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punctuates

verb as in lay stress on

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The yellow ticking clock that punctuates every episode of 24 is simultaneously bombastic, methodical, menacing, and relentless.

She has smiling blue eyes behind square gray glasses and a ladylike grin that punctuates most of her encounters.

It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line.

Prebble punctuates the story with outlandish puppetry and other unexpected imagery, as well a kind of English music-hall levity.

Such is the way of the buzzard—that shifting black question mark which punctuates a Southern sky.

Turnbull misses the rhythmical play in the first and second 'though,' and punctuates the second so as to read with next line.

For his Reverence always punctuates his speech with these sweet sighs of joy.

Such is the way of the buzzard—that shifting black question-mark which punctuates a Southern sky.

The poinsettias flower punctuates points of deepest p. 3colour from out of vases fashioned like the lotus.

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

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