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contract as in:  legal contract

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  • A lot of people get into trouble by signing contracts they don't understand.
    contracts = written agreements that is enforceable by law
  • Shawn said Dad didn't understand that construction was more competitive than scrapping, and that if they wanted to land real contracts, they needed to spend real money on real equipment—specifically, a new welder and a man lift with a basket.   (source)
    contracts = agreements to purchase/sell
  • They get kickbacks on government contracts from friends or the companies they award them to.   (source)
  • And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.   (source)
    contract = agreement
  • The company will prepare your contract and send it to your lawyer for approval.   (source)
    contract = formal legal agreement
  • In 1961, a Fairbanks company, Yutan Construction, won a contract from the new state of Alaska (statehood having been granted just two years earlier) to upgrade the trail, building it into a road on which trucks could haul ore from the mine year-round.   (source)
  • The Japanese government made contracts with private companies to send enlisted POWs to factories, mines, docks, and railways, where the men were forced into exceptionally arduous war-production or war-transport labor.   (source)
    contracts = agreements
  • Biosyn had already achieved some success, engineering a new, pale trout under contract to the Department of Fish and Game of the State of Idaho.   (source)
    contract = formal agreement
  • He broke his contract with the Circle, and he violated our trust.   (source)
  • I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts.   (source)
    contracts = agreements
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  • The contract you signed--everything in it still stands.   (source)
    contract = written agreement that is enforceable by law
  • It is in my contract.   (source)
    contract = a formal agreement - typically written and enforceable by law
  • SHE WAS A NATURAL—BORN CYNIC WHO LIVED IN DEFIANCE OF CONTRACTS!   (source)
    contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
  • My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood.   (source)
    contract = formal legal agreement
  • Since the school was so shorthanded, they offered me a one-year contract.   (source)
    contract = a legal agreement
  • They signed a contract.   (source)
    contract = written agreement
  • My contract expires in June. ... We will stay through July to help welcome the Reverend and Mrs. Minor when they
    come.   (source)
    contract = formal agreement
  • Rob, with his natural grace and ability, was already talking of college scholarships and NBA contracts.   (source)
    contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
  • I expect you to do your best to fulfill your part of the contract.   (source)
    contract = written agreement (enforceable by law)
  • Soon the contract between us will be void.   (source)
    contract = an agreement of payment for services
  • I might have a shot at a recording contract.   (source)
    contract = a formal legal agreement
  • Couldn't sign a contract because I was underage, and my momma, your grandma, wouldn't sign for me.   (source)
    contract = a written agreement that is enforceable by law
  • ...just like you get contracts to cut wood.   (source)
    contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
  • This outfit signed a contract for a twenty-five hour week.   (source)
    contract = a written agreement enforceable by law
  • A stump of hay and part of the potato crop were sold off, and the contract for eggs was increased to six hundred a week, so that that year the hens barely hatched enough chicks to keep their numbers at the same level.   (source)
    contract = formal agreement (to provide)
  • But I guess the contract we signed is full of loopholes?   (source)
    contract = written agreement
  • Well, this here fella's got a contract to pick them peaches or chop that cotton.   (source)
    contract = legal agreement
  • ...he signed the contract...   (source)
  • Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract.   (source)
    contract = agreement
  • according to the terms of the contract   (source)
    contract = formally written agreement
  • S'pose he contracted to do a thing, and you paid him, and didn't set down there and see that he done it—what did he do?   (source)
    contracted = made an agreement of payment for services that is enforceable by law
  • Did I make a contract with him in the forest, and sign it with my blood?   (source)
    contract = formal agreement
  • Our contract is an old one.   (source)
    contract = agreement
  • Mr. Rushworth had no difficulty in procuring a divorce; and so ended a marriage contracted under such circumstances as to make any better end the effect of good luck not to be reckoned on.   (source)
    contracted = legally agreed to
  • …and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.   (source)
    contract = make an agreement
  • Film moguls, seeing leading-man material, offered Graham a movie contract.   (source)
    contract = agreement to perform
  • Even though I was using a fake name, I wondered if the contract might still be legally binding.   (source)
    contract = formal legal agreement
  • My "Indenturement Contract" appeared in a window on my display.   (source)
  • I scrolled to the bottom of the contract without bothering to read it.   (source)
  • I started receiving replies within the hour, with contracts attached.   (source)
    contracts = formal legal agreements
  • From what I could gather, the company had bribed a bunch of state officials in exchange for contracts to build a better sewer overflow system in Indianapolis.   (source)
    contracts = agreements
  • IN OCTOBER DAD WON A CONTRACT TO BUILD INDUSTRIAL GRANARIES in Malad City, the dusty farm town on the other side of Buck's Peak.   (source)
    contract = agreement to purchase/sell
  • Nedry was annoyed with the Jurassic Park project; late in the schedule, InGen had demanded extensive modifications to the system but hadn't been willing to pay for them, arguing they should be included under the original contract.   (source)
    contract = formal written agreement that is enforceable by law
  • And then, even though they'd done a terrible job the first time, Pickett Engineering won the new contract—apparently by bribing state officials.   (source)
    contract = legal agreement to provide something
  • The general put him in touch with a private investigator named Peter Kalitka, who'd done contract work for both the DIA and the CIA.   (source)
