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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
  • 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)
    dispose = get rid
  • But she finally became suspicious and tried to dispose of it.   (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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • My job was to pick the piles up and dispose of them.   (source)
    dispose = 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)
  • Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue.   (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.
  • He claimed Westing stole his idea of the disposable paper diaper.   (source)
  • Crow polished Mrs. Wexler's silver teapot with a Westing Disposable Diaper for the third time.   (source)
  • Five years later he was sued by an inventor over rights to the disposable paper diaper.   (source)
  • Westing connection: Hoo sued Sara Westing over the invention of 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
  • I mean that you are the only disposable faction.†   (source)
  • When I'm naked I lie down on the examining table, on the sheet of chilly crackling disposable paper.†   (source)
  • It was an ordinary disposable ballpoint, black ink, removable cap.†   (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)
  • That means more disposable fuel and a larger margin of error for the return thrust.†   (source)
  • When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable.†   (source)
  • They are the ultimate in disposable workers: illegal, illiterate, impoverished, untrained.†   (source)
  • Off to the side, I see teetering columns of red disposable cups.†   (source)
  • Lourdes leaves the hospital wearing a blue paper disposable robe.†   (source)
  • Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend.†   (source)
  • He had a disposable cup like Abby's in his right hand.†   (source)
  • I was still wearing my disposable plastic indent slippers.†   (source)
  • It was a disposable phone, the one he'd bought to keep tabs on Kotku.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh pocketed the disposable phone and looked out toward the SMSC.†   (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)
  • And then we were very disposable--right, Plutarch?†   (source)
  • His other number appears to be a disposable phone—which is almost impossible to track.†   (source)
  • They gave me a disposable slate-gray jumpsuit to put on, with matching plastic shoes.†   (source)
  • Who would have to know besides Coin, Plutarch, and a small, loyal or easily disposable crew?†   (source)
  • My phone rang, the disposable, and I flicked a glance at the display, then shut it off.†   (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)
  • She hung up, and immediately, my disposable vibrated.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't happen to have a disposable razor in any of those drawers, would you?†   (source)
  • She pops a disposable cone on a thermometer and sticks it in my ear.†   (source)
  • It contained a half-dozen couches with plastic disposable covers over them.†   (source)
  • We are going to use the disposable biocontainment suits.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit topped the list of disposable horses, and Phipps was eager to find a buyer.†   (source)
  • It just has to be a disposable one," Damien explained.†   (source)
  • Who doesn't know about disposable cells?†   (source)
  • On my boat I had discovered the aluminum, disposable cooking utensils, frying pans and deep dishes.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I used a disposable.†   (source)
  • Hey, it was a cheapo 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)
  • Plus it's against the law to smoke in restaurants here, and Grandm"re 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 Grandm"re fell asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and the chateau burst into flames.†   (source)
  • You could tell from the piles of luggage, the boxes containing radios and kitchen appliances, the sacks full of things like disposable diapers.†   (source)
  • The survival kit did have soap, it turned out-a few disposable packets tucked into a corner of the knapsack.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • But city things were disposable and replaceable, as interchangeable as the T-shirt, jacket, and skirt combinations of dorm uniforms.†   (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)
  • Human beings, Sinclair argued, had been made "cogs in the great packing machine," easily replaced and entirely disposable.†   (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)
  • The phone that was now ringing was Mal'akh's own—a cheap disposable phone he had purchased yesterday.†   (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)
  • I finally rid myself of Gilpin, then drove aimlessly down the highway so I could make a call on my disposable.†   (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)
  • Yes, on a disposable cell phone.†   (source)
  • My disposable rang in my pocket.†   (source)
  • He dressed, brushed his teeth with a disposable toothbrush he found in the bathroom, and exited the room.†   (source)
  • There must be a limit to how much cloth you can cram into any one house, but of course it's disposable.†   (source)
  • —) Abby fed the baby and burped her and changed her miniature diaper, which was the disposable kind, but Abby refrained from so much as mentioning the word "landfill."†   (source)
  • Inexplicably, or maybe not, Dexter suddenly popped into my head, watching me through a bent disposable camera.†   (source)
  • It makes them look disposable.†   (source)
  • There I was, the son who went to the States for higher studies, who became a practitioner of the artful, lavish, disposable-everything, lucrative, and incredibly effective American brand of medicine, with no prices on the menu, so different in style and substance from what they did at Missing; only now it must have appeared to them as if the American medicine had turned on me, like the tiger turning on its trainer, so that I lay moored to a blue-gray ventilator, chained to monitors on…†   (source)
  • I guess that's the space-people-looking stuff the people were wearing in the hospital when they cleaned up a room after the death of the AIDS patient—face shields, full-body disposable gowns, gloves, protective eyewear, etc. I'll take everything Dr. Marx has for me to read and maybe he'll send me some stuff, or tell Dad where he can buy it and send it to me.†   (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)
  • 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)
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  • The issue will be disposed of by the judge.
