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How to use the word marbles in a Sentence?

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It felt like if someone was throwing marbles at you or something like that … with just little pings, then there’s the, ‘Oh my gosh, this is it.’ There’s a searing burn, and then there’s an ache.

Carolyn Fong/Redux for CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Almost every gun owner I spoke to is very concerned that this is for all the marbles and we're heading for a civil war.

Stewart Rhodes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was a great time, a great time, people ask me,' Wasn't the media awful to you ?' No, I'm friends with a lot of them. I respect the media. They have a job to do. I'll tell you what, I was with( five) different franchises( including Baltimore, where he served as an assistant post-Giants), but the Giants is how I learned to coach in the NFL, mainly from( the late general manager and Pro Football Hall of Famer) George Young. They run it right. They put the marbles in a row to win.

Jim Fassel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's almost like when you drop a jar of marbles, and they scatter and try and reconstitute in different places, what we see with that in the US is a movement towards old tech platforms and places where these accounts know that they're not going to be moderated.

Melanie Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Its basically a game where only one team is going to make it out, its your last opportunity to play, so facing elimination is what it is to me, and thats going to be my approach, just like it was tonight. The only thing is that its going to be on the road. Its for our season. All the marbles.

Damian Lillard

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This museum can host the Marbles, we are fighting a holy battle for a monument which is unique.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Let the British Museum come here and make the comparison between this (Acropolis) museum of light and the murky, if I may say, prison of the British Museum where the Parthenon Marbles are held as trophies.

Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is no more clarifying debate in politics these days then when it comes to Supreme Court nominees, this now is for all the marbles.

Jim Manley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I've heard from a lot of former colleagues representing other countries that are major contributors to WHO, and other institutions that contribute financially, that either (the WHO) has to get fixed in a relatively short period – five to 10 years – or they're going to take their marbles and go elsewhere.

Nils Daulaire

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's symptomatic of a changing of the guard in the market, I think there's a re-evaluation going on, people have given up on this year, now they're looking at what they're going to do for next year, are things in fact going to get better and if so, at what stage do you step in and put a few marbles on some bets.

Rick Hutcheon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People have given up on this year, now they're looking at what they're going to do for next year, are things in fact going to get better and if so, at what stage do you step in and put a few marbles on some bets.

Rick Hutcheon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The last, until now, British doctrine that the Parthenon Marbles could not be moved is no longer valid -- as their other 'argument' for the lack of an appropriate space to house them collapsed with the opening of the Museum of Acropolis.

Antonis Samaras

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

G.K. Chesterton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

Brooks Hays

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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