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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'get a puncture' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a situation in which the air has been let out of a tire, typically from a sharp object such as a nail or thorn. For example, "I was driving to work when I got a puncture in one of my tires."
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Or there might be a crash or you might get a puncture and that is it.
"A fine place to get a puncture -- a hundred meters from a pack of lions," he muttered.
The wheels are solid rubber so you can attack them with a nail gun and still not get a puncture.
The Japanese, meanwhile, didn't get a puncture, but one of their riders' chain snapped, so they'll get another chance.
In the way that my dad still takes his rugby boots to Twickenham, back in the mists of time I had offered my services as a speaker, should Jeremy Clarkson get a puncture en route to the festival.
I should have won there, only to get a puncture after seven laps when I was leading comfortably.
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Kittel gets a puncture, and he's now almost three minutes off the leading group.
In an earlier interview with BBC Radio Scotland, Ratcliffe likened environmental accidents to getting a puncture in a tyre.
My bike's got a puncture and Dad says I've got to learn how to mend it myself.
Well, when you're 11, "anguish" is something you feel when your new bike gets a puncture.
The filly cut and scraped herself up and got a puncture wound in her neck close to her ears.
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