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  • Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself.  (source)
    component = part that when combined with other parts makes something that is more complex
  • We squandered our first nickels on the House of Horrors, which scared us not at all; we entered the black seventh-grade room and were led around by the temporary ghoul in residence and were made to touch several objects alleged to be component parts of a human being.  (source)
    component = of a part of something
  • The critical components are designed to survive a vacuum.  (source)
    components = parts
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  • Jonathan nods in acceptance, distracted by the task of setting up his stereo components.  (source)
    components = parts
  • However, we were surprised to discover that the behavioral modification component of our city's experiment was quite effective—up until recently, it actually helped quite a bit with the behavioral problems that made the genetic manipulation so problematic to begin with.  (source)
    component = part
  • Trying to diminish the size of your tongue, you focus your attention on its components: tip, smooth,-back, bumpy,-sides, scratchy, as noted earlier (vitamin deficiency), roots—trouble.  (source)
    components = parts
  • And if you taught me anything, its that what we hold in our hearts is truly the fiercest component of our humanity.  (source)
    component = part
  • It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components--snuffings and stampings; smells of cooling flesh and ammoniac hair; an illusion of a co-ordinated whole of splotched hide and strong bones within which, detached and secret and familiar, an is different from my is.  (source)
    components = parts
  • A motorcycle may be divided for purposes of classical rational analysis by means of its component assemblies and by means of its functions.  (source)
    component = part of something
  • He, too, knew about the captured B-24D, so he spoke freely about the plane's components.†  (source)
  • Exercise seems to be a principal component of the Unwind's day.†  (source)
  • Even now, as I scrutinize the components of the confrontation—the threat, the denial, the lecture, the apology—it is difficult to relate them.†  (source)
  • There is an ethnic component lurking in the background of my story.†  (source)
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