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Example sentences for: rubbing

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Major fiction is animated by major friction--of classes rubbing together.
It's certainly more entertaining than anything in Primary Colors . In the film's first scene, Nichols holds for a long time on a black man telling the sad story of his illiteracy--the director rubbing your face in the man's nobility.
Slavin's uncluttered, room-temperature prose renders the monstrous familiar, even beautiful" (Charles Taylor, the New York Times Book Review ). Others note that "[i]t seems to be a common, almost universal, tactic in American literature to depict the suburbs as a duplicitous world where a safe, materialistic, blandly cheerful surface conceals a dark secret life" and that the stories' predictable outlandishness verges on becoming "precious" (Judy Budnitz, the Village Voice ). Or as Kirkus Reviews writes, "Slavin has a warped sense of humor and enjoys rubbing the reader's nose in it."
Time reports on new research showing that at least 450 animal species--including giraffes, goats, and dolphins--become sexually aroused through homosexual rubbing, entwining, and kissing.
Here, he fills a syringe with the muscle-relaxant prostaglandin and swabs a spot near the base of his penis with rubbing alcohol.