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accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four
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The lab can accommodate up to 30 students at one time.
accommodate = provide for
- We want an extra room so we can accommodate overnight guests.
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- This hotel can accommodate up to 350 guests.
- They bulge outward because his eye cavities are too shallow to accommodate them. (source)
- But it might be hard finding a car with enough room to accommodate four kids and two adults. (source)
- The idea was that certain family units could accommodate an additional child. (source)
- He sat back and loosened his belt to accommodate the bulge in his waistband from the .38-caliber revolver he'd brought along for protection. (source)
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It could easily accommodate the bottle Claude had set aside—the bottle that had not been a figment of his imagination.
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accommodate = fit (provide for)
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Equally breathtaking was the corridor's width, which easily could have accommodated a pair of side-by-side passenger trains.
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accommodated = provided for
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The grave had been dug deep, to accommodate many coffins,
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accommodate = provide for
- If the brackets stick out far enough to accommodate two panels, I could store eight additional panels that way. (source)
- In the formerly protected greenbelt around London a ring of new cities was being built, cities that would be able to accommodate more people again than London itself. (source)
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The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome.
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accommodated = provided for
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Its furnishings are typical and undistinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years—and they are tired.
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accommodate = provide for
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Lou wondered how timid Oz, a champion user of the bathroom in the middle of the night, would get along with this accommodation.
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accommodation = provision (of things needed)
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Philippa was already busy with the task of cleaning out Celaena's closet to accommodate more clothing.†
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accommodate = fit
- They'd been able to place Adnan's parents in a mosque the previous night, but there were already hundreds of people there, sleeping on the floors, and they couldn't accommodate more.† (source)
- Beginning with our Cro-Magnon ancestors, human skull size expanded to accommodate more complex brains.† (source)
- The next day, Wednesday, was the proper start of the trial; it was also the first time ordinary spectators were admitted into the courtroom, an area too small to accommodate more than a modest percentage of those who applied at the door.† (source)
- After additional bleachers had been assembled, its two fields could accommodate more than five thousand fans.† (source)
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For Novastoshnah Beach has the finest accommodation for seals of any place in all the world.
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accommodation = provision (to provide for)
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I want clothing—and other accommodation; and I must also have those three books.
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accommodation = provision (of things needed)
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I entered — not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation.
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accommodation = provision
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But Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle-case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers.
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accommodated = provided
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The resource occurred to him now as so easy and agreeable, especially as Marner's hoard was likely to be large enough to leave Godfrey a handsome surplus beyond his immediate needs, and enable him to accommodate his faithful brother, that he had almost turned the horse's head towards home again.
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accommodate = provide for
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'I've arranged to be accommodated there, for as long as I shall stay,' I answered.
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accommodated = provided for
- Mrs. Archbold stepped accommodatingly into the breach.† (source)
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And so to accommodate that—you mutilate it every week?
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accommodate = provide for
- Many customs laws were absurd, anyway, and if Biggin Hill didn't accommodate its clients, certainly competing airfields would. (source)
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…in spite of all Dr. Grant's very great kindness, it was impossible for him and his horses to be accommodated where they now were without material inconvenience;
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accommodated = provided for
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They preferred taking it out of doors, under the trees, and I set a little table to accommodate them.
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accommodate = provide for
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The room had then become useless, and for some time was quite deserted, except by Fanny, when she visited her plants, or wanted one of the books, which she was still glad to keep there, from the deficiency of space and accommodation in her little chamber above: but gradually, as her value for the comforts of it increased, she had added to her possessions, and spent more of her time there; and having nothing to oppose her, had so naturally and so artlessly worked herself into it, that…
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accommodation = provision
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A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return, Isabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter, and arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.
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accommodations = provisions
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Embellished with over two hundred stained-glass windows, a fifty-three-bell carillon, and a 10,647-pipe organ, this Gothic masterpiece can accommodate more than three thousand worshippers.†
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accommodate = fit
- Mr. Weston's dining-room does not accommodate more than ten comfortably; and for my part, I would rather, under such circumstances, fall short by two than exceed by two.† (source)
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Because of course uptodate tourist travelling was as yet merely in its infancy, so to speak, and the accommodation left much to be desired.
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accommodation = provision (of things needed)
- Seeing they were all looking at his chest he accommodatingly dragged his shirt more open so that on top of the timehonoured symbol of the mariner's hope and rest they had a full view of the figure 16 and a young man's sideface looking frowningly rather.† (source)
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accommodate as in: moved to accommodate her
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She accommodates different learning styles.
accommodates = adjusts for (different needs)
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The scientists had to accommodate existing theories to surprising new data.
accommodate = adjusts (to fit a need)
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They reached an accommodation with Japan.
accommodation = arrangement (that satisfies competing interests)
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They had to accommodate various interests to get a majority.
accommodate = adjust to (fit a need)
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Her eyes squinted to accommodate her smile.
