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Examples an examples
How do I use an in a sentence?
Simple sentences
That was an evil bunny.
I want an MP3 player!
The seven questions that an engineer has to ask himself are: who, what, when, where, why, how and how much.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
You must put an end to your foolish behavior.
You must put an end to this foolish behavior.
Find an empty bottle and fill it with water.
In case of an emergency, push this button.
Call an ambulance.
Do you need an ambulance?
There is an abundance.
All things must have an end.
I once wanted to be an astrophysicist.
I am not an artist. I never had the knack for it.
I do not have an account in these forums.
Thanks for having explained to me at last why people take me for an idiot.
First, I'm going to do an outline of my new website.
You're an angel!
You're an angel.
This world is just an insane asylum.
I have to go shopping. I'll be back in an hour.
It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.
The French government has launched an online game that challenges taxpayers to balance the national budget.
What does it mean to have an educated mind in the 21st century?
Movie subtitles
Why, did your mom cause an accident again?
I'm an excellent cook.
Who mother dies. Her father has an affair and flees with his lover.
Even though your mom lives her life like that Even though she's an idiot, She doesn't throw away her children.
At least in an emergency leave.
Repeat: an emergency call to the base in Noah.
Without a scientist, we can not find an antidote.
Military intervention in an open area.
As expected, you're an interesting person.
It's quite an inconvenience for us as well.
The world will plunge into an even greater chaos.
Are you an idiot?
No, you're an outsider here.
I'm an outsider no matter where I go.
You're just an Eleven!
So what if he's an honored Britannian?
I'm an individual who has received training.
The opponent is an empire which has subdued over a third of the world.
Britannia is much too large and powerful of an opponent to fight with just one Geass.
Quite an idealist.
The Purists are having an internal conflict.
So we've come to an understanding?
There's an emergency call button she can press.
The whole thing was an act.
Can I have an ice-cream, please?
An eye.
An arm.
Because I'm stuck in an illegal prison in the middle of the Sahara fucking desert.
Be a long walk back, pal, we've been driving for nearly an hour.
Which is why removing you is an easy piece of damage limitation.
How much time do we have? They'll be gone an hour.
Maybe she came here on instinct, like she was looking for Derek. You mean, looking for an Alpha.
I think he is all about building an army to protect himself from the hunters.
He doesn't want her to be killed for an unjust reason, so he has to protect her.
I think I'm finally getting why you keep refusing me, Scott. You're not an omega.
You're already an Alpha of your own pack.
I have an acute phobia of people prying into my personal life.
News and current affairs
After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
Wouldn't it be paradoxical, then, if financial alchemy could make an ingot of gold worth dramatically more?
Yet 2008-2009, like 1989, may very well correspond to an epochal change, whose unfolding consequences will be felt for decades.
First, and perhaps above all, the revolutions of 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union put an end to global bipolarity.
One senses something like the making of an American-Asian dominated universe.
Stalin was content to settle for an empire in Eastern Europe.
Social democracy, with its promise of greater equality and opportunities for all, served as an ideological antidote.
For everyone else, a kind of state of emergency was proclaimed that has allowed state interference in essential civil rights. Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
Any train accident or airplane crash is now at first suspected of being an act of terrorism.
Second, troubles in any single component of total debt will have an impact on all the other components.
Unfortunately, as a result of the private-sector deleveraging and an increase in household savings, the US economy, driven by debt and consumption, slid into recession.
As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify.
Yet what appealed to the outside world was not always an asset in the rough and tumble of Israeli politics.
It is far from clear if he would have prevailed, given his lack of an independent political base, but his international prestige and standing might have given him a chance if he would have chosen to throw the gauntlet.
But, despite gold's heightened allure in the wake of an extraordinary run-up in its price, it remains a very risky bet for most of us.
Europe is being cautious in the name of avoiding debt and defending the euro, whereas the US has moved on many fronts in order not to waste an ideal opportunity to implement badly needed structural reforms.
MOSCOW - Most people who know of me think of me as an information-technology expert, someone who probably lives in California and invests in edgy Internet start-ups.
Jeff Greason, a senior manager at Intel, started XCOR Aerospace (in which I'm an investor).
Controls at borders have become an ordeal for many, and police persecution now burdens quite a few.
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America's principal welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.