Sample Sentences forsurcharge (auto-selected)
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Due to the increased demand during the holiday season, the airline has implemented a surcharge on all flights.surcharge = an additional charge over the usual amount
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The restaurant added a 15% surcharge during its busiest hours.
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Such individuals can be considered to be murder-prone in the sense of either carrying a surcharge of aggressive energy or having an unstable ego defense system that periodically allows the naked and archaic expression of such energy.† (source)
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I will rule, however, that they be kept in preferred incarceration, that the shackles be removed from Mr. Joseph Cinque while he is in lock-up, and that the negroes be allowed regular outdoor exercise and visitors from the Yale Divinity School without barrier or surcharge.† (source)
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This feeling was surcharged by listening to the sad tunes of the orchestra, reminiscent of the melancholy music played for acrobats in vaudeville.† (source)
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When the eldest son was gone Wang Lung felt the house was purged of some surcharge of unrest and it was a relief to him.† (source)
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Looming higher and higher, "it was surcharged with electricity, for the lightning was constantly searching it from limit to limit," he wrote.† (source)
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Only, at intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous precipices and the sombre perspective of his destiny.† (source)
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"Eh, my Hubert!" she sang, in a voice heavy and surcharged with love.† (source)
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The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).† (source)
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These little rows were really precipitated by an atmosphere which was surcharged with dissension.† (source)
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They divide the pleasures of the body into two sorts—the one is that which gives our senses some real delight, and is performed either by recruiting Nature and supplying those parts which feed the internal heat of life by eating and drinking, or when Nature is eased of any surcharge that oppresses it, when we are relieved from sudden pain, or that which arises from satisfying the appetite which Nature has wisely given to lead us to the propagation of the species.† (source)
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The atmosphere is evidently charged and surcharged with electricity.† (source)
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He became surcharged with the compound, which was genuine lover's love.† (source)
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All in a moment there was a deadly surcharged atmosphere there.† (source)
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The very atmosphere he breathed was surcharged with hatred and malice, and this but served to increase the hatred and malice within him.† (source)
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His muscles were surcharged with vitality, and snapped into play sharply, like steel springs. (source)surcharged = filled excessively
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Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and nights. (source)
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