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accommodate = adjust for
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The sheets rose up, trying hard to accommodate the occupant.
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accommodate = adjust to fit
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So that was the accommodation I made: silence, helpfulness.
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She could be so vehement at times and, yet, when everything had been put her way, so gentle and accommodating and radiating certainty that the world was in order.
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accommodating = helpful
- Still, he was pleasant, respectful, generous, and accommodating, which made him well liked by the people with whom he did business, whether black or white. (source)
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Like a lazy parent who found it easier to acquiesce to the whims of a spoiled child than to stand firm and teach values, the Church just kept softening at every turn, trying to reinvent itself to accommodate a culture gone astray.
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accommodate = adjust for
- He had to stoop a little to accommodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do. (source)
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He condemned openly Mr. Brown's policy of compromise and accommodation.
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accommodation = arrangement to satisfy competing interests
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And Granmère said, all prissy, "Well, if you don't try to accommodate the media, they're just going to try to get the story any way they can, which means they'll keep showing up at your school."
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accommodate = adjust for
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Troy is fifty-three years old, a large man with thick, heavy hands; it is this largeness that he strives to fill out and make an accommodation with.
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accommodation = arrangement
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Sometimes a few other netters would interpose comments, but Peter and Val would usually ignore them or change their own comments only slightly to accommodate what had been said.
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accommodate = adjust for
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It's made him very accommodating, since he's not blind to Mother's faults.
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accommodating = helpful
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They made special requests of teachers and doctors to adjust procedures to accommodate their desires.
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accommodate = adjust for
- It was decorated with appliqued hearts, in colors only available in Wonderland, and the dress was a rare sight even there, where it would be taken from the princess' wardrobe and aired only once a year, the royal tailors refitting it to accommodate Alyss' growing body. (source)
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One size can fit all because the skirt flares out and the top is ribbed elastic that can stretch to accommodate most anyone.
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accommodate = adjust to fit
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Whether to flee or fight or seek an accommodation.
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accommodation = arrangement to satisfy competing interests
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"I think they'd be quite happy to accommodate you," Mr. Tall said drily.
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accommodate = help
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"I was layin' off to go over to the Deep Spring neighbourhood when I could git a lift in that direction—the folks over yon is mighty accommodative," she concluded, "but I was took sooner than I expected, and hyer we air without a stitch, I've done sont Bud an' Honey to Mandy Ann Foncher's mebby they'll bring in somethin'."
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accommodative = helpful
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He is cold, but he moves his arm to accommodate me, like he's half-holding me.
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accommodate = adjust for
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...wished the Savage would turn round so that he could get a good close-up of the blood on his back–and almost instantly (what astonishing luck!) the accommodating fellow did turn round, and he was able to take a perfect close-up.
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accommodating = helpful
- Kropp is contented now and more accommodating: "How many of us were there in the class exactly?" (source)
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He was fit, that was all, and unconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life.
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accommodated = adjusted to fit
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I was to go to "Barnard's Inn," to young Mr. Pocket's rooms, where a bed had been sent in for my accommodation; I was to remain with young Mr. Pocket until Monday; on Monday I was to go with him to his father's house on a visit, that I might try how I liked it.
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accommodation = benefit
- Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty. (source)
- But they are very much alike: they are spoiled children, and fancy the world was made for their accommodation; and though I humour both, I think a smart chastisement might improve them all the same.' (source)
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"Now," continued Aramis, "as the ladies did not see the singer come back, and as he was found in the Rue Payenne with a great sword wound through his body, it was supposed that I had accommodated him thus; and the matter created some scandal which obliged me to renounce the cassock for a time."
