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Complete Advanced Sentences

Subjects : english, grammar
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1. The recent corruption scandals have _____ many people's faith in the city government.






2. Nothing could shake his _____ that his children would get the best education that money could buy.






3. When you send a message on Twitter - be _____; a tweet cannot be more than 140 characters long.






4. At commencement - the dean praised Ellen for her _____ behavior as class president.






5. Tourists are urged not to _____ the sanctity of holy places by wearing immodest garb.






6. Because Webster's dictionary had grown so large and unwieldy - the publishers decided to _____ it and bring out a condensed version.






7. Politicians of both the extreme right and left annoy me because they do not sound like people but parrots mindlessly repeating _____ clich






8. Looking for any inconsistency in the testimony that might exonerate his client - the defense lawyer pounced on a _____ between the two witnesses' versions of what had occurred.






9. Josh is such a greedy _____ that - as soon as the earthquake struck - he tripled the price of bottled water at his store.






10. She kept all the receipts form her business trip in order to _____ her expenses for the Internal Revenue Service.






11. The coming trip to France should provide a _____ test of the value of my conversational French class.






12. The young wrestler struggled to defeat his formidable _____.






13. In Tibet today - the common people still _____ their traditional spiritual leader - the Dalai Lama.






14. All things change over time; nothing is _____.






15. The store manager tried to _____ the angry customer by offering to replace the damaged merchandise or return her money.






16. After the quarrel - Gina said nothing could _____ her to talk to Pedro again.






17. When the boys first met their new stepmother - they felt some _____ - but eventually they lost that initial awkwardness and talked with her comfortably.






18. Suppose you are accepted by Harvard - Stanford - and Yale. Which one would you attend? Remember - this is only a _____ situation.






19. The BP oil spill has caused _____ damage to the entire Gulf Coast.






20. We could tell we were in serious trouble from the _____ of the principal's expression.






21. When Elizabeth realized that Darcy considered himself too good to dance with his inferiors - she took great offense at his _____.






22. Despite airing her clothes for several hours - she could not rid them of the _____ odor of mothballs that clung to them.






23. Rather than live in the crowded city center - we chose to buy a house in one of the _____ suburbs ringing the metropolis.






24. Violently disagreeing with the referees' ruling - Coach Ben became so _____ that they threw him out of the game.






25. Acetone is an extremely _____ liquid: it vaporizes instantly.






26. It is _____ that his success came when he least wanted it.






27. You had better _____ your accounting errors before the auditors arrive.






28. Though Widow Douglas had hopes of reforming Huck - Miss Watson considered him _____ and swore he would come to no good end.






29. The legendary athlete Jim Thorpe - who _____ all his competitors at the 1912 Olympic Games - made a name for himself in baseball - football - and track.






30. Thoroughly baffled by Holmes's _____ remarks - Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.






31. Katya's _____ love of justice moved her to champion the cause of anyone she considered unfairly treated by society.






32. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house - I decided to _____ my offer to let them use our summer cottage over spring break.






33. Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the _____ of countless get-rich-quick schemes.






34. Torn between loving her parents one minute and hating them the next - she was confused by the _____ of her feelings.






35. My Uncle Henry can out-talk any three people I know. he is the most _____ man in Cayuga County.






36. The stereotypical cowboy is a _____ soul - answering lengthy questions with a simple 'yep' or 'nope.'






37. Despite Tom's _____ of innocence - Aunt Polly suspected he had eaten the pie.






38. Psychoanalysts must maintain their professional _____ and stay uninvolved with their patients' personal lives.






39. Youth's beauty is _____; it quickly fades with age.






40. Someone mute cannot talk; someone _____ can hardly stop talking.






41. After a decade of popularity - Hurston's works had fallen into _____; no one bothered to read her novels and short stories any more.






42. The classic cowboy hero is a _____ figure - someone generally described as the strong - silent type.






43. Galileo's assertion that the earth moved around the sun directly contradicted the religious teachings of his day; as a result - he was tried for _____.






44. A doting mother - Emma was more likely to praise her son's childish finger paintings than to _____ them.






45. The architect realized that her design for the new school had to be in _____ with the local building code.






46. The fact that the band was already booked to play in Hollywood on New year's Eve _____ their accepting the gig in London.






47. Shrewdly purchasing valuable plots of land for small sums - John Jacob Astor gained a reputation as an _____ investor.






48. As far as I'm concerned - Apple's claims about its new computer are pure _____; no machine is that good!






49. Tina was still angry despite Tony's soft and _____ words.






50. No wonder Ted doesn't think straight! His mind is so cluttered with _____ information that he can't concentrate on the essentials.







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