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dispose as in:  dispose of the waste

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  • What is the best way to responsibly dispose of old electronic equipment.
    dispose = throw away
  • The contents would be disposed of by Hans as prudently as possible.   (source)
    disposed = thrown away
  • When all the garbage has been dropped down a disposal and the food cleaned away, she turns down my bed.   (source)
    disposal = the process of getting rid of something; or a kitchen appliance for getting rid of garbage
  • But she finally became suspicious and tried to dispose of it.   (source)
    dispose = get rid
  • Whether they are destroyed individually or in groups, or however it is done, with mass bombing, poisonous smoke, poisons, drowning, decapitation, or what, dispose of them as the situation dictates ….   (source)
  • He had, of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning, before school.   (source)
    disposed = thrown away
  • A disgruntled employee, or some trash improperly disposed of, something like that.   (source)
  • Unaware of public scrutiny from above, Judge Taylor disposed of the severed end [of his cigar] by propelling it expertly to his lips and saying, "Fhluck!" He hit the spittoon so squarely...   (source)
    disposed = got rid (threw away)
  • On the last night before the festival, yams of the old year were all disposed of by those who still had them.   (source)
    disposed = gotten rid (thrown away)
  • The disposal of sewage and waste   (source)
    disposal = the process of getting rid of something; or a kitchen appliance for getting rid of garbage
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  • My job was to pick the piles up and dispose of them.   (source)
    dispose = throw away
  • If it were possible, the car looked worse than before—like a toy that someone had wedged down the sink and run through the garbage disposal.   (source)
    disposal = to throw away
  • Seth had purchased it at a pharmacy in Tupelo six days before he died, then he apparently disposed of it; thus, there was no proof of how much or how little he'd actually consumed.   (source)
    disposed = got rid
  • Meanwhile at Anvard everyone was very glad that he had been disposed of before the real fun began, which was a grand feast held that evening on the lawn before the castle, with dozens of lanterns to help the moonlight.   (source)
    disposed = settled (gotten rid of so he didn't require further attention)
  • Although several smallish temporary bunkers for extermination were thrown up in 1942, there was a crisis that arose in terms of facilities for killing and disposal which could only be remedied by the completion of the immense new crematoriums at Birkenau.   (source)
    disposal = the process of getting rid of something; or a kitchen appliance for getting rid of garbage
  • In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper.   (source)
    disposal = throwing away
  • I put it in the garbage disposal.
    disposal = to throw away (or get rid of)
  • He claimed Westing stole his idea of the disposable paper diaper.   (source)
    disposable = designed to be used once and thrown away
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in disposable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in lovable and believable.
  • They gave me a disposable slate-gray jumpsuit to put on, with matching plastic shoes.   (source)
  • Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue.   (source)
  • Crow polished Mrs. Wexler's silver teapot with a Westing Disposable Diaper for the third time.   (source)
  • I was still wearing my disposable plastic indent slippers.   (source)
  • Westing connection: Hoo sued Sara Westing over the invention of the disposable paper diaper.   (source)
  • Five years later he was sued by an inventor over rights to the disposable paper diaper.   (source)
  • Shortly thereafter he propped his Minolta on an empty oil drum and took a snapshot of himself brandishing a yellow disposable razor and grinning at the camera, clean-shaven, with new patches cut from an army blanket stitched onto the knees of his filthy jeans.   (source)
    disposable = designed to be used a limited number of times and then thrown away
  • One, two, three, four, five, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, sleeping tablets, men, disposable tissue, coattails, blow, wad, flush, Clarisse, Mildred, uncle, fire, tablets, tissues, blow, wad, flush.   (source)
    disposable = designed to be used once and thrown away
  • Even Crow was using Westing Disposable Diapers to polish the silver and Westing Paper Towels to scrub the floors.   (source)
  • I just got a look at your incinerator for disposing of experimental animals.   (source)
    disposing = getting rid
  • We freeze our specimens before we dispose of them in the incinerator.   (source)
    dispose = get rid
  • At least a dozen men lay here, waiting either for a thaw that would make their burial easier, or for a cruder disposal by the beasts of the nearby forest.   (source)
    disposal = getting rid of something
  • I knew too well, from stories told by returning soldiers from POW camps, that nothing is easier than for a prisoner to die by "accident," and the body be conveniently disposed of before embarrassing official questions can be asked.   (source)
    disposed = gotten rid
  • Mikhail searched the pockets of the dead terrorist lying at his feet and found a Samsung Galaxy disposable phone.†   (source)
  • But the rearmament guys of Sabray also brought me my laser and the disposable camera.†   (source)
  • They meant little to us — they were pawns, they were disposable.†   (source)
  • Off to the side, I see teetering columns of red disposable cups.†   (source)
  • It was an ordinary disposable ballpoint, black ink, removable cap.†   (source)
  • When I'm naked I lie down on the examining table, on the sheet of chilly crackling disposable paper.†   (source)
  • It was a disposable phone, the one he'd bought to keep tabs on Kotku.†   (source)
  • Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend.†   (source)
  • That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust.†   (source)
  • I mean that you are the only disposable faction.†   (source)
  • When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable.†   (source)
  • Lourdes leaves the hospital wearing a blue paper disposable robe.†   (source)
  • And then we were very disposable—right, Plutarch?†   (source)
  • I checked my disposable cell, just in case Andie had called.†   (source)
  • He nodded, held up a little disposable camera and snapped a picture of us.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh pocketed the disposable phone and looked out toward the SMSC.†   (source)
  • His other number appears to be a disposable phone—which is almost impossible to track.†   (source)
  • Who would have to know besides Coin, Plutarch, and a small, loyal or easily disposable crew?†   (source)
  • My cell rang, the disposable—I couldn't figure out where to keep it, so I kept it on me.†   (source)
  • Last night at 10:04 P.M. my disposable cell phone rang.†   (source)
  • "Just real quick, Hilary—" She hung up, and immediately, my disposable vibrated.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit topped the list of disposable horses, and Phipps was eager to find a buyer.†   (source)
  • It contained a half-dozen couches with plastic disposable covers over them.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't happen to have a disposable razor in any of those drawers, would you?†   (source)
  • He had a disposable cup like Abby's in his right hand.†   (source)
  • She pops a disposable cone on a thermometer and sticks it in my ear.†   (source)
  • They are the ultimate in disposable workers: illegal, illiterate, impoverished, untrained.†   (source)
  • We are going to use the disposable biocontainment suits.†   (source)
  • Who doesn't know about disposable cells?†   (source)
  • It just has to be a disposable one," Damien explained.†   (source)
  • On my boat I had discovered the aluminum, disposable cooking utensils, frying pans and deep dishes.†   (source)
  • Ashoke goes out to the corner store, and a box of disposable diapers replaces the framed black-and-white pictures of Ashima's family on the dressing table.†   (source)
  • This, then, was how Voldemort had tested the defenses surrounding the Horcrux, by borrowing a disposable creature, a house-elf..."There was a b-basin full of potion on the island.†   (source)
  • I finally rid myself of Gilpin, then drove aimlessly down the highway so I could make a call on my disposable.†   (source)
  • The phone that was now ringing was Mal'akh's own—a cheap disposable phone he had purchased yesterday.†   (source)
  • I even thought about getting mad at you for staying out too late—there you were lying on the bed in those disposable diapers—I wanted the real diapers but your mother insisted on the kind you didn't have to wash, just throw away.†   (source)
  • The survival kit did have soap, it turned out-a few disposable packets tucked into a corner of the knapsack.†   (source)
  • I get her dressed and think of the time I was given a disposable camera for pictures of A. Phillip said as long as I took pictures of just the baby he would allow me to take them.†   (source)
  • Hey, it was a cheapo disposable.†   (source)
