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  • She always smelled of machine oil, and when she talked with Leo, she switched from Spanish to English constantly—using them like complementary tools.†  (source)
  • She and his mother were complementary forces, he'd heard her say.†  (source)
  • Grown men and women seem to think a red plaid and a pink floral print are complementary colors.†  (source)
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  • Some of the littluns started a ring on their own; and the complementary circles went round and round as though repetition would achieve safety of itself.†  (source)
  • The tapestry of family and friends that wove together around me was a beautiful, glowing thing, full of their bright, complementary colors.†  (source)
  • He wore blue jeans, more hole than jean, and a black Twisted Sister T-shirt—the complementary pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve—which also showed serious signs of aging.†  (source)
  • Their whispers rose like smoke to the ceiling: complementary'supplementary'intersection'endpoint.†  (source)
  • Plus, in Sierra Living a complementary piece outlining the horrors of meth: How it eats big holes in the brain, destroys the pleasure center.†  (source)
  • She walked in with a firm step, she walked in prepared to command, with the English furniture brought back on their honeymoon and the complementary furnishings they sent for after their reconciliation trip, and from the first day she began to fill it with exotic animals that she herself went to buy on the schooners from the Antilles.†  (source)
  • We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.†  (source)
  • Headphones and discs of fashion magazines were complementary.†  (source)
  • His complementary part, his opposite?†  (source)
  • The glowing green suit and black-fisted shirt weren't complementary to my red-blond hair and bushy red beard.†  (source)
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