So at the age of 21, Blanc channeled Chris McCandless from Into the Wild and dropped out.
Emotions once suppressed, emotions once channeled, now are let loose.
Information received from the different branches of the ISIS network is channeled up through a strict hierarchy.
McDonald channeled us into Holiday's last year of life, in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill.
We channeled all our criminal smarts into finding ways to con the food system.
From the foot of this throne flowed the rivers which channeled the Lower World.
The difference between the recalculated prices and those in effect at the time was to be channeled into the budget by the tax.
The pass itself was channeled, but only by its own snows and melting ice.
Our road lay in the green valley of the Chugwater, under the pale bluffs, channeled and seamed by the rains into strange shapes.
His cheeks were channeled long before youth was over; his feet were weary with honest serving, and his hands grown hard with toil.
1590s, "to wear channels in," from channel (n.). Meaning "convey in a channel" is from 1640s. Related: Channeled; channeling.
early 14c., "bed of running water," from Old French chanel "bed of a waterway; tube, pipe, gutter," from Latin canalis "groove, channel, waterpipe" (see canal). Given a broader, figurative sense 1530s (of information, commerce, etc.); meaning "circuit for telegraph communication" (1848) probably led to that of "band of frequency for radio or TV signals" (1928). The Channel Islands are the French Îles Anglo-Normandes.
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A vein, usually in the crook of the elbow or the instep, favored for the injection of narcotics; main line (1950s+ Narcotics)
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