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    1. She burned her hand on the steamer rack and tossed his dog into the bun


    2. She had a decent rack, but the muscles ruined it


    3. She has a decent rack, too, but she’s too muscular


    4. door, and a very bald and tattered grey felt mouse lying by a pot rack next to the


    5. Well this time the dockmaster was mesmerized as Vatreel aimed the rack toward the shoremen's idle ones, then lifted the whole rack as they glided by and stepped with it, matching his walk along the deck to the drift of the river, til the whole row of bales rolled across and lay resting on their rack while the docksman's chins dropped and he walked half the edge of the deck


    6. Then he picked up his whole empty rack in one hand and put it away


    7. Even with Irene and Ebby, memories would be bittersweet so, betting myself she'd never had a card from Sophia, I picked one out of the rack and wrote, 'Make yourself a home!' and joined the queue for a stamp


    8. It looks like the stuff in one of the jars in his mother's spice rack


    9. George smiled and indicated a rack of rods inconspicuously set between a shelf of painting supplies and a rack of gardening implements


    10. “I keep it on the rack downstairs, there’s a put-in at the base of this building and it handles two well

    11. ’ The big policeman said, reaching for the car keys hanging on a rack on the wall


    12. He selected a long staff from a rack which appeared to contain an


    13. She took a bottle from a rack and filled it from one of the vats


    14. In the center was the steaming roast theirops, still on the four-pole rack that sixteen guys had used to pull it from the coals


    15. Under the coat rack, on the floor, lay Heather’s backpack


    16. counter top, stove, and finally the rack of knives


    17. She decided to pull another module out of the rack


    18. To Emily's right, the forest exploded as a massive buck burst from the woods, his rack of horns smashing aside anything that obstructed his path


    19. It did have a luggage rack


    20. door and grabbed a towel off of the shower rack

    21. on the shower rack, flushed the toilet, and washed her


    22. Now, however there were rack upon rack of those cylinders


    23. “Why’s this rack red when all the others are grey or black?” asked Jenny, pointing to a rack of communications equipment that was tucked into the corner of the room and set back more than the others


    24. She scanned the array of equipment hanging on the rear wall, moved towards it and snatched a shovel from the rack


    25. “There’s a rack of them on the wall over here


    26. Lights in the rack next to him went out, but there was no flame


    27. She was pleased as punch! Little did she know that there were a dozen more just like it on the rack


    28. “Could I have your papers please he then took a rubber stamp from a rack and stamped them ‘Fit for Duty’ he then returned them to me dismissing me with a quick


    29. eye-level blew itself away from the rack and with great violence hit Danny on the head, a sharp


    30. Just the excuse he needed when he was trying to rack his brains for the something 'crazy'

    31. We stopped at the mouth of an aisle in the weapon rack rows


    32. strolled over to the weapon rack and picked off it a weapon that could only have been some or other


    33. turned around, took the same sword as before out of the rack and drew it halfway


    34. ” He took down another sword lying on the top of the rack, this one longer,


    35. As he put it back onto the rack, I asked a question


    36. With disquieting ease he shoved it back onto the rack


    37. ” He put the gun back on the rack


    38. I began to fire short bursts into the oncoming ranks and I was beginning to rack up quite a score as Bert changed the magazines for me


    39. Josh pulled his truck through the gate and leaped out, grabbing his shotgun from the rack behind the seat


    40. The gas lamps ended, but a rack with a few lanterns provided a means to travel deeper

    41. “I’ll get it for you,” he said and he raced out, bumping into the coat rack and excusing himself


    42. Be that what it may, I would (much) prefer leaving my necktie on the tie rack rather than wrapping it around my neck


    43. Set the pan over a wire rack until the mixture cools to about 175 degrees F (80 degrees C)


    44. Glaring up at the wide smile on his leathery old face, I came exceedingly close to using his head as a storage rack for the hammer!