  • The foursome stopped at Multnomah Falls to buy a coloring book and crayons for Missy and two inexpensive, waterproof disposable cameras for Kate and Josh.†   (source)
  • This goes for the non-food items as well — everything from toothpaste and cosmetics to disposable diapers, trash bags, and even batteries.†   (source)
  • When Ruth returned to LuLing's apartment, she began to throw away what her mother had saved: dirty napkins and plastic bags, restaurant packets of soy sauce and mustard and disposable chopsticks, used straws and expired coupons, wads of cotton from medicine bottles and the empty bottles themselves.†   (source)
  • On one of my visits, I even brought home a tiny used disposable diaper, which Marley sniffed with such vigor I feared he might suck it up his nostril, requiring more costly medical intervention.†   (source)
  • He followed the steps he'd been taught: put on disposable gloves, use scissors to carefully cut away the muddy fabric that stuck to Dr. Gage's wounded leg.†   (source)
  • Plus it's against the law to smoke in restaurants here, and Granmère smokes all the time, even in bed, which is why Grandp"re had these weird disposable oxygen masks installed in every single room at Miragnac and had an underground tunnel dug that we could run through in case Granmère fell asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and the chateau burst into flames.†   (source)
  • It makes them look disposable.†   (source)
  • He could smell the child: a milky smell, like chocolate chip cookies, and the sour tang of a wet, disposable, nighttime diaper.†   (source)
  • She came up with several ideas for making money, including a colorful disposable baby bottle with premeasured amounts of water and formula—something a busy mom could shake with one hand while holding a baby.†   (source)
  • Well, Alice always seemed to treat clothes as if they were disposable and meant for one-time usage, so she shouldn't mind this.†   (source)
  • After a flurry of phone calls, she sent us down a long hallway and through a set of double doors, where we found ourselves in a mirror image of the maternity ward we had just left except for one obvious difference—the patients were definitely not the buttoned-down, disposable-income yuppies we had gone through Lamaze class with.†   (source)
  • But city things were disposable and replaceable, as interchangeable as the T-shirt, jacket, and skirt combinations of dorm uniforms.†   (source)
  • He remembers when his paternal grandfather died, sometime in the seventies, remembers his mother screaming when she walked in on his father, who was shaving off all his hair with a disposable razor.†   (source)
  • And, unlike uglies, who had only their dorm uniforms and other disposable possessions, the two had actually spent half a lifetime collecting things before escaping the city.†   (source)
  • Langdon has yet to call me, Mal'akh thought, after double-checking for messages on his disposable phone.†   (source)
  • I'd bought a disposable phone just for her calls, but those voice mails and texts went to her very permanent cell.†   (source)
  • This time, it was the disposable cell that I needed to get rid of and couldn't because I always, always, always had to pick up for Andie.†   (source)
  • Yes, on a disposable cell phone.†   (source)
  • In my pocket, my disposable cell phone made a mini-jackpot sound that meant I had a text: im outside open the door AMY ELLIOTT DUNNE — APRIL 28, 2011 —DIARY ENTRY-†   (source)
  • "I just hate the idea of things she touched, left out there, all alone—" My phone rang, the disposable, and I flicked a glance at the display, then shut it off.†   (source)
  • My disposable rang in my pocket.†   (source)
  • I used a disposable.†   (source)
  • Marion was there, with one of those disposable cameras, taking picture after picture of Scarlett in her dress.†   (source)
  • Catheters are second-hand condoms the ends clipped off and rubber-banded to tubes that run down pantlegs to a plastic sack marked DISPOSABLE NOT TO BE RE-USED, which it is my job to wash out at the end of each day.†   (source)
  • The hourglass silhouette was back, and suddenly even top designers were producing ready-to-wear styles—particularly for teenagers, who, in the economic boom following the war, had enough disposable allowance finally to afford to buy their own clothes.†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, or maybe not, Dexter suddenly popped into my head, watching me through a bent disposable camera.†   (source)
  • Next door, at Radio Shack, she asked the clerk for a disposable cell phone and a card that allowed her twenty hours of service.†   (source)
  • So Nick and Naka handed over some money to send a nurse to town to buy what supposedly were brand-new disposable needles.†   (source)
  • He said nothing of the fight, given the possibility that the workers, as disposable as they were no doubt considered, might be fired en masse and quickly replaced.†   (source)
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dispose as in:  dispose of the matter

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  • The issue will be disposed of by the judge.
    disposed = settled so it no longer requires attention
  • Once the Sixers had obtained the egg and won the contest, Art3mis and Shoto would "be disposed of."   (source)
    disposed = taken care of so they will no longer require attention (killed)
  • The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures required a witness to the execution of a mad hippogriff.   (source)
    disposal = the act of settling something so it no longer requires attention
  • "Humph!" With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather's loss,   (source)
    disposed = put an end to discussion
  • Surely a drugged Mockingjay will be easier to dispose of in front of a crowd.   (source)
    dispose = settle (something so it no longer requires attention)
  • they intend to dispose of him   (source)
    dispose = settle something so it no longer requires attention
  • Drag it out, burn some clock, give Harry Rex enough time to get the divorce final, give the system enough time to dispose of Simeon and ship him away, and give the county some distance between the horror of the moment, the two burials, and the fight over the estate of Seth Hubbard.   (source)
  • I carry things up the stairs and stow them in the garage. In there they seem disposed of.   (source)
    disposed = taken care of so they will no longer require attention
  • The plot is cute and complex, having largely to do with an alleged conspiracy on the part of Brandon Strathaway—Willard's tycoon father—to dispose of old Ezra, whose hideously mutilated corpse is indeed found one morning in the entrails of a mechanical cranberry picker.   (source)
    dispose = settle something so it no longer requires attention
  • Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was working, but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him.   (source)
    disposed = settled so they no longer required attention
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  • As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.   (source)
    disposed = took care (settled)
  • The forest disposes of its own victims.   (source)
    disposes = settles (something so it no longer requires attention)
  • In this dialogue, the whole argument in behalf of slavery was brought forward by the master, all of which was disposed of by the slave.   (source)
    disposed = settled
  • Having disposed of these evil-minded persons for the night,   (source)
    disposed = finished with them for the evening (settled things so they no longer required attention)
  • he is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect   (source)
    disposed = settled
  • Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of;   (source)
    disposed = placed so it no longer required attention
  • Thus, when a road is under consideration, almost all difficulties are disposed of by the aid of the jury.   (source)
    disposed = settled
  • This is a routine matter that we can certainly dispose of in short shrift.   (source)
    dispose = settle so it no longer requires attention
  • Nevin continued: "Next, and the big one, testamentary capacity, or sound and disposing mind."   (source)
    disposing = sound (capable of settling or resolving things)
  • He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it.   (source)
    disposing = settling or resolving (something so it no longer requires attention)
  • But Tom's extravagance had, previous to that event, been so great as to render a different disposal of the next presentation necessary, and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.   (source)
    disposal = settlement of what was to be done
  • Well, I suppose this is his idea of a suitable disposal of the problem.   (source)
    disposal = settling something so it no longer requires attention
  • Sir Fletcher seemed relieved, whether at disposing of the box, or at the thought of my imminent departure.   (source)
    disposing = transferring responsibility (so something no longer requires attention)
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dispose as in:  dispose of the assets

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  • Her will split everything between the children, but left no instructions regarding disposal of her home and art.