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accommodated = helped
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He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
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accommodation = benefit (help to)
- Usually, if I'm waiting to be called by someone who doesn't know me, I will respond to just about any name starting with an F. Having been called Froozy, Frizzy, Fiorucci, and Frooz and just plain "Uhhhh...," I am highly accommodating.† (source)
- Even though Wang knew that the canal was capable of accommodating ships as large as seventy thousand tons, witnessing such a large ship in such a narrow waterway was a strange feeling.† (source)
- Accommodating him was a priority I could not neglect for an instant.† (source)
- But Harry was pretty certain that McGonagall would not be so accommodating this time.† (source)
- And not very accommodating.† (source)
- Maybe if we had conducted our lives differently in the past, had not been so accommodating, nor so malleable—how was it that everyone had left the land and we had stayed behind?† (source)
- But Marion was warm and accommodating, even when Mae was asking to take out a kayak a few hours before closing, as she was this day.† (source)
- No doubt the Lannisters will be accommodating.† (source)
- "Sure," I said, a bit too quickly, anxious to be accommodating.† (source)
- Not the accommodating police officer of their previous meeting.† (source)
- The centaur clipped a small cylinder into the accommodating groove on Holly's helmet.† (source)
- Nor could she simply change her registration to another teahouse whose mistress might be more accommodating in helping her find a danna; none of the other mistresses would want to damage their relationships with the Mizuki.† (source)
- We must be accommodating.† (source)
- The tribal leaders saw that we were bad-asses, and they'd better get their act together, work together, and stop accommodating the insurgents.† (source)
- His voice shifted from its usual bullying bark to an accommodating softness.† (source)
- In Clarkston, accommodating soccer would have been easier than in most places for the simple reason that there was no competition for field time in Milam Park.† (source)
- Face it, sweetheart, you're accommodating.† (source)
- My body is growing every day, accommodating the baby inside of me.† (source)
- The industry is barely adequate to accommodating the vast numbers of dead.† (source)
- The Rose Garden Hotel, while hardly luxurious, is certainly homely and comfortable, and one cannot begrudge the extra expense of accommodating oneself here.† (source)
- I explained how as a lawyer I was often forced to choose between compliance with the law and accommodating my conscience.† (source)
- In any case, the most common pelvis for women is gynecoid, which is most accommodating of the birth process (but is not found on great women runners) and is particularly common among Caucasian women.† (source)
- The revolving doors led to a glass-walled atrium, the ceiling extending up at least three stories and accommodating a real tree.† (source)
- What I don't really get, is just why he's being so accommodating.† (source)
- Casual and nonconfrontational, upbeat and accommodating, Rob can get along with anyone-it's a point of pride for him.† (source)
- Very much a tease, sometimes accommodating his appetites, sometimes refusing.† (source)
- Despite his advancing age, his mind remained as sharp as ever, but unfortunately his body wasn't quite so accommodating.† (source)
- Instead, he flew to Katmandu, Nepal, where the American Consulate was reputed to be more accommodating.† (source)
- Always crossing that distance, crossing town, accommodating, making excuses.† (source)
- The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 didn't actually come into play until five years later, when the Supreme Court upheld the decision in the case of Cutter v. Wilkinson, where a bunch of Ohio prisoners who were Satanists sued the state for not accommodating their religious needs.† (source)
- British reluctance to be accommodating was quite as great as the American need for equitable resolutions.† (source)
- Madame Lu, for her part, was most welcoming and accommodating.† (source)
- You're not only second-rate, you're accommodating.† (source)
- Deo shifted slightly, trying to make his shoulder a more accommodating pillow.† (source)
- Puller had decided not to be so accommodating.† (source)
- Or maybe the pines were even more accommodating fuel than mesquite and manzanita and grass.† (source)
- He was the most accommodating father.† (source)
- Then he looked up at Leaxnas, all wide-eyed and accommodating.† (source)
- I said something mild and accommodating, but before I could add anything else she announced, "I'm going to leave you two alone to talk.† (source)
- BERENGER: [aside] I'm sorry I wasn't more accommodating.† (source)
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...and over that time they'd come to a new set of accommodations for how to be together.
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accommodations = adjustments
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There are hundreds of ways we accommodate physical disabilities—or at least understand them.
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accommodate = adjust to provide for
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I'm not going to accommodate you no kind of way.
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accommodate = help
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The judge and the prosecutor were suddenly generous and accommodating.
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accommodating = adjusting something to provide for a need; or being helpful
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The sight of him raced ahead of her thoughts, condensing only afterward into distinct, namable feelings, as if her mind were accommodating too slowly the flash of a bright light: overwhelming relief, knowing her son was safe; fury, for his punishingly long absence; bewilderment at his appearance, which spoke of a long, harrowing journey.
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accommodating = adjusting
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Some states made executions more accommodating of victims by increasing the number of people from the victim's family who could watch the execution.
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accommodating = helpful
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By the landlord's intervention, however, the dispute was accommodated.
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accommodated = settled to satisfy competing interests
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To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour's notice, whenever she were weary of the place.
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accommodate = help
- But I was willing to accommodate you by undertaking to sell the horse, seeing it's not convenient to you to go so far to-morrow. (source)
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And Edmund, silenced, was obliged to acknowledge that the charm of acting might well carry fascination to the mind of genius; and with the ingenuity of love, to dwell more on the obliging, accommodating purport of the message than on anything else.
