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"Mate" in a Sentence (24 examples)
Where is the mate to this sock?
We can conjecture that it may be advantageous for a particular bird to be known to its neighbors or its mate.
If you mate a horse with an ass you will get a mule.
He was dropped because of his running mate.
Christopher Columbus was notorious for repeatedly snoozing his alarm clock by hitting it with his fist. Unfortunately, his "alarm clock" was usually his first mate.
My uncommonly well-made sneaker lasted 5 years. Its mate did not.
The woodpecker is feeding its mate.
Tigers are in deadly danger each time they want to mate.
You left us, mate.
You are waiting in vain if you think that one fine day you will wake up and your soul mate will appear in front of your eyes.
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A "mate" was a "mate" - share and share alike, no matter how bad might be the times, or how long a spell of ill luck had attended them.
Such overt displays of avowed sexual prowess – or at least, desperate availability – are not limited to the countryside. Even in the city, birds and animals and stockbrokers and nurses find ways of signalling their suitability as a mate.
I'm going to the pub with a few mates.
He's my best mate.
Excuse me, mate, have you got the time?
I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate.
Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.
The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.
“In fact, the apes live with us, and have for many ages. We call them the first men—we speak their language quite as much as we do our own; only in the rituals of the temple do we make any attempt to retain our mother tongue. In time it will be forgotten, and we will speak only the language of the apes; in time we will no longer banish those of our people who mate with apes, and so in time we shall descend to the very beasts from which ages ago our progenitors may have sprung.”
If she be mated with an equal husband.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.
I, […] in the way of loyalty and truth, […] / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.
Indeed, some cases of devotion that were met with were quite touching; and very often to all appearances the pairs were not always mated from the same class of society.
I think you are all mated, or stark mad.
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