skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "pair" in a sentence

    pair example sentences

    pair


    paired


    pairing


    pairs


    1. The first day he had ever met Kira, she had been wearing a pair of large clown trousers and a combat jacket, hair having been cropped off with scissors in a fit of self-protective misery after being the victim of yet another sexual assault


    2. In the den, there was a pair of rocking chairs that Leila liked


    3. But every pretty pair of tits this night has turned me down, so I’m willing to try Mama Grizzly here


    4. he didn't even flinch when we got Christmas cards addressed to the pair of us


    5. His device was one of the new 3D ones with the seed pod with holes in it connected to a pair of spectacles by a piece of tough monofilament


    6. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby


    7. They are bickering happily as they leave the house, arguing over the relative merits of various colour schemes … what a pair!


    8. Oh, and by the way, I’ve put a pair of Daddy’s pyjamas in the spare room


    9. doostEr could see only an attractive pair of legs on the ramp


    10. John clambers up onto a boulder, looks around, spots a pair of military jeeps and an old truck speeding their way

    11. He SHOUTS, his sleeping comrade jumps up, straightens his uniform and the pair snap to attention just as the convoy arrives, its fluttering Arababian flags indicating a royal motorcade


    12. A pair of them came up to her


    13. They didn’t pair off or anything


    14. When Tig and the alien twisted around again, the blade of magnetically focused plasma had sliced a Squidy into a pair of thrashing hose and ribbon tangles that shot a mix of snowy atmo and alien blood out mortal wounds


    15. A pair of brown corduroy trousers, clearly second-hand, but perfectly serviceable


    16. The pair of warspite torpedoes flared out of Greenstone’s tubes and ripped across the black on fiery columns


    17. The simple fact that there was no tray, that I was rushed through my ablutions, that I was made to change out of my underground clothes into a new pair of jeans and a clean, white shirt, all of these became portents


    18. There were already a pair of raised, cut-glass shot glasses on the table


    19. "We can buy it if you like, that's a trifle, a pair of old captain's bars, a few inches of low-temp tubing


    20. The monument is a 24-meter high triumphal column, supporting a pair of clasped hands and a dove of peace

    21. However, when we pair this with Ephesians 1, we find that Paul does have the thinking that all things are interconnected


    22. She rolled up his other two pair of shorts and put them under the arch of his foot, then wrapped his foot much tighter with Desa's dress


    23. and a pair of lips sip scalding, brackish water


    24. He had on a pair of the jeans and a white tee shirt


    25. She changed into a long-sleeved white tee shirt and a pair of jeans


    26. A pair of long, slimy tongues came out and probed around in the dirt


    27. What a pair of knockers!


    28. SAMANTHA: Here, you didn't like this? Now, is this better? And this? I can fix this one too! You happy now? And these are too provocative? Here! (She picks a pair of scissors and slashes more clothes


    29. (KELLY jumps up and grabs SAMANTHA from behind and takes the pair of scissors away from her


    30. I do not have pointed ears or a pair of horns”

    31. Each pair had picked their cave and they began making it their home


    32. Joris contents himself with watching the pair of us, his eyes flicking back and forth between us


    33. Next to me stood another American lady wearing a large pair of glasses with unusually thick funky lenses all supported by an unfortunate growth on the side of her nose


    34. Within seconds, he has separated Drens from the group and, with the pair of them behaving as though they are old friends who have bumped into each other by accident, they slowly make their way over to where we are standing


    35. He is in exceptionally high spirits and soon has the pair of us in fits of laughter, playing the fool and generally clowning around


    36. It took me a while to locate something to tie my hair back … don’t know where all my hairbands went but if my hair blows about like it did the other day, I shall just have to filch a pair of scissors and hack it off


    37. My own boots – softened so that I may wear them without getting blisters straight away – plus an old pair of Gilla’s will have to suffice in the footware stakes


    38. After all, how distant can you be with a man who has wound bandages round your upper leg? We debate whether I should put my stained hosen back on again or not – opting to leave the clean ones for tomorrow … I’ll have to wash this pair out as soon as I get the chance


