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How to use the word CHAIRS in a Sentence? Page #3

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So we have a special table with two chairs. We call it a peace table. We let them [the children] talk about why they hurt each other.

Sister Ban

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The EPA wasting $160 million on public relations dwarfs our recent exposure of their high-end furniture purchases ($92 million), nothing is emblematic of government excess like an army of highly compensated PR agents sitting in their easy chairs. It’s simply waste.

Adam Andrzejewski

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Politics has a musical chairs component to it, you have the hourglass of sand and at the end of the day, there's only one seat.

Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We grow the chairs upside down and we start with one branch that spreads out into the chair-back. So, you've gone from one to two, and then the seat, and then you've got the four legs; and it's much more of a tree shape, actually it works in a similar way to 3D printing... we're using photosynthesis for the printing. So as it grows, you've got a piece growing up.

Gavin Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Hanergy's recent announcements about its contract and profits are akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, hanergy has shown little ability to attract customers who were not also named Hanergy.

Soren Aandahl

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The co-chairs have a very delicate balance to keep - they can't cut large swathes of the text because they don't want to alienate countries, but we do need manageable options for ministers to choose from.

Liz Gallagher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The old model of 30 years ago of getting the top 10 county chairs as the baseline of your organization -- I think that's one way to do it, but I don't think that's the only way to do it, when you're running the kind of campaign like he is, it's possible to skip that whole effort and go directly to the voters.

Steve Duprey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Chairs would bend when I'd sit in them.

Jared Fogle

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The (migrants) were often sitting on plastic chairs (by a) little stream of sunlight that came through the window, they had not felt the sun for 13 days, and they missed the feeling of the sun on their skin.

Photographer Sofie Amalie Klougart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Chairs were flying around, people were flying, bags, (it was) pretty chaotic, there were two people above our heads in the luggage rack.

Daniel Wetrin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Chairs were flying around, people were flying, bags, pretty chaotic, there were two people above our heads in the luggage rack.

Passenger Daniel Wetrin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We’re such a disposable [culture] that being able to see things that withstood the test of time and people are still using them, tables, or chairs or cubby holes, it’s just kind of nice.

Frank Fritz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

So all the chairs... they were slipping backward. And as gravity works they started to go faster and faster and people were jumping off at the lower levels.

David Segre

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was not easy to work like that, because the matches were going very quickly and were unpredictable, i had to be very careful not to get hit. Fortunately, there are chairs on the side, so I could jump on them if the female fighters suddenly rolled under my feet.

Anna Konda

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sweden is sitting on two chairs at the same time.

Idris Ahmedi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The pods and tents and chairs have gone beyond free speech. It's becoming an infringement on others' rights.

City Council member Regina Romero

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That's just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, these companies have a fundamental problem in who they are.

Michele Simon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

John Keats

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever.

Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)

Ronald Reagan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough.

Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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