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the line

noun as in free throw line

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He poured millions into building Foxcatcher Farm, a wrestling facility boasting top-of-the-line weight machines.

But on match point Nadal nailed an up-the-line forehand that landed close to the line and was called in.

Was trying to buy something worthy of a Bat Mitzvah invite for my daughter at a top-of-the-line country club.

The game was up with the Wasp and her prize, for the new ship was the Poictiers, a great seventy-four ship-of-the-line.

At this moment he thought the French to be nine sail-of-the-line to the British thirteen,—no contemptible inferior force.

He sailed in pursuit early the next morning, having with him thirteen British ships-of-the-line and one Neapolitan seventy-four.

With daylight appeared also two hostile ships-of-the-line, which had been chasing towards the sound of the guns.

It soon became evident that the leading ship-of-the-line was gaining upon the frigate, and the latter cleared for action.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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