Use "finishing touch" in a sentence

1. Although science has yet to put the finishing touches on the studies

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2. The finishing touches were put on the cave, and after checking everything, Kate pronounced it finished

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3. Two young men came to investigate and even through my apologies they insisted I join their little group for a drink to celebrate the finishing touches to their new sandwich and wine bar

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4. It is more difficult than I anticipated but I achieve it and by the time Berndt knocks on my cabin door, I have the words firmly in my mind and am just putting the finishing touches to my appearance

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5. busier than ever, in putting the finishing touches to my plan, and,

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6. though God will put the finishing touch at the end of

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7. On Tuesday we were putting the finishing touches to my routine, just when I thought the routine was sexy; the costumes were worse

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8. I climbed out of the car and waved him off, somehow I was glad to have time to put the finishing touches on his present

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9. nightfall had put the finishing touches on the $2

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10. The rest of the Volunteers were placing the finishing touches on a buffet that could feed two hundred elves

11. Roger Cook was putting the finishing touches to the announcement when Nick entered, barely able to hold his temper

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12. Kim made the Minister give him the fullest details as to how Hu Lyang intended to blow up the diving bells and how he had intended to “dress” the scene with the “Sasol” Overalls-clad bodies of the Kanes and the Russian and the final finishing touch of the “Sasol” Logo-bearing buoys

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13. She worked all morning and by lunchtime was just putting the finishing touches to the canvas

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14. Anna returned to her canvas to put the last finishing touches to it and as soon as it was dry she would wrap this up for William

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15. The finishing touch was to cook, accomplishing the cooking task was challenging, especially for two men who couldn’t even make a cup of tea without getting it disappointingly wrong

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16. The finishing touch to the meal was an amazing amaretto chocolate mousse cake

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17. A shrieker bird puts the finishing touches to her nest

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18. Now those finishing touches that make

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19. bedroom down the hall, or the finishing touches she wanted

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20. we decided that we would put the finishing touches to our plan for Scrattymatty

21. had put the finishing touches to his article, he said

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22. Close by Sue Hyde was putting the finishing touches to a Waldorf salad and she laughingly flirted with the occasion

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23. “John has put the finishing touches on that one

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24. An army of flying and rolling machines then surrounded the newly placed structure to start some kind of finishing touches, while the giant steel spider let go its grip and flew away towards the West, disappearing from sight after a minute or so

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25. She put on a nice but rather inexpensive set of silver jewels as a finishing touch and buckled a wide, decorated belt supporting a purse before walking out of her apartment

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26. Using a hidden staircase at the back of the ballroom, they climbed wooden stairs to the attic level, which proved a lot more cramped than the upper floor and which finishing touches had visibly been neglected, with many roof structures left uncovered

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27. As she was putting the finishing touches on her script, her cell phone chirped

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28. “Now that the pasture is ready, do you think you can put those last finishing touches on the barn we talked about – before next weekend?”

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29. Sergei Volkov had just started his full-time work at the University, but was still able to spend some time, as a consultant, helping Robin to put the finishing touches to their new computer programme

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30. By the time we get back, Rupert and Grudge should have managed to put the finishing touches to our presentation about the new encrypted operating system, so we can start to launch that

31. About a month later, as I was putting the finishing touches on this book, I had another unsettling dream

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32. her put the finishing touches on our dresses

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33. With a sense that time was drawing to an end, he again looked up at the clock and realised that he did not have long left to make the two flavoured sprays, which would be the finishing touch for his creation

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34. All four successfully unmolded, Charlie's attention now turned to the finishing touch—the spraying

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35. The afternoon slowly morphed into evening, and Charlie had just added the finishing touches to his creation

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36. Apart from the cream cheese, all the other ingredients had arrived, menu boards eloquently written by his mother and the finishing touches to his branding sorted

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37. There were only a few finishing touches left now

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38. By the evening time, everyone was in a happy mood, trying to put a finishing touch to one thing or the other, in order to avoid being outside at the hour of Igbala's return

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39. ” Kathy laughingly exclaimed in unison with Henri, and then added - “Although I have to say the postscript Charley wrote was the finishing touch - Remember Henri?”

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40. He walks forward towards the bulkhead of the ship where the crew is putting the finishing touches on strapping down the cargo

41. More guests arrived in a steady flow and Veronique put the finishing touches on her gown and waited patiently

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42. “ Now for the finishing touch

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43. The finishing touch to the outfit was a pair of black satin shoes, trimmed with copper rosette beading

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44. The finishing touches were red kid shoes and a red feathered mask for disguise

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45. With a 24-hour turn-around time, the new set of dentures would be the finishing touch to the team’s masterpiece, the new ‘queen of the street,’ Mrs

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46. The landlord, deft and noiseless, was giving a finishing touch of roses and fruit and candles to the supper table

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47. He was just putting the finishing touches on the room Stacey had rented

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48. Naturally I guessed from my previous experiences with that gentleman that he would most likely be found at his laboratory, and I did not worry, but put the finishing touches on a special article for the Star which I had promised for that day and had already nearly completed

