plosive
Example Sentences
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From its rarity I infer that the Plosive stock has not multiplied lavishly on the earth.
From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
Plosive senior must have foreseen what would happen.
From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
Many years ago I had a schoolfellow and bosom friend whom I knew as Billy, but whose name as it stood in the Register was William Xavier Plosive.
From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
No sooner, of course, was the name William X. Plosive seen on the outside of the poor boy's copy-books than a whisper passed through the whole school—"Billy Burst."
From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