    39. He went in and took his own shower, dried himself off and put on a tee shirt and a pair of boxers


    40. He reached inside his jacket and pulled out a battered old pair of faded, blue ribbed shin pads

    41. I always could read you like a book, Jo, and although I daresay no-one else noticed because the pair of you were very good at keeping up appearances, I couldn’t miss it


    42. In his hands he held a plush crimson velour cushion and on the cushion was a pair of brilliantly glittering shin pads


    43. Before he knew it a strong pair of hands caught him and stopped his fall


    44. It will produce a pair of sensors


    45. unusually patterned pair of slacks and some water stained loafers


    46. He wore the Australian team shirt, but had a pair of casual khaki shorts on


    47. that the famous singer was wearing a pair of beautiful, hand-tooled


    48. nothing finer in the entire world than a pair of lovely, properly


    49. chosen a lovely but demur pair of cream court shoes and she


    50. agreeing to substitute them with the most expensive pair of black














































    1. Ever been paired with the obligatory US holidaymakers on an


    2. were weapons of all kinds paired with their masters


    3. "I think that would be me," Luray told him, seeing as the others in their group were about paired off


    4. " He displayed a diagram of the ship, a dark body, his antimatter in a jar and the forked tangler beam of paired photons that was illuminating his antimatter and the dark body


    5. The two paired off to explore their friendship again


    6. We who are paired with a


    7. He knew he should be trying to figure out what other females on this boat weren’t paired off, but still hoped that this incident would soon blow over


    8. Paired off and cocky


    9. They had unsuccessfully paired her off with the son of a wealthy San Francisco family who annually frequented their Inn


    10. On his first real watch at the crossing, Tom was paired with Fred,

    11. The Official Messengers were part of those paired


    12. Tom found himself paired with Ifor, about


    13. understand why they had been paired up for this exercise


    14. He wondered how these paired signalling towers had


    15. He was paired with a successful fashion designer and they were expecting a child


    16. Ever acute Carius noticed this, paired with what he thought was the faintest hint of an unsettling smirk that was quickly suppressed


    17. Maybe the paired voices of his wailing mother and fuming father had been correct in their condemnation of his decision on the evening of the 30th of Frostfall - his twenty-second birthday


    18. Based on data sent from where the wave originated; pulses of light in code that meant nothing until paired with the right mathematical theorem


    19. He suddenly realised that he had no idea how long it would take to get a reply, and if the colonisation program really had ceased, was the machine on Earth that was paired to this one still active? The technology relied on a pair of machines, each with one half of a pair of quantum particles, locked together regardless of distance


    20. When the special particle in one machine was moved, the paired particle in the other machine instantaneously moved in unison

    21. Sebastian had been paired up with five Lead Arrows, including Rogan, five Golden Arrows, eight Guardians, and Hans


    22. Decks are often paired with retractable deck awnings, as they are the ideal items to block away


    23. Most of them were paired up in foster care, but Grace ended up alone


    24. At first the children were paired up


    25. All faction clothing is represented in the group before me: black Candor pants paired with black Dauntless shirts, yellow dresses with blue sweatshirts over them


    26. Grey Eyes, mischievous, paired me with Macho


    27. children are paired off at a very early age, about two or three years old, this pairing


    28. boy would be paired with which for the cross world colonization


    29. 2 sample T test/ Paired T test


    30. Since the data is from same process, and checked after a period of time from same project, we go for paired T test

    31. One bright winter day a local schoolboy and a vacationing online columnist happened to be paired up on a chairlift at Teton Village ski resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming


    32. I paired it with black Louboutins that were 2 inches out of my comfort zone, but hey, I’m feeling ambitious lately


    33. My eyes went over his body; his athletic torso was dressed in a tee and a black leather jacket, paired with blue jeans


    34. Lori hadn’t paired off with anyone yet, but she was way to


    35. hadn’t minded being alone as most of the players paired up


    36. paired with caffeine, though no one is sure exactly why


    37. women, especially when the cardio-pounding workout is paired with


    38. efficiently and pack a greater punch when paired with caffeine, though no one is sure exactly why


