Sentence examples for gams from inspiring English sources

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gams

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Third person singular of gam

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Most of that width is from its spindly gams; the body itself is only about a foot wide.

(For the chance to live as a human, Andersen's mermaid submits to having her tongue cut out, and agrees to trade her tail for legs that make her feel as if she were walking on knives; she is turned into sea foam when the prince she loves marries someone else. In the Disney movie, the mermaid, Ariel, not only has a fine pair of pain-free gams but also lands the guy and gets her voice back).

He knows that Lola is the kind of part that can serve to further brighten his hydroelectric power while showing off his great gams, no matter how trite: the script is just a jumping off point for his indefatigable energy, inner resources, and imagination.

But so did those gams, long and thin, teetering on six-inch spikes, like a tightrope walker inching her way between two skyscrapers, unsteady because her mind is clouded with the realization that she'll never be the walker her father, the Great Mazarovsky, was.

The image that keeps coming back to me is of Whelan dancing a lusty hornpipe near the end of Balanchine's "Union Jack," white bell-bottoms flying as she kicked those long, indestructible gams into the air, framed by two fellow sailors.

When they wear hot pants, it's to display the gams, not the glutes.

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We gamed out the electorate but we got it wrong, and then the music stopped on election day and we didn't realise the scale of it until one minute past 10 on election night".

In February 2012, the night before an official speech in Edinburgh, where he confirmed he would consider future concessions on devolution, the prime minister held a private dinner at the Peat Inn near St Andrew's, where he gamed his negotiation strategy with a select group of close advisers, including his special adviser on Scotland, Andrew Dunlop.

But the conflict in Ukraine is disconcertingly similar to the kind that Russian forces have consistently war-gamed and planned for.

The data we use now to judge "quality" is itself flawed and easily gamed.

Analysts say this may indicate disgruntlement among many low-level ex-GAM members, in particular over the failure of government peace-making incentives to reach them.

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