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rubber

A material made from the sap of trees. The ball is made of rubber. An eraser. A condom.

rubber

an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber (= no-good) returned for lack of funds a rubber check a no-good check an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse (= rubberize, rubberise) coat or impregnate with rubber rubberize fabric for rain coats (= arctic) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow

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Simple sentences

A rubber ball bounces because it is elastic.
I have wads of rubber bands.
Can I borrow your rubber for a moment?
I never thought this rubber band would come in handy when I put it in my pocket this morning.
Sorry, I won't do it without a rubber.
Tom went down the river on a rubber raft.
Tom put on some rubber gloves so he wouldn't leave fingerprints.
Rubber is made from the sap of the rubber tree.
I have lots of rubber bands.
Tom shot a rubber band at Mary.
Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.
Where is the rubber duck?
My son's rubber duck is yellow.
In my pencil case, I have a rubber.
Tom has written a very good paper on the production of rubber.
Tom put on his rubber gloves.
Chewing gum is a sweet which is made of rubber.
Take this piece of rubber hose.
Tom put on rubber gloves.

Movie subtitles

Everybody is to glue rubber to soles of his shoes in order to silence them. I order all to hobnail your boots.
Get a couple of cops over, and we'll have a rubber of bridge.
Listen, I'm getting fed up on these rubber checks bouncing in.
You mean like rubber stamps?
And tell me, will it hurt when they hit me at the post office with that. rubber stamp?
Nothing but a rubber plant would fit in with the Ferncliffes.
Rubber-tipped.
Any rubber tape?
It's just rubber.
What do you say to a rubber of bridge?
Children play it with a rubber ball and with a stick.
As an actor I've often used sponge rubber in putting on a character make-up.
So, gentlemen, when I found this piece of sponge rubber.
Sponge rubber?
The whole family could hang from this rubber band.
When I sobered up in Singapore I saw a Britisher loading rubber, and I turned around and came back.
You was born smelling rubber and sweating to get it and you'll die that way.
Yeah and just as long as there's one baby in the world to suck on a rubber nipple.
One month up here and I turn into a rubber check. What happened?
The more acid, the quicker the liquid rubber resents the insult, and stiffens up into an indignant mass.
There. Crude rubber.
Oh, I wouldn't touch her with your best pair of rubber gloves!
Appears to me your face is kind of made out of rubber.
Eating rubber is absurd.
Children play it with a rubber ball and a stick.
White, with rubber soles.
I guess the check was rubber.
That's why they put rubber on the ends of pencils.
Betty Botter bought a batch of baby buggy rubber bumpers.
How did Williams get out of that rubber jail?
He must have burned the rubber off that rig.
No, they're made of rubber.
I've seen a peanut stand and heard a rubber band.
Say, how about a rubber of bridge?
Hey, Rusty, little Rubber Ball is back.
Little Rubber Ball does all right, don't he?
It's made of rubber, just like everybody else's, so it'll stretch when you need it.
Rubber drives. Like everybody else on VE Day, he wept and prayed.

News and current affairs

In practice, however, the five permanent members now agree on a candidate, and their decision is rubber-stamped first by the Security Council and then by the General Assembly.
The consequences of this assertion of parliamentary authority will be enormous. Parliamentary ratification did not simply provide a rubber stamp to a palace coup; its approval was conditional.
With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared.
Women who were about to give birth would gaze at their simple rubber shoes, which were kept by the back door.
Contrary to his campaign promises during his run for a fifth term as President, Mubarak has requested (and his rubber-stamp parliament has granted) a two-year extension of the Emergency Law by which Egypt has been ruled throughout his presidency.
The passage of any law by China's rubber-stamp National People's Congress is always a mere formality.
The Committee routinely rubber-stamped his salary demands.
Again, this is nothing like the rubber-stamp sham parliaments of countries like Egypt and Syria.
Their members kowtow to CEOs, do not examine management decisions closely, and, with very few exceptions, rubber-stamp compensation requests.
Various blogs tell him that Russia's parliament is just a place for rubber-stamping decisions already taken at the top.
One of my childhood memories is asking my mother about a curious custom. Women who were about to give birth would gaze at their simple rubber shoes, which were kept by the back door.
The young couple - he with a beard and she in a sundress and rubber boots - are homesteading in the Hudson River Valley with a flock of chickens, or in New Mexico in an ecofriendly straw-bale house.
The host, interviewer, and main commentator was Victor Trujillo, better known as Brozo the Clown, adorned with a green wig and a red rubber nose.
A thousand riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas on the workers, and hundreds were injured, but they did not back down.

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