    contract = based upon a legal agreement (not an employee)
  • Walt has spent the past ten days in Fairbanks, doing contract work for NASA, developing an airborne radar system for search-and-rescue missions that will enable searchers to find the wreckage of a downed plane amid thousands of acres of densely forested country.   (source)
  • Pickett Engineering had gotten the initial contract, but they'd never finished the work, and it had gone way over budget, so the government pulled the contract from Pickett's company and allowed anyone to bid on finishing the project.   (source)
    contract = legal agreement to provide something
  • Dad had a contract to build a milking barn in Oneida County, about twenty miles from Buck's Peak, so Shawn puttered around the yard, adjusting schematics and measuring I-beams.   (source)
    contract = agreement to purchase/sell
  • To become a Sixer, you had to sign a contract stipulating, among other things, that if you found Halliday's egg, the prize would become the sole property of your employer.   (source)
    contract = formal legal agreement
  • Unless I wanted to sign a five-year indenturement contract with some corporation, and that was about as appealing to me as rolling around in broken glass in my birthday suit.   (source)
  • The rental contract contained a lot of fine print about the additional charges you would incur if you damaged the equipment, and a lot of legalese stating that the Plug could not be held responsible for anything you did, under any circumstances, especially if it was something illegal.   (source)
  • Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.   (source)
    contract = formal agreement (to provide)
  • All our contracts are oral, but we deliver what we promise.   (source)
    contracts = agreements
  • We judged traders by their coups, the contracts they landed, the agencies they picked up.   (source)
    contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
  • He had a way with officials and was good at getting government contracts...   (source)
  • He was talking about the Domain; and for us in the town the Domain had remained only a source of contracts.   (source)
  • It was one of his sayings; it meant that stable relationships were not possible here, that there could only be day-to-day contracts between men, that in a crisis peace was something you had to buy afresh every day.   (source)
  • Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent in.   (source)
    contracts = legal agreements
  • —Upon a true contract I got possession of Julietta's bed:   (source)
    contract = formal agreement
  • A contract of true love   (source)
    contract = agreement
  •   Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,
      I have no joy of this contract to-night;
      It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden;
      Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
      Ere one can say "It lightens."   (source)
    contract = agreement (exchange of promises)
  • By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, ICI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest.   (source)
    contract = self-employed (working via a formal agreement very different than that with an employee)
  • The anonymous seller claimed to be a former IOI contract programmer and one of the lead architects of its company intranet.   (source)
  • However, despite my sterling bogus résumé, the only job I'd been able to get was as a tier-one technical support representative at Helpful Helpdesk Inc., one of the contract firms GSS used to handle OASIS customer service and support.   (source)
    contract = hired firm rather than a part of the hiring firm (working via a formal agreement)
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contract as in:  contract the disease

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  • She contracted AIDS by sharing needles.
  • We can't take a chance that she will contract another infection from any outside germs that might be brought into the hospital.   (source)
    contract = get (a disease)
  • Ordinarily you couldn't contract rabies unless you were bitten by an animal.   (source)
  • I could tell she wanted me to ask her about something, but I couldn't tell what, because my stomach wouldn't shut up, which was forcing me deep inside a worry that I'd somehow contracted a parasitic infection.   (source)
    contracted = got (a disease)
  • Besides that, our potatoes have contracted such strange diseases that one out of every two buckets of pommes de terre winds up in the garbage.   (source)
  • Here is a secret about my family: My sister contracted the deliria a several months before her scheduled procedure.   (source)
  • We had to sit so close to other people there wasn't room to breathe, if you even wanted to, being in the position to contract every kind of a germ there was.   (source)
    contract = to get (of a disease)
  • I contracted pleural pneumonia, in that day a killing disease.   (source)
    contracted = got (became ill with)
  • But he and the two other men in the apartment had a wonderful blowout, which lasted for five days, and as a result of which the industrious and unlucky one lost his job and the idle and lucky one got too sociable, and, despite his luck, contracted a social disease.   (source)
  • My dearest Henry, the advantage to you of getting away from the Admiral before your manners are hurt by the contagion of his, before you have contracted any of his foolish opinions, or learned to sit over your dinner as if it were the best blessing of life!   (source)
    contracted = caught (like a disease)
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  • There are dust storms and tule fog and some people do contract Valley Fever.   (source)
    contract = get (a disease)
  • It's not his fault I've changed—seen the light or contracted the deliria, depending on who you ask.   (source)
    contracted = caught or got -- especially in reference to a disease
  • If you fear that you or someone you know may have contracted deliria, please call the emergency line toll-free at 1-800-PREVENT to discuss immediate intake and treatment.   (source)
  • In the decades before the development of the cure, the disease had become so virulent and widespread it was extraordinarily rare for a person to reach adulthood without having contracted a significant case of amor deliria nervosa.   (source)
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contract as in:  the metal contracted

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  • The cold made the aluminum rod contract more than the steel rod.
