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functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity- We have an auxiliary power system in case of a blackout.
- the main library and its auxiliary branches
- The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
- Horses, we'll need horses from the auxiliary Guard stable," he whispered.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- The State courts will be natural auxiliaries to the execution of the laws of the Union.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- It's the only other panel he can remove with the tools on hand Also, we're getting rid of the auxiliary fuel pump.Andy Weir -- The Martian
- Later, I'd find out that it was Mrs. Merchant, from the Ladies Auxiliary, who'd glanced out the front window and seen us.Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
- In a few minutes the investigators went out, and joining those of their auxiliaries who had been left at the door they pursued their way elsewhither.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- The ship's auxiliary control room was built right inside the bottom of the tail fin.Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
- Early that morning I had to do a simple breast lump excision, and if the biopsy was positive, then a mastectomy and auxiliary node dissection.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Sneaking off to Level Nine without so much as an auxiliary?Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
- The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know.Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
- At dinner, prisoners and auxiliaries sat at the same tables as troopers and officers.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- "Run it," Whitney ordered, and gestured to the auxiliary unit across the room.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- He is my chief auxiliary!Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- May I reckon on you as an auxiliary?Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- You were attacked by two hoodlums of the Di-di Jing Cha, which can be translated as the Young People's Auxiliary Police.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the state with these dangerous auxiliaries.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- Lourdes is an auxiliary policewoman, the first in her precinct.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
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