    disposal = the transfer of ownership
  • Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.   (source)
    disposal = transfer
  • We all knew how Mom had reacted to Papaw's death, but Mamaw's death created new pressures: It was time to wind down the estate, figure out Mamaw's debts, dispose of her property, and disburse what remained.   (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
  • He made me think of a pirate captain disposing of the booty.   (source)
    disposing = transferring to others
  • So the legislature makes a law that says she can dispose of her property by deed executed in the presence of a judge.   (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
  • Take it that I have disposed of my share as I wished, and let it go at that!   (source)
    disposed = transferred or given away
  • And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead.   (source)
  • The rest of his property, which was to be withdrawn from the bank, was disposed of in various bequests, several of them to those cousins in Vermont to whom his father had already been so bountiful.   (source)
    disposed = given away
  • "I don't know how it is," muttered Ralph, walking up and down the room, "but whenever a man dies without any property of his own, he always seems to think he has a right to dispose of other people's."   (source)
    dispose = transfer or give away
  • ...he had an undoubted right to dispose of his own property as he chose,   (source)
    dispose = to give, sell, or transfer
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  • The law of entail is of this number; it certainly prevents the owner from disposing of his possessions before his death; but this is solely with the view of preserving them entire for the heir.   (source)
    disposing = selling or transferring
  • In this case, the specific rule excludes all other methods because the woman had no previous power to dispose of her property.   (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
  • Now let us say that later in the same law it says that no woman can dispose of property of a specific value without the consent of three of her nearest relatives and they must sign the deed.   (source)
  • The Congress shall have the power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular State.   (source)
  • There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of;   (source)
    dispose = sell
  • Now, from the moment that you divest the landowner of that interest in the preservation of his estate which he derives from association, from tradition, and from family pride, you may be certain that sooner or later he will dispose of it; for there is a strong pecuniary interest in favor of selling, as floating capital produces higher interest than real property, and is more readily available to gratify the passions of the moment.   (source)
  • Having told how she disposed of her tales, Jo added, "And when I went to get my answer, the man said he liked them both, but didn't pay beginners, only let them print in his paper, and noticed the stories."   (source)
    disposed = transferred copyright
  • Dougal himself had left at dawn, in company with Ned Gowan and the messenger who had brought the news the night before, to arrange the funeral and dispose of his wife's property.   (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
  • I, James Donovan Halliday, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this instrument to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills and codicils by me at any time heretofore made....   (source)
    disposing = transferring to others (Disposing memory is a legal term meaning "with mental capacity to make informed decisions about how assets should be distributed after death.")
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dispose as in:  disposed the troops along...

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  • You have a tight deadline, but the entire company is at your disposal.
  • The only movement at her disposal was the act of turning.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • There are drawers filled with fine clothes, and Effie Trinket tells me to do anything I want, wear anything I want, everything is at my disposal.   (source)
  • Given the entertainment bacchanalia at the disposal of young men and women of your generation, I am grateful to anyone anywhere who sets aside the hours necessary to read my little book.   (source)
  • You'll have all of our company's vast resources at your disposal.   (source)
  • Laura and I had such colours at our disposal as well.   (source)
  • Not including fixed assets, do you know how much money I have at my disposal?   (source)
  • I hear Four's voice in my head, telling me that the most powerful weapon at my disposal is my elbow.   (source)
  • So I have six at my disposal.   (source)
  • He had the world at his disposal.   (source)
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  • B Company would go ashore at a place called Beach Red Two, he said, and the mortar section would place itself at the disposal of the weapons platoon leader, a Second Lieutenant Pratt, for the purpose of establishing a base of fire.   (source)
  • Mae was warmed by the laughter in the room, and expected that Mercer would laugh, too, and would stop, and would shake his head, in admiration for the wonderful power of the tools at her disposal.   (source)
  • I place myself and my talents at your disposal.   (source)
  • I'm already at your father's disposal.   (source)
  • The cabin crew is, as aloft, at your disposal.   (source)
  • Turner put himself at the disposal of the RAMC captain and helped on the stretcher parties bringing in the wounded.   (source)
  • They carried spears and disposed themselves to defend the entrance.   (source)
    disposed = positioned
  • Luckily, Redd also had Fours, Fives, and Sixes at her disposal, and a ragtag group of ex-Wonderlanders who'd never been part of the Deck at all but who hadn't felt at home living in bright, happy Wonderland.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • We filled our pockets with unripe oranges that were sour and unbearable to eat but the only source of food at our disposal, and we were on our way.   (source)
  • With all the powers of an AI at your disposal, you can't trace your cybrid's whereabouts and actions for a few days prior to your… accident?   (source)
  • He had a bachelor flat at number 83 Pulawska Street at his disposal, but was not living there himself, and he had agreed to let me occupy it.   (source)
  • I had a six-burner stove, a refrigerator, a toaster, and an abundance of pots, pans, knives, and appliances at my disposal.   (source)
  • A gang of men quick with guns and unfettered by conscience were at his disposal.   (source)
  • Certain other materials could be put at your disposal, if you wished them …   (source)
  • All four entrances to the Rotunda were closed with as inconspicuous a method of crowd control as Security had at its disposal—a velvet swag, an apologetic guard, and a sign that read THIS ROOM TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR CLEANING.   (source)
  • Not when you have claws and fangs at your disposal.   (source)
  • He spent several months devoting himself to his campaign, drawing on the support of the Conservative Party, as well as his own fortune, which he placed at the disposal of the cause.   (source)
  • And use all the means at your disposal, however common they may seem.   (source)
  • Through her computer she could also access the library at Harvard University or Boston University, and the addition of literally hundreds of thousands of articles they had at their disposal made any search much easier and less time-consuming than it had been even a few years ago.   (source)
  • Lisimaco Sanchez, her father, sent a message asking if they needed musicians for their holiday parties, because he had the best at his disposal, and he promised to send a load of fireworks later on.   (source)
  • Bjurman came round the desk to show her the statement of her bank account—which she knew down to the last öre, although it was no longer at her disposal.   (source)
  • We have little time at our disposal, and this is the fastest way for you to learn.   (source)
  • I will ease the harshness of the place with all the powers at my disposal.   (source)
  • There were books and music and a TV at my disposal, which meant I never once had the opportunity to be bored.   (source)
    disposal = available for use
  • Such decisions were no longer a matter simply of wages, the size of staff at one's disposal or the splendour of a family name; for our generation, I think it fair to say, professional prestige lay most significantly in the moral worth of one's employer.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • Fetiukov had been a bigshot in some office, with a car at his disposal.   (source)
  • I had been generous with the power and madness at my disposal, allowing my subject to be associated with an infinitely lesser figure, a fellow who sat in La-Z-Boy chairs and shot out TVs.   (source)
  • Ray Kroc could only dream, during McDonald's tough early years, of having such marketing tools at his disposal.   (source)
