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    receptacle


    1. Every receptacle and cubicle in the men's toilet at the airport was busy


    2. landed in the receptacle, making a loud ting, but not breaking


    3. ‘Cupsule’ was a corruption of the words ‘capsule’ and ‘cup’, and was used to refer to the standard drink receptacle used on spacecraft


    4. In the center of every block stood a small green receptacle


    5. Somewhere out there was the receptacle he needed, but he had to find it quickly


    6. Quickly he whacked open a can of cat grub, tossing the lid and can into the garbage receptacle


    7. He coiled up the safety line and stowed it in the proper receptacle


    8. Colling made one last check to make sure the Luger and extra ammunition, cash and the forged passports he had brought back from Zurich were still snug in their concealed receptacle


    9. The mind was something that everyone knew that they had, but no one had ever been able to prove what were the conditions of residence, or even if the brain was its certain receptacle


    10. Again, from a first sensing of a possible predator’s presence; to the receptacle of respect for the rewards of the hunt; to responsibility for the vagaries of climate oscillations; to the sensate presence imagined within the heavenly bodies; to the nearness of the family favorite, then the clan, the tribe, the village, the city, and finally the favorite of a nation, Man has always sensed something

    11. To get fuel from the basket meant the receiving airplane had to have a probe, a long metal pole to stick into the basket to make connection with the female receptacle at the center


    12. They went forward and she retrieved the can, once a receptacle for tomato sauce


    13. Duprina dismembered the grasses with the hands, little by little, and they were falling down slowly swinging like snowflakes on the receptacle


    14. The waitress returned shortly with ice water and two glasses then came back with a bowl of hot coals which fitted into the receptacle in the centre of the table beneath the barbeque plate


    15. He lost count after fourteen, concentrating on the different tastes in each small receptacle


    16. receptacle and put my hands on my hips, facing off with her


    17. The title he selected may have been more appropriate for a fraternity party after the last bottle of Labatt Blue was consumed and all the empty bottles returned to its receptacle


    18. spittune – the receptacle for what comes out of the mouth of a phlegmboyant singer


    19. An intravenous feed line was attached to his left arm and a further vinyl conduit drained fluids into a receptacle by the bed


    20. Salad Juice: I’ll fill my blender full of spinach, and then use it as the receptacle for all

    21. “It is the receptacle for part of the spiritual essence of The One and opened to me a number of new powers


    22. the closest receptacle and hurled


    23. I sat down there, I vomited into a waste receptacle, and I cried some more


    24. There was some toilet paper and disinfectant on the table, and a trash receptacle for him to use


    25. There was also a receptacle for power and an internet connection


    26. in the same receptacle


    27. nor the disciple a receptacle


    28. The sterile tube was then placed in a receptacle attached to the side of a suction cup that formed around the female genitals with a tube leading inside her, directly to the womb


    29. So, why are most humans so darned preoccupied with bodies? Even though their religions hold that the body is nothing but a receptacle for the soul, which lives on forever (for some, in a better place) after its host’s demise, many of the most religious among us seem to put more emphasis on doing things with the remains, rather than accepting the loss of direct communication with the spirit


    30. is a receptacle in which “Soul” lives and functions

    31. He was not responsible to post guards at his trash receptacle any more than the next business


    32. Gathering his senses, he scrambled clumsily across the room to evacuate his bowels into the receptacle in the corner


    33. feet, with a common receptacle plug


    34. The traveler upon the Continent is surprised to find that every town of importance has its art-gallery and museum; these may be large or small, but each has a receptacle for the treasures of the locality, in which are constantly being placed valuable gifts and bequests


    35. George Lemasters said Gehenna is said to have been a receptacle of bones, bodies of beasts and criminals, and


    36. George Lemasters said Gehenna is said to have been a receptacle of bones, bodies of beasts


    37. George Lemasters said Gehenna is said to have been a receptacle of bones, bodies of beasts and


    38. George Lemasters said Gehenna is said to have been a receptacle of bones, bodies of beasts and criminals, and all unclean things


    39. It not only became the receptacle of the filth of the city, but paupers and malefactors were taken there and consumed, thus reducing public expense


    40. George Lemasters says Gehenna is said to have been a receptacle of bones, bodies of beasts and criminals, and all unclean things

    41. money with which he purchased this dwelling, as a private receptacle for


    42. The scout witnessed his departure with complacency, nodding his head after him, and muttering his good wishes; after which he very coolly set about an examination of the state of the larder, among the Hurons, the cavern, among other purposes, being used as a receptacle for the fruits of their hunts


    43. He rolled up the old stuff and jammed it in the trash receptacle


    44. But now I feel like a receptacle – an empty vessel to be filled at his whim


    45. “Drink this, Father,” she said, pushing the whisky in its strange receptacle into his child, and gulped noisily


    46. I had made her a receptacle of lurid things, but there was an odd recognition of my superiority—my accomplishments and my function—in her patience under my pain


    47. He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes


    48. He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly be seen, so hidden was it in the most sombre tones of the design which covered the wall-paper; a secret receptacle opened, a sort of false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags—a blue linen blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn cudgel shod with iron at both ends


    49. When a banknote is dropped, it is routed to the appropriate receptacle


    50. When it is returned, it is taken from the appropriate receptacle [j










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    Synonyms for "receptacle"

    receptacle canister bin can bucket package

    "receptacle" definitions

    a container that is used to put or keep things in


    enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts


    an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert