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Showing 16 of 17 words.
10 translations across 6 languages.
21 total sentences available.
When I was younger, I hated going to weddings. My grandmothers and aunts would huddle around me, poke me in the side, and giggle "You're next! You're next!" They only stopped this nonsense when I began to do the same thing at funerals.
Source: tatoeba (2776770)
Penguins often huddle together to keep warm.
Source: tatoeba (4671819)
At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for – the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’
Source: tatoeba (6203123)
On a windswept barren mountainside, several kilometers east of Gardez, a few hundred men huddle against the cold.
Source: tatoeba (11031797)
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Closest matches include advise, around, assemble, assemble, assembly.
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