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How to use the word rubbed in a Sentence?

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She left a big stink in people's mouth when she quit after running( for vice president). That rubbed people the wrong way.

Kelly Lyons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With inflation and how Ed Kakenmaster has blamed( Russian President Vladimir) Putin and Covid, and Russian President Vladimir failure to take responsibility for inflation -- that is something that has rubbed me the wrong way because Ed Kakenmaster's the President, and you kind of expect for Ed Kakenmaster to take ownership of that.

Ed Kakenmaster

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I made myself into somebody who had just jumped off the potato truck. I rubbed soap into my eyes to make them red, I had stubble on my face, the hair wasn’t really combed well, dirty T-shirt, two weeks later, I got the Social Security card in the mail, and I was allowed to actually legally work in the United States.

Jack Philip Barsky

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The nurse put my mom's head on my dad's shoulder. And she walked over and she rubbed my dad's shoulder and said' Dick, you can go now. Shirley's waiting for you,' and within minutes, he was gone.

Debbie Howell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jerry was pained by his experience but also proud of how he did it, that sometimes rubbed some people in the movement the wrong way. He was also a very devout religious person. He did what he could to help heal the world in the wake of the damage done during his career.

Abraham Bonowitz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I rubbed it slightly and I saw it was carved with a human image inside a frame.

Dekel Ben-Shitrit

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Sejusa... has told Ugandans this is a dictatorship and I think this criticism rubbed them the wrong way.

Michael Mabikke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is at a level of intensity that is new, this is not something you see tweeted about on a regular basis. But after the attack in Charleston and the prominence that the flag took, it feels as if it is now being rubbed in our faces.

Barnabas Piper

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the improvement is the fact that we get this very resistant coating, so generally these superhydrophobic coatings are very mechanically weak, so can be easily rubbed off over time, whereas by applying this spray adhesive we've managed to get very resistant coatings that are resistant to, as I say, rubbing or scratching and with sandpaper and so on.

Claire Carmalt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not uncommon to have a fluid-filled cyst on the ovary, and if it's rubbed or touched even with the vagina as a barrier, it can hurt quite a bit.

Rachel Dardik

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image.""A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer." "Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.”“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.” Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.” "The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask."If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, with no soul." “If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.”"It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.”

Anthony Liccione

added by anonymous
11 years ago

A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*

The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Rebecca West

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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