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49. Half an hour before the appointed time, however, we arrived at the laboratory in Carton's car, to find Kennedy already there, putting the finishing touches on the preparations he was making to receive his "guests

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50. Teller turned away and looked out over the small bay where labourers were putting the finishing touches to a needle thin jetty jutting out from the shore

51. The jewelry, hair clips and nails were the perfect finishing touches to complete the picture that was me

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52. It was much later after Bob’s death that Mark put the finishing touches to his book

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53. brushing before I gave it the finishing touches

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54. "They're here," Claire breathed, and as if the scene were a movie, the four girls crashed into each other as they furiously tried to apply last-minute make-up and finishing touches

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55. hands flashed as she put the finishing touches on Car-

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56. wanted to add a few finishing touches

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57. Just a few finishing touches here and there, and then you will

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58. A few women sat on logs adding finishing touches to leather war-suits

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59. They had already begun training new employees, and she worked fourteen-, sometimes sixteen-hour days putting the finishing touches on the hotel, and tracking all of the contractors as they installed equipment and making sure it worked

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60. They left him to sleep, and came out to the gate of the inn to console Sancho Panza on not having found the head of the giant; but much more work had they to appease the landlord, who was furious at the sudden death of his wine-skins; and said the landlady half scolding, half crying, "At an evil moment and in an unlucky hour he came into my house, this knight-errant--would that I had never set eyes on him, for dear he has cost me; the last time he went off with the overnight score against him for supper, bed, straw, and barley, for himself and his squire and a hack and an ass, saying he was a knight adventurer--God send unlucky adventures to him and all the adventurers in the world--and therefore not bound to pay anything, for it was so settled by the knight-errantry tariff: and then, all because of him, came the other gentleman and carried off my tail, and gives it back more than two cuartillos the worse, all stripped of its hair, so that it is no use for my husband's purpose; and then, for a finishing touch to all, to burst my wine-skins and spill my wine! I wish I saw his own blood spilt! But let him not deceive himself, for, by the bones of my father and the shade of my mother, they shall pay me down every quarts; or my name is not what it is, and I am not my father's daughter

61. Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put the finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding

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62. The duke, the duchess, and all in the garden were listening to the conversation of the two heroes, and were beyond measure amused by it; and now, desirous of putting a finishing touch to this rare and

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63. imagination, will, I believe, find gratification, in contemplating sketches, which were designed in a short time to have received the finishing touches of her

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64. He put the finishing touches on the paper as the children

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65. `I see you're putting the finishing touches on at last,' he said

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66. `You can't help makin' a little mess on a job of this kind, you know,' remarked Bundy, as he was giving the finishing touches to the work, making good the broken parts of the wall with cement, whilst his mate was clearing away the debris

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67. Vronsky’s mother, on hearing of his connection, was at first pleased at it, because nothing to her mind gave such a finishing touch to a brilliant young man as a liaison in the highest society; she was pleased, too, that Madame Karenina, who had so taken her fancy, and had talked so much of her son, was, after all, just like all other pretty and well-bred women,—at least according to the Countess

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68. Everything had been prepared for days before, and only the finishing touches were needed

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69. He listened intently while Steve Nieve put the finishing touches on his organ part and then huddled in the control room with Bruce Thomas for an hour until they had completely redubbed the bass part

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70. Bilbo had done what he could to close holes in the sides of the barrels, and to fix on all the lids as safely as could be managed, and now he was left alone again, running round putting the finishing touches-to the packing, and hoping against hope that his plan would come off

71. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the disaster

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72. They left that rag where it hung; they did not put the finishing touch to it

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73. His boots were laid out on a Willie had scraped the potatoes, chopped up carrots and turnips, buttered a few slices of oddly giving a finishing touch to them when Tom walked in

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74. He had just settled in his mind what sort of palace he would have and how many cars and all about his private cinema and where the principal railways would run and what laws he would make against beavers and dams and was putting the finishing touches to some schemes for keeping Peter in his place, when the weather changed

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75. Vronsky's mother, on hearing of his connection, was at first pleased at it, because nothing to her mind gave such a finishing touch to a brilliant young man as a liaison in the highest society; she was pleased, too, that Madame Karenina, who had so taken her fancy, and had talked so much of her son, was, after all, just like all other pretty and well-bred women,—at least according to the Countess Vronskaya's ideas

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76. But at this point another almost incredible scene of grotesque buffoonery gave the finishing touch to the episode

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77. I was only seeking further information, to put the finishing touch

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78. He took to walking softly, starting and listening, and to put the finishing touch to his new characteristics developed a passion for investigating the truth

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79. This circumstance put the finishing touch to Volodya's composure and encouraged him finally

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80. I was just putting the finishing touches to this two years' work when, on the 9th day of September,[23] I had occasion to go by rail to visit districts in the governments of Tula and Ryazan, where certain peasants were suffering from last year's famine, and others were enduring still greater suffering from the same causes this year

81. A wonderful fan of feathers to match the down edging gave the finishing touch

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