  • The governor scooped up the money and pledged his full co-operation together with all the extensive resources of government at his disposal —and he loaned them two Land Rovers.   (source)
  • There was nothing Doc could have done, even if he'd been right there with them, a gallon of Heal at his disposal.   (source)
  • But in two more days not only will I be old enough to buy them, I'll have them at my easy disposal.   (source)
  • Of the twenty-six cars at His Majesty's disposal, twenty were Rolls-Royces.   (source)
  • 2 million shows, I have ample funds at my disposal, which I will shortly be moving to one of your competitors.   (source)
  • Or will you get your own apartment, Ruby, with all the money at your disposal?   (source)
  • At about the same time, he had the following experience: He had been meeting a young woman in a room that an old friend put at his disposal every day until midnight.   (source)
  • 'If someone put a plane at my disposal, I could fly down there once a week in a squadron plane and bring back all the fresh eggs we need,' Milo answered.   (source)
  • How would one create a costume with such limited and colorless resources as we had at our disposal?   (source)
  • I am well aware there are many men and many weapons at your disposal, Director.   (source)
  • And they have huge profits and protection at their disposal.   (source)
  • I have legions at my disposal.   (source)
  • Perhaps it had been misplaced pride, but she'd used every tactic at her disposal to avoid him, then had left him a quick memo before slipping out of the house.   (source)
  • With Syed Abbas, he visited the nurmadhar of Chunda, Haji Ibramin, and convinced him to put the men of his village at their disposal.   (source)
  • I am at your disposal, Lord Veturius.   (source)
    disposal = use (available to be used by you)
  • "I believe I am stout enough to be at your disposal, Your Majesty," the magus replied gravely, "though otherwise old and very feeble."   (source)
    disposal = command
  • If the scientist had at his disposal infinite time, Poincaré said, it would only be necessary to say to him, "Look and notice well"; but as there isn't time to see everything, and as it's better not to see than to see wrongly, it's necessary for him to make a choice.   (source)
  • With an evil spirit at her disposal, Circe murdered my mother and set my life on a different course.   (source)
  • Badenhorst agreed to meet us, and at our parley we threatened work stoppages, go-slows, hunger strikes—every weapon at our disposal—unless he reformed his ways and restored many of the privileges that he had rescinded.   (source)
  • With the haughtiest air at her disposal, she dropped the trout into the small cooler Hunter brought along on fishing trips.   (source)
  • "Far less than you have at your disposal, I assume," interrupted Bernardine.   (source)
  • But since we were in a seven-freaking-bedroom country chateau with a Sub-Zero fridge and Viking range at our disposal, it didn't cut it.   (source)
  • Hold yourself at the disposal of this committee.   (source)
  • "My dear, I'm at your disposal, I'd do anything to help you," he answered, the rules of their language requiring that any open statement be answered by a blatant lie.   (source)
  • I personally will be at his disposal, and I call on all Americans -- I particularly urge all who stood with us to unite behind our next president.   (source)
  • A car and driver are at Natalie's disposal, delivering her and young Ruby to Miri's house for Dr. O's party.   (source)
  • Dennis has other stations at his disposal, you know.   (source)
  • If Lee had any cavalry at his disposal, they would act as his eyes and ears, scouting ahead and returning with the truth.   (source)
  • What use are wealthy friends if they will not put their wealth at your disposal, my queen?   (source)
  • "There are twelve of us, Sire," he said with a dashing and graceful bow, "and I place all the resources of my people unreservedly at your Majesty's disposal."   (source)
  • By which I mean, sir, to get to the heart of the matter, that I have a flagon of brandy at your disposal, should the occasion arise.   (source)
  • You can have the other girls at your disposal.   (source)
  • Apart from that, she is the only long-range vessel left at our disposal for communication with South America and with South Africa.   (source)
  • And yet I find it almost impossible to describe, for the only terms at my disposal are those relating to human music and these are inadequate if not actually misleading.   (source)
  • "To give you an honest answer," said the other, "neither did I. But then, I had at my disposal the combined powers of many of my kind."   (source)
  • My house is at Your Grace's disposal.   (source)
  • The manager's flat had been put at his disposal, but he preferred the old porter's lodge, which had floors of beaten earth but which also had running water and an enormous Russian stove.   (source)
  • Collectively, the Party owns everything in Oceania, because it controls everything, and disposes of the products as it thinks fit.   (source)
    disposes = uses
  • There you will hold yourself at the disposal of my client.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • Thus it was only natural that old Dr. Castel should plod away with unshaken confidence, never sparing himself, at making anti-plague serum on the spot with the makeshift equipment at his disposal.   (source)
  • Anything in this room is at your disposal.   (source)
  • The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your lover's soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.   (source)
  • I do not say that if we understand this man's life we shall solve all our problems, or that when we have all the facts at our disposal we shall automatically know how to act.   (source)
  • Then smoothly brushing the walls, they passed on musingly as if asking the red and yellow roses on the wall-paper whether they would fade, and questioning (gently, for there was time at their disposal) the torn letters in the wastepaper basket, the flowers, the books, all of which were now open to them and asking, Were they allies?   (source)
  • He had a new little car, and wished to place it at their disposal; the City Magistrate would decide whether the offer was acceptable.   (source)
  • Not in the time at my disposal.   (source)
  • And then, to follow your Lordship's wishes I shall hold myself at your disposal to render an account to you, when and where you will.   (source)
  • Chang then assured them of his own equal enjoyment, and hoped they would consider the resources of the music room and library wholly at their disposal throughout their stay.   (source)
  • At the end of this clause, a line had been added, also in red ink: 'Box Five on the grand tier shall be placed at the disposal of the Opera ghost for every performance.'   (source)
  • You, Harry, after having left behind your valuable personality, will have the left side of the theater at your disposal, Hermine the right.   (source)
  • The old du Lac aunts at Rhinebeck had put their house at the disposal of the bridal couple, with a readiness inspired by the prospect of spending a week in New York with Mrs. Archer; and Archer, glad to escape the usual "bridal suite" in a Philadelphia or Baltimore hotel, had accepted with an equal alacrity.   (source)
  • But the Society has unlimited wealth at its disposal and takes care of its own, as you saw.   (source)
  • And to make things easier for you, and to let you get to the bank with as little fuss as possible I've put these three gentlemen, colleagues of yours, at your disposal.   (source)
  • Another fellow, Norton, could not go to Oxford unless he got one of the scholarships at the disposal of the school.   (source)
  • Then she had changed her muslin frock for a dark traveling costume and mantle, had provided herself with money—which her husband's lavishness always placed fully at her disposal—and had started on her way.   (source)
  • …the product of the labor of society, the means of existence of the human race, will always belong to idlers and parasites, to be spent for the gratification of vanity and lust—to be spent for any purpose whatever, to be at the disposal of any individual will whatever—t   (source)
  • One lecture bureau offered me fifty thousand dollars, or two hundred dollars a night and expenses, if I would place my services at its disposal for a given period.   (source)
  • And for such reconstruction memory furnishes me with more detailed guidance than is generally at the disposal of restorers;   (source)
  • It was as if Leonora and Nancy banded themselves together to do execution, for the sake of humanity, upon the body of a man who was at their disposal.   (source)
  • First, Man has multiplied on her hands until there are as many men as women; so that she has been unable to employ for her purposes more than a fraction of the immense energy she has left at his disposal by saving him the exhausting labor of gestation.   (source)
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dispose as in:  Is she disposed to help?

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  • In that country, you are unlikely to find an official who is disposed to help you unless you offer a bribe.
