fleece
Example Sentences
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Among the new nonnegotiables: fleece vests instead of jackets and elastic waistbands instead of “hard pants,” i.e., anything with a zipper.
She shares that before she logged on to speak with me, she’d been using a lint roller to remove dog hair from her fleece.
From Los Angeles Times
On the other is Fox’s internal conviction that Dominion’s private-equity backers are trying to fleece the network for their own financial gain.
From Washington Post
He said it would see "giveaways to companies already making record profits, for a policy that will make no difference to energy bills or security, fleecing the public whilst trashing the climate."
From BBC
One Taliban commander in the central province of Ghazni said the government forces' collapse started as soon as U.S. forces started withdrawing "as they didn't have any ideology except fleecing the Americans."
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