    contract = shorten
  • This was because the tendons had begun to shrivel and contract.   (source)
    contract = pull tighter
  • But even as I utter the words, I feel my insides contracting with anxiety and guilt at the sight of her, and while I can't pull it up, I know some bad memory is associated with her.   (source)
    contracting = tightening
  • Instead, the hat contracted, as though an invisible hand was squeezing it very tightly.   (source)
    contracted = pulled in
  • There was no question: the stegosaur's pupil was dilated, and did not contract when light shone on it.   (source)
    contract = get smaller
  • his legs contracted up, up into the seat,   (source)
    contracted = pulled back
  • Sure enough, the globe began to contract.   (source)
    contract = get smaller
  • His face contracted in agony, and sweat streamed down his face.   (source)
    contracted = muscles pulled (shortened)
  • I contracted my face into a smile and nodded.   (source)
    contracted = pulled back
  • Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils of the little boy's eyes contracted.   (source)
    contracted = got smaller
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  • Little Chuck's face contracted and he said gently, "You mean him, ma'am?"   (source)
    contracted = pulled back
  • His hands are clasped on top of his head and I can see the muscles in his back contracting from labored breaths.   (source)
    contracting = pulling shorter or tighter
  • In the other walls an X ray of the same woman revealed the contracting journey of the refreshing beverage on its way to her delighted stomach!   (source)
    contracting = muscles tightening (during swallowing)
  • His face contracts slightly, a tiny shift I can barely make out in the dark, but in that second he looks so still and sad it almost takes my breath away, like he's a statue, or a different person.   (source)
    contracts = pulls tighter (muscles shorten)
  • We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor.   (source)
    contraction = tightening (shrinking) of muscles
  • There was a popping sound and a putrid odor, as her pustules contracted and burst open.   (source)
    contracted = pulled back (got shorter or smaller)
  • ...shadows that jumped and contracted, only to leap up again, making the walls come alive with fantastic etchings appearing and disappearing, growing and receding.   (source)
    contracted = shrank
  • My detention rage contracted into a small, spinning ball.   (source)
  • His stomach contracted.   (source)
    contracted = cramped (tightened as the muscles shortened)
  • The sun was bright and hot, and I studied the contracting shadows of trees and market stalls and buildings around the square.   (source)
    contracting = getting shorter or smaller
  • The dull pain in his belly never went away, but sometimes it grew better and sometimes worse, and his thoughts expanded or contracted accordingly.   (source)
    contracted = shrank
  • The little brunette contracts her brows when she is thinking; but when she talks they are still.   (source)
    contracts = pulls tighter (muscles shorten)
  • The muscles of his whole body contracted spasmodically and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders stood on end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into the blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud.   (source)
    contracted = tightened
  • Lord Godalming's brows contracted, and he stood up and walked about the room.   (source)
    contracted = pulled toward each other
  • The decision was indulgent and self-pitying, yes, but time passed there in such a soothing contraction.†   (source)
  • The bitter riots were sparked by King's assassination, but the fuels that kept them burning were the preexisting conditions: illegal but strictly enforced racial segregation, economic contraction, and an unresponsive political system.†   (source)
  • Learning how to push the right buttons, how to switch smoothly from one level to another, how to make contractions.†   (source)
  • Another contraction ripped through her, bullets strafing metal.†   (source)
  • A contraction hits her, she doubles over.†   (source)
  • The contractions aren't that bad and are still like twenty minutes apart.†   (source)
  • She was the penetrating emotion that came at you through her eyes, the mother-guilt, the one who birthed me, who suffered through the contractions and diaper changes and all my small hurts and fears.†   (source)
  • Now that the continents of Earth were crashing under the impact of contraction, the great forests aflame, the oceans heaving and heating themselves into a lifeless soup, the very air transforming itself into something too hot and thick to break and too thin to plow, now the banks wanted their money back.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, Jenny was having a contraction every six minutes.†   (source)
  • It felt like my very own stomach was being punched, and that's when the pains as bad as contractions began.†   (source)
  • Another contraction begins, more violent than the last.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Taya was passing out cold between contractions.†   (source)
  • It was the signal for the traditional birthday morning ritual, with the unpacking of presents and her mother's sentimental flights back to her first contractions fifteen years ago.†   (source)
  • He was watching Jones as he had watched his wife when she'd had Dominic and he was timing the twitches on a needle as he had timed his wife's contractions.†   (source)
  • She was completely disheveled, covered with dust, bleary-eyed, and doubled over from the pain of the contractions with which Alba was pushing her way out.†   (source)
  • I watched, petrified, until I discerned the slightest expansions and contractions in the wrappings around their chests.†   (source)
  • Candy, waiting out her final month of pregnancy, had walked in the One K. Now she nudged me and said, "I'm having contractions."†   (source)
  • She goes to get Phillip and he asks me all kinds of questions like, how long do the contractions last and that sort of thing while Nancy goes to get all the stuff they need, like towels and hot water.†   (source)
  • When the contractions came she squeezed his hand so hard he felt as if the bones in his fingers might fuse.†   (source)
  • Jarred awake, I stared into the dark, realizing I'd experienced the more or less normal muscular contraction known as the myoclonic jerk.†   (source)
  • 2) My water breaking, mid-Walmart' Contractions, uterine lightning bolts, striking immediately and not letting up for 18 hours.†   (source)
  • With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden.†   (source)
  • The contraction of the vas and the seminal vesicles mixing with prostatic secretions—†   (source)
  • The other woman's name was Sa', meaning "star," because at the time of her birth her mother had been looking at the fall night sky, concentrating on the distant stars to take her mind away from the painful labor contractions.†   (source)
  • Don't tell me to hold it together, not until you have felt this pain, because it is unlike anything—" And then she stopped talking, her face going pale again as another contraction hit.†   (source)