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency or mood to do something)
  • Ellie Sattler was not a woman disposed to unnecessary panic, and she had known Grant to get out of dangerous situations before.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)
  • In the hallway William did not seem disposed to hurry.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • Nevertheless, in consideration of your youth and the ill nurture, devoid of all gentleness and courtesy, which you have doubtless had in the land of slaves and tyrants, we are disposed to set you free, unharmed, on these conditions: first, that...   (source)
    disposed = inclined (have a desire to)
  • ...and besides, it was Flatbush, a place as disposed to the extremes of propriety and to neighborly snooping as the most arrested small town in the American heartland.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)
  • In fact I may say that Matthew is disposed to keep her.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • As was usually the case wherever Hester stood, a small vacant area—a sort of magic circle—had formed itself about her, into which, though the people were elbowing one another at a little distance, none ventured or felt disposed to intrude.   (source)
  • They were severally examined and appraised by old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon the wall, and added them up into a total when he found there was nothing more to come.   (source)
    disposed = with a desire
  • He too, at first, seemed disposed to refuse; but, after some reflection, he granted me the privilege,   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)
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  • I find myself disposed to ... discover a pretext for conformity.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a tendency to)
  • He paused in hopes of an answer; but his companion was not disposed to make any; and Elizabeth at that instant moving towards them, he was struck with the action of doing a very gallant thing, and called out to her: "My dear Miss Eliza, why are you not dancing?"   (source)
    disposed = inclined (or motivated)
  • Land being the most stable kind of property, we find, from time to time, rich individuals who are disposed to make great sacrifices in order to obtain it, and who willingly forfeit a considerable part of their income to make sure of the rest.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • ...experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (has a tendency to)
  • Nevertheless, until the British government caved in to the strong-arm tactics of the Ulster loyalist workers after the Sunningdale Conference in 1974, a well-disposed mind could still hope to make sense of the circumstances, to balance what was promising with what was destructive and do what W.B. Yeats had tried to do half a century before, namely, "to hold in a single thought reality and justice."†   (source)
  • The doctor, well-disposed, gave me many warnings about the dangers of this project insofar as my contact with Negroes was concerned.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances, the government was not disposed to release survivors in a hurry.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • Were Sophie ever disposed to laughter, this running byplay between Bronek and the elephantine governess, who plainly enjoyed his attentions, would have come as close as anything to providing her with comic relief.   (source)
    disposed = has a tendency or mood to
  • "Perhaps," said Tom, "Fanny may be more disposed to oblige us now."   (source)
    disposed = inclined (in favor)
  • ...seemed thoughtful and not disposed to talk,   (source)
    disposed = inclined (in the mood)
  • ...she was disposed to be too communicative,   (source)
    disposed = inclined (had a tendency)
  • But she was nevertheless disposed to play a little with her subject.   (source)
    disposed = in the mood
  • He gave her away once to his sister; but, being a poor gift, she was not disposed to keep her.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • Any one having a white face, and being so disposed, could stop us, and subject us to examination.   (source)
  • 'Oh, never mind,' said Kenwigs, glancing at Mr Lumbey, who, having rashly taken charge of little Lillyvick, found nobody disposed to relieve him of his precious burden.   (source)
    disposed = with a desire
  • It was more romantic to say nothing, and, drinking deep, in secret, of romance, she was as little disposed to ask poor Lily's advice as she would have been to close that rare volume forever.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency or mood to do something)
  • A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody.   (source)
    dispose = incline (create a tendency for)
  • Nicholas, having carefully copied the address of Mr Squeers, the uncle and nephew issued forth together in quest of that accomplished gentleman; Nicholas firmly persuading himself that he had done his relative great injustice in disliking him at first sight; and Mrs Nickleby being at some pains to inform her daughter that she was sure he was a much more kindly disposed person than he seemed; which, Miss Nickleby dutifully remarked, he might very easily be.   (source)
    disposed = with a tendency
  • A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.   (source)
    dispose = create a tendency or mood to do something
  • We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • We seldom called him "master;" we generally called him "Captain Auld," and were hardly disposed to title him at all.   (source)
  • Edmund was sorry to hear Miss Crawford, whom he was much disposed to admire, speak so freely of her uncle.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)
  • At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament.   (source)
  • "I hope she will prove a well-disposed girl," continued Mrs. Norris, "and be sensible of her uncommon good fortune in having such friends."   (source)
    well-disposed = with a positive or cooperative attitude
  • She is ever disposed to find fault with them; they can seldom do any thing to please her; she is never better pleased than when she sees them under the lash, especially when she suspects her husband of showing to his mulatto children favors which he withholds from his black slaves.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (has a tendency to)
  • Fanny was disposed to think the influence of London very much at war with all respectable attachments.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (had a tendency)
  • She was humble, and wishing to be forgiven; and Mr. Yates, desirous of being really received into the family, was disposed to look up to him and be guided.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • I at first rejected the idea, that the simple carrying of a root in my pocket would have any such effect as he had said, and was not disposed to take it; but Sandy impressed the necessity with much earnestness, telling me it could do no harm, if it did no good.   (source)
  • He is not a shining character, but he has a thousand good qualities; and is so disposed to look up to you, that I am quite laughed at about it, for everybody considers it as my doing.   (source)
  • Young, pretty, and gentle, however, she had no awkwardnesses that were not as good as graces, and there were few persons present that were not disposed to praise her.   (source)
  • A successful scheme of this sort generally brings on another; and the having been to Mansfield Common disposed them all for going somewhere else the day after.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (motivated)
  • On the contrary, she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted, or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire, that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far, than to repine at the counteraction which followed.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • Mrs. Price seemed rather surprised that a girl should be fixed on, when she had so many fine boys, but accepted the offer most thankfully, assuring them of her daughter's being a very well-disposed, good-humoured girl, and trusting they would never have cause to throw her off.   (source)
    well-disposed = with a positive or cooperative attitude
  • "Oh! don't talk so, don't talk so," cried Fanny, distressed by more feelings than he was aware of; but seeing that she was distressed, he had done with the subject, and only added more seriously— "Your uncle is disposed to be pleased with you in every respect; and I only wish you would talk to him more."   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • The conclusion of the two gentlemen's civilities was an offer of Mr. Price's to take Mr. Crawford into the dockyard, which Mr. Crawford, desirous of accepting as a favour what was intended as such, though he had seen the dockyard again and again, and hoping to be so much the longer with Fanny, was very gratefully disposed to avail himself of, if the Miss Prices were not afraid of the fatigue;   (source)
  • Tom understood his father's thoughts, and heartily wishing he might be always as well disposed to give them but partial expression, began to see, more clearly than he had ever done before, that there might be some ground of offence, that there might be some reason for the glance his father gave towards the ceiling and stucco of the room; and that when he inquired with mild gravity after the fate of the billiard-table, he was not proceeding beyond a very allowable curiosity.   (source)
  • That a girl of fourteen, acting only on her own unassisted reason, should err in the method of reform, was not wonderful; and Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly, than to censure severely the faults of conduct to which it led.   (source)
  • Mrs. Norris was beginning an eager assurance of the affability he might depend on, when she was stopped by Sir Thomas's saying with authority, "I do not advise your going to Brighton, William, as I trust you may soon have more convenient opportunities of meeting; but my daughters would be happy to see their cousins anywhere; and you will find Mr. Rushworth most sincerely disposed to regard all the connexions of our family as his own."   (source)