    39. Frank paired up with Dick Jones


    40. Bud, you are paired up with Frank

    41. h)N MY SITUATIONv *ANE SAID TO 3IMON WHEN THEY PAIRED UP h) REMEMBER FEELING REALLY


    42. /NCE THE TRAINER HAD lNISHED SPEAKING THEY ALL PAIRED UP AND FOUND A COMFORTABLE PLACE


    43. beat Matthew who was paired with him


    44. his family and creatures paired


    45. It should be paired up with blush on the cheeks


    46. Traumatically! Hearing JY whimper, Sam looked up and the paired lights bouncing across the pasture to the south deepened his sense of urgency


    47. Harry did as instructed and the lower paired ‘organs’ took on a rusty brown


    48. The man Darren was paired up with that day was an old stager called Steve Hartland


    49. Kelly was paired with Dyslexia, who didn’t like the combo


    50. At the end of half an hour of exercises, the instructor, a heavily tattooed female Marine, paired the class for practice of the combat moves














































    1. Their parting had not been easy, as stormy as their pairing


    2. The female, then the male, each pairing couple matched perfectly


    3. how must it have felt always to be the one left on the sidelines because you are not pretty enough, to watch everyone else pairing up


    4. I would think Ava especially would nose around, he was her most serious pairing since Herndon


    5. He could see that this was the pairing place for the randier of the neighborhood singles


    6. The sun was setting and he’d only just finished pairing up the big round bails of straw for collection in the morning


    7. children are paired off at a very early age, about two or three years old, this pairing


    8. A random pairing of the pupils’ selected worlds


    9. God Boy watched the carefully written pairing appear on his


    10. Very rare pairing

    11. He even mentioned possibly pairing me up with Toby next, at his request


    12. pairing with thick peanut sauces and curries


    13. KKZP sold several stories over your lost time, Ren’s arrest and the pairing of her and Dorece Mc in camp Orial brought headlines


    14. 2ATHER THAN PAIRING UP WITH ONE OF THE OTHERS 4AYLOR HAD DECIDED TO TAKE ,IZ UP ON THE


    15. Helen asked if she could join him “for old time’s sake” she said, but Greg suspected it had to with the fact that when the pairing was done, she had been left out


    16. next to each other in a pairing cage


    17. A pairing cage is a large


    18. conference pairing Stallman and Torvalds as keynote speakers,


    19. hackers, the pairing indicated a symbolic show of unity that


    20. Zack’s final pairing with Mary Pardini never resulted in marriage

    21. It was crossing over that self-same Moon/Neptune pairing in Scorpio that made her such a fool about men and sex


    22. you may participate in more than one pairing


    23. Linking begins with preparing your pairing group(s) for the conclusion of their time in the new environment


    24. The pairing group(s) should discuss the feelings that come from recognizing this reality


    25. To summarize, the seven steps of the Cultural Rehydration Process are: Pairing,


    26. After creating a hydration trail, it is beneficial to find a new pairing partner you can share it with


    27. Then he saw Syd and Rebecca pairing off, and from the look on their faces recognized their feelings for each other, and contemplated the collapse of his dream


    28. By pairing that same winning mind-set with a very effective weight loss program, I am sure I will rapidly become as slim as I would love to be


    29. F-wurd, startled, lost his footing and fell onto the j-wirding of Igger the pothead potter, youngest and most rebellious of the tradition bound ruling n-wird t-wirds, who was making a Union vase for the W-werd's non-sanctioned pairing to a non n-wird t-wird – Z-wurd the smoking C-wird


    30. The Construct Chain or Word Pairing to indicate relationships

    31. “And what is this impossible thing that humans are incapable of doing?” GO queried the dimension scaffolding pairing mirrors generating the next instructions


    32. call a female, and before long, there is pairing


    33. Pairing is the result of the male bird using a


    34. Mary was beginning to feel the first effects of a cold, along with a chilly regret at pairing herself with Johnny


    35. Pairing them with the black heels wouldn’t have been my first choice, but beggars couldn’t be choosers — it was either that or boots


    36. He found he could split the group into pairs, and by keeping rotating the pairing he kept the game of discovery alive


