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Example sentences for: crushes

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It crushes the heart of someone who knows Japan a little and loves it a lot to see technicians and workers from the Tokaimura plant come out of the building infected by the out-of-control chain reaction, bowing and apologizing for their betrayal of their company, like the soldiers abandoned on Pacific islands for 30 years who asked the emperor's pardon for having lost the war."
Cusack plays the funny kid from a broken home who crushes on the A-student valedictorian played by Ione Skye.
So the doctor inserts metal tongs, physically crushes the head, and dismembers the fetus.
The cover story repeats the shopworn criticism that Microsoft is evil because its second-rate software crushes better programs.
His art came out of his hobbies, and from celibate crushes on women marked, as a general rule, by an a priori unattainability, though in truth one gets the sense that attainment was less central to his fantasies than were the ritual adorations of a fan.