    45. Bru put another dish in the rack


    46. In the early years of this conflict, the haphazard application of air power resulted in conditions where a few noted individuals could rack up a big score


    47. Putting my coat on the rack, I resisted the impulse to simply drop it over my luggage


    48. Ashore, was another structure housing ice machines, assorted machinery, and a room called the refrigerated rack room


    49. Today"s offering included an off the rack lightweight charcoal gray suit, white button downed collar shirt and loosely knotted black and gray striped tie


    50. Ferguson did not comment on the fact that Colling maintained a rack of shirts and trousers in the storage room where the master sergeant kept his stock of cigarettes, and Colling took it as tacit approval













































    1. I racked my brains for an hour trying to put faces to the Persian and the Armenian, but I could not recall anything other than grainy news footage


    2. “Has she been keeping your bed warm too?" That was the last thing she heard, until she opened her eyes a few hours later, racked with pain


    3. " she racked her brain to remember but it was no good


    4. As if in response, the wall was racked by a massive blow, and to Alec's horror, the ladder, and the soldiers on it, toppled to the ground, screaming


    5. To dream that you are being racked indicates that you and your actions are being called into question


    6. Danny racked his brains desperately


    7. That part of the produce of the land which is thus necessary for enabling the farmer to continue his business, ought to be considered as a fund sacred to cultivation, which, if the landlord violates, he necessarily reduces the produce of his own land, and, in a few years, not only disables the farmer from paying this racked rent, but from paying the reasonable rent which he might otherwise have got for his land


    8. The man was clearly racked with guilt, she tried to reassure herself; surely that alone would be enough even if he was culpable


    9. He racked his brains trying to think of any way he could trick or confuse the Astronomicon further without causing or allowing it to react destructively


    10. But once they started getting batter there was not a lot for me to do round here”, a cough racked her frame again

    11. ” A cough racked her again and she said


    12. I thought hard about what we had talked about and even though I was racked with worry about Rosie I now knew that Helen would be there when I got home and this though cheered me up immensely


    13. Then another cough racked her body and she shook in what I though was a fit but as I was about to send for Helen it passed


    14. If you collect that tax for the next five thousand years – that is not a typo it - would equal the new debt Obama racked up last year alone


    15. my head down, racked by sobbing


    16. The Suburban racked over


    17. “My wounds were miraculously healing, though my body was racked with


    18. The people of a weakened Athens, racked as she was and defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian Wars did not look on Aristotle with favor


    19. What could he be going to say to them? They racked their memories for any recent transgression of sufficient importance, but could not recall any


    20. She was silent and her face was racked with pain

    21. 18 Extended on which, with limbs racked and


    22. ” Ryan racked his brain but only a faint memory surfaced


    23. There was a moment of silence while Mark racked his brains for something pertinent to ask, to no avail


    24. Travers had racked his little O-1E into a vertical bank, pulled it through a 90 degree turn, rolled level, then shoved the control stick forward until the plane was pointed nearly straight down


    25. As Toby tried to follow its smoke trail, he was pressed heavily into his seat when Phil the Fac Travers jammed on the power (he had previously throttled back to prevent engine overspeed in the dive), and racked the tiny grey airplane upward, pointing its painted red mouth with lolling tongue skyward


    26. 18 Extended on which with limbs racked and dislocated he was gradually roasted from beneath


    27. As the first tear marked him, silver and white exploded from within the dead names’ darkness, and he found he was falling, his body racked with pain and his mind empty


    28. Somehow the two men got to their feet, Simon racked with pain which he could sense in Ralph also


    29. He racked the slide of his gun and pointed it at us with a sadistic grin on his face


    30. Batistuta racked his brains

    31. I racked my brain, trying to remember the myth of the boar


    32. All your life you’ve racked your brain for the 'right' thing to do, the one cause to be involved with


    33. It offensive scent clogged my sensitive nose as invasive thoughts of doom racked my mind


    34. Visions of his abb hanging from the tree, blood dripping down his body, his omm lying in her own blood, racked his mind