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I accommodated him by taking the horse, though it was against my will, for I'd got an itch for a mare o' Jortin's—as rare a bit o' blood as ever you threw your leg across.
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accommodated = helped
- Perhaps he's been too tentative, too accommodating; perhaps something more drastic may be in order.† (source)
- The Banque Normandie was accommodating, was it not?† (source)
- Now if only Robert's brothers would be so accommodating.† (source)
- 'Mr Liang is very accommodating,' said David.† (source)
- They're very accommodating around Jeddah, you know, to Westerners.† (source)
- The one down to the undervault was no more accommodating.† (source)
- "They both claim to be oh so accommodating, but you notice how—" Denny broke off.† (source)
- The assassin, on the other hand, had proved to be less accommodating.† (source)
- You will find her to be noble, infinitely patient and accommodating.† (source)
- Nonetheless, the Governor-at the urging of Reverend Verringer, I suppose — has gone out of his way to be accommodating, and has arranged to have Grace Marks placed at my disposal for several hours every afternoon.† (source)
- And you're that accommodating?† (source)
- Monsieur d'Amacourt's secretary was less accommodating, the bank officer's screening process activated, as Marie had predicted.† (source)
- Bartenders and charwomen are not in the way of accommodating their clients with credit, but their information is treasured by those who are.† (source)
- "Sweet sister," he explained patiently, "offend Tyrell and you offend Redwyne, Tarly, Rowan, and Hightower as well, and perhaps start them wondering whether Robb Stark might not be more accommodating of their desires."† (source)
- In the lobby, under a bulletin board where climbers posted pictures from recent expeditions, two long wood plank tables were perfect for accommodating the lengthy tea parties it took to do any sort of business in town.† (source)
- I was sometimes condemned for appearing to be too accommodating to prison officials, but I was willing to accept the criticism in exchange for the improvement.† (source)
- Then more shame at seeing his father—with an accommodating "we all understand how it is" smile—buckle before the policemen.† (source)
- As I say, I am not certain if Miss Kenton entered with her vase of flowers, but I certainly do recall her saying: "Mr Stevens, your room looks even less accommodating at night than it does in the day.† (source)
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accommodations as in: hotel accommodations
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Overnight accommodations are available.
accommodations = lodgings
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We hope you will find the accommodations adequate.
accommodations = space or lodgings
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First, Jurassic Park has all the problems of any amusement park-ride maintenance, queue control, transportation, food handling, living accommodations, trash disposal, security.
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accommodations = space to stay
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Since they were visitors, they would have to share living space with those who lived there, and would be given the best accommodations.
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accommodations = space and provisions or lodging
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Due to the unfortunate damage to the coffee shop SHIN HOO'S RESTAURANT is prepared to satisfy all dinner accommodations.
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accommodations = services needed
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Give those folks nice clean accommodations.
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He reported as instructed to the relevant government department and was told to find accommodations nearby and to report back weekly until his role was decided.
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accommodations = lodging (a place to stay)
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Considering my performance in the classroom thus far, I was well on my way to needing state-sponsored accommodations.
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Despite his plush accommodations, he had always dreamed of owning a riverside apartment on L'lle Saint-Louis, where he could rub shoulders with the true cognoscenti, rather than here, where he simply met the filthy rich.
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accommodations = lodging space (place to stay)
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A Unique Facility for the Temporary Accommodation of Jews and Other Dispossessed Persons
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accommodation = lodging
- "The bunkers," the girl began in the bored voice of a museum guide, "are for the accommodation of those who fail to cooperate with camp rules." (source)
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Campus accommodations befitted students of my stature.
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- Mother stayed in Los Angeles long enough to get us settled, then she returned to San Francisco to arrange living accommodations for her abruptly enlarged family. (source)
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Private accommodation is getting scarcer.
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I will get you a ticket to London and reserve your sleeping-car accommodation in the Stamboul-Calais coach.
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accommodation = space
- The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion. (source)
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But I had as sound a sleep in that lodging as in the most superior accommodation the Boar could have given me, and the quality of my dreams was about the same as in the best bedroom.
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As to staying here, I don't keep accommodations for visitors: you must share a bed with Hareton or Joseph, if you do.
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In fact, unless it rained, everyone had his own private sleeping accommodations.
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"Not everyone," the girl observed in the same detached drawl, "seems to appreciate the accommodations at the bunkers."
