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Plate in sentence

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If you went over and you helped yourself to a shrimp off your boss' plate, for example, that would be an awkward situation.
Fathers were in a space where they were able to make their daughter's plate, and pull out her chair and extend his hand for a dance.
So I'm going to place this on a hot plate that is set to a temperature only slightly higher than ambient and you can see what happens.
Some visitors came, using various behavioral change tricks like putting out a plate of food and a plate of shit and watching the flies go one to the other.
If I look at your license plate number, I don't really know who you are.
The federal government has a lot on its plate, and state governments are going to have to step up.
When I looked down at my plate, I saw the last chicken wing, that my foster father had given me his.
And at my feet was the great, still blue plate of the Pacific Ocean.
So I've got a camera pointing down at this plate, and underneath that plate, there is a magnet.
Or I would decide I should have lunch, and then I would think, but I'd have to get the food out and put it on a plate and cut it up and chew it and swallow it, and it felt to me like the Stations of the Cross.
One of the ones I'm passing around is climbing up this vertical surface that's a smooth metal plate.
Now at this point, about 30 nanoseconds in, the home plate is far enough away that light hasn't had time to reach it, which means the batter still sees the pitcher about to throw and has no idea that anything is wrong.
Now, after 70 nanoseconds, the ball will reach home plate, or at least the cloud of expanding plasma that used to be the ball, and it will engulf the bat and the batter and the plate and the catcher and the umpire and start disintegrating them all as it also starts to carry them backward through the backstop, which also starts to disintegrate.
You'd have a plate of spaghetti, and you would pour it on, right?
Traceability is a way where the seafood industry can track the seafood from the boat to the plate to make sure that the consumer can then find out where their seafood came from.
I'm as hard as iron plate, woe betide you if you're late when we have to push a boat out on the spring tide.
We're weighing the merits of two jobs, after all, not the merits of the number nine and a plate of fried eggs.
And the first step is you turn it upside down, and then you drill holes in them, six holes per hemi, and then make a base plate, put car speaker drivers in them along with amplifiers in the enclosure, and you put that all together and you have these hemispherical speaker arrays.
And I really believe that this has made me a more curious and a more empathetic person, both to the animals that share my bed and occasionally wind up on my plate, but also to the people that I know who are suffering from anxiety and from phobias and all manner of other things, and I really do believe that even though you can't know exactly what's going on in the mind of a pig or your pug or your partner, that that shouldn't stop you from empathizing with them.
Imagine that next time you go to your doctor and do your next standard blood test, a lab technician extracts a total RNA, which is quite simple today, and puts it in a standard 96-well plate like this one.
To run the reaction, you put the plate inside a device like this one, and then you can put your smartphone on top of it.
This bush here is known as baume de l'ile plate in the local vernacular.
We're at the playoff game, Pete's at the plate, and a fastball's coming in, and it hits him on the wrist.
Softball players see the ball as smaller if they've just come out of a slump, compared to people who had a hot night at the plate.
Mounted on roads or on police cars, Automatic License Plate Readers capture images of every passing car and convert the license plate into machine-readable text so that they can be checked against hot lists of cars potentially wanted for wrongdoing.
But more than that, increasingly, local police departments are keeping records not just of people wanted for wrongdoing, but of every plate that passes them by, resulting in the collection of mass quantities of data about where Americans have gone.
When Mike Katz-Lacabe asked his local police department for information about the plate reader data they had on him, this is what they got: in addition to the date, time and location, the police department had photographs that captured where he was going and often who he was with.
Meanwhile, in New York City, the NYPD has driven police cars equipped with license plate readers past mosques in order to figure out who is attending.
In the U.K., the police department put 80-year-old John Kat on a plate reader watch list after he had attended dozens of lawful political demonstrations where he liked to sit on a bench and sketch the attendees.
License plate readers aren't the only mass location tracking technology available to law enforcement agents today.
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