    35. Even though you know someone is ill is hard to believe they can just go like that, I was racked with guilt that I should have persuaded him to go to hospital instead of staying at ‘The House in the Clouds’, but he wasn’t having any of it


    36. She racked her brain for any possible charges they might be holding him on


    37. And he racked his brains to help those thus threatened in precincts of their own dwellings


    38. 'I feel as if I'd been racked! I'd rather fight a dozen men


    39. “Will you eat?” She asked and felt the shudder that racked the emaciated frame of the beast


    40. On the dais under the golden dome the king cried out again, racked by awful paroxysms

    41. He was racked and torn by forces beyond his comprehension, but he felt a driving power outside and beyond his own lifting him inexorably upward and onward, despite the wizard's strength and his own agony


    42. Jane stood beside her car and racked her brains as to what she could do next to try to locate the missing Vicky


    43. He had racked his brains all night to try and find a way to stop Sir Peter and his men from doing whatever it was they were planning but was at a loss to know what he could do


    44. Amanda racked both of them in the nuts


    45. His life had been racked by problems


    46. he racked his brain but the name of the famous artist would not come to him


    47. But, in his twenty years in the army, mostly with Special Forces, he racked up some incredible


    48. He racked his brain for anything to say


    49. What would you say if the police answered?‖ Zach racked his brain to remember anything from his French class


    50. He racked his brain, which hurt










































    1. He coughs, in racking, phlegmy convulsions


    2. Bent over with laughter, Alec leaned over the wall, unable to stop the torrent of chuckles racking his frame


    3. bedroom, still racking his brain


    4. Carius gripped the cloth, racking his brain for any meaning to the letters


    5. Jack was racking his brain to remember something of what he had learned


    6. The child is thin and pale, too, with a hard, racking


    7. Great racking coughs followed this effort to communicate, then he resumed eating


    8. shoulders slumped, racking his brain for a solution, he trudged


    9. boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him


    10. reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the

    11. 5 But they highly incensed at his boldness of speech dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines and wrenching them from their sockets dismembered him


    12. 13 O holy nature and parental feeling and reward of bringing up children and unconquerable maternal affection! 14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing


    13. 25 For just as in a council-room beholding in her own soul vehement counsellors nature and parentage and love of her children and the racking of her children 26 she holding two votes one for the death the other for the preservation of her children 27 did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space


    14. But best of all, the mind racking pain was now numbed by the ring’s magic


    15. Beyond this was a storage area with racking for containers of chemicals and raw materials


    16. He chuckled and whispered, “I just keep racking up those points, don’t I?” as he


    17. though another sob was racking me


    18. I haven’t shared my blood with anyone in over 300 years, it was very nerve racking knowing you were in some kind of pain and not being here to help you


    19. 'Where are they?' It was a racking croak not even remotely resembling a human voice


    20. "I've got plans this afternoon," I said, racking my brain for an excuse

    21. Admittedly he’d gotten them all to Euston station by five minutes to six, but the journey had been nerve racking


    22. It was an incredibly nerve racking


    23. Both were really nerve racking,


    24. that was racking your brains out a short while ago is a normal


    25. Still, it was nerve racking


    26. The racking was only three meters


    27. before something quite nerve racking occurred


    28. Terry was racking his brain to come up with a suitable answer to the strange story that he'd just been told


    29. Eventually he, too, dozed off whilst racking his brains trying to remember who


    30. They let out a dry racking cough, and I took a step in that direction

    31. He looked to be disappointed with himself, slapping his pockets and racking at his forehead


    32. racking my brains trying to remember where he


    33. But there were many moments when with her guard low, it bubbled to the surface and manifested itself in throbbing headaches and a palpitating heart, shivering and silent racking sobs, her face buried in cloth to mute the acknowledged fear


    34. Twenty shillings!" She chuckled so hard it turned into a racking cough


    35. Keeping your domain name short, easy to remember, simple and relevant to your market helps your visitor to remember your website so they can come back to your site easily without racking their brain trying to remember where it is


