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Example sentences for: realizes

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When he realizes, for instance, that he has no choice but to bust someone's head, he prefaces the brutal act with a look of weariness, even sorrow, for the blood he's about to draw.
The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.
There are fewer similarities than this rush to analyze and spin realizes.
I don't think that Washington realizes how bad a bargain it gets when it takes advice from the men and institutions Milliken has supported.
According to a second Bosnia story on the WP front page, the topic attracts far more administration attention and effort than the public realizes.