  • Mr. Rushworth had been gone at this time to Bath, to pass a few days with his mother, and bring her back to town, and Maria was with these friends without any restraint, without even Julia; for Julia had removed from Wimpole Street two or three weeks before, on a visit to some relations of Sir Thomas; a removal which her father and mother were now disposed to attribute to some view of convenience on Mr. Yates's account.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors)
  • A well-disposed young woman, who did not marry for love, was in general but the more attached to her own family; and the nearness of Sotherton to Mansfield must naturally hold out the greatest temptation, and would, in all probability, be a continual supply of the most amiable and innocent enjoyments.   (source)
    well-disposed = with a positive or cooperative attitude
  • Lucy was disposed to be jealous of her...   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • We were not, of course, because even well-disposed white men tended to be turned off and affronted if black men told them truths that offended their prejudices.†   (source)
  • I should be very sorry to admit that a robust and well-disposed young man need ever despair.†   (source)
  • for you strike my fancy as being well-disposed and upright.†   (source)
  • There was so much of him; he was so rich and robust, so easy, friendly, well-disposed, that he kept her fancy constantly on the alert.†   (source)
  • "My goddess!" cried the Pole on the sofa, "I see you're not well-disposed to me, that's why I'm gloomy.†   (source)
  • When men were kind to us we made offerings, and all men were well-disposed throughout all the Hills.'†   (source)
  • Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents on injustice.†   (source)
  • Both the nurse and doctor said, that that mother of his made her way here, against difficulties and pain that would have killed any well-disposed woman, weeks before.'†   (source)
  • Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.†   (source)
  • How shall he ever know well that he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he will treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborliness without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action.†   (source)
  • thirteen weeks' examination and practice of the virtues, as in the before-mention'd model; that the existence of such a society should be kept a secret, till it was become considerable, to prevent solicitations for the admission of improper persons, but that the members should each of them search among his acquaintance for ingenuous, well-disposed youths, to whom, with prudent caution, the scheme should be gradually communicated; that the members should engage to afford their advice, assistance, and support to each other in promoting one another's interests, business, and advancement in life; that, for distinction, we should be call'd The Society of the Free and Easy: free, as being, by th†   (source)
  • Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.†   (source)
  • Though his eyes had been long opened, even before his acquaintance with Elinor began, to her ignorance and a want of liberality in some of her opinions— they had been equally imputed, by him, to her want of education; and till her last letter reached him, he had always believed her to be a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.†   (source)
  • Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,
    Thy honorable metal may be wrought,
    From that it is disposed:   (source)
    disposed = inclined
  • Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a tendency towards)
  • As he seemed undisposed to mention the creature to anyone else, I thought perhaps I should keep quiet as well.   (source)
    undisposed = without a tendency or mood
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisposed means not and reverses the meaning of disposed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Jamie can mend his own shirt, then, if you're not disposed to help.   (source)
    disposed = in a mood
  • Anselm had said that the springs had healing powers, and I wasn't disposed to doubt it.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)
  • I had no idea what he wanted, and wasn't disposed to guess.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a desire to)
  • ...she is more disposed to reward than to punish.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (has a tendency to)
  • O masters, if I were disposed to stir
    Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
    I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong,
    Who, you all know, are honourable men:   (source)
    disposed = inclined (had desire)
  • In fact, if there be enough of goodness in a character to engage the admiration and affection of a well-disposed mind, though there should appear some of those little blemishes quas humana parum cavit natura, they will raise our compassion rather than our abhorrence.†   (source)
  • In recording some instances of these, we shall, if rightly understood, afford a very useful lesson to those well-disposed youths who shall hereafter be our readers; for they may here find, that goodness of heart, and openness of temper, though these may give them great comfort within, and administer to an honest pride in their own minds, will by no means, alas!†   (source)
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  • All of it will have to be gone through, disposed of by someone or other, when I die.†   (source)
  • She scooped up the dress and necklace to dispose of them as well.†   (source)
  • I've disposed of that box of tools you left me.†   (source)
  • I have vivid memories of this dignified old man stripping down to nakedness next to me, his body slowly emerging as he neatly disposed of each item of clothing, decency being salvaged at the very end by a slight turning away and a magnificent pair of imported athletic bathing trunks.†   (source)
  • But before I went anywhere, there was a dead mouse to dispose of.†   (source)
  • Angrily, Langdon stalked toward the trash receptacle to dispose of the tracking dot.†   (source)
  • I bet he'll get off "Yeh don' know them gargoyles at the Committee fer the Disposal o' Dangerous Creatures!" choked Hagrid, wiping his eyes on his sleeve.†   (source)
  • How could he trust anyone who spoke so coldly of the "disposal" of third children?†   (source)
  • You're such a lovely girl, after the marriage I wouldn't dispose of you like your brother and sister.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, I need to dispose of this.†   (source)
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  • As soon as the rovers were unstowed and activated, Commander Lewis had the joy of disposing of the RTG.†   (source)
  • Luther Driggers was a friend of long standing, but Williams recalled how Driggers had ridiculed him for not being clever enough to dispose of Danny Hansford's body before the police had come, implying that Williams had been guilty of murder and therefore should have removed the evidence.†   (source)
  • In the few seconds that Mae had been looking for the octopus and seahorses, the shark had disposed of the other two fish.†   (source)
  • It was the accepted course of action for disposing of the effects of the deceased and we didn't question anything about it.†   (source)
  • We tried to ascertain if Potter would know exactly how many beetleskins he had in his sock drawer—whether he would notice if we opened one of the foil wrappers and examined one of the beetleskins, which naturally, then, we could not put back; we would have to dispose of it.†   (source)
  • The bowling alley didn't have any doors—based on the thick rust that covered the exposed hinges, they'd been taken off and disposed of a long time ago.†   (source)
  • If I were to bet, though, I'd wager that he's inspecting the Eye Eater's mangled corpse, or disposing of Sven's body.†   (source)
  • She went quiet for a moment, face pinched with frustration, as if she were deciding how best to dispose of my body once she'd followed through on her threats.†   (source)
  • Long enough to dispose of Lord Stannis.†   (source)
  • To his great astonishment and mortification, Sticky saw his parents begin trying less and less to find him, instead devoting their time and energy toward the proper disposal of their newfound riches.†   (source)
  • Like lightening I picked up the fork, but the moment before the food touched my mouth, Mother snatched the plate away from me and emptied the food down the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • Planting her feet firmly in the grass, she disposed of her old self year by year in thirteen strokes.†   (source)
  • There were no hidden costs or waste to be disposed of.†   (source)
  • That alone didn't worry her too much; Pedro had never been disposed to sexual excess.†   (source)
  • We try to shepherd as much glass from the broken Bluefin bottles as possible onto pieces of paper and then gather them into a single bag for later disposal.†   (source)
  • Without waiting for Cinder's answer, Adri said, "Iko, you can begin disposing of Peony's things.†   (source)
  • They had to be careful because the decision would serve as precedent for all future Government Pachyderm Carcass Disposals.†   (source)
  • So when I see the fair-skinned, dark-haired girl wheeling corpses from Poundcake's table to the disposal area, I don't go over and introduce myself and I don't grab one of her team members to ask her name.†   (source)
  • His dad was messing with the plumbing under the sink, replacing the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Schindler had our lives in his hands and could dispose of us at any moment.†   (source)
  • That he has a workshop turning out these frauds but washes his hands of how you dispose of them?†   (source)
  • Displaying them to all my "old" customers and friends, I hammered home every point, my dresses would save mothers endless work, the materials and sewing were as good and probably better than anything that could be done at home, the price was right for quick disposal.†   (source)
  • There was one outside this door but it's been disposed of.†   (source)
  • Wrap box cutter and tuck away in pocket for later disposal.†   (source)
  • After a hurried walk home, he sneaked back into his room to dispose of the egg fragments.†   (source)