    36. Mars as private citizens had been racking their brain to figure out what kind of business they wanted to go into


    37. Deep, racking pain


    38. I was racking my mind, trying to remember where I was when I remembered that in the plane, Manuel had explained to the boss that we were in Tibet


    39. ” He pushed harder on the gas, anxious to get home, racking his brain, trying to come up with some way to stop the tears


    40. She sat down on a large rock, racking her brain at the options that she hadn’t considered

    41. "Painters? No, I didn't see them," Raskolnikov answered slowly, as though ransacking his memory, while at the same instant he was racking every nerve, almost swooning with anxiety to conjecture as quickly as possible where the trap lay and not to overlook anything


    42. She remained until evening racking her brain with every conceivable lying project, and had constantly before her eyes that imbecile with the game-bag


    43. A move had to be made because that merry old soul, the grasswidower in question who appeared to be glued to the spot, didn't appear in any particular hurry to wend his way home to his dearly beloved Queenstown and it was highly likely some sponger's bawdyhouse of retired beauties where age was no bar off Sheriff street lower would be the best clue to that equivocal character's whereabouts for a few days to come, alternately racking their feelings (the mermaids') with sixchamber revolver anecdotes verging on the tropical calculated to freeze the marrow of anybody's bones and mauling their largesized charms betweenwhiles with rough and tumble gusto to the accompaniment of large potations of potheen and the usual blarney about himself for as to who he in reality was let x equal my right name and address, as Mr Algebra remarks passim


    44. Merthin ate some bread automatically, frowning and looking upwards out of the corners of his eyes in the way he always did when he was racking his brains


    45. it’s a lie, I know, but I said that I’d been racking my brains to think of anything significant, and that I thought it might be worth speaking to her therapist


    46. The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death


    47. The throng thickened; the guitars tinkled louder; other horsemen sat motionless, smoking calmly above the heads of the crowd; it eddied and pushed before the doors of the high-roofed building, whence issued a shuffle and thumping of feet in time to the dance music vibrating and shrieking with a racking rhythm, overhung by the tremendous, sustained, hollow roar of the gombo


    48. He wanted to delay him to the very last moment; and he had been racking his brains to invent some place of concealment at once plausible and difficult of access


    49. My tears have miraculously ceased, but I’m left with dry heaves racking my body


    50. After racking my brain for what seemed like an eternity, I realized the answer was staring me in the face—Carl Sagan himself had written a similar scenario into his first and only science fiction novel, Contact










    1. He watches while Bush racks the balls, takes up a stick and chalks the end of it


    2. The shelves and racks were dotted


    3. We are using the large room behind the stage area for changing … men on the left and women on the right with a row of mobile clothing racks down the middle, where we each have our personal designated areas to hang our costumes, giving some sort of modesty division, though to be honest, who the hell wants to gawp? As the play takes place in the present day, the clothes are not really costumes anyway, but, all the same, my character has certain things she has to wear – some my own and some provided by wardrobe


    4. He had a long workbench along one wall and odd bits of wood stashed all over the place, under the bench, in racks on the ceiling


    5. The remaining teeth were like racks of strong hunting knives


    6. and racks overflowing with shoes that I never wear,


    7. It was only about half the size of the instrument room, with racks of gear on one side and a large well-equipped workbench complete with foot-pedal on the other


    8. They hummed and whispered over racks of chintz and lace,


    9. George built up the supply of blanks and rods for the store racks


    10. The room was high and lined with racks of paper that reached too far up into the darkness for Jorma to see

    11. There were six openings from the room between the paper racks, each standing doorless into absolute darkness


    12. In here Jorma could dimly perceive that they were in a room filled with racks and racks of hanging files down narrow aisles off this central one


    13. The office was plankwall and batten except for the pyramid wall itself, but it was well finished and he had two stand-cushions as well as a high-backed roll-stool with a tile floor and a long ornate work table with pockets, three tall folder racks on one end of the table and three short ones under that end


