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condemn |
Used in |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
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- Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. (not reviewed by editor)
- At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim. (not reviewed by editor)
- Kat condemns it, because, he says, a man has to reckon with the possibility of an abdominal wound, and that is more dangerous on a full stomach than on an empty one. (not reviewed by editor)
- It is a great brotherhood, which adds something of the good-fellowship of the folk-song, of the feeling of solidarity of convicts, and of the desperate loyalty to one another of men condemned to death, to a condition of life arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlornness of death—seeking in a wholly unpathetic way a fleeting enjoyment of the hours as they come. (not reviewed by editor)
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as in: She condemned their plan |
as in: was condemned to life in prison |
as in: condemned the building |
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