    disposed = settled so it no longer requires attention
  • 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
  • This is a routine matter that we can certainly dispose of in short shrift.   (source)
    dispose = settle so it no longer requires attention
  • 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
  • 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)
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  • 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
  • Nevin continued: "Next, and the big one, testamentary capacity, or sound and disposing mind."   (source)
    disposing = sound (capable of settling or resolving things)
  • 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)
    dispose = settle something so it no longer requires attention
  • 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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  • Her will split everything between the children, but left no instructions regarding disposal of her home and art.
    disposal = the transfer of ownership
  • Number four: Did Seth Hubbard understand and appreciate the nature and amount of his property and how he wanted to dispose of it?   (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
  • 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
  • And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead.   (source)
    disposed = transferred or given away
  • 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
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  • You have a tight deadline, but the entire company is at your disposal.
    disposal = command (available to be used)
  • The only movement at her disposal was the act of turning.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 was his to dispose of, like his seed-warriors or his fire-breathing bulls.   (source)
    dispose = use
  • You'll have all of our company's vast resources at your disposal.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • He had the world at his disposal.   (source)
  • I hear Four's voice in my head, telling me that the most powerful weapon at my disposal is my elbow.   (source)
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  • I place myself and my talents at your disposal.   (source)
  • I'm already at your father's disposal.   (source)
  • 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)
  • Turner put himself at the disposal of the RAMC captain and helped on the stretcher parties bringing in the wounded.   (source)
  • 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)
  • So I have six at my disposal.   (source)
  • They carried spears and disposed themselves to defend the entrance.   (source)
    disposed = positioned
  • Certain other materials could be put at your disposal, if you wished them …   (source)
    disposal = command
  • A gang of men quick with guns and unfettered by conscience were at his disposal.   (source)
  • The cabin crew is, as aloft, at your disposal.   (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)
  • And we only needed a few of the tools now at the world's disposal.   (source)
  • I will use every means at my disposal to bring her safely from the ants' lair, and this oath supersedes any previous oath I have made.   (source)
  • Ray Kroc could only dream, during McDonald's tough early years, of having such marketing tools at his disposal.   (source)
  • I had a six-burner stove, a refrigerator, a toaster, and an abundance of pots, pans, knives, and appliances at my disposal.   (source)
  • Jack Gladney would not do, he said, and asked me what other names I might have at my disposal.   (source)
  • Fortunately, we have a specialist at our disposal.   (source)
  • Not when you have claws and fangs at your disposal.   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I will ease the harshness of the place with all the powers at my disposal.   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I will put my journals and archives at your disposal.   (source)
  • Fetiukov had been a bigshot in some office, with a car at his disposal.   (source)
  • And if Oromis and I should fall in battle, our knowledge and experience, and also my strength, shall still be at your disposal.   (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)
  • I am at your disposal, Lord Veturius.   (source)
    disposal = use (available to be used by you)
  • So, swallowing my nervousness, I wandered over and proceeded to use every ounce of charm I had at my disposal.   (source)
    disposal = command
  • 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 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
  • How would one create a costume with such limited and colorless resources as we had at our disposal?   (source)
    disposal = command
  • 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)
  • And they have huge profits and protection at their 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)
  • 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)
  • I suppose I could do that, if someone wanted me to and put a plane at my disposal.   (source)
  • I picked you from thousands and thousands of women at my disposal, so to speak.   (source)
  • What weapons did she have at her disposal?   (source)
  • Or will you get your own apartment, Ruby, with all the money at your disposal?   (source)
  • 2 million shows, I have ample funds at my disposal, which I will shortly be moving to one of your competitors.   (source)
  • Of the twenty-six cars at His Majesty's disposal, twenty were Rolls-Royces.   (source)
  • I have legions at my disposal.   (source)
