Mate (noun)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 591.

Former (adjective)

1. Their farm has been reduced to half its former size. 2. Canada is a former British colony. 3. He threatened to kill his former wife's boyfriend. 4. Civil war raged for years in the former Yugoslavia. 5. He was an adviser to former President Reagan. 6. Her former husband now lives in Houston. 7. Weinburger was an advisor to former president Ronald Reagan. 8. In the fall of 1990 we moved our baking facility from Forestville to downtown Santa Rosa, into a former tortilla factory. 9. Most of the former inmates sought refuge in his abbey, and many stayed on to help run it. 10. She seems more like her former self.

1. Dad's office mates are throwing a party for him. 2. I'm going out with my mates tonight. 3. He's good mates with John. 4. What's the time, mate? 5. How do women choose their mates? 6. He always goes to the pub with his mates on Friday night. 7. Terry's an old mate of mine. 8. What happened to this sock's mate? 9. Would you trade your mate for a million bucks? 10. After a couple of intense, passionate but ultimately destructive relationships, I craved a gentle, understanding mate. 11. Don't share with anyone - not even your best mate or your partner. 12. I mean, you've heard all his New Age stuff about them being soul mates destined for each other. 13. Sometimes these two − survival and acquiring a mate are conflicting goals. 14. The young females tend to fly off and look for mates elsewhere. 15. And we're not just talking about your mum and your best mate. 16. Billy and I were just good friends, really good mates. 17. Everywhere you went, whenever you met a Leeds fan, he/she was sure to be best mates with our old hero. 18. Most of my school mates were black, though I had a few white ones. 19. I tell you though, my best mate thinks we haven't done it quietly enough. 20. I think I've always found it hard to talk to people except for my best mate. 21. On a more personal level, Parsons was very good mates with Johnny Thunders. 22. A spare room with no room mate was available, thank goodness, at the Loch Leven Hotel. 23. His room mate, who was considerably older, was due to preach a sermon at St Paul's Cathedral but fell ill. 24. Oh, Fiona, what do you think of our new flat mate Tony then, not bad looking, eh, Fiona? 25. That's how it is between flat mates. 26. She stated that a wise woman would choose her mate on the basis of his qualities of character. 27. Later, eugenicists stressed the importance of teaching women the criteria by which to choose a mate. 28. Those who choose infertile mates leave no descendants. 29. Physicists do not generally choose their mates from among subsistence farmers. 30. Females often choose mates on the basis of what genes a male might carry.