  • He would dispose of his good-luck pebble.†   (source)
  • I opened the bottle of pills and turned it over and let the pills fall out—they are capsules, actually, green and black—and I watched them disappear into the mouth of the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • The boy hesitated for a moment, examining the car as if it were some strange animal and he couldn't be sure whether it was kindly disposed or would swallow him alive, but finally he got in, too.†   (source)
  • I had at my disposal eight nouns, which stood for six things; five of the eight nouns could double as verbs.†   (source)
  • When Marley wasn't acting as our household garbage disposal, he was on duty as the family's emergency spill-response team.†   (source)
  • So what about violence without agency, where writers simply dispose of their characters?†   (source)
  • Our trail through the moss-striated snow would be clear, they would need only to follow us and dispose of us.†   (source)
  • With Emeline gone and neatly disposed of, he now was able to concentrate on his growing web of enterprises.†   (source)
  • "dispose" ... In the military, bombings are "clean surgical strikes" and civilian deaths are "collateral damage."†   (source)
  • And truthfully, if any of us was disposed to use curse words, it would be Adah, who could not care less about sin and salvation.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, death images came to him: dead frog plastered to the turnpike like a grisly stamp; Daddy's broken watch lying on top of a box of junk to be thrown out; gravestones with a dead person under every one; dead jay by the telephone pole; the cold junk Mommy scraped off the plates and down the dark maw of the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • She started walking to the bathroom to dispose of the water, and I followed her.†   (source)
  • We took pictures, then waved the EOD guys—"explosive ordinance disposal," or bomb disposal experts—in to make sure they were inert.†   (source)
  • Moore signed a consent form saying the hospital could "dispose of any severed tissue or member by cremation," and Golde removed his spleen.†   (source)
  • I wished at once to plan some way to quickly dispose of the whole problem.†   (source)
  • Gone to Blenheim Road, attacked Megan Hipwell, disposed of her body somewhere and then forgotten all about it?†   (source)
  • Peter was supposed to help me dispose of them.†   (source)
  • The effort was immense, as he had a great deal of emotion to dispose of, and after some games he could be seen brushing tears from his eyes.†   (source)
  • Why not keep our man, use him, and dispose of him?†   (source)
  • Disposal of hacked-up avatars is taken care of by Graveyard Daemons, a new Metaverse feature that Hiro had to invent.†   (source)
  • He had been able to verify that most of them were neither killers nor traitors, and he was therefore well disposed toward the prisoners.†   (source)
  • We planted our own explosives in the building and then deferred to our EOD guy (explosive ordnance disposal).†   (source)
  • Scipio immediately grasped the challenge: a cultural maelstrom of more than a hundred nationalities in an area slightly larger than one square mile, poverty, and a haphazard layout—sprawling apartment complexes with countless dark corners and wooded thickets where drug dealers could hide or dispose of weapons or stash—that put criminals at an advantage.†   (source)
  • The horses had served them well, and Herold loved animals, but they all agreed that the horses must be disposed of.†   (source)
  • On several occasions during the preceding six months he had sent her a white camellia, but she would return it to him in her next letter so that he would have no doubt that she was disposed to continue writing to him, but without the seriousness of an engagement.†   (source)
  • So I'm at your disposal any time after lunch.†   (source)
  • Or that Ky won't ever get to be Matched to anyone or work anywhere besides the nutrition disposal center.†   (source)
  • RECATHS: body-function tubes linking the human waste disposal system to the cycling filters of a stillsuit.†   (source)
  • Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • In truth, though she hasn't admitted it out loud until now, Molly has virtually given up on the idea of disposing of anything.†   (source)
  • He didn't know the squad had two extra portions to dispose of.†   (source)
  • They spent two more days in the kiosk, the weak and faltering sister venturing out to scavenge food scraps from the cartoon-character disposal baskets with swinging doors.†   (source)
  • Within a month of the funeral, her mother had packed up the house in Kingston and disposed of things around which her children had felt their lives revolved.†   (source)
  • Then, three days after Nate and Mike died, Louis Souffront, a twenty-five-year-old explosive ordnance disposal technician attached to Adam's squadron, was also killed in Iraq.†   (source)
  • Mundin and I had shown him the magazine we'd found, and he'd sworn us to secrecy and said he Would dispose of "that trash" himself.†   (source)
  • Then the project encountered cultural taboos about blood, such as resistance to disposing of used pads in the garbage.†   (source)
  • At least my seminaked state will give me the excuse to go into the other room, dispose of evidence if need be.†   (source)
  • The captain came by, sleepless, apoplectic, spraying saliva and brandy as he spoke: "How dare you dispose of shipboard property?"†   (source)
  • They dispose of bodies by throwing them in the river.†   (source)
  • The bear disappeared from the area, but still the women disposed of fish innards far down the creek.†   (source)
  • We had to dispose of it outside the camp.†   (source)
  • I'm not feeling very well disposed toward Martin at the moment.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, after studying the papers, Perry had put the same question, and Dick, who thought he'd disposed of it ("Look.†   (source)
  • The Count said, "Dispose of the body," because, even though he couldn't see the albino, he knew the albino was there.†   (source)
  • You will see that those things which disposed me in your favor were the very things which led me to decide against you in the end.†   (source)
  • He almost flinched when he heard Clara's step, for he had a feeling she was ill-disposed toward him and might have something sharp to say.†   (source)
  • The girls disposed themselves at a little distance—your mountain-bred young female is ever obviously shy, almost to prudery.†   (source)
  • And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken.†   (source)
  • She would have told them the room was off-limits until she disposed of the prisoner in whatever manner she saw fit.†   (source)
  • Where would they have disposed of the car if it had been damaged?†   (source)
  • Writing privately, however, he allowed to Lund Washington that "Providence, or some good honest fellow, has done more for us than we were disposed to do for ourselves."†   (source)
  • In this light, we can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.†   (source)
  • But he didn't seem disposed to abandon any side of his work, including seeing patients one-on-one in Haiti.†   (source)
  • In a matter of moments they had disposed energetically of a problem with which Yossarian and Sergeant Towser had been grappling unsuccessfully for months.†   (source)
  • Not even the tiniest particle of the consecrated host could be lost; we went to great pains to make sure of this when disposing of the leftovers from Holy Communion.†   (source)
  • So he took them out again and disposed of them in the metal trash cans behind the house, hidden under a few garbage bags.†   (source)
  • It was a general garbage disposal, carrying away trash.†   (source)
  • The drug program was very strict, so she had to dispose of contraband before she went, and give away excess clothing.†   (source)
  • Number four: Did Seth Hubbard understand and appreciate the nature and amount of his property and how he wanted to dispose of it?†   (source)
  • But perhaps I should not inquire too closely, since Elrond and Gandalf do not seem disposed to talk of this?†   (source)
  • Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep.†   (source)
  • There were five Erasers left-Nudge guessed they'd disposed of about half of them.†   (source)
  • He picks up his dinner, goes to the sink with it, and flushes it down the disposer.†   (source)
  • We found something interesting in the disposal hold down here, Lieutenant.†   (source)
  • "The only way to resolve the problem of the cats," he said, "is to dispose of them humanely.†   (source)
  • "To my dearly beloved wife Love Simpson Blakeslee, to my beloved daughters Mary Willis Blakeslee Tweedy and Loma Blakeslee Williams, to my beloved son-in-law Hoyt Tweedy, who is like a son to me" — Papa had to wait a minute before he could go on — "to my grandsons Hoyt Willis Tweedy and Campbell Williams junior, and to my granddaughter Mary Toy Tweedy: "This is about the disposal of my earthly remains.†   (source)
  • A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset.†   (source)
  • "I shall dispose of it for you, and you may be confident that no one shall ever know of it," Ann assures her.†   (source)
  • Judson was not disposed to give any preferential treatment to the Amistads during the trial.†   (source)
  • For Manchek was both prepared and disposed to consider a crisis of the most major proportions.†   (source)
  • Because it was useful to have warders who were well disposed toward us, I often asked certain men to make overtures to selected warders.†   (source)
  • At the time, I couldn't see her end of it, only the fact that she had part of me inside her that she wanted to dispose of.†   (source)
  • Better to use his natural endowments, which were his impressive height and a quick, sponge-like intelligence that, combined with his drive, disposed of heavy academic workloads with ease.†   (source)
  • Once I realized I wasn't being sucked into some giant garbage disposal, I opened my eyes and looked around.†   (source)
  • Instead of playgrounds and parks, the children of Monterrey ran freely among the factories, exposing themselves to all types of hazards and disposed wastes.†   (source)
