Sample Sentences fordais (editor-reviewed)
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She was seated on the inaugural dais near the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.dais = raised platform
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A bomb was planted under the dais.
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Things like Rudy on a dais with three gold medals slung around his neck. (source)
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I walked across the chamber to the foot of the dais. (source)
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As she continued to step slowly forward, at last she realized what the Thing on the dais was. (source)
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She shrugged and he smiled, forcing the mood to lift as he stepped from the dais. (source)
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Or take that bureaucrat on the dais with his gavel. (source)dais = raised platform
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At the far end of the room was a stage, surrounded by curtains on three sides; on the right were two long tables on elevated daises, each bearing ten telephones; on the other side stood the podium, no doubt for the auctioneer.† (source)
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The man sitting on a dais and draped with a particolored hide was undoubtedly King Zhou. (source)
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He would stride the daises and the stages with his voice strong and clear, unafraid to speak the language like a Puritan and like a Chinaman and like every boat person in between.† (source)
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One day back in Hasnapur, my mother told me, when the children were gathered under the banyan in the schoolyard, a scooter started sputtering and backfiring very close to Masterji's desk on the raised dais he called his stage. (source)dais = platform
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His footsteps echoed loudly as he walked slowly towards the dais. (source)dais = raised platform
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That was the dais where the High Table was, where the King and the great lords sat. (source)dais = raised platform that gives prominence to people on it
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And so it went, until it was time for Grammar and Composition with Miss Letitia Borrows, Spinster of this Parish (Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life.) (source)Dais = non-standard use of dais as a pun for the word days
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And the Council of Vocations sat on a high dais, and they had but two words to speak to each of the Students. (source)dais = raised platform
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The judge, a middle-aged, heavyset black woman wearing half-moon glasses, sits opposite, on a dais. (source)
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