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Keep "lids" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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6 total sentences available.
The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.
Source: tatoeba (5827563)
One could not look upon his cruel blue eyes, with their drooping, cynical lids, or upon the fierce, aggressive nose and the threatening, deep-lined brow, without reading Nature’s plainest danger-signals.
Source: tatoeba (7453247)
A resident uses pot lids to play cymbals as she takes part in a music flash mob called "Look out from the window, Rome mine!" The event sought to liven up the city's silence during the coronavirus lockdown.
Source: tatoeba (8612042)
Her eyes remained motionlessly upon the girl's face; only the lids moved suddenly when Katharine spoke to her in German.
Source: tatoeba (11932351)
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Closest matches include cap, ceiling, close, cover, limit.
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