    14. It was cluttered with shelves, tables, cushions and racks


    15. He stumbled across another short stairway, this one held him and he got thru into a room where he felt two niches in the wall with a sleek machine and racks of cards


    16. and racks of clothes - when It happened


    17. Their shops were all sheds, some just racks strapped up on saplings under a couple big leaves


    18. The cooks here had marble counters and flaming gas grilles behind them with racks of cookware and insulated storage chests with ice


    19. He gestured at the racks


    20. He'd been poking around in the racks and

    21. to the aisles of meat and racks of fruit and


    22. Machinery covered the racks on the


    23. ” He uncrossed his legs, came out of his lean against the racks as he uncrossed his arms,


    24. “Others…” he said, leaning his palms on the racks, turning his


    25. ” He gestured to the vast racks of weapons


    26. There was a breastplate to match the outfit, but she left it standing with the others on wooden racks


    27. Crimpen had returned from the rear of the shop with apple crumb cakes, blueberry tarts, peach cobblers, chocolate pirouettes, vanilla puddings, candies and cookies, and a variety of cold juices, spreading them out on a long table along one of the book racks


    28. Using a tablespoon measure, shape coconut into 26 balls with hands and place on wire racks


    29. Difficult to see around, and impossible to see over, with ladders and bins and racks on the back


    30. “Brownie, why don’t you strap the horns to the front of the roof racks? That’ll turn a few heads on the way to Bells

    31. Colling spotted several racks from which clothes were hanging, and headed in their direction


    32. George, with the hunting knife between his teeth and the lighter in his pocket, moved one hand at a time, and made it to the steps leading up to the roof racks


    33. George lighted the sock, grabbed the knife from his teeth, and slashed the ocky straps that held the Golden Fleece onto the roof racks


    34. He had no trouble recognizing hoses, clamps, various metal collars in racks upon what could only have been the classic wooden pallet or skid


    35. Straining to wrestle huge bundles from the overhead racks, they collided, cursed and shoved


    36. Fouquet pulled everything off the racks and chucked it in the general direction of the bed, a big four-poster, showing signs of recent occupancy


    37. The racks begin to whirl, as red and


    38. Using the cookie cutters I’d used as a child, we cut it into the traditional stars and hearts, arranged these on the baking sheets, rotated them in and out of the oven onto cooling racks


    39. None of the warehouse racks would accept the weight of a whole


    40. Magazine racks, book stores, newspapers and the internet are an

    41. the roof and the steel racks that rattled overhead


    42. There were racks for smoking meat high off the ground around the hearth


    43. It consisted of using racks high about the hearth, placing thinly sliced pieces of meat on them and building up a large smoky fire with evergreen branches


    44. I had finished the smokehouse and moved all the drying racks into it


    45. She had searched the racks of all her favorite stores, trying to find the perfect party dress


    46. They busily hauled all their fish and drying racks from the shore back to their ship until darkness forced them to stop


    47. As I returned at the end of the day with the afternoon’s catch, I saw a man, who looked about my age, lead his horses into Theodore’s coral, feed and water them, then turn and approach my smoking racks


    48. reading material thoughtfully placed in magazine racks that are both


    49. Curved work benches of elven size lined the walls, below racks and shelves of neatly arrayed tools, implements and materials, the nature of most of which was a complete mystery to Mark


    50. “As reflected in the incredible displays of various merchandise available here!” Talia nodded gleefully as she eyed the endless tables and racks of items all about








































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    Synonyms for "rack"

    rack single-foot stand wheel wrack excruciate torment torture scud extort gouge squeeze wring framework perch stretcher bracket crib

    "rack" definitions

    framework for holding objects


    rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton


    the destruction or collapse of something


    an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims


    a support for displaying various articles


    a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body


    a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately


    go at a rack


    stretch to the limits


    put on a rack and pinion


    obtain by coercion or intimidation


    run before a gale


    fly in high wind


    draw off from the lees


    torment emotionally or mentally


    work on a rack


    seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block


    torture on the rack