tack
Example Sentences
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Instead, Witkoff encouraged Ukrainian officials to try another tack: What good was a handful of missiles going to accomplish?
Chesterton took a different tack—gratitude is “the highest form of thought.”
He wanted workers to be able to spread their work out, tack documents and photos to walls, rearrange the position of their shelves or bookcases, and raise their desk to standing height when desired.
“Let’s get down to brass tacks: It’s too expensive to live here.”
From Los Angeles Times
Minka Kelly has a face that could launch a thousand cable movies and is the freshest thing about “Champagne Problems,” a holiday-season romance that takes the welcome tack of embracing its own clichés.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
