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  • FRANK resumes his seat.   (source)
    resumes = begins again to take (goes back to)
  • And I resumed the struggle.   (source)
    resumed = began again
  • He resumes his pacing, counting to himself, and reaches the wall.   (source)
    resumes = begins again
  • Then the conversation was resumed—but this time in whispers.   (source)
    resumed = begun again
  • Dr. Gibbs soon resumes reading   (source)
    resumes = begins again
  • Mr. Fogg resumed the interrupted game with perfect calmness.   (source)
    resumed = began again
  • He resumed: "Come, let us see, Mathilde."   (source)
  • When this little interruption was over, Joe resumed:   (source)
    resumed = began again (continued after a pause)
  • he saw no obstacle to their happy life resuming its course.   (source)
    resuming = beginning again
  • The militants simply used the cash to buy more weapons and resumed their activities.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Sadge sprang up again and resumed his terrible shouting.†   (source)
  • By the end of the summer, the scraping of spoon and fork against the plate had replaced dinner table chatter and Baba had resumed retreating to his study after supper.†   (source)
  • The birds resume their song.†   (source)
  • He and Mom decided we should move back to the desert and resume our hunt for gold without our starter money.†   (source)
  • He baked biscuits and gave them away; when his mother, tired of the mess, booted him from her kitchen, he resumed baking in a neighbor's house.†   (source)
  • "Ready to resume play?" she asked Wood.†   (source)
  • Inger was smiling when she resumed her seat.†   (source)
  • I resumed my former habits — the aimless wandering, the examination of display windows, of theatre posters.†   (source)
  • My father resumed his job search.†   (source)
  • Resuming transmission.†   (source)
  • Conversations resumed, and I quickly introduced Paul around while Susie fetched him a hot toddy.†   (source)
  • Then she resumed her work.†   (source)
  • Friedrich resumed.†   (source)
  • Once we picked her up in the afternoons, however, the battles would resume.†   (source)
  • Chuck nudged Thomas with his elbow and the boys resumed their walk to the edge of the crowd, then waited in silence; any questions Thomas had were forgotten.†   (source)
  • He turned his back on the two and moved toward the door so he could get upstairs and resume his night's sleep.†   (source)
  • Classes resumed on Ludus II the following day, and Ludus was left for the Sixers and gunters to fight over.†   (source)
  • She drew a deep breath and closed her eyes, and her voice was thinner when she resumed speaking, as if that breath had cost her dearly.†   (source)
  • It took a moment before the officer recovered and resumed pushing him out the door.†   (source)
  • You will resume fighting then.†   (source)
  • Around us the Triathlon Terrors had diplomatically resumed their chatter.†   (source)
  • Sticky said, when the message broke off and didn't resume.†   (source)
  • I resumed following her.†   (source)
  • We resumed our drive.†   (source)
  • The bronze sword expanded, gleaming in the darkness, and the evil voice seemed to falter, just for a moment, before resuming its chant.†   (source)
  • " I hand him my resume and sample articles I'd written in school.†   (source)
  • She resumed banging her head against the pipe.†   (source)
  • Rose knelt down and resumed setting the facing pieces on the fabric.†   (source)
  • They resumed walking, waiting until her footsteps had vanished from their ears before speaking.†   (source)
  • He looked at me and smiled a little before his face resumed its dullness.†   (source)
  • When the pledge ends, life resumes.†   (source)
  • Only when he'd resumed normal breathing did he announce his opinion of the room's occupant—as either happy or unhappy with the academy; as possibly troubled by distant events at home, or in the past.†   (source)
  • Heather hops on the treadmill and resumes scheming.†   (source)
  • We resumed our search of the house and waited for the approaching wail of the fire engines.†   (source)
  • The shelling resumed sporadically after breakfast, and now, around six Rm.†   (source)
  • It traveled during the morning, halted when the sun was at its strongest, and resumed late in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • His face resumed its dull expression.†   (source)
  • I'm sure your husband's unit will resume paying his salary when he confesses, and we will return yours to its former level when you decide to cooperate.†   (source)
  • He created a great resume for me and mailed it off to various surf companies.†   (source)
  • Chastened, she resumed the tones of adult conversation.†   (source)
  • "Anyway," resumed Obierika, "they killed him and tied up his iron horse.†   (source)
  • Resume 08:00 my time tomorrow morning.†   (source)
  • She laughs, but screams again as the Sentinel resumes her torture.†   (source)
