accordionin a sentence
accordion as in: an accordion door
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An accordion wall can be closed to divide the room.accordion = characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open
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The reading lamp can be pulled up to three feet from the wall on an accordion arm.
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He was a painter by trade and played the piano accordion. (source)accordion = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
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Next to her were three neat rows of accordion folders. (source)accordion = having narrow parallel folds when not full or pulled open
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Ahmad Zahir was playing an accordion and singing on the stage over masses of dancing bodies. (source)accordion = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
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The notes of an accordion float across from the billets. (source)
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He locked Roy in a fierce bear hug that emptied the air from Roy's lungs like an accordion.† (source)accordion = characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open
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Me, thought Will, seeing the guillotine flash, the Egyptian mirrors unfold accordions of light, and the sulphur-skinned devil-man sipping lava, like gunpowder tea.† (source)accordions = items characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open -- such as a door or musical instrument with that characteristic
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The Deliverator winces, imagining the garlicky topping accordioning into the back wall of the box.† (source)
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Buckley was standing now, but he looked first down at his shoes and then over his shoulder, out past the window to where the planes were parked, disgorging their passengers into accordioned tubes.† (source)
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Atop it was a camera, a great boxy thing with an accordionlike lens.† (source)
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Nobody touched it, it just stretched itself out like an accordion and there it went.† (source)accordion = characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open
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Sophie scarcely ever heard the music, indeed blanked most of it out, for it was never anything but noisy German backyard schmaltz, Tyrolean joke songs, yodelers, choirs of glockenspiels and accordions, all infused with recurring strains of treacly Trauer and lachrymal outpourings from Berlin cafés and music halls, notably such cries from the heart as "Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen," warbled by Hitler's favorite songbird Zarah Leander and played over and over again with merciless and monotonous obsession by the chatelaine of the manor—Hoss's garishly bejeweled and strident wife, Hedwig.† (source)accordions = items characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open -- such as a door or musical instrument with that characteristic
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The rattle of the gate accordioning back, the bump of the doors opening and closing.† (source)
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Old Chao unlocked the door in order to demonstrate how the roof unlatched, how it accordioned.† (source)
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The accordion player now began to play a jaunty little melody reminiscent of an English carol.† (source)accordion = characterized by narrower parallel folds when closed and wider when open
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