  • Screaming around the track side by side, she and Seabiscuit disposed of Aneroid, then left the field far behind.†   (source)
  • I suspect that Mom and family run a butcher shop for they disposed of bodies as fast as Finn and I carried them back, their speed limited only by the rate at which portions could be ground up and flushed into the city's cloaca.†   (source)
  • Now all of the members of the unit are handpicked from other SEAL teams and Explosive Ordnance Disposal units.†   (source)
  • They will dispose of our energy, because they have none to offer, and of our product, because they can't produce.†   (source)
  • And he'd been given hoop, his own malevolent little puppet, his instrument to use and then dispose of.†   (source)
  • His daughters-in-law had disposed of Estelle's things.†   (source)
  • Once more there was the one where we all stood round in the yard while my father disposed of an Offence which was Sophie, and I woke up from that hearing my own voice shouting to him to stop.†   (source)
  • Did you believe that you could walk right in here and simply dispose of me?†   (source)
  • His circumstances and his psychological profile would not dispose them to believe him even if his story had not been so far beyond the bounds of reason.†   (source)
  • He has a devoted staffer-we'll call him Jenkins-dispose of the body.†   (source)
  • After failing to carry out the assassination of Vice President Johnson, the carriage painter spent the night wandering aimlessly about Washington, getting thoroughly drunk in a number of bars and making sure to dispose of the knife he was supposed to use to kill the vice president.†   (source)
  • Willie also worked as a janitor—he likes to say he was a maintenance supervisor—for a real estate agency, and he went around fixing broken windows, trash disposals, and things like that at the company's rental properties.†   (source)
  • More favors, innocent enough — packages to the mailbox, expeditious disposal of a bumblebee.†   (source)
  • When I say no, she throws her cigarette down the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • They knew us at once for strangers-perhaps by the bundles we carried-but were not disposed to be unfriendly for that, and they smiled to us and one or two called out cheerfully, "Are you bound for the temple too?"†   (source)
  • Otto studied Tradd with a rather detached and thoughtful curiosity as though he had never had to dispose of such a thin and fragile attacker.†   (source)
  • Unless he were to kill anybody, the police were not disposed to persecute him for a trifle such as that.†   (source)
  • But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms.†   (source)
  • After a day of this, I opened it to dispose of the stuff at a roadside garbage can and found the most thoroughly mixed and kneaded garbage I have ever seen.†   (source)
  • I have a correspondent in Paris who disposes of a good deal of my stuff.†   (source)
  • The cub, having momentarily disposed of the dogs, went to the boy and licked his hand, then faced the crowd, frightening by the uproar, growling, ready to fight.†   (source)
  • the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current your most gossamer micro-electrode is yet too gross for finding.†   (source)
  • If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven.†   (source)
  • And the year we moved into our new house, there was room to celebrate it with the new 1925 edition of the Britannica, which my father, his face always deliberately turned toward the future, was of course disposed to think better than any previous edition.†   (source)
  • Sooner or later he must get her out of the house, he knows, and in her absence get rid of Nuper's things (must figure out how to dispose of them too, of course, sooner or later) and then tell her he came back for them.†   (source)
  • Typhoid was the unwelcome, evil sister of any disaster in which the water supply was destroyed or polluted and normal disposal of human waste difficult or impossible.†   (source)
  • Ruffina Onissimovna was a woman of advanced views, entirely unprejudiced, and well disposed toward everything that she called "positive and vital."†   (source)
  • She did not talk to him too much, nor did she worry over him, nor was Rufus disposed to wander beyond the range of her weak sight, for he enjoyed her company, and of all grown people she was the most considerate.†   (source)
  • But in any case one has to start out favourably disposed—or at least, impartial; one has to keep an open mind—that's essential to a scientific mentality.†   (source)
  • In the last analysis, even at the end of a frightful war, we should view the future with more hope if even our enemies believed that we had treated them justly in our English-speaking concept of law, in the provision of relief and in the final disposal of territory.†   (source)
  • With the latest fad in informality disposed of, Reich eased himself down alongside the boy.†   (source)
  • But she was disposed to like Samson, who was a kind-faced respectful old native, who asked her, as she entered the bedroom, "Missus like to see the kitchen?"†   (source)
  • Didn't I just say we will dispose of them?†   (source)
  • 'Course then we have to dispose of the bodies.†   (source)
  • "The Hunters will be difficult to dispose of," Luke said.†   (source)
  • She cleared the dinner table herself, putting the food down the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • This time he (or she) had not found time to dispose of the body.†   (source)
  • Tons of animal manure are produced with no good way of disposing of it.†   (source)
  • Then Estha and Rahel had to look up dispose.†   (source)
  • It's just that Silencers don't dispose of bodies the way we do.†   (source)
  • And he can't sign back on until the Graveyard Daemons dispose of his avatar.†   (source)
  • But the more I learn, the more I feel we should dispose of him ....and soon.†   (source)
  • Them Disposal devils, they're all in Lucius Malfoy's pocket!†   (source)
  • Jameson and Tait suspected that the man had disposed of his tags, possibly hoping to defect.†   (source)
  • My EOD—the bomb disposal expert—was waiting behind me.†   (source)
  • He tucked the wrapping into his underwear for later disposal.†   (source)
  • At Rémy's suggestion, Silas had wiped down his gun and disposed of it through a sewer grate.†   (source)
  • Captain, will you leave one of your men to dispose of Drail?†   (source)
  • Does he know his life will be shorter if he keeps working at the disposal center?†   (source)
  • The ashes went out with the trash and were disposed of at the Augusta waste-treatment plant.†   (source)
  • I set the jars by the sink and looked down into the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • They were "material," no different from firewood, although somewhat more difficult to dispose of.†   (source)
  • If we dispose of Washington, Parliament will do whatever we ask.†   (source)
  • When they outgrew their usefulness, wedid dispose of them.†   (source)
  • I'm a dragon killer for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.†   (source)
  • We have to dispose of her, or who might she bring here next?†   (source)
  • Anyway ....all I had to do was throw the poop in the garbage disposal, and she'd never know.†   (source)
  • Did you miss the commendation ceremony where I was rewarded for the disposal of forty illegals?†   (source)
  • Body disposal was the problem, and Paul didn't know how to solve it.†   (source)
  • So the user can't get back in until his avatar has been disposed of.†   (source)
  • Every article of clothing he'd been wearing was disposed of, probably by a hazmat unit.†   (source)
  • SPCA, greenhouse effect, garbage disposals, what next?†   (source)
  • It's a self-contained disposal unit," I said.†   (source)
  • Holmes had disposed of her feet to remove this distinctive clue to her identity.†   (source)
  • Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.†   (source)
  • I'll bet there's no old priest in it now, but someone you disposed of.†   (source)
  • Tank's body is stacked with the others by the hangar doors to be disposed.†   (source)
  • He works at the nutrition disposal center.†   (source)
  • An engineer from the Ettumanoor municipality was supervising the disposal of the carcass.†   (source)
  • Buckbeaks case against the Committee fer the Disposal o' Dangerous Creatures," said Hagrid.†   (source)
  • He disposed of other spent material in his kiln or in pits filled with quicklime.†   (source)
  • Like a subconscious garbage disposal running in reverse.†   (source)
  • We called the bomb-disposal people and they came out.†   (source)
  • It said: Person well disposed to the English.†   (source)
  • "Processing and disposal," I answer, cutting my eyes away from him.†   (source)
  • I know now that he probably wasn't surprised with his assignment at the nutrition disposal center.†   (source)
  • Dad's body was gone—maybe the others had pulled disposal duty.†   (source)
  • The one you've had since Tank showed up in processing and disposal.†   (source)
  • Or maybe he's come to see if I'm still alive; he's in charge of disposal for this part of the camp.†   (source)
  • Turns out I was right: It was a disposal operation.†   (source)
  • Disposal happens next door, in the power plant incinerator.†   (source)
  • Clearly, they were a couple disposed to take chances and to look kindly on a young African.†   (source)
  • But I will always be the strongest part of Kaeleigh, so I can't let her dispose of me.†   (source)
  • Boots disposed of, she arched her hips and wiggled out of her jeans.†   (source)
  • They used the dead as a convenient means of garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • Foolish of you not to dispose of it more carefully, Sebastian.†   (source)
  • He would not have been the first father to dispose of an unwanted girl child, the Shavepate claimed.†   (source)
  • If we'd wanted to dispose of her, we should have done it when she was at Sahlgrenska.†   (source)
  • It belonged to 'Lyssa, just past thirteen and never instructed in correct disposal methods.†   (source)
  • The magus had been disposed to save his skin, but he knew there were greater things at stake.†   (source)
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