All 5 Uses
postpone
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Farewell to Manzanar
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- Years later I silently thanked him for forcing me to postpone such decisions until I was old enough to think for myself.†
Chpt 2.14 *postpone = delay until a later time
- The last hope that something might postpone our returning to the outside world was extinguished on August 6 when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.†
Chpt 2.17
- Every day busloads left from the main gate, heading south with their quotas, filled with Mamas and Papas and Grannies who had postponed movement as long as possible, and soldiers' wives like Chizu, and children like Kiyo and May and me, too young yet to be out on our own.†
Chpt 2.17postponed = delayed until a later time
- Woody has postponed this visit many times, postponed the train ride south from Tokyo, afraid of how he'd be received.†
Chpt 2.18
- Woody has postponed this visit many times, postponed the train ride south from Tokyo, afraid of how he'd be received.†
Chpt 2.18
Definitions:
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(1)
(postpone) delay until a later time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)