  • "Far less than you have at your disposal, I assume," interrupted Bernardine.   (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)
  • If she catches me again, what better deterrent than me could she wish to have at her disposal?   (source)
  • Some pikes held formation, but others were entangled in wild, savage struggles with their opponents using whatever means at their disposal.   (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)
  • With the haughtiest air at her disposal, she dropped the trout into the small cooler Hunter brought along on fishing trips.   (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)
  • With an evil spirit at her disposal, Circe murdered my mother and set my life on a different course.   (source)
  • Dennis has other stations at his disposal, you know.   (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)
  • 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)
  • Lee has cavalry, artillery, and infantry at his disposal, should it come to a fight.   (source)
  • She made sure I saw her supply of the drug, how much she had at her personal disposal.   (source)
  • What use are wealthy friends if they will not put their wealth at your disposal, my queen?   (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)
  • Hold yourself at the disposal of this committee.   (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)
  • With so many idle hours at her disposal my mother was focusing all her schoolteacher's energies on perfecting the education I would need to make something of myself.   (source)
  • So you have considerable time yet remaining at your disposal.   (source)
  • We've put one of them at Pamphil's disposal.   (source)
  • But if that car's been put at your disposal, you can use it, surely.   (source)
  • My house is at Your Grace's disposal.   (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)
  • 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)
  • Not in the time at my disposal.   (source)
  • Anything in this room is at your 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Then be so kind as to place a few dozen of your pieces at my disposal.   (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)
  • You must give me back my private box; and I wish it to be at my free disposal from henceforward.   (source)
  • But the Society has unlimited wealth at its disposal and takes care of its own, as you saw.   (source)
  • Even my studio is actually one of the court offices but the court put it at my disposal.   (source)
  • You have other means at your disposal; you must use them, my friend.   (source)
  • Another fellow, Norton, could not go to Oxford unless he got one of the scholarships at the disposal of the school.   (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)
  • And for such reconstruction memory furnishes me with more detailed guidance than is generally at the disposal of restorers;   (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)
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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)
  • But even if they were disposed to help me, they would not dare to stand against Athena in her wrath.   (source)
    disposed = inclined
  • In the hallway William did not seem disposed to hurry.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • The few days we lived here went by pleasantly enough, in peace. People were better disposed toward one another. There were no longer any questions of wealth, of social distinction, and importance, only people all condemned to the same fate — still unknown.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • 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)
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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)
  • 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
  • ...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
  • ...seemed thoughtful and not disposed to talk,   (source)
    disposed = inclined (in the mood)
  • "Perhaps," said Tom, "Fanny may be more disposed to oblige us now."   (source)
    disposed = inclined (in favor)
  • Any one having a white face, and being so disposed, could stop us, and subject us to examination.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • He gave her away once to his sister; but, being a poor gift, she was not disposed to keep her.   (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
  • "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
  • We seldom called him "master;" we generally called him "Captain Auld," and were hardly disposed to title him at all.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • Fanny was disposed to think the influence of London very much at war with all respectable attachments.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (had a tendency)
  • 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)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • 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
  • 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)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Lucy was disposed to be jealous of her...   (source)
  • 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)
  • "That I'll answer for, Pathfinder! for you strike my fancy as being well-disposed and upright.†   (source)
  • I should be very sorry to admit that a robust and well-disposed young man need ever despair.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • …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…†   (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)
  • 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.