  • In fact, he said she was so concerned about him that she wasn't even hardly aware of her contractions and kept trying to tell him jokes and stuff to calm him down.†   (source)
  • Now he avoided the contraction, speaking in the more formal style often used by those to whom English is a second tongue.†   (source)
  • The next morning, as the contractions were growing closer, Doris was taken off to the hospital in handcuff's.†   (source)
  • Muscles and cramps and contractions, in and out of consciousness, screams of pain, cries of joy, and then that damp, pink creature laid atop my bosom and already moving for my breast, some primeval instinct overcoming him before the cord was even cut from our connection.†   (source)
  • At seven in the morning on September 13, 1996, exactly a year since the fateful evening at the Fairmont Hotel, Tara felt her first contraction.†   (source)
  • Alex watched Jason; he saw the undisguised fury in the Chameleon's eyes, the tight, rigid set of his mouth, the slow spreading and contraction of his strong fingers.†   (source)
  • He felt the sudden contraction of his mouth, like a slap denying him the right to pursue this course of thought.†   (source)
  • It caused contractions, reduced fevers, and calmed the heart and spirit.†   (source)
  • Okay, so he'd forgotten you're is a contraction.†   (source)
  • The name was a contraction of his given one, Oscar.†   (source)
  • The removal of the low volatiles, the higher portions of the periodic table in general, will permit contraction of the high melting, generally " denser, materials.†   (source)
  • The birth of the future we desire is surely in the contraction which that terrified Catholic felt on the roadside when another hand gripped his hand, not in the gunfire that followed, so absolute and so desolate, if also so much a part of the music of what happens.†   (source)
  • Spasmodic shivers knotted my empty stomach and I hoped a roaring fire would warm me and stop these scary contractions.†   (source)
  • I knew when the contractions came because her fingers dug into my arm and I could judge both the intervals and duration of the contractions by the pressure of her hands.†   (source)
  • For a moment he almost succeeded, then, as the circulation returned to his hands and feet, and as the joints of his body were released from the contraction to which they had been subject, he fell.†   (source)
  • I realized that it was the first time I had heard anyone made of flesh and blood (as opposed to some cinematic effigy) say "thirty" as a contraction for "thirty thousand."†   (source)
  • But of course the pelvis is narrow, the child's head is in the occipito-posterior position, there are no pains, and the contractions are slight.†   (source)
  • The house cracked loudly as the cooler night air contracted the wood.   (source)
    contracted = shrank
  • It had merely become distasteful; not enough to force a decision; not enough to make him clench his fists; just enough to contract his nostrils.   (source)
    contract = make smaller
  • The upper portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head.   (source)
    contracted = pulled in
  • His going, though only eight miles, will be an unwelcome contraction of our family circle; but I should have been deeply mortified if any son of mine could reconcile himself to doing less.   (source)
    contraction = shrinking
  • …made him not only totally unconscious of the uneasy movements of many of his friends as they sat, the change of countenance, the fidget, the hem! of unquietness, but prevented him even from seeing the expression of the face on which his own eyes were fixed—from seeing Sir Thomas's dark brow contract as he looked with inquiring earnestness at his daughters and Edmund, dwelling particularly on the latter, and speaking a language, a remonstrance, a reproof, which he felt at his heart.   (source)
    contract = pull tighter
  • The family circle became greatly contracted; and though the Miss Bertrams had latterly added little to its gaiety, they could not but be missed.   (source)
    contracted = reduced
  • Now each contraction nearly doubled her over.†   (source)
  • This error pains her almost as much as her last contraction.†   (source)
  • Let's take it one contraction at a time.'†   (source)
  • She was silent for a moment, her hand gripping the dashboard as she breathed through a contraction.†   (source)
  • Nurse," he called, as the next contraction tightened.†   (source)
  • For many, the expansion of distance because of limited transportation-EMVs were unreliable, skimmers scarce-and the contraction of artificial consciousness due to absence of datasphere, no access to the All Thing, and only one fatline transmitter-all led to a renewal of creative energies, a new realization of what it meant to be human and an artist.†   (source)
  • There was something I needed to explain to Anatole, but I couldn't be bothered with it at the peak of a contraction.†   (source)
  • The next contraction twisted down her spine like a cobra, wrapped itself around her belly, and sank its fangs.†   (source)
  • The contraction subsided.†   (source)
  • Another contraction started.†   (source)
  • Another claw slid slowly from Nick's paw, as if nudged by a muscular contraction: It fell to the cavern floor with a metallic A SON OF [LATHAN — 485 clink.†   (source)
  • He saw only the faintest contraction of her mouth, but he knew that the question was like a blow across an open wound.†   (source)
  • There were evenings when she noticed the faint contraction of anger in the tightness of his mouth, as he signed the expected names of the expected fraud, anger at those who made fraud necessary.†   (source)
  • "Phoebe and Paul," the doctor repeated, but he was concentrating on the contraction now rising in his wife's flesh.†   (source)
  • Rearden saw her watching them-and the faintest contraction of his eyes was like a smile of sanction, as if his glance were repeating to her the message he had sent her from the valley.†   (source)
  • His wife's hands relaxed, her fists unclenching as the gas took effect, and she lay still, tranquil and unknowing, as another contraction and another moved through her.†   (source)
  • At his last sentence, he saw a faint contraction of her cheeks and lips; it was not quite a smile, but it gave him her whole answer: pain, admiration, understanding.†   (source)
  • The door was not locked, thought Dagny; she felt an unreasoning desire to tear it open and walk in-it was only a few wooden boards with a brass knob, it would require only a small muscular contraction of her arm-but she looked away, knowing that the power of a civilized order and of Ken Danagger's right was more impregnable a barrier than any lock.†   (source)
  • His wife's face, soft with relief and exhaustion, suddenly tightened with another contraction, and the doctor, expecting the afterbirth, returned to the stool between her legs and pressed lightly against her abdomen.†   (source)
  • When he took her arm he felt strangely as if he himself were suspended in the room, somewhere near the light fixture, watching them both from above, noting every nuance and detail: how she trembled with a contraction, how his fingers closed so firmly and protectively around her elbow.†   (source)