  • As she resumed her normal stride and approached the waiting area, she intercepted a nurse with a message for Jack Salmon in Room 582.†   (source)
  • As the game resumed, the wild-haired girl dropped the centaur's tail, and it went still once more.†   (source)
  • John had resumed his studies with Dr. Bulkeley.†   (source)
  • She's grown it to her shoulders now, and allowed it to resume what appears to be its natural shade, light brown with bits of blond here and there.†   (source)
  • Finally, she says, "Give me like five minutes," and then sits back down and resumes her writing.†   (source)
  • What passed for communication between them resumed when Mama Elena, who was inspecting the clothes each of the women had been sewing, discovered that Tita's creation, which was the most perfect, had not been basted before it was sewed.†   (source)
  • This was the resume of the man who was trying out for what might be said to be, without exaggeration, one of the most important jobs of the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • Slaves carried off the body, and the dancing resumed.†   (source)
  • We resume silence, and my thoughts circle around.†   (source)
  • Please, let the dancing resume.†   (source)
  • We resume our walk, me in one hand, the flowers in another.†   (source)
  • Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten— or twelve-line dictionary resume.†   (source)
  • The court returns there on Friday, and will resume examinations.†   (source)
  • Freezing a cell was like pressing a pause button: cell division, metabolism, and everything else simply stopped, then resumed after thawing as if you'd just pressed play again.†   (source)
  • "So the hours are pretty good then?" he resumed.†   (source)
  • Twelve o'clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and …. whew, it was one o'clock!†   (source)
  • Mr. Barbour had sat down again and resumed talking about his favorite topic: sailing.†   (source)
  • Nothing happened at first, and then he heard a whispering that paused and resumed and then became a continuous rhythmic noise.†   (source)
  • Another two weeks and I'm able to resume all of them.†   (source)
  • They had resumed their original positions, Ullman behind the desk and Jack in front of it, interviewer and interviewee, supplicant and reluctant patron.†   (source)
  • Movement and chatter resumed in the cafeteria.†   (source)
  • Then he'd simmer down and resume his visits on the floor of our room.†   (source)
  • Classes would resume on January 3 of the new year.†   (source)
  • It may be years before this mission resumes.†   (source)
  • The movie resumed.†   (source)
  • I resume my romping in the yard.†   (source)
  • Each time I awoke and resumed cutting, I would be made to pass out.†   (source)
  • Under the bloody net Sean Junior and Michael resumed their endless struggle for supremacy in miniature basketball.†   (source)
  • With Lee's surrender, soldiers shed their uniforms, turned in their weapons, and rode or walked home to resume their lives.†   (source)
  • Lately she had begun talking of returning one day to Dwight to resume her work for Dr. Keeley.†   (source)
  • They stopped to eat at a McDonald's because Adam had a weakness for hamburgers and then they resumed the journey and the sun came out now and then.†   (source)
  • Sethe resumed her chair and the silence continued.†   (source)
  • And hastily he resumed his Bible reading.†   (source)
  • Jordan said that there was nothing he could do about it, and turned around, resuming his conversation.†   (source)
  • He gets up off the bar stool and resumes his slow orbit, scanning the Nipponese Quadrant.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, just six weeks after that recall, the USDA resumed its purchases from Supreme Beef, once again allowing the company to supply ground beef for the nation's schools.†   (source)
  • "Anyhow," Adam says, resuming his search for the light switch, "I can't go to her grandparents.†   (source)
  • The police left after they had resumed some order.†   (source)
  • Babette's voice resumed its tone of straight narration.†   (source)
  • The woman at his feet glanced up when they came in, then bent over to resume her work.†   (source)
  • Since she had no means of finding out (though she did once try to get Kochu Maria to examine the bedsheets for stains), Mammachi could only hope that Margaret Kochamma was not intending to resume her sexual relationship with Chacko.†   (source)
  • But almost immediately, she resumed her composure and asked in a steady voice: "Will you come up and see him?"†   (source)
  • They read tons of resumes from "A" students with many accomplishments.†   (source)
  • The music would stop, and an irritated female voice resumed the quarrel.†   (source)
  • She seemed to almost billow into a curtsy before resuming her task.†   (source)
  • It appears that Master Hemme wishes to resume your instruction at this point.†   (source)
  • The party resumed, and Nathaniel quickly swung back to normal, drifting with the music and carrying on as if nothing had happened.†   (source)