  • I had no idea what he wanted, and wasn't disposed to guess.   (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a desire to)
  • 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)
  • ...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 (in the mood to)
  • 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! do their business in the world.†   (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)
  • Once the Sixers had obtained the egg and won the contest, Art3mis and Shoto would "be disposed of."†   (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 disposed of her.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, I need to dispose of this.†   (source)
  • You're such a lovely girl, after the marriage I wouldn't dispose of you like your brother and sister."†   (source)
  • How could he trust anyone who spoke so coldly of the "disposal" of third children?†   (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I've disposed of that box of tools you left me.†   (source)
  • You mean to dispose of carcasses?†   (source)
  • Furthermore, Schindler had our lives in his hands and could dispose of us at any moment.†   (source)
  • I set the jars by the sink and looked down into the garbage disposal.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • That's a lot of disposing.†   (source)
  • Planting her feet firmly in the grass, she disposed of her old self year by year in thirteen strokes.†   (source)
  • As soon as the rovers were unstowed and activated, Commander Lewis had the joy of disposing of the RTG.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She cleared the dinner table herself, putting the food down the garbage disposal.†   (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)
  • That alone didn't worry her too much; Pedro had never been disposed to sexual excess.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Long enough to dispose of Lord Stannis.†   (source)
  • His dad was messing with the plumbing under the sink, replacing the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • Without waiting for Cinder's answer, Adri said, "Iko, you can begin disposing of Peony's things.†   (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)
  • That he has a workshop turning out these frauds but washes his hands of how you dispose of them?†   (source)
  • There were no hidden costs or waste to be disposed of.†   (source)
  • And he'd been given hoop, his own malevolent little puppet, his instrument to use and then dispose of.†   (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)
  • After a hurried walk home, he sneaked back into his room to dispose of the egg fragments.†   (source)
  • We called the bomb-disposal people and they came out.†   (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)
  • There was one outside this door but it's been disposed of.†   (source)
  • It's a self-contained disposal unit," I said.†   (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)
  • We planted our own explosives in the building and then deferred to our EOD guy (explosive ordnance disposal).†   (source)
  • The horses had served them well, and Herold loved animals, but they all agreed that the horses must be disposed of.†   (source)
  • Holmes had disposed of her feet to remove this distinctive clue to her identity.†   (source)
  • So what about violence without agency, where writers simply dispose of their characters?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She started walking to the bathroom to dispose of the water, and I followed her.†   (source)
  • He would dispose of his good-luck pebble.†   (source)
  • So the user can't get back in until his avatar has been disposed 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)
  • We have to dispose of her, or who might she bring here next?†   (source)
  • Then Estha and Rahel had to look up dispose.†   (source)
  • Gone to Blenheim Road, attacked Megan Hipwell, disposed of her body somewhere and then forgotten all about it?†   (source)
  • These were slated for disposal.†   (source)
  • Wrap box cutter and tuck away in pocket for later disposal.†   (source)
  • She would have told them the room was off-limits until she disposed of the prisoner in whatever manner she saw fit.†   (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)
  • But the more I learn, the more I feel we should dispose of him …. and soon.†   (source)
  • When they outgrew their usefulness, wedid dispose of them.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that maybe I was the odd one on the subject, but that was disposed of too.†   (source)
  • When Marley wasn't acting as our household garbage disposal, he was on duty as the family's emergency spill-response team.†   (source)
  • But he didn't seem disposed to abandon any side of his work, including seeing patients one-on-one in Haiti.†   (source)
  • "So I'm at your disposal any time after lunch.†   (source)
  • Any man who can get by Inigo and Fezzik would have no trouble disposing of me.†   (source)
  • He didn't know the squad had two extra portions to dispose of.†   (source)
