quartering
Example Sentences
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On kitchen duty, Frida is berated for inefficiently quartering grapes and wielding her knife with a “hostile grip.”
From New York Times
“Drawing and quartering is a great way to lose some pounds too,” another said.
From Seattle Times
Once you start, say, quartering a recipe, you may veer too far away from how it was originally developed, which is always a gamble.
From Seattle Times
Remember last month when the Third Amendment — yes, that Third Amendment, the one about quartering soldiers — was trending on Twitter?
From New York Times
"That's a hotel that signs a contract with the National Guard. Has nothing to do with quartering in the Third Amendment."
From Fox News
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
