Sample Sentences for
ministrations
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    Now the coldness that, under Aunt Beast's ministrations, had left her body had also left her mind.†  (source)
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    If Laia survived, it's no doubt due to the older woman's ministrations.†  (source)
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    He breathed heavily, permitting the ministrations to his body rather than helping them.†  (source)
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    His life was painful, disrupted by infection, and dependent on the constant ministrations of others.†  (source)
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    Maybe it will reveal her blindness to her, laying there at the mercy and the ministration of four men and a tom-boy girl.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    As though on cue, a young boy—Siegfried Fischer—cries out downstairs once, then twice more, and Werner and Jutta wait to hear Frau Elena's feet on the stairs and her gentle ministrations and the house fall quiet once more.†  (source)
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    how tender and skilful in its ministration when one of his pets had been injured!†  (source)
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    Minerva continued her ministrations over the head of Dr. Buzzard, while down at the old man's feet Williams silently dug yet another hole.†  (source)
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    I know that from the beds of those who were past recovery, thanks have often, often gone up, in the last hour, for his patient ministration.†  (source)
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    Lord Voldemort's Request Harry and Ron left the hospital wing first thing on Monday morning, restored to full health by the ministrations of Madam Pomfrey and now able to enjoy the benefits of having been knocked out and poisoned, the best of which was that Hermione was friends with Ron again.†  (source)
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    One continually sees the ministration of the temporary outlasting the ministration of the eternal.†  (source)
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    And in a few minutes, before the end of the program, he did — this time without the ministrations of a nurse who, most nights, massaged his legs and tucked him in.†  (source)
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    She might be not moving a stool out for an overgrown girl at all, but performing some gentle ministration to someone else, someone who was not there; perhaps it was Beethoven, who wrote Hilda Ray's piece, and perhaps not.†  (source)
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