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How to use the word maté in a Sentence? Page #5

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I would have to go back to '78, '79 and 1980, when I was go-kart driving and was team mate to Fullerton, he was very experienced and I enjoyed very much that driving with him because he was fast, he was consistent, he was for me a very complete driver.

Ayrton Senna

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Air travel is made for Asia, you can generally drive from one end of Europe to another or take a train, but that's not the case here. You want to try driving from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok? Good luck, mate!

Tony Fernandes

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I went with a school friend of mine, i needed some extra spare cash, so I was talking to my mate who used to pack away and set up stalls. He said, 'Why don't you come with me?'.

Briton Ian Poulter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The security around them is for protecting their privacy, not because they represent a threat, they will live simply. We don't want them to have to walk around with police, rather with common people, guys who will teach them to drink mate.

Fernandez Huidobro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They will live simply. We don't want them to have to walk around with police, rather with common people, guys who will teach them to drink mate.

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.

Esther Hicks

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

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13 years ago

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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13 years ago

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

Barnett Brickner

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Sigmund Freud

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

Will Durant

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14 years ago

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight.

Barbara Hall

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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