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- The arrival of his breakfast roused him, and he said to the drawer, as he moved his chair to it: "I wish accommodation prepared for a young lady who may come here at any time to-day." (source)
- Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation of the squire when he went there in the season to shoot. (source)
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- My life became one long-running Oprah show, minus the free luxury accommodations in Chicago, and Oprah.† (source)
- Sometimes there were so many of them that the gatehouse couldn't accommodate them all.† (source)
- Simply put, there was not enough space to accommodate such a civilized hour.† (source)
- The room is just big enough to accommodate his size, and no bigger.† (source)
- It also said that the lifeboat was designed to accommodate a maximum of thirty-two people.† (source)
- Like those disinterred dead from his childhood that had been relocated to accommodate a highway.† (source)
- They accommodate everyone.† (source)
- We must accommodate our lives to the fever for a few weeks, but we shan't overthrow our daily routines.† (source)
- The trouble is, about a hundred thousand wizards turn up at the World Cup, and of course, we just haven't got a magical site big enough to accommodate them all.† (source)
- You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't.† (source)
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- His knees bent to accommodate his height.† (source)
- We thought we'd found our accommodations, until we went inside and saw that it had indeed been converted, but into a dingy little museum, not a B&B.† (source)
- "The accommodations could be better," he says.† (source)
- There would be, as the brochure said, "several comfort zones to accommodate varying sizes of hogs."† (source)
- The ceilings had no crawl space, and the air vents were too small to accommodate her.† (source)
- It was the same size and material as her left, but with a larger screen to accommodate video and a summation of all of her data on her usual screens.† (source)
- We're perfectly willing to accommodate.† (source)
- To the rest of us he said, "You need accommodations, we got accommodations.† (source)
- seen, but even so, it had accommodations for less than a third of the king's party, which had swollen to more than four hundred with the addition of her father's household and the freeriders who had joined them on the road.† (source)
- Effie's the only reason we got anywhere on time in the Capitol, so I try to accommodate her.† (source)
- When she tried again she could not be accommodated.† (source)
- I expertly angled my raisin bran to accommodate the g-forces.† (source)
- It was flat, and wide enough and deep enough to accommodate the Aurora.† (source)
- Knew how in my house my mother had tried to decorate it to accommodate Buckley's late arrival by stenciling battleships along the top of the pink walls.† (source)
- "Change can be accommodated by any system depending on its rate," Crake used to say.† (source)
- She can ensure that accommodations are adequately prepared.† (source)
- After Gross-Rosen, not one of us had any complaints about our accommodations.† (source)
- But Miss Garber was relentless, and just that day she'd told us the Playhouse was going to bring in extra seats to accommodate the extra-large crowd expected.† (source)
- Temporary accommodations?† (source)
- But in the mess hall that evening it was clear that an accommodation had been reached.† (source)
- Rider Eragon, I will do everything to accommodate you, but it would be best if Saphira waits in the dragonhold while you eat.† (source)
- Actually, the small banquet room could have accommodated probably twenty or twenty-five people; and now that the party had shrunk in size, only Mr. Arashino, Nobu, and Dr. Crab remained.† (source)
- It's nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience.† (source)
- The accommodation didn't seem to appeal much to her either.† (source)
- It is a different brand of hospitality from what he is used to; for though the Ratliffs are generous, they are people who do not go out of their way to accommodate others, assured, in his case correctly, that their life will appeal to him.† (source)
- Later, they made an adventure of the cabin, arranging the furniture to accommodate the cot.† (source)
- The accommodations were as Sim had described, nothing fancy.† (source)
- Only the rearmost cabin-the captain's cabin, if that is what it was-approached the size and comfort of standard accommodations on the Benares.† (source)
- What to do with those whom society cannot accommodate?† (source)
- He was used to such accommodations but had always shared them with his siblings.† (source)
- Langdon couldn't help but notice that the layout was identical to a fourteen-tomb mausoleum—seven vaults facing seven vaults—with one removed to accommodate the stairs they had just descended.† (source)
- Every move, every statement by or about that character has to accommodate the lack of sight; every other character has to notice, to behave differently, if only in subtle ways.† (source)
- But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view.† (source)
- During the afternoon rehearsal it became apparent that the stage was far too small to accommodate the entire cast of Etude.† (source)
- Of course, King Clarkson has provided us with the most beautiful accommodations, I can't imagine anything better than what we already have.† (source)
- Some of us were transferred to 8 Narbutt Street to prepare accommodation for a unit of SS officers.† (source)