  • Like sticking my hand in the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • The same place where the three he disposed of were buried.†   (source)
  • It was a general garbage disposal, carrying away trash.†   (source)
  • The bear disappeared from the area, but still the women disposed of fish innards far down the creek.†   (source)
  • Eddie had meanwhile successfully disposed of the other two pieces.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep.†   (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)
  • Your great-aunt Betsy was meddlesome disposed that-a-way.†   (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)
  • The drug program was very strict, so she had to dispose of contraband before she went, and give away excess clothing.†   (source)
  • They dispose of bodies by throwing them in the river.†   (source)
  • Why not keep our man, use him, and dispose of him?†   (source)
  • It belonged to 'Lyssa, just past thirteen and never instructed in correct disposal methods.†   (source)
  • When her strength came back she might not be so ill-disposed toward the child.†   (source)
  • FemCare had to make special provision for the disposal of pads, in some places even distributing incinerators.†   (source)
  • Screaming around the track side by side, she and Seabiscuit disposed of Aneroid, then left the field far behind.†   (source)
  • "dispose" ….†   (source)
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal.†   (source)
  • It's the one thing I haven't had to replace around here, but I probably should have looked at it the last time I fixed your disposal."†   (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)
  • But perhaps I should not inquire too closely, since Elrond and Gandalf do not seem disposed to talk of this?†   (source)
  • I wished at once to plan some way to quickly dispose of the whole problem.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In this light, we can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.†   (source)
  • I'm not feeling very well disposed toward Martin at the moment.†   (source)
  • The captain came by, sleepless, apoplectic, spraying saliva and brandy as he spoke: "How dare you dispose of shipboard property?"†   (source)
  • There were five Erasers left-Nudge guessed they'd disposed of about half of them.†   (source)
  • A body to be disposed of.†   (source)
  • Since they were leaving, as was the servant, and since the house was about to be locked up, then sold or somehow disposed of, Lettie decided to clean out the pantry and refrigerator.†   (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)
  • Our trail through the moss-striated snow would be clear, they would need only to follow us and dispose of us.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Nevertheless, he was loath to dispose of the message.†   (source)
  • "The only way to resolve the problem of the cats," he said, "is to dispose of them humanely.†   (source)
  • I watched as a small breach team, led by one of Delta's Explosive Ordnance Disposal guys, ran into the first floor to set a thermobaric charge.†   (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)
  • How does he dispose of the goods he seizes?†   (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)
  • "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)
  • His daughters-in-law had disposed of Estelle's things.†   (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)
  • Once I realized I wasn't being sucked into some giant garbage disposal, I opened my eyes and looked around.†   (source)
  • I've nothing at my disposal tonight but my wits, and they seem little aid just now.†   (source)
  • Judson was not disposed to give any preferential treatment to the Amistads during the trial.†   (source)
  • He has a devoted staffer-we'll call him Jenkins-dispose of the body.†   (source)
  • He picks up his dinner, goes to the sink with it, and flushes it down the disposer.†   (source)
  • When I say no, she throws her cigarette down the garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • He has, at his disposal, a small cadre of like-minded men prepared to do his bidding.†   (source)
  • Did you believe that you could walk right in here and simply dispose of me?†   (source)
  • We found something interesting in the disposal hold down here, Lieutenant.†   (source)
  • We disposed of those finks, teeth and toenails, to strike terror into their mates.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • …their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea. 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…†   (source)
  • Yet how could someone like herself have disposed of them in any way at all?†   (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)
  • Now things kept coming back, things he had thought were disposed of long ago.†   (source)
  • I disposed of the evidence.†   (source)
  • But he soon desists and disposes himself for sleep, his arms on his knees and his head on his arms.†   (source)
  • We disposed of our two dates quickly.†   (source)
  • "Nicodemus," he said, "you may dispose of the incinerator now.†   (source)
