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How to use the word plank in a Sentence?

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Eisenhower was viewed by Taft and his colleagues as much too moderate, his European focus was deemed by that conservative wing of the party as much too similar to the liberal Democrats. If this was going to be a moment for conservatism to reassert itself not only against liberalism but also against the moderates in the Republican Party, China provided an ideal plank.

Joyce Mao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would've never been able to get my message out as broadly as I did without Black Twitter, i've become really good friends with Cory Booker, and that was a byproduct of my being able to reach Cory Booker via Black Twitter and have Cory Booker listen to my story. When Cory Booker ran for president( in 2020), Cory Booker included a policy plank in Cory Booker platform that was specific to my story about how my mom shot and killed herself with a gun.

Trayvon Martin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You almost feel bad for David Perdue. That (he’s) walking off the plank that Donald Trump has put out there for him here in Georgia, we’re going to see a rally show up that’s once again going to confuse Georgians and who knows what Donald Trump’s gonna say.

Geoff Duncan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I love to do yoga as it centers me and also at the same time keeps me in shape, since there is a lot to do around the house sometimes I don’t have much time to work out, in which case I try to do some stretching and hold a plank for five to 10 minutes.

Mehdi Taamallah/Nurphoto -RRB- Ambrosio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My first plank was in November 2020 and that was for two minutes, and the two minutes felt like an absolute lifetime.

Daniel Scali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you had decided to tell me five years ago that I would have... gone for a record of attempting to go for a plank, there's no way I would have believed it.

Daniel Scali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The China agreement was a big plank in that strategy, if the Chinese and European parliament don't move, the The EU risks losing a deal that would have cemented the idea The EU can make decisions to defend The EU own commercial interests, without having to call the White House first.

Steven Blockmans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea that Mr. Plank uniquely listens to any one individual is absurd.

Stephanie Ruhle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

She started exercising more, and then she started pushing herself harder than she had, and then eventually she started beating us in her plank challenges. She planked for a minute and a half on a ventilator life support -- beat her mom, that was around September.

Brie Kerschen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't see any way to get back to it now that Republicans know where their base is on their issue, i would be surprised if you didn't see a more restrictive legal immigration plank than you already have in the GOP platform in 2020.

David Bier

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If there are amendments, let’s see them. But let’s be clear about this: Australians did not participate in a survey to have one discrimination plank removed, to have other planks of discrimination piled upon them.

Dean Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think categorically yes the culture has changed. The first plank is recruitment. Getting that right is key.

Rupert Jones

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

President Uhuru Kenyatta will host Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni tomorrow ... They will discuss the construction of the Uganda-Kenya oil pipeline, a key plank of the Northern Corridor Infrastructure Projects.

Manoah Esipisu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fiorina used Sherlock Holmes-like tech marketing research at HP, this ear-to-the-ground excising of consumer talking points helps connect her with voters by feeding them what they want, but her reputation as CEO was a disaster – and this will shove her over the Republican plank.

Eric Schiffer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Think of plank pose: you need both the abdominals and the lower back to hold that position.

Tom Holland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had very little food, and we agreed that we would leave it for the women and children, then they started hitting us. They took the food. They pushed many of us overboard. They beat us and attacked us with knives. I was hit with a wooden plank on the head and on my legs.

Mahmud Rafiq

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Do you play on the swing, or has the plank already broken?

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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