- Michael might need to change planes, and he'd certainly need to accommodate the airlines' schedules.† (source)
- Cursed argr nearly tore my face off when he saw his accommodations.† (source)
- They walked a bit, his pace slowed to accommodate her skip.† (source)
- Josh eased his foot off the accelerator and turned the battered and scarred SUV down a long narrow track that was barely wide enough to accommodate the car.† (source)
- And for the record, I've since changed my fighting style to accommodate my weaker hand.† (source)
- Er, Dad, you know, we don't really have the best accommodations here.† (source)
- The meeting was in the gym because it was the only place at Jackson big enough to accommodate the number of people that were likely to show up.† (source)
- I had cut the right leg of my sweatpants off above the knee to accommodate my external fixator.† (source)
- A few weeks before summer, just as Eric is looking into airfare and accommodations, Pari discovers she is pregnant.† (source)
- Sometimes we go out to a restaurant in the Atlanta Underground, or see a film at a theater that accommodates his wheelchair.† (source)
- Palmer believed the building could accommodate all the contributions, especially those sent by prominent women.† (source)
- On Red October the officers' accommodations and galley are aft.† (source)
- How could they accommodate everyone?† (source)
- And in entertaining visitors at Pointe du Lac-those hapless travelers who came up the river road by horseback or carriage begging accommodations for the night, sporting letters of introduction from other planters or officials in New Orleans.† (source)
- For now, whenever I'm invited to speak, I ask if transportation and accommodations can he provided for my family too.† (source)
- Florida was trying to come up with a plan that might accommodate some of those requests, while still giving me sufficient time for football and classes.† (source)
- And we need to procure new accommodations.† (source)
- Because Camp Three was the only camp on the entire mountain that we didn't share with the Sherpas (the ledge was too small to accommodate tents for all of us), it meant that here we had to do our own cooking-which mostly amounted to melting prodigious quantities of ice for drinking water.† (source)
- It was a box, no larger than my thumbnail, which grew or shrank to accommodate whatever it was called upon to hold.† (source)
- But had Art also accommodated to her?† (source)
- He copied the model of a prewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a hot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments.† (source)
- To accommodate the unexpected travelers, the Captain, a giant from Curacao, called on the passengers' indigenous sense of patriotism.† (source)
- "Find yourself an accommodation," Dona Charito ordered.† (source)
- But their brains aren't sophisticated enough to accommodate this particular state of mind.† (source)
- A walk down to the village could be accomplished in a half-hour or so and there I could surely find accommodation and a can of petrol.† (source)
- The government, in its slow and tentative way, was reckoning that they had to come to some accommodation with the ANC.† (source)
- They only run in the afternoon, to accommodate after-school activities.† (source)
- Officially it has 150 beds, but there are usually 250 patients, and it manages to accommodate them.† (source)
- The boy swallowed hard and the membranous black wings protruding from his narrow shoulder blades (he had cut slits in the back of his denim jacket to accommodate them) flapped nervously.† (source)
- Lucien thanked Jared Wolkowicz for his accommodations.† (source)
- They're making (they say) accommodation for 1,200-1,300 women and children in that little Park!† (source)
- Instead he took small steps to accommodate hers.† (source)
- Dewey's sympathy, however, was not deep enough to accommodate either forgiveness or mercy.† (source)
- He demands a seven-foot-long mattress in each hotel room, to accommodate his large frame—not that he sleeps much: long after his staff has gone to sleep, LBJ is still at work, making phone calls back to Washington and reading diplomatic cables.† (source)
- There's not much in the way of accommodations or medical care north of here.† (source)
- To accommodate her.† (source)
- Ultimately, Yale had to bend to accommodate new ways of thinking and learning from a more diverse student body.† (source)
- To master this demanding curriculum, Adam completely changed his shooting stance, learning to shoot left-handed so as to best accommodate his nondominant eye.† (source)
- The sauna, though coveted by the many, could accommodate only the few, and the only way to get in was by pull.† (source)
- Piloted by the tall girl, Johnnie climbed the narrow stair to a long bare room where a row of double beds accommodated eight girls.† (source)
- Mr. Bonn will see to your accommodations and disguise.† (source)
- Alfred Sewell strolled through the city, noting that amid the heaps of rubbish and ruin, "builders were busily engaged in constructing scores of one-story sheds for the temporary accommodation of merchants, and what was a fortnight ago one of the finest residence avenues in the world is now lined with board shanties."† (source)
- A round peg to accommodate a feeding tube was fixed in the front of his neck, on either side of which bulb-shaped lumps of flesh stood out.† (source)
- The only thing lacking was a stiff breeze to accommodate the navy.† (source)
