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tiger English

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tiger

A tiger is a mammal. It comes from Asia.

tiger

a fierce or audacious person he's a tiger on the tennis court it aroused the tiger in me large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered

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Simple sentences

The tiger was killed.
I wish that I were a tiger.
A tiger is bigger and stronger than a cat.
The tiger cub looked like a large kitten.
It is like letting a tiger run loose.
The man wore a mask of a tiger.
The tiger laid in the middle of the cage.
John caught a tiger and shot two lions.
The Siberian tiger is on the verge of extinction.
That is not a tiger.
It was during the ice age that the saber-toothed tiger became extinct.
A tiger appears near here.
You may as well call a cat a small tiger as call a tiger a big cat.
A tiger has escaped from the zoo.
She fainted at the sight of a tiger.
Which is stronger, a tiger or a lion?
A tiger is larger and stronger than a cat.
When I regained my senses, it seemed that fur had grown on my fingers and knees. When it became slightly brighter, I looked at my reflection in a mountain stream, and I realized that I had become a tiger.
That man was wearing a tiger mask.

Movie subtitles

A fucking tiger!
Wondering what would do that to a tiger.
There was a huge-- there was a huge tiger there.
How dare them wake up a sleeping tiger?
He looks more frightened than the tiger.
Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?
I asked you if there'd be as much sport in the game. if you were the tiger instead of the hunter.
The tiger has nothing but his claws and his fangs.
It has to vanish - like the tyrannosaurus and the saber-toothed tiger.
He was horribly clawed there by a tiger.
I had a gun bearer once who was clawed by a tiger.
I was just telling Major Applegate that you were clawed by a tiger. in the Malay Peninsula.
And my last, Tiger Eyes.
Well, he's about 40, but strong as a tiger.
Not in the with the Tiger, sir.
You're the first guy that ever had the nerve to raspberry the Tiger.
It's the Tiger. They've made a break with those two new fish.
We captured the Tiger's gang.
Tiger's plotting again, is he?
So, the Tiger and his gang are at it again, eh?
Hey, Tiger!
That was a tiger.
I hear you're having a little cat trouble. Yes, he's a big tom tiger!
And when their Uncle Dennis comes up from the tropics, he can tell them about the time their dad shot a tiger as he charged ruthlessly through the.
And the noncommissioned officers eat tiger at every meal.
What are you doing, young fella, chasing a tiger?
Hey, you, let go of my tiger.

News and current affairs

At one point in 2008, the US military picked up the cost of transporting a tiger for the Baghdad zoo.
If the US gives negotiations one more serious try (a credible offer and a genuine willingness to engage), gets rebuffed, and then does nothing, it will effectively declare itself a paper tiger.
The government knows that it has a political tiger by the tail, but refuses to acknowledge it, either inside China or outside.
The consumption-based economy, to which the capitalist West had apparently succumbed, was written off as a paper tiger.
Crouching Tiger or Paper Dragon?
Whether China will prove to be a paper dragon of little military substance or a crouching tiger with sharp claws remains unresolved.
If the Security Council fails to agree on new sanctions - which is likely, given Chinese and Russian objections - it would be exposed as a paper tiger.
No manager is a superstar, a Tiger Woods or Michael Schumacher of the boardroom.
In pondering this question, the case of Mexico-neither an economic tiger like China or Singapore nor a sluggard like many African and Carribean countries-may be especially instructive.
In the first month of the war on terrorism, some Islamic political parties were drawn into anti-American protests and even Vice President Hamzah Haz (chairman of one of Indonesia's strongest Islamic parties) was tempted to ride this tiger for a time.
Asia's tiger economies have a strong high-tech base but are not noted for their scientists.
Second, the Security Council now looks like a paper tiger because its authority was successfully challenged by a worn-out regime.
Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?
Tiger mothering might seem to be a useful counterbalance to such permissiveness, but both extremes leave something out.
Why, people ask, are schools and roads in Afghanistan and Iraq more important than those in Colorado or California? At one point in 2008, the US military picked up the cost of transporting a tiger for the Baghdad zoo.
That befits the year of the tiger in Chinese astrology - a year in which China roared by ratcheting up tensions with neighbors from Japan to India by escalating territorial feuds.
Water from the Tiger Leaping Gorge will be diverted to flush out Dianchi Lake, without which Kunming will not prosper.
At Tiger Leaping Gorge, where a mere 100,000 residents will have to be relocated, residents fear that they will be ordered to move up the steep mountainsides to open marginal land at 6,000 to 9,000 feet.
Dam opponents, including vocal indigenous environmental groups, have waged a seemingly successful battle to protect Tiger Leaping Gorge and the Salween (the Nu River).
Environmentalists were even permitted to take part in a public hearing on the Tiger Leaping Gorge project, a first for China.
Indian genes in a developing country did not prevent Vijay Singh emerging from Fiji to rival Tiger Woods as the best golfer in the world.
At the same time, celebrities like Zhang Ziyi, star of the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon joined the anti-war chorus.
The hubris of the Celtic Tiger years is a distant memory, owing to the worst recession in Ireland's history as an independent state.
Now the country is being divided by the political rivalry between two Sinhalese war idols, each of whom wants to be remembered as the true leader who crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
Yet the United Nations estimates that more than 7,000 noncombatants were killed in the final months of the war as government forces overran Tamil Tiger bases.
The Gulf monarchies are trying to ride this tiger militarily against Iran.

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