  • As he watched, the blisters faded, the pain lessening, the skin resuming its normal pallor.†   (source)
  • On the fourth night, when both resumed their ordinary habits, Dr. Juvenal Urbino was surprised that his young wife did not pray before going to sleep.†   (source)
  • Halleck sat back, resumed strumming the baliset.†   (source)
  • The wars resumed, but on a smaller scale.†   (source)
  • The "Dark Ages" were merely the resumption of a natural way of life that had been momentarily interrupted by the Greeks.†   (source)
  • I sat in silence for a few moments as Colton resumed his bombing campaign.†   (source)
  • I resumed my schedule, driving to work, writing my column, coming home again.†   (source)
  • 10 Alvin Hooks skirted the edge of his table and resumed the slow, fluid pacing of the floorboards that had been part of his strategy all morning.†   (source)
  • Sophie had already resumed her place.†   (source)
  • But when he was gone she heard the demolition blows of distant artillery, the unmaking of buildings, large-scale fighting having resumed somewhere, and she was worried for him on his drive home, and she thought it an absurd situation that she would have to wait until she went to work the following day to discover whether he had traversed the distance to his home safely.†   (source)
  • "In any case," Mameha went on, "nothing will change until Mrs. Nitta lets you resume your training."†   (source)
  • Instead, hair still dripping, they resumed the hike, gobbling snack cakes and sharing a can of warm soda.†   (source)
  • The rest of us resumed our game, but it wasn't as much fun now that our beloved captain was gone.†   (source)
  • Then she turned back to the Store and resumed, "Glory, glory, hallelujah, when I lay my burden down."†   (source)
  • Classes would resume the next day.†   (source)
  • And the conversation resumed.†   (source)
  • Vanger resumed the history: "Gottfried Vanger died childless in 1901.†   (source)
  • After I recov-ered, several months went by before I resumed my catechism.†   (source)
  • "But listen," he resumed.†   (source)
  • The sooner I forgot the accident, the sooner my life would resume its normal pace.†   (source)
  • His wife said, "I do," resumed her darning, and was forced by tears to stop.†   (source)
  • It wasn't something he'd put on his resume, but Jordan was especially gifted at cutting the rug to Wiggles songs.†   (source)
  • Why would he consider resuming his past life?†   (source)
  • There, they built a fire and, after eating some of the rabbit meat they had carefully rationed, they returned for their sleds and resumed their journey.†   (source)
  • When the case resumed a week later I was given permission to address the court before I was asked to plead.†   (source)
  • And so down the line it went, with each guest rising briefly; making a short speech, and then resuming his place.†   (source)
  • He watches my face for a few seconds and then resumes nodding.†   (source)
  • Then the train resumed its journey, leaving behind it a few hundred naked dead, deprived of burial, in the deep snow of a held in Poland.†   (source)
  • "Be quick about it," the old woman says when I appear in the kitchen to resume my duties.†   (source)
  • He squirms around and finally clears his tbroat, and the nurse looks at her watch and tells us to bring the tables back in from the tub room and we'll resume this discussion again at one tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Her players resumed their practice shots, but they now seemed distracted.†   (source)
  • In her arms Phoebe gasped, caught her breath, and resumed her crying.†   (source)
  • "The men had done their work badly," resumed Holly.†   (source)
  • When Henri was Selected, his family put out a call for a reliable translator, and I submitted my resume, flew to Sota, and now I have a new job.†   (source)
  • Papi returned home and had trouble resuming his routine.†   (source)
  • I think I'll call you Nala because you are a little lioness," I told her, resuming my scratching.†   (source)
  • But then time resumes, and the air doesn't hold her, and as she drops there's a piercing sound splitting the darkness and again it takes me a long time to realize it's me, screaming.†   (source)
  • Stoddard himself was well aware that a factory girl could not with propriety accept a seat in his car; yet when once they were settled side by side, and the car resumed that swift, tireless climb which is the wonder and delight of the mechanical vehicle, it was characteristic that both put aside definitely and completely all hesitations and doubts.†   (source)
  • She held it for a moment, then resumed her normal standing position.†   (source)
  • Jason took a sip of his and resumed his report.†   (source)
  • The "white" resumes have always gleaned more job interviews.†   (source)
  • When her letter resumes, she tells us "I was all turned around and more tired than I can ever remember being.†   (source)