- 'I'm not going to disrupt our religious services just to accommodate a bunch of lousy atheists.† (source)
- He now wore a photographer's vest over his simple shalwar kamiz, with pockets enough to accommodate the detritus that swirled nowadays around the frenzied director of the Central Asia Institute.† (source)
- Accommodations on the Missoula are less than comfortable.† (source)
- It means, Jacob, that in order to accommodate less than a dozen performers, we will now have sixty-four working men sleeping under wagons on the flats.† (source)
- They wanted to figure out how big their ROV needed to be to accommodate propellers, sensors, and controls.† (source)
- It had been specially made, wider than normal, to accommodate Elizabeth, too.† (source)
- After much passing around of money Cousin Joshua was moved across the tracks and placed in state accommodations for the irresponsible, where he remained for the rest of his days.† (source)
- And on the rare occasions that it was, there were accommodations.† (source)
- "I have tried to accommodate my husband and mother-in-law and it has made my life better," I offered.† (source)
- I told you, it will be five-star luxury accommodation, not part of a cheap American hotel chain.† (source)
- I estimate this table can accommodate roughly seventy or eighty dinner guests.† (source)
- As a NATO accommodation.† (source)
- There's so much tension and jittery energy that we've had to accommodate our people's need to blow off steam.† (source)
- It had to do with theories of accommodation and mutual adaptation between bacteria and man.† (source)
- His immediate surroundings had to be remade to accommodate his girth.† (source)
- Anyhow, it wasn't long before the two of them came down to the store and set up the millinery table again, and Miss Love put a sign in the window saying Mrs. Loma Williams was under her tutelage and was ready to accommodate customers for new Easter hats at a special low price.† (source)
- If you don't want to talk, I'll turn off the tape recorder and then we'll remove your tie and shoelaces and accommodate you in a cell upstairs while we wait for a lawyer, a trial, and in due course, sentencing.† (source)
- He deduced this from his sagging facial skin and his belt having four additional holes cut in the leather to accommodate his shrinking waist.† (source)
- Several parishioners offered to accommodate the children, but it would require them splitting up into different homes.† (source)
- "I think we can accommodate you," Frankel said icily.† (source)
- There was no way it could accommodate nearly forty prisoners and a full crew.† (source)
- What pressures will come to bear on American English to accommodate technology and the business imperatives behind it?† (source)
- We accommodated him, didn't we?† (source)
- You have a keen sense of accommodation.† (source)
- His listeners pulled themselves up ramrod straight, their brows knit, trying to accommodate his pronouncements.† (source)
- Some days the planet turned twenty-four hours without rotating Joe into an accommodation with life.† (source)
- GEORGE: (After a long pause ....looking at him) Accommodation, malleability, adjustment ....those do seem to be in the order of things, don't they?† (source)
- He had seen far too many crazy situations, too many "special accommodations," in his Bureau career to let this one bother him.† (source)
- His mother lights the stub of a candle and places it in the chandelier that can accommodate twenty-three more.† (source)
- Now I'm sure General Longstreet will see to your accommodations.† (source)
- The right-of-way also accommodated electric and telephone lines.† (source)
- I think we might just be able to accommodate that request.† (source)
- Since Dunwoody's academic and legal backgrounds were steeped in corporate law and international banking and finance, he'd been able to satisfactorily accommodate Gus Barlowe's needs.† (source)
- Her usual seating accommodation was directly at Zooey's left.† (source)
- "The Argyll-Robertson pupil accommodated but did not react.† (source)
- Over supper, there was a great deal of talk about accommodations.† (source)
- They have arranged accommodation for you.† (source)
- Approaching the car from behind was a motor scooter, black in color, large enough to accommodate two passengers.† (source)
- The restaurant accommodations, great scallops of counters with simulated leather stools, are as spotless as and not unlike the lavatories.† (source)
- They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime, which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish (choreographed, stylized) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN (cf.† (source)
- At Vesper-haven House either an accommodation reached, in some kind of dignity, with the Angel of Death, or only death and the daily, tedious preparations for it.† (source)
- U. for ten dollars to cover three months' accommodation in his cabin, as well as his services as guide and general factotum.† (source)
- Further benches stand upstage, and accommodate the other actors.† (source)
- How can she accommodate the existence of this view to the dream of love, which she carried already inside her?† (source)
- "Airport Accommodations," she said.† (source)
- Ostensibly a stooge for the SS, he was not quite the bootlicker and Hoss's lackey that a necessity for accommodation would make him appear.† (source)
- There were not enough chairs to accommodate her readers.† (source)
- The train was to stop for them at five forty-five and they had to be there on time for this train was stopping merely to accommodate them.† (source)
