• When her arms wore out she got a port implanted in her chest.

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  • She worked hard all her life, sewing, gardening, and taking care of the home, until her body literally wore out.

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  • He wore out every 25-year-old staffer that was part of this delegation.

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  • The original 1962 bridges at Stockman's Lane wore out over the decades and were replaced with modern structures between 2006 and 2009.

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  • "We wore out steel ice-cream scoops shoveling quarters, " he says.

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  • His product, too, was much less wasteful than broadloom carpet, since you could easily cut the tiles to run cables underneath, and replace them one by one as they wore out.

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  • With side scrolling, lots of whitespace and ease of navigation, one has to wonder how this site would be hailed if it were new and not just an incarnation of a site that wore out its relevancy some years ago.

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  • When that record came out, the Edwin Hawkins Singers, I probably wore out--it was on an LP, of course, so I probably wore out two or three of those, and I always wanted to play it, even in person, but I couldn't come up with a way to do it without the voices.

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  • Nelson denied that what she wore was out of place, and when asked by CNN's Lemon whether she dressed appropriately at work, she said she wore scrubs.

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  • "He just flat out wore me down, " Mr. Smith, now executive editor of The Washington Examiner, recalls.

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  • Hungry for mercy, she too eagerly wove into his clumsy effort at distraction an identity he had not supplied, allowing it to be the truth, until time wore the deception out.

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  • Capello continued to try to use Walcott's speed on the right flank but he was increasingly crowded out as the match wore on.

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  • Amazingly, the first night I wore the wire, someone pulled out a gun in a bar and started yelling at a friend of mine.

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  • Out of his apron he wore a suit and a flat cap, always neat.

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  • You could say these T's, both primitive and sophisticated, are metaphors for the inside-out sensibilities of those who wore them.

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  • He wore a violet satin shirt that stood out in the sea of standard tuxedos, and traded exercise tips with Finnish ministers.

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  • Could it be because CBS wants to appease conservatives who freaked out over the outfit Beyonce wore while performing in the Super Bowl halftime show?

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  • He wore a noise-cancelling headset, which blocked out nearly everything besides his heartbeat.

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  • One: I found out what kind of sneakers the guy wore.

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  • After one pioneering executive died, his successor didn't just set out to protect a legacy, he wore the dead man's gray suits, telling people that the outfits shouldn't go to waste.

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  • As the match wore on and the conditions seemed to sap the life out of the players, the game appeared anyone's to win.

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  • Ipswich grew in confidence as the match wore on, received tremendous support from the sold-out Portman Road crowd of 29, 146 and will deservedly take their slender lead into the second-leg at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday 25 January.

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  • When Paterson then missed a third penalty attempt it seemed to take the wind out of the hosts' sails and as the half wore on Munster grew stronger and stronger, claiming their opening try just before the break.

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  • Maybe the exuberance of all these young people wore off on us, but we too did something rash: we handed out dozens of disposable cameras to Tokyo teens and told them to send us back pictures of what's important in their lives.

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  • The guys wore their guns on their belts under a jacket, or they hung their shirt out over it.

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  • As the second half wore on, Rangers looked more like a side who thought they could get something out of the game and they started to up the tempo.

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  • He wore a galabia only to bed, and so he looked as if he had wandered out from a dream.

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  • His face was smeared with sandalwood, and he wore a loose-fitting silk shirt through which a dark triangle of chest hair stuck out.

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  • He wore a ski mask and a black T-shirt, but the blue hiking shorts seemed out of place.

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  • As the half wore on the match settled into a stalemate and when Rodallega and Johnson suddenly clashed it came out of the blue.

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