Sample Sentences for
commute
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commute as in:  commute from New Jersey

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    The study shows that the time needed for average commute has increased again.
    commute = regular travel between home and work
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    And the commute was quite easy now that the Labyrinth is back in service.  (source)
    commute = regular journey
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    I'd take a commute ten times that just to be with you every night.  (source)
    commute = regular travel -- such as between home and work
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    Valentine, it costs more money than your father will make in his lifetime for me to fly to Earth and back to the Battle School again. I don't commute casually.  (source)
    commute = travel back and forth
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    Shen lived in a luxury housing development reachable by one of the newer commuter rails.†  (source)
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    The announcer got a lot of mileage out of the story, going on about the rubes with their clunker of a vehicle and yapping dog who were making thousands of New York commuters late for work.  (source)
    commuters = people traveling between home and work
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    At the time he wrote these words, he was holding down a full-time job, flipping Quarter Pounders at a McDonald's on the main drag, commuting to work on a bicycle.  (source)
    commuting = travelling
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    Jackie and the children are there all the time, while the president commutes from Washington on weekends.†  (source)
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    Matt commuted there on Friday and came back on Sunday to go back to work on Monday.  (source)
    commuted = traveled a regular route
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    My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand.  (source)
    commutation = from the trip
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It was nearly a two-hour commute,  (source)
    commute = regular travel -- such as between home and work
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    Eve headed crosstown to Ninth, swung around a commuter tram.†  (source)
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    The soldiers, airmen, Marines, sailors, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and everyone else in front of me began to shuffle their feet toward the door; it reminded me of commuters leaving a packed subway car, an odd resonance as I approached the open door two thousand feet in the air.  (source)
    commuters = people traveling between home and work
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commute as in:  commute the sentence

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    The Justice Department strongly opposed the petition, but the President commuted the 12-year sentence--cutting it in half.
    commuted = exchanged a penalty for one that is less severe
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    And I'm sorry they didn't see fit to commute your sentence.  (source)
    commute = exchange a penalty for one that is less severe
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    "He'll go to the chair," said Atticus, "unless the Governor commutes his sentence."  (source)
    commutes = exchanges a punishment for a less severe punishment
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    Some death sentences were later commuted; 920 men were eventually executed.  (source)
    commuted = reduced
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    Until the very last, he hoped for a commutation, since Grace had been given one.  (source)
    commutation = exchange of a penalty for one that is less severe
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He wanted the governor to commute my sentence to life, but that's just another death sentence.  (source)
    commute = exchange for one that is less severe
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    Colonel Aureliano Buendia, in spite of the violent recriminations of Ursula, refused to commute the sentence.†  (source)
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    He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to twenty years in 1973, of which he served only ten.  (source)
    sentence was commuted = exchanged for one that was less severe
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    Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe.†  (source)
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    The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row.  (source)
    commuted = reduced
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    By advantage taken of one in fault, in dire peril, and at thy mercy, thou hast seized goods worth above thirteenpence ha'penny, paying but a trifle for the same; and this, in the eye of the law, is constructive barratry, misprision of treason, malfeasance in office, ad hominem expurgatis in statu quo—and the penalty is death by the halter, without ransom, commutation, or benefit of clergy.†  (source)
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    But the doctor, a Captain Ono, asked the commanding officer if he would commute the sentence and give the man over to him, for purposes of instruction.†  (source)
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    Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was imprisoned in Florida, but his sentence was commuted by President Johnson, partly for assistance during an outbreak of illness in the prison.†  (source)
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