  • I had written enough jail-house resumes by now to know that a lot of the ladies had only worked in the (enormous) underground economy.†   (source)
  • After the elder Ramius again resumed control of his son's life, this religious education faded into Marko's memory, neither fully remembered nor fully forgotten.†   (source)
  • Ned Tym and his friends soon resumed their card game, but the other players' nerves were shaken and Ned soon drained them of money.†   (source)
  • Woineshet fled to Addis Ababa, where she moved into her father's shack and resumed her studies.†   (source)
  • Training resumed slowly, starting with a lot of stretching exercises.†   (source)
  • Mother resumes her meticulous yarn architecture.†   (source)
  • When there was no more information from the central government, the school eventually resumed its normal schedule.†   (source)
  • And with them gone, especially in northern Afghanistan, poppy planting had resumed with a vengeance.†   (source)
  • The 28th threw all three of its battalions onto the line, and the hidden Japanese gunners resumed their harvest.†   (source)
  • Her face was changing, resuming its usual expression of gleeful malice.†   (source)
  • Then he resumes talking to us.†   (source)
  • "Everybody's gotta be able to do something with their hands," Drew says, idly running his fingers through Sunshine's hair while Tierney glowers at him before resuming bong construction.†   (source)
  • With that he resumed his work as if they were not even there.†   (source)
  • And he started to resume; then, glancing at the boy, he smiled.†   (source)
  • Steamer crossings to Europe were resumed, after being suspended during four years of war, and new routes, this time to North America, became the rage.†   (source)
  • When the game resumed, it was not good any longer.†   (source)
  • With one section poised before his mouth, he resumed.†   (source)
  • Not unexpectedly, Kate resumed her advertisement for the McTiernan Medical Group.†   (source)
  • Everyone returns to the couch or chair where they were a moment ago, and the room's hive of conversation resumes.†   (source)
  • Before it could resume, however, a suitable interpreter had to be found.†   (source)
  • If you would like to resume your seats …†   (source)
  • They resumed their embrace under the covers.†   (source)
  • And the only reason he hadn't resumed his education after he'd settled Mother in was because his older sister needed him.†   (source)
  • Then he looked down at the book and resumed his reading.†   (source)
  • The bell rang and class was set to resume.†   (source)
  • Resuming their positions, Enrique struck out the next batter, and the final hitter bounced a grounder to Angel at shortstop to end the inning.†   (source)
  • Sunday night the firing resumed and again the British responded with full crescendo.†   (source)
  • Any officer whose discharge of weapon resulted in termination of life was required to undergo emotional and psychiatric clearance before resuming duty.†   (source)
  • She resumed her studies as a grown woman, hunched over a fifth grade reader.†   (source)
  • After the brief, awkward confrontation with the American, Carlos had resumed his ice-cold inquisition, his burning savage self just below the frozen surface.†   (source)
  • I was blurred and vacant from the blow to my head and slept for nigh on a whole day and night before I was steady enough to resume my search for them.†   (source)
  • I bow my head, resuming the position of address.†   (source)
  • His voice, when he resumed, was measured.†   (source)
  • Celia's life resumes a stale, familiar air.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure I wouldn't be the first you drove to apoplexy," snapped Attolia, but resumed her climb at a slower pace.†   (source)
  • Every Tuesday during my senior year he would bring in people to talk about job opportunities and how you can get jobs, building your resume, etc. Stuff that would help the players when their playing careers were over, and he took away from practice time to do that for us.†   (source)
  • He didn't resume practice.†   (source)
  • Yet when Marina finally arrives in Dallas, on November 3, their domestic battles resume.†   (source)
  • I resume following him and hope he knows where we're going.†   (source)
  • They waited until the door closed after him, then resumed their seats; they did not look at one another.†   (source)
  • Constanza took Jessica's arm and resumed their march toward the cars, continuing where she had left off.†   (source)
  • She tosses her head and resumes her work as if nothing's happened.†   (source)
  • With immigration resumed after World War II, New York again became its doorway, and remains so to this day.†   (source)
  • The PRINCE considerately offers the RESIDENT'S wife his hand and dancing is resumed.†   (source)
  • He began to chew on itas he resumed speaking.†   (source)
  • An hour later, court resumed.†   (source)
  • The nightingale resumed its song.†   (source)
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