    37. It was a pairing of circumstance


    38. They started pairing off on their evening strolls on the keys of the small village port with the luxurious yachts and fashionable cafés, at the beach in the mornings and when lounging at the lavish villa


    39. “Not at all, but the pairing will soon begin, you know


    40. They sent unmanned ships to those destinations and when a successful pairing was made they dropped beacon devices into the deeper parts of the oceans of those worlds

    41. Off the walls in sorts of animal suspicions, hang tameable tricks and tears, visors of haughty expressions, made happy with drinks and beers; and pairing with a pinking shears, the pieces off his customers, a butcher-barber-cut-off-ears, wets his comb and precedes yes, to style yet another outpatient from The Home


    42. I could see calligraphic engraving embossed all over the ship’s sides in a harmonious pairing with the geometric patterns that decorated the outer panels of the ship


    43. It had been an odd pairing, the biggest of the Hunters paired with the most petite of all the women


    44. Of the smell of apples and lemons, of the pairing of birds,


    45. It was pairing time


    46. What do they tell you about what’s to come in the pages that follow? How does Strayed’s pairing of, say, Adrienne Rich and Joni Mitchell (this page) provide insight into her way of thinking?


    47. some consolation for a woman like that lovely little statue he bought I could look at him all day long curly head and his shoulders his finger up for you to listen theres real beauty and poetry for you I often felt I wanted to kiss him all over also his lovely young cock there so simple I wouldnt mind taking him in my mouth if nobody was looking as if it was asking you to suck it so clean and white he looks with his boyish face I would too in 1/2 a minute even if some of it went down what its only like gruel or the dew theres no danger besides hed be so clean compared with those pigs of men I suppose never dream of washing it from I years end to the other the most of them only thats what gives the women the moustaches Im sure itll be grand if I can only get in with a handsome young poet at my age Ill throw them the 1st thing in the morning till I see if the wishcard comes out or Ill try pairing the lady herself and see if he comes out Ill read and study all I can find or learn a bit off by heart if I knew who he likes so he wont think me stupid if he thinks all women are the same and I can teach him the other part Ill make him feel all over him till he half faints under me then hell write about me lover and mistress publicly too with our 2 photographs in all the papers when he becomes famous O but then what am I going to do about him though


    48. Jack had brought him in as an investigator last year and was still floating him, pairing him with other investigators until he found him a partner


    49. Thrusting a wad of goat cheese and crackers into her mouth, Maureen managed to say: “It’s not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever


    50. Even the more contemporary and supposedly scientific version of hedging-the idea that certain positions can be counted upon to converge in price over time and that money can be made by pairing long and short positions as a bet on that convergence-has proved vulnerable to the point of a Federal Reserve intervention










    1. Two pairs of boxer shorts, grey


    2. ‘Seriously though, could you give me a hand, Kate? I need to get all the vegetables into tureens and it would be so much easier with two pairs of hands


    3. made by a thousand pairs of hurrying shoes


    4. Kate noticed that they hatched in pairs


    5. I was quite taken aback and shot upright just in time to catch myself reflected in two pairs of mirrored lenses before reeling into two pairs of maroon shorts and almost passing out


    6. ‘Both pairs of boots are dry


    7. clothes and several pairs of lovely, well-fitted shoes


    8. Six pairs of shoes later we walk out again


    9. two sets of username/passwords pairs, one by the web server that is


    10. little group formed up in pairs, with the Sergeant at the rear

    11. Although the pairs were not actually holding hands, the crocodile


    12. Helen has the clothes that Davie brought over; a couple of tee-shirts, a pair of jeans and her trainers, two pairs of knickers and the bra she was wearing when she arrived


    13. He tries to look up, tries to will Ken and Davie to appear, shining and white, but all that he sees are two pairs of legs hitting the ground, and then the doors of his Lexus slam shut


    14. short time later, he felt two pairs of hostile eyes turn in his


    15. The door opened ushering in two pairs of soft footsteps on the carpet


    16. The heads turned in unison, a thousand pairs of eyes looking up the aisle


    17. No matter how many pairs of socks you wore, it was always hard to feel


    18. several pairs of eyes burning holes in the back of my


    19. He didn’t bother to look to see if his command was obeyed, the pounding of nearly two hundred pairs of giant feet was enough confirmation


