Sample Sentences for
entail
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    Negotiating with the newly elected government entails easing the ban on talking with terrorists.
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    At the same time, we see to it that all country sports shall entail the use of elaborate apparatus.  (source)
    entail = require
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    He wrote: Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.  (source)
    entail = involve
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    Knowing Josh, he would show up with a shovel or a rake or whatever tool the chore entailed.  (source)
    entailed = required
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    "Yes, and that's all settled!" exclaimed Caderousse, who, by a last effort of intellect, had followed the reading of the letter, and instinctively comprehended all the misery which such a denunciation must entail.  (source)
    entail = involve or require
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    You understand what my occupation entails, don't you?  (source)
    entails = involves or requires
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    The quantity of facts to be sought and sifted, and the agenda planned to obtain them, promised perspiration a plenty, entailing, as it did, the tracking down, the "checking out," of hundreds of people, among them all former River Valley Farm employees, friends and family, anyone with whom Mr. Clutter had done business, much or little-a tortoise crawl into the past.  (source)
    entailing = requiring
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    As if climbing the peak alone in winter weren't challenging enough, this time he decided to up the ante even further by beginning his ascent at sea level, which entailed walking 160 hard, circuitous miles from the shore of Cook Inlet just to reach the foot of the mountain.  (source)
    entailed = required
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    I just hadn't expected mine to entail retrieving garbage from river bottoms.†  (source)
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    You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.  (source)
    entails = involves or requires
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    At five p.m. the chute closed and Mae worked on her PartiRank for forty-five minutes, bringing it from 1,827 to 1,430, a process entailing 344 comments, posts and almost a thousand smiles and frowns.†  (source)
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    Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn't be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed.  (source)
    entailed = involved
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    What would it entail?†  (source)
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    Jane and Elizabeth tried to explain to her the nature of an entail.  (source)
    entail = limitation on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
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    The acres not entailed were mortgaged to the hilt, and the little cash he made went to interest.  (source)
    entailed = tied up due to conditions of inheritance
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    Old Lord Ingram's estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost.  (source)
    entailed = promised through inheritance
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    He informed us that, with the exception of a certain entailed property of Lucy's father which now, in default of direct issue, went back to a distant branch of the family, the whole estate, real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood.  (source)
    entailed = restricted by inheritance stipulations
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    The Spada family was one of the oldest and most powerful families of the fifteenth century; and in those times, when other opportunities for investment were wanting, such accumulations of gold and jewels were by no means rare; there are at this day Roman families perishing of hunger, though possessed of nearly a million in diamonds and jewels, handed down by entail, and which they cannot touch.  (source)
    entail = inheritance with limitations of use
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    Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations.  (source)
    Entailment = limitation on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
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    Entailments seemed all right enough for livingroom talk.  (source)
    Entailments = the subject of limitations on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
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    "For your sake," turning to Charlotte, "I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line."  (source)
    entailing = leaving by last will and testament
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    He would be the heir to the estate because that is entailed.  (source)
    entailed = restricted in use by inheritance limitations
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    And what can he mean by apologising for being next in the entail?  (source)
    entail = inheritance
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    Miss Scout, if you give me your attention I'll tell you what entailment is.  (source)
    entailment = limitation on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
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    "Entailments are bad," I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation.  (source)
    Entailments = limitations on use of property based on conditions of inheritance
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    There is no knowing how estates will go when once they come to be entailed.  (source)
    entailed = restricted by rules of inheritance
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