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How to use the word seams in a Sentence?

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If we fail to shore up the moral and ethical bulwarks of our society we will have to live with the consequences. We will almost certainly watch our international reputation continue to wane. We will continue to lose our way and fracture at our many seams. A philosopher-king like Aurelius—American democratic leaders like Aurelius—can help us change course and save us from ourselves.

Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

They don't have the ventilators, they don't have the protective equipment. They're bursting through the seams. They're getting ready to panic right now. This is the week that will determine what kind of a turn this pandemic takes in the United States.

Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :.

Iraj Harirchi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are bursting at the seams. It is unsustainable.

Randy Howe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Two institutions, really, one, the Supreme Court is the lone institution where most Americans still have some faith. And then the U.S. Senate as an institution — we’re coming apart at the seams. There’s no currency, no market for reaching across the aisle. It just makes it so difficult.

Friday Flakedefended

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There are no shingles. There are no seams. There's nowhere for high winds to get a purchase.

Michael Royal

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think stop motion animation adds kind of a handmade, dream-like, sort of broken quality. We really wanted to focus on the hand-made aspect of it, that's why we kept the seams, and that's why we kept the chatter and the clothing, and the sort of like slightly unnatural way that the characters move. It makes them feel fragile.

Charlie Kaufman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would like to see a fast pace and have us be about 10 lengths behind, hopefully the pace comes apart at the seams and we can pick them up.

Mark Casse

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The seams of her blue jeans were pressed into her body with such force, they caused bruising.

Jennifer Hammers

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Taliban is not a monolithic entity -- there are elements focused on Afghanistan, and there are very much elements focused on destabilizing or even overthrowing the regime in Pakistan … in the seams, there you have Al Qaeda and increasingly ISIS.

Army Lt. Col. Michael Waltz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a fast track with a lot of character, the corners aren't perfect. There's bumps and seams, there's spots with no grip and spots with a ton of grip. It's got character. You throw the car down in the corner here and you toss that thing in sideways at 195 mph and you have to manage your tires. It's just a real fun racetrack. ... I could race here every week and be happy. I love it.

Carl Edwards

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're starting to see more than general wear and tear. The seams are showing and you're seeing frayed edges. In some spots, it's so thread bear the underlying mat pokes through, it's been on the floor for more than 20 years. Someone did a calculation and figured about 300 million people have passed over it.

Ceara Chewning

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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