- Working people will be rehoused; others must find accommodations for themselves and are given a year's notice.† (source)
- The place did not accommodate two people, barely one.† (source)
- There was a segment on the mosque that would be built, one that could accommodate two hundred thousand worshipers at once.† (source)
- As she pushed her way in, the braided strips of silk expanded to accommodate her.† (source)
- On the downside, the Burrow was not built to accommodate so many people.† (source)
- I shall address a letter of introduction to him; I am sure he will accommodate you.† (source)
- ; his mind accommodates a seemingly inexhaustible catalog of Latin binomial names.† (source)
- The Sea Coast Mission in Bar Harbor has a food pantry, though no overnight accommodations.† (source)
- What did she mean, her thaumaturge will prepare her accommodations?† (source)
- It was a scene that could easily have accommodated, in the distance at least, a medieval castle.† (source)
- Its bubble memory could easily accommodate the computing needs of a whole squadron of submarines.† (source)
- Even Capricorn's strongboxes had better accommodations than his maidservants.† (source)
- They moved slowly to accommodate my pace, which was hampered by my chain-cuffed ankles.† (source)
- The mass-sensing system was being added to all the submarines that could accommodate it.† (source)
- They are subpar to our accommodations on Luna, but I think they will be adequate.† (source)
- It had to be to accommodate the massive, barrel-shaped steel vessel.† (source)
- Despite her huge bulk, the October's crew accommodations would have shamed a gulag jailer.† (source)
- She laughed, relaxed and shifted to accommodate him.† (source)
- For years we'd adopted separate schedules to accommodate our mostly separate duties.† (source)
- "My coz will not have room to accommodate a thousand men," Jaime told Strongboar.† (source)
- What makes you think that she will accommodate you?† (source)
- I wasn't sure if we'd come to an accommodation or not.† (source)
- Shall we see what accommodations they've provided us with?† (source)
- These were called accommodation arrests.† (source)
- There simply weren't enough lakes to accommodate all of them.† (source)
- The main deck could've accommodated the Boston Marathon.† (source)
- The bats drove him out in a lopsided run, lifting his foot high to accommodate the flopping sole.† (source)
- But then everything eventually shifts, accommodates.† (source)
- The tunnels were big enough to accommodate large monsters, even giants.† (source)
- Is it wise, then, to accommodate their wishes, to willingly send Eragon and Saphira into this trap?† (source)
- And, Jeremy, just so you know, the town will be happy to pay for your accommodations here.† (source)
- There is room enough in this house to accommodate us all.† (source)
- He wore a gleaming breastplate that bulged over a footoutward, as if to accommodate a large belly.† (source)
- Heimagined the rent for their accommodations at the Mel de Valentinois to be exorbitant.† (source)
- Perhaps we can reach some accommodation.† (source)
- No one will say it, but the end is likely coming, and an accommodation will be made.† (source)
- Baldwin had juggled the witness list to accommodate the growing severity of Covey's illness.† (source)
- Fortunately, he's also an excellent jeweler, so he will be able to accommodate both our requests.† (source)
- They had parked in a vast lot, big enough to accommodate twenty vehi—† (source)
- Again, Max accommodated him and pushed the heavy stone ajar.† (source)
- No, she couldn't deny that the accommodations occasionally gave her a few twinges.† (source)
- His superiors at International Harvester tried to accommodate his ever-more-frequent absences.† (source)
- I'm sure they found ways to accommodate dragons during the time of the Riders.† (source)
- I've stayed in less stellar accommodations and done it for one thing.† (source)
- Once they depart, we will find you more suitable accommodations.† (source)
- He didn't look tired, but I suddenly felt guilty for monopolizing the better accommodations.† (source)
- He has chosen our naval base in Brest to accommodate his demands.† (source)
- I can change my colour to accommodate the forest, lean shift with the wind by smelling it.† (source)
- The only way to avert "this American storm" was to reach an accommodation just as soon as possible.† (source)
- A man like Walther Apfel didn't do what he did to accommodate a trap.† (source)
- We could say you were staying in Switzerland; use an accommodation address.† (source)
- And she did it all with the grace of a dancer, careful to accommodate her dress as she flew.† (source)
- She doesn't seem to enjoy the accommodations we provided.† (source)
- And who placed so high in Paris would accommodate Delta?† (source)
- Accommodations on the crowded transports and other ships were wretched.† (source)
- The steward will find you suitable accommodations.† (source)
- My brain just kind of expanded to accommodate the weirdness.† (source)
- Yousef bid good night to them both, and instructed Hamza to see them to their accommodations.† (source)
- Perhaps if you went around back, accommodations could be found that are suitable for yourself.† (source)
- Through him and men like him we've reached accommodations.† (source)
- If they were, there might have been accommodations, compromises, and you would have it still.† (source)
- It was not something you would have studied in Novgorod; the Soviets had no such accommodations.† (source)
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