sickle-hocked

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Examples

• Schools closed, the deficit ballooned, highways crumbled, jobs disappeared—I imagine ruby slippers were hocked.

• The periodic agony that accompanies sickle cell was joined by the torment of persistent eye infections and repeated surgeries.

• The communist part is no joke, either—his business card features a Soviet-style hammer and sickle in red.

• France's Communist party has undergone a revolution and dropped the hammer and sickle from its membership cards.

• Tester uses the word "cool" as often as a tween, and I lost count of all the loogies he hocked in my presence.

• Then Morfed lifted his arm and began to sing softly, swinging the sickle in time to the song, with his eyes on us.

• It was an uncanny song, and I waxed uneasy as it went on, and the flashing sickle waved more quickly before my eyes.

• The song stopped, and the lifted sickle sank with the hand that held it, and the eyes of Morfed left mine and sought the ground.

• Then our captain—wild, saucy Peg Sickle—bounded up with the cry, 'Crown the captain!'

• Seems to me this dust is like the grain that is shed from a ripe crop before it comes to the sickle.