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They fluttered around manhole covers that had been welded shut for security's sake.
One emergency exit had been welded shut, forcing rescuers to try smashing through the tempered glass walls.
He tapped cigarette ash into the ashtray that had been welded on to the arm of his wheelchair.
The gang, which had been welded together for a single coup, never worked as a unit again.
I had the sense that I was eating two smaller (but still quite substantial) meals that had been welded together to make one supercolossal hybrid.
(Not our favorite, alas, which began, "My heliophobia support group met in an old schoolhouse whose main doors had been welded shut and painted blue").
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He had been welding at home when, suddenly, he could not catch his breath.
"It could have been anything: a drill, or a fire outside, where someone had been welding.
Can my backside, which has been welded to an armchair since lunchtime, withstand two whole hours of Downtown Abbey?
All the actors are fine, and they've been welded into a nifty down-home-feeling ensemble by Mr. Ellis.
One known vulnerability of the Minneapolis bridge and other steel bridges built in the 1960s has been welded joints.
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had been blocked
had been jammed
had been obstructed
had been locked
had been stopped
had been sealed
had been crippled
had been stalled
had been trapped
had been deadlocked
had been joined
had been united
had been stuck
had been frozen
had been fused
had been pinned
had been attached
had been shackled
had been chained
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