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How to use the word CAMEL in a Sentence?

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We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Richard Richter Greg Ponciano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And when something happens, the straws are much more likely to break the camel’s back. And you’ve seen it over and over again, it just doesn’t take much to break the back of the system.

Scott Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tesla clearly is starting to see demand cracks in China and in the US at a time that EV competition is increasing across the board, the price cuts that Tesla enacted was the straw that broke the camel’s back on the stock.

Dan Ives

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, what is the straw that is going to break the camel's back when it comes to the balance of the environment ?

Ron Magill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters.

Col Robert Lee Maginnis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Putin's decision to limit access to Facebook is a terrible omen for Russian freedom, it is the proverbial camel's nose under the tent.Expect much worse denial of freedom to follow.This is especially true as evidenced by the Kremlin's recent decision to clamp down on anti-war protesters.

Col Robert Lee Maginnis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The image appears to express a precise message -- the direct involvement of the king in camel herding, management and hybridization practices.

Massimo Vidale

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What's up TikTok, just wanted to come on here and let all you know, [I]f you have a Joe Biden, Kamala f---ing camel toe (flag) posted up – Black Lives Matter – I will not deliver your s---. I will not deliver your s---. I will bring that back to the station. And I’ll keep doing that s---. Have a good day.

Vincent Paterno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was incredibly personable, very giving, very caring, very compassionate. The press painted him with that rough exterior, but for the most part, he was just a regular guy. I remember I had gotten a call that my dad was being taken to a hospital in New York. As you can imagine, I wasn’t in the most jovial mood. Frank was doing his best to cheer me up… I remember I went to the bathroom and when I came out, lo and behold, there’s Frank. He had emptied out a pack of unfiltered Camel cigarettes. He stuck like four cigarettes in each ear, three cigarettes in each nostril. And he had about 12 cigarettes across his lips. And he’s just staring at me like that.

Tony Oppedisano

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's pretty much the same atmosphere today as it was then, there was dissatisfaction, to the highest level. ... And it’s the same with the momentum. Something that sets it off to a higher level, kind of the straw that breaks the camel’s back ... like an explosion.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Universities have backed themselves into a corner, we have raised tuition on average 2 1/2 - fold over the last 20 years. I think Covid-19 was just the straw that broke the camel's back, where families across America are saying,' Enough already. We're not going to pay $ 58,000 for Zoom classes.'.

Scott Galloway

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One could be manageable. But 100 could be impossible, at some point there's the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At some point there's the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In some parts of Kenya, we have been teaching people to plug holes in their roofs to prevent bats from entering or teaching them to boil camel's milk before drinking it to kill off the pathogens.

Dawn Zimmerman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Could it be the tip of the camel's nose under the red velvet curtains ? ... I'd say probably not.

Barbara Perry

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Could this be, excuse the expression, the straw that breaks the camel's back, and my children and my sister's children say it doesn't pay to be here anymore ?

Di Palo

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back, i am more concerned about the The United States economy now than I have been throughout this expansion.

The United

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We heard from our grandfathers that they used cow dung for heating. But nobody had thought about the camel waste itself.

Ahmed Ali

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Camel milk has experienced a steady growth in our stores.

Jason Widener

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Something just broke for me. It was the absolute straw that broke the camel's back.

Elissa Slotkin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Well, I think North Korea almost dared Trump to cancel the summit, and he did North Korea, the North Korean statement yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.

Srinivasan Sitaraman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Working without pay is the straw that breaks the camel’s back, teachers have mortgage payments, utility bills, grocery bills. Being paid for their work is n’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.

Teachers Interim President Ivy Bailey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The rule isn't the sole reason people are ready to move, but in every conversation we have, it is discussed because advisers will be impacted, for advisers who are already unhappy, the rule could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Louis Diamond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

...I think it's a confluence of factors that led to refugees heading for Europe, but the cuts in WFP assistance were for sure the thing that broke the camel's back.

Shada Moghraby

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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