  • But they-she looked at the face of her signal engineer —they believed that that muscular contraction of a hand was the only thing required to move the traffic-and now the tower men stood idleand on the great panels in front of the tower director, the red and green lights, which had flashed announcing the progress of trains at a distance of miles, were now so many glass beads-like the glass beads for which another breed of savages had once sold the Island of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • Aunt Elizabeth feels for the contractions.†   (source)
  • The contractions were coming closer and closer now and I really just wanted to lie down.†   (source)
  • Candy tried to smile, and the contractions continued.†   (source)
  • She wasn't going to let a few contractions interrupt her hard-earned night on the town.†   (source)
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  • When Kya had written to the publisher after Tate's initial contact and submitted more drawings, they sent her a contract by return mail.†   (source)
  • They're professionals, the assassins; they pride themselves on completing their contracts, they don't stand for violations of their own code of conduct.†   (source)
  • In that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness.†   (source)
  • Our contract isn't over yet.†   (source)
  • After weeks of interviews and negotiations, he was offered an executive position and the contract was ready to sign.†   (source)
  • You discovered the gaseous outer layer of the suns, but you didn't know that this gaseous layer expands and contracts over cycles lasting eons, like breathing.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to constantly boil enough, so we'd drank untreated water and contracted bouts of diarrhea.†   (source)
  • Not simply the matchbooks, candy wrappers, and ticket stubs, mind you; but the newspapers, journals, and pamphlets; the catechisms and hymnals, histories and memoirs; the contracts, deeds, and titles; the treaties and constitutions and all Ten Commandments.†   (source)
  • Children with multiple ACEs are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression, to suffer from heart disease and obesity, and to contract certain types of cancers.†   (source)
  • I was working in the legal department at Lockheed Martin, where I had a fulltime position, but the contract I was on was ending and it seemed a good time to break off.†   (source)
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  • Levy said with his distinctive Baltimore drawl: a trace of a southern twang with words contracted and vowels swallowed.†   (source)
  • I watch the muscles in his back expand and contract until I fall asleep.†   (source)
  • Eddie helped him get the contract for Ruby Pier's maintenance uniforms.†   (source)
  • By the time the Xtreme Viking took place, there would be less than one week of my contract left to run.†   (source)
  • And, just five days in, Laila had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which Tariq's father sometimes played old Pashto songs, time stretched and contracted depending on Tariq's absence or presence.†   (source)
  • Polly Lear, a good friend of Martha Washington's, had contracted yellow fever in the early days of the epidemic.†   (source)
  • You are trespassing and obstructing progress on a contracted job.†   (source)
  • But when he saw who stood there, his skull seemed to contract, squeezing his brain in shock.†   (source)
  • Harry's eyes darted downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract.†   (source)
  • The earth itself contracting with the cold.†   (source)
  • And there was a record made by a camp doctor at a subcamp in Kassel, Germany, that a Daniel LeBlanc contracted influenza in the first part of 1943.†   (source)
  • Had Violet signed the marriage contract with her right hand, the law would have made her a miserable contessa, but because she signed it with her left, she remained, to her relief, a miserable orphan.†   (source)
  • Later the game became auction bridge, then contract bridge.†   (source)
  • He had no intention of ever honoring the contract he agreed to during the Circle Justice meetings.†   (source)
  • Her whole body contracted with joy.†   (source)
  • The arrangement, she explained at the behest of Alvin Hooks when the court had been called into session again, included a five-hundred-dollar down payment and an eight-year "lease-to-own" contract.†   (source)
  • I really like that expression because in general, I think people don't give this contracting muscle credit for how much work it does.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's got some temporary contract.†   (source)
  • But Mom had already dug out a contract and was reading into the phone, "1225 Kensington Gardens Drive, Lake Windsor Downs.†   (source)
  • I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.†   (source)
  • Ken LaSalle held up a sheaf of papers, and said, "Judge, here's exhibit A, the contract in question.†   (source)
  • She stood up, patting Peter's back the way Lacy had, wishing he would run out of steam or contract laryngitis or just simply have mercy on her utter inexperience.†   (source)
  • I'm surprised she would send something here since I have all the book contracts sent to a box at the post office, just in case.†   (source)
  • Bring the contract forward.†   (source)
  • One, that it has the potential to bring CERN millions of francs in licensing contracts in the next decade.†   (source)
  • Twice I made myself so sick in anticipation of it that my mother kept me home because she thought I had contracted the flu.†   (source)
  • She signed a contract for a year of service, and that's it.†   (source)
  • I made the Huangs think it was their idea to get rid of me, that they would be the ones to say the marriage contract was not valid.†   (source)
  • Instantly the blue helmet lowered itself onto Reynie's head, contracting to fit snugly against his temples.†   (source)
  • All this by contract.†   (source)
  • "I'd transfer ship if I could," he said, "and get out of your way, but my father made me sign a two-year service contract with the Aurora.†   (source)
  • They make your parents sign a contract giving the government full custody over you.†   (source)
  • But really, my contract is so vague.†   (source)
  • As she passed the car she felt the warmth of its radiator, as intimate as body heat, and heard the click of contracting metal.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of summer, in a moment of weakness, Flora had made the mistake of signing a contract that said she would "work to turn her face away from the idiotic high jinks of comics and toward the bright light of true literature."†   (source)
  • They never did get that recording contract, but they did get to meet Sean Puffy Combs and Biggie Smalls, also known asThe Notorious B.I.G. A friend of theirs, the R and B singer Faith Evans, married Biggie Smalls, and occasionally they were invited to have dinner with them when the couple lived in New Jersey.†   (source)