  • I have a correspondent in Paris who disposes of a good deal of my stuff.†   (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)
  • Unless he were to kill anybody, the police were not disposed to persecute him for a trifle such as that.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Them Disposal devils, they're all in Lucius Malfoy's pocket!†   (source)
  • Anyway …. all I had to do was throw the poop in the garbage disposal, and she'd never know.†   (source)
  • As for your father, I'll just have to dispose of him more permanently.†   (source)
  • Course then we have to dispose of the bodies.†   (source)
  • "The Hunters will be difficult to dispose of," Luke said.†   (source)
  • "And I think," said Bellatrix's voice, "we can dispose of the Mudblood.†   (source)
  • He tucked the wrapping into his underwear for later disposal.†   (source)
  • Body disposal was the problem, and Paul didn't know how to solve it.†   (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)
  • Did you miss the commendation ceremony where I was rewarded for the disposal of forty illegals?†   (source)
  • This time he (or she) had not found time to dispose of the body.†   (source)
  • And he can't sign back on until the Graveyard Daemons dispose of his avatar.†   (source)
  • Tons of animal manure are produced with no good way of disposing of it.†   (source)
  • I know now that he probably wasn't surprised with his assignment at the nutrition disposal center.†   (source)
  • They were "material," no different from firewood, although somewhat more difficult to dispose of.†   (source)
  • Peter was supposed to help me dispose of them.†   (source)
  • Every article of clothing he'd been wearing was disposed of, probably by a hazmat unit.†   (source)
  • At Rémy's suggestion, Silas had wiped down his gun and disposed of it through a sewer grate.†   (source)
  • The Dark Lord wishes to dispose of Potter himself….†   (source)
  • A disgruntled employee, or some trash improperly disposed of, something like that.†   (source)
  • I'm a dragon killer for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures.†   (source)
  • If we dispose of Washington, Parliament will do whatever we ask.†   (source)
  • It said: Person well disposed to the English.†   (source)
  • It's just that Silencers don't dispose of bodies the way we do.†   (source)
  • An engineer from the Ettumanoor municipality was supervising the disposal of the carcass.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances, the government was not disposed to release survivors in a hurry.†   (source)
  • "Processing and disposal," I answer, cutting my eyes away from him.†   (source)
  • He works at the nutrition disposal center.†   (source)
  • My EOD—the bomb disposal expert—was waiting behind me.†   (source)
  • He disposed of other spent material in his kiln or in pits filled with quicklime.†   (source)
  • Buckbeaks case against the Committee fer the Disposal o' Dangerous Creatures," said Hagrid.†   (source)
  • Does he know his life will be shorter if he keeps working at the disposal center?†   (source)
  • Tank's body is stacked with the others by the hangar doors to be disposed.†   (source)
  • Disposal happens next door, in the power plant incinerator.†   (source)
  • Dad's body was gone—maybe the others had pulled disposal duty.†   (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)
  • The one you've had since Tank showed up in processing and disposal."†   (source)
  • Turns out I was right: It was a disposal operation.†   (source)
  • You gave me no pleasure, so you were disposed of.†   (source)
  • For Manchek was both prepared and disposed to consider a crisis of the most major proportions.†   (source)
  • But I will always be the strongest part of Kaeleigh, so I can't let her dispose of me.†   (source)
  • The magus had been disposed to save his skin, but he knew there were greater things at stake.†   (source)
  • Boots disposed of, she arched her hips and wiggled out of her jeans.†   (source)
  • SPCA, greenhouse effect, garbage disposals, what next?†   (source)
  • If one of them should think to win his favor by disposing of a rival ….†   (source)
  • They used the dead as a convenient means of garbage disposal.†   (source)
  • Clearly, they were a couple disposed to take chances and to look kindly on a young African.†   (source)
  • "If we'd wanted to dispose of her, we should have done it when she was at Sahlgrenska.†   (source)
  • That means he has every right to dispose of your hand.†   (source)
  • Where would they have disposed of the car if it had been damaged?†   (source)
  • Still we feel less ill-disposed towards Saruman than we did.†   (source)
  • Neither she nor Eragon nor the elves required assistance in disposing of the soldiers.†   (source)
  • "And to dispose of the ones who weren't," I finished.†   (source)
  • It had been a long time since he had felt so well disposed.†   (source)
  • The queen was not disposed to wait on Varys.†   (source)
  • Will your lordship also claim that Lady Lysa had no right to dispose of her own son?†   (source)
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