    20. But now Brodin had a stone on each shoulder and was dropping them in pairs, hurling them as fast as his massive arms could lift them

    21. Three pairs of eyes looked up at him


    22. They told us to go in pairs and remain in sight of at least one other group, at all times


    23. As the Cyclopes alternately spoke with eloquence then consumed pairs of sailors at each meal, she bit her lip to silence the protests that wanted to spill out


    24. In the distance he could see hundreds, if not thousands more pairs of eyes just like his own


    25. The Law of Polarity: everything exists in pairs of


    26. It saved me money, but my two pairs of breeches had front-sides that did not quite match in color their back-sides, and my shirts were made from white cotton, but were something of a quilt in style


    27. I selected the best pair of the five or six pairs that inhabited the depths of my trunk and began unstitching


    28. A single shoemaker will make more than 300 pairs of shoes in the year; and his own family will not, perhaps, wear out six pairs


    29. For now he had saved her but how could he ensure not just her safety but the safety of the whole group? It would not be practical for them to take turns watching over each other as to ensure the saboteur was kept from further opportunities they would have to keep watch in pairs


    30. In normal flight the hugely powerful main processor would be shut down and pairs of cores would work three month shifts to handle the vessel’s hugely precise navigation and monitor the various systems

    31. Aspen started in surprise as over a hundred pairs of eyes fell on her, but she smiled and nodded to the applause anyway


    32. This entire phenomenon is similar to what is found within the DNA molecule where the basic building blocks, or base pairs, are supported by a double-helix structure, the base pairs form genes and the genes form chromosomes


    33. Temperatures were so high that the random motions of particles were at relativistic speeds, and particle - antiparticle pairs of all kinds were being continuously created and destroyed in collisions


    34. The temperature was now no longer high enough to create new proton-antiproton pairs (similarly for neutrons–antineutrons), so a mass annihilation immediately followed, leaving just one in 1010 of the original protons and neutrons, and none of their antiparticles


    35. pairs were reserved for going out with the girls and purposely to


    36. The pairs kept going until finally we were down to the RSM and Colonel Terry the Colonel looked at his watch and counted down the last thirty seconds


    37. Of course, he would be able to afford dozens more pairs of breeding dogs like these with the gold he was promised


    38. a lot – I treated myself to a new Lincoln and a new suit with two pairs of pants


    39. “Are you saying that the life of a criminal is more important than the security and comfort of the public? That the innocent should suffer in favour of the guilty?” Three pairs of eyes focused upon Raven


    40. I tossed the bowl into the sink with a clink and a clamor, and then, ran into my brother’s room to grab as many pairs of jeans as I figured that I could squeeze into

    41. After 5 minutes of struggling to put on 5 pairs of jeans, and then another 5 minutes of struggling to put on my old pair of boots, I was door slamming my way outside and waddling though the backyard when I heard my mother’s angry tone


    42. I went into the local clothing store and bought myself six pairs of socks, the good ones, with the gold toes


    43. He tried several pairs, but they were all too small


    44. My research also tells me that refusal from the man meant he had to buy her twelve pairs of gloves to hide her empty (of a ring) finger or a new dress


    45. As a result all vehicles operated in pairs and recovered each other


    46. The twenty-odd pairs of eyes followed us all the way to the doors until we exited the office


    47. Two pairs of eyes swiveled to her with bright interest


    48. But when they returned to the Byronville estate, they separated as pairs of lovers


    49. As the triumphant bird made off through a flock of grazing sheep, it left behind two pairs of weakly waving legs stuck high in the prickly embrace of a hawthorn hedge


    50. "I prefer doing things in pairs, it saves a lot of time










































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "pair"

    pair brace couple couplet distich duad duet duo dyad span twain twosome yoke match mate twin copulate geminate pair off partner off combine join marry mates team

    "pair" definitions

    a set of two similar things considered as a unit


    two items of the same kind


    two people considered as a unit


    a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value


    form a pair or pairs


    bring two objects, ideas, or people together


    occur in pairs


    arrange in pairs


    engage in sexual intercourse