antenna
Example Sentences
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“Following the recent rate checks and the escalation in verbal intervention, the market’s antenna is already buzzing,” he said.
“I’m not sure you could put antennae on an elephant,” Mari said.
From Literature
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Not every collection is a success: a delicate red-orange shrimp daintily eludes the suction tube, swirling its long antenna as it swims almost triumphantly beyond reach.
From Barron's
This girl boss couldn’t feel less human if antennae sprouted from her eyebrows.
From Los Angeles Times
The service was too expensive, O’Leary told a reporter, costing as much as $250 million a year when factoring the added fuel consumption caused by drag from the external antennas.
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