  • Renting a tuxedo seemed to me an excellent way to contract some hideous disease from its previous tenant, and I did not aspire to become the world's only virgin with pubic lice.†   (source)
  • So ...if I had contracted the plague naturally, say ...a couple days ago, how long before I was no longer contagious?†   (source)
  • But if he had had a fleet of makeup men waiting in the wings, an agent, a contract, a percentage of the profits—what then would he be?†   (source)
  • "Since when," continued his murine colleague, "we have had an offer of a quite enormously fat contract to do the 5D chat show and lecture circuit back in our own dimensional neck of the woods, and we're very much inclined to take it."†   (source)
  • The first record of this unusual arrangement was when Virgil Butler had been contracted as servant, bodyguard and cook to Lord Hugo de Pole for one of the first great Norman crusades.†   (source)
  • Even though you're a minor, and legally unable to enter into such a contract, you could be responsible for any such debts incurred in your name once you come of age.†   (source)
  • So they were overwhelmingly solo practitioners, handling wills and divorces and contracts and minor disputes, and in the Depression the work of the solo practitioner all but disappeared.†   (source)
  • The reasons children travel to the United States and information that many come in search of their mothers come from Roy de la Cerda, Jr., the lead counselor at International Educational Services Inc., an INS-contracted detention shelter for unaccompanied minors in Los Fresnos, Texas.†   (source)
  • They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride through life like conjoined jellyfish—expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other's spaces liquidly.†   (source)
  • The overpowering force slowly contracted, squeezing the life out of him bit by bit, though he held on, unwilling to give up.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, his father was reading one of his insurance contracts as he walked along and did not notice Adam standing guiltily at the telephone.†   (source)
  • This editor took along with him a number of Quinto Sol's authors, splitting up the contracted books.†   (source)
  • "Exactly!" she stated, seeming to almost expand and contract for emphasis while she worked.†   (source)
  • 1 was not only naive and in love when she had had her attorneys draw up the marriage contract...I was stupid.†   (source)
  • You've probably read about ticks spreading Lyme disease to humans and all the long-term health problems that can cause, but several vets have assured us that there is very little danger of contracting Lyme disease here in Florida.†   (source)
  • After that, I'm under contract through June of next year.†   (source)
  • It means to render something null and void, usually a contract.†   (source)
  • Which meant, as the article went on to explain, that the company was no longer restricted from entering into contracts, applying for loans, and so forth.†   (source)
  • They were tolerable chiefly because we were working with German master masons and skilled Polish artisans, some of whom were forced labour, although some were working on contract.†   (source)
  • See, Orthodox Jews work with contracts.†   (source)
  • So I suggested we create a contract—a parent/child agreement in writing.†   (source)
  • The character merely contracted fever, took to her bed, and died in short or long order as the plot demanded, and there you were.†   (source)
  • He's going to have to sign a contract that says he'll sleep in the room at least three nights a week, for starters.†   (source)
  • I fell to my back, contracted into a fetal position, and pulled my knee up to my belly.†   (source)
  • Geir's house lord had taken malicious advantage of Vendaai's gambling debts, and some foolish contracts.†   (source)
  • Just one step away from a contract.†   (source)
  • Each contract contained a tight deadline for completion, with a financial penalty for every day beyond.†   (source)
  • One told me that he got his orders to BUD/S as an incentive to reenlist in the navy when his contract was done.†   (source)
  • I have had very bad female problems on account of an infection I contracted from Eeben Axelroot.†   (source)
  • His eyes seemed to have contracted, almost to have lost themselves in the pale, sagging folds of the skin around them.†   (source)
  • "If Melba were to withdraw from that school, we could talk about renewing your contract this year at quite a handsome salary increase," he said.†   (source)
  • When I came back and was about to sign the papers, he told me I had to turn down the signing bonus if I wanted to make sure I got the SEAL contract.†   (source)
  • But if the universe is so heavy that it begins to contract again, perhaps it has expanded and contracted lots of times before.†   (source)
  • Cofield accused Deborah, Speed, and the museum foundation of breach of contract for entering into an agreement that required him to have access to Henrietta's medical records, then denying him access.†   (source)
  • As she moved back from the vampire, I saw the tears standing in her eyes like glass in the flicker of the lights, and I felt my spirit contract in fear for her, and in longing.†   (source)
  • Do you really have a great-aunt Matilda who contracted avian flu and needed to be nursed back to health?†   (source)
  • Don't want you saying anything until the contracts are signed and it's all official.†   (source)
  • If you want, I'll sign a contract in my own blood.†   (source)
  • He looked at Bud, then reached over, picked up the pen, and signed both copies of the trademark papers and three copies of the contract.†   (source)
  • He inserted clauses in Bubba's contracts that paid him bonuses for showing up for work under 300 pounds.†   (source)
  • "Sir, if we followed normal procedure on this, we'd contract one of the Beltway Bandits—," Ryan referred to the consulting firms that dotted the beltway around Washington, D.C., "—they'd charge us five or ten times as much, and we'd be lucky to have the data by Easter.†   (source)
  • But eventually it was too agonizing for her to socialize with Ben, and she was convinced that as long as he was the artistic director of the Houston Ballet she would have no chance of getting a contract.†   (source)
  • And it's not an easy thing for any red-blooded salesman to write out a contract to sell a sexy beast like this one at dealer invoice.†   (source)
  • Trueba proceeded to explain to him the various clauses of the marriage contract, which did a great deal to assuage the Frenchman's fears.†   (source)
  • I spoke privately to my family on the phone and refrained from mentioning to Mom that I had now contracted some kind of Afghan mountain bacteria that attacked my stomach like Montezuma's revenge gets you in Mexico.†   (source)
  • Luma held up a stack of paper and passed a sheet to each player—contracts she expected her players to sign.†   (source)
  • I said I have not signed a contract, and he said one was being drawn up and I'd have it soon.†   (source)
  • Just as I was signing a contract stating what I would do, and my mother was signing her permission, I wanted them to sign this letter committing to my project, too.†   (source)
