"
18. "Carry those duds away
19. While carrying Marius' "duds" precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper penned by the colonel
20. ' Oh! how I hate them, and with what joy, jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, preachy, preachy, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink it up, and that we are drunkards and idlers! And they! What are they, then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast—"
21. "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old ninny! Ah! so you don't recognize me! No, it wasn't you who came to Montfermeil, to my inn, eight years ago, on Christmas eve, 1823! It wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his mania to carry packets of woollen stockings into houses! Old charity monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You give away your stock in trade to the poor, holy man! What bosh! merry Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here
22. Mona came charging out of the bedroom clothed in last night's white duds, page in hand
23. I scratched out the duds and gleefully whittled my list to a tidy group of 20 stocks