  • Well, it's not in my contract, for starters.†   (source)
  • One of the children contracted cholera but recovered very soon, and the entire family returned home when the danger was over.†   (source)
  • I'm contracted by your uncle to write a family chronicle.†   (source)
  • My father contracted me to a sheep camp on the llano.†   (source)
  • I exhale and the walls contract like a pinpricked balloon, crushing me as it deflates.†   (source)
  • Another pulse of blood released itself and I contracted my stomach muscles in alarm.†   (source)
  • My biceps were still almost fully contracted from what I had subjected them to in that contest.†   (source)
  • Most are our parents' age or young couples several years older than Xander and me, couples newly Contracted.†   (source)
  • We must not, however, ignore the possibility the Duke has contracted with the Guild to remove him to a place of safety outside the System.†   (source)
  • I did not appreciate her tagging on my last name, feeling that it violated an unspoken contract between girls, let alone best friends, upon meeting unknown boys.†   (source)
  • But Beck wasn't quite ready to give up his summit hopes: "I explained to Rob that I thought there was a pretty good chance my vision would improve once the sun got higher and my pupils contracted.†   (source)
  • After six months of military occupation in Coalwood, Mr. Carter was forced to sign a contract with the union and, soon afterward, sold Coalwood in disgust.†   (source)
  • His contract here finishes this month.†   (source)
  • That right at this very moment there are riders in interview contracts that dictate whole swaths of forbidden conversational topics that, though they don't name her specifically, are all about obliterating her from the record.†   (source)
  • If his lordship wishes these particular contracts to be discontinued, then there is little more to be said.†   (source)
  • "No, if I lose it I'm going to put out a serious contract out on me and then I'm going to hire myself to bump me off," he said.†   (source)
  • He knew it, but, all the same, when Pavlo touched the bowls his heart contracted.†   (source)
  • It is like a contract that all must sign, the plotters as well as those who are the targets of the plot.†   (source)
  • Two lenses expanded-contracted with liquid swiftness: a picture-snap of the grille.†   (source)
  • Annie felt her skin contract.†   (source)
  • The intervals of time needed between one movement and the next gradually contract.†   (source)
  • Most chicken growers cannot obtain a bank loan without already having a signed contract from a major processor.†   (source)
  • Larry's contract ended, and the Browns stuck around Missoula long enough for Shawn to finish his baseball season.†   (source)
  • She could not go to him now, for example, at two in the morning: this liberty was not in their contract.†   (source)
  • There is a calmness in her face as she recites an ancient mythical contract made between herself and the man so long ago the language has been forgotten.†   (source)
  • Peter Jahrling felt that, on the whole, he was not at much risk of contracting the virus, nor was Tom.†   (source)
  • Routinely in Africa and Asia, women stay safe until they marry, and then they contract AIDS from their husbands.†   (source)
  • Wonder if Santa could contract with the Home Depot.†   (source)
  • When the letter and contract arrived, they didn't diminish his anxiety about Hema, but it did make him feel less helpless.†   (source)
  • "Dad is suing them for breach of contract," she said.†   (source)
  • He gives me a sharp look, and I feel my stomach contract in fright.†   (source)
  • Mattie's body contracted in a painful spasm each time the stick smashed down on her legs and back, and she curled into a tight knot, trying to protect her stomach.†   (source)
  • So, in a sense, she was the only survivor; and what tormented her was the thought that in time she, too, would be overwhelmed: go mad, or contract an incurable illness, or in a fire lose all she valued-home, husband, children.†   (source)
  • I mean, the other guys, they'd do freaking anything for a contract, but, you know, to me it's about more than that.†   (source)
  • It was as if I had contracted a disfiguring disease that was slowly but surely reshaping my face.†   (source)
  • (He turns back to the contract) WALTER: (A beat; staring at him) And my father—(With sudden intensity) My father almost beat a man to death once because this man called him a bad name or something, you know what I mean†   (source)
  • It was like he'd signed on for the whole game and there wasn't any way of him breaking his contract.†   (source)
  • I was required to sign a three-year contract, terminable at his will.†   (source)
  • So he started writing these novels set in Small Town Georgia about folks with Good American Values who Fall in Love and then contract Life-Threatening Diseases and Die.†   (source)
  • The unwritten contract of erotic friendship stipulated that Tomas should exclude all love from his life.†   (source)
  • Their assignment was to guard one hundred American prisoners of war, who would work as contract labor.†   (source)
  • He swallows and holds it behind his tonsils, he tightens his feet and closes the fear between his toes, he contracts his buttock and pushes it up behind the prostate gland.†   (source)
  • Because Cuba had acted quickly to clean up its blood supply, only 10 people had contracted HIV from transfusions.†   (source)
  • The bagels had begun as a casual gesture: a boss treating his employees whenever they won a research contract.†   (source)
  • They had freedom of passage everywhere, and one day Milo contracted with the American military authorities to bomb the German-held highway bridge at Orvieto and with the German military authorities to defend the highway bridge at Orvieto with antiaircraft fire against his own attack.†   (source)
  • Those lucky enough to get contracts waved goodbye from the decks.†   (source)
  • And my conversation with Dominique last night, about Blaine and his new recording contract...not to mention his Lexus commercial.†   (source)
  • He had the misfortune to be chosen by Tweedy, the Highlands hare, who noisily protested any sort of contract with a minor.†   (source)
  • Moody explained that during World War II, while my dad was serving with the American forces in Abadan in the southern part of Iran, his father, working as a wartime physician, had treated numerous G.I."s for malaria, ultimately contracting the disease that killed him.†   (source)
  • Marriage contracts can be broken.†   (source)
  • The tension I observed in Nora derived from how many "contracts" were available, whether she and Jack could fulfill them, and whether the units of drugs would actually arrive as scheduled—all factors that seemed to change at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • Nonperformance, breach of contract.†   (source)
  • It's the contract Seth signed on Friday morning, selling the three tracts of land in South Carolina.†   (source)
  • After spending much of her youth in foster homes, she began modeling in her teens and landed a movie contract in 1946, changing her name to Marilyn Monroe.†   (source)
  • My hand contracts open, letting the sword fly.†   (source)
  • The insurance agent does not declare, announce, or threaten his act; he promises, as though a contract is being executed between himself and others.†   (source)
  • A lot of fishermen around San Pedro Harbor had similar contracts with the canneries.†   (source)
  • On August 21, he signed a contract with a young Worcester attorney, James Putnam, to study "under his inspection" for two years.†   (source)
  • I felt my eyebrows contract.†   (source)
  • Its great green eyes, the pupils contracted to vertical black slits in the sunshine, were staring into his own.†   (source)
  • I'm just a contract worker—I don't deserve to be treated this way.†   (source)
  • Remember the contract we got?†   (source)
  • There were professionals—those students who traveled a lot and had things like a commercial contract with Chap Stick that necessitated flying to the Swiss Alps on the random weekend.†   (source)
  • Rarely, plague is contracted by direct infection of cuts or lesions while handling a dead, infected rodent.†   (source)
  • Atticus says he doesn't know the meaning of the word contract yet, but he's doing fine with taxation.†   (source)
  • And since we renegotiated my contract so I get ten percent of the gate, I'm a regular businesswoman.†   (source)
  • As though she'd contracted an advanced case of cataracts.†   (source)
  • Mike Strank returned to Franklin Borough worn out by battle and a case of malaria he had contracted on Bougainville.†   (source)
  • It's not like he and Henry had a signed contract of friendship that prohibited Henry from being friends with anyone else.†   (source)
  • At age three, she contracted severe meningitis, and in her frantic mother's eyes, never emerged whole after the illness.†   (source)
  • She still didn't understand why they'd had to downgrade just because her father had made the unusual and mortifying decision to sever his marriage contract and move out.†   (source)
  • Thus we can expect our language to obey two seemingly contradictory influences, both centrifugal and centripetal, its universe both expanding and contracting.†   (source)
  • "They are contract soldiers," Attolia said dismissively.†   (source)
  • Very quickly, the churning in my belly contracted and focused into a single point of pain; and then, in a way I can't fully explain, it became directional, lengthening from a point into a line, from one dimension to two.†   (source)
  • There's really a contract?†   (source)
  • When Mr. Sheffield, the mill-owner, bought a Delco generator for the mill and contracted with the town to install twenty street lights and run wires to all the houses and stores on both sides of the railroad tracks, practically everybody got electricity except Grandpa and the mill workers and the colored folks in Pigfoot Bottoms.†   (source)
  • I'd just finished getting out an engineering proposal for a five-million-dollar contract that just about did me in.†   (source)
  • There was a debt to pay in Paris, and a contract to fulfill, his love far safer with the assassin's death.†   (source)
  • These bargains are struck with a signature, a handshake, and a penny given out as a token of the contract.†   (source)
  • Even though this was rarely enforced, many plantation owners were wary that the contracts might be upheld by the government or British interference.†   (source)
  • Have you ever contracted tuberculosis or other mycobacterial disease, or had a positive skin test for tuberculosis?†   (source)
  • Prisoners cannot enter into contracts....I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free.†   (source)
  • The first thing I'll want written into the contract is that each of our pictures carries our own bylines.†   (source)
  • My pupils had finally contracted enough to let me see, and what was there waiting for me nearly knocked me off my feet.†   (source)
  • In 1938, his father began a construction contracting business that grew into one of the more important companies in Monterrey.†   (source)
  • If a stable had no horses in a race, its contract jockeys were allowed to freelance for other barns.†   (source)
  • Computermen sent up to install Mike were on short-term bonus contracts—get job done fast before irreversible physiologlcal change marooned them four hundred thousand kilometers from home.†   (source)
  • She envisions the muscled walls of her stomach shrinking, contracting, slickly clean from the absence of food and the gallons of springwater she drinks.†   (source)
  • I didn't believe him when I sat next to him copying the Portuguese contract, but he must have been telling the truth.†   (source)
  • To have the nerve to pull such a low, unspeakable ....just because of some vicious rumors, when we have a contract for two hundred years and ....†   (source)
  • Be it known to you that as I made my journey towards your house to perform the contract of marriage between me and your daughter Aravis Tarkheena, it pleased fortune and the gods that I fell in with her in the forest when she had ended the rites and sacrifices of Zardeenah according to the custom of maidens.†   (source)
  • His 1994 agenda, known as the "Contract with America," helped Republicans achieve their first House majority in forty years.†   (source)
  • In our contract we wrote there would never be a harsh word between us, and for twenty-seven years this was so.†   (source)
  • Dart felt his skin contract.†   (source)
  • A balloon was flexible, could expand and contract easily, and cost almost nothing.†   (source)
  • If war comes and we get the contract for military uniforms we'll be rich.†   (source)
  • Spotlight contracts: a narrow beam focusing on the green circular table.†   (source)
  • This is to say that just as Wild Country becomes tractable, and Badlands country slowly gives way to habitable Fringes country, so, it would seem, are the Blacklands contracting within the Badlands.†   (source)
  • The older of the two, approximately forty, had enormous sad eyes and a mouth sufficiently sensuous to assure him a contract to star in Revlon lipstick advertisements.†   (source)
  • Everything is in private, we deal like family, among ourselves, without chits or contracts.†   (source)
  • She only played cards for money and if faced with a difficult contract would throw down her hand, gather the others up, and proclaim "the rest are mine."†   (source)
  • I am under contract to do designs for several textile mills in the Garolinas.†   (source)
  • At the time I thought it was odd that my book contract specified either a collection of short stories or a novel.†   (source)
  • Thus there was no great stream of patients to his clinic, since patients usually prefer to contract with a famous surgeon as the latter must obviously be more skilled or how else would he have become famous?†   (source)
  • Then after he and Mom took some time off to travel, Daddy came to work for us at Duck Commander, working with budgets and contracts.†   (source)
  • And yet when he did fail, they were almost as disappointed as the driving instructor, who had contracted to provide as many lessons as were needed to pass.†   (source)
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