Example Sentences
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"There is no shortage of the corporate manoeuverings, jockeyings for position, eyes on chances and arses being covered that we have come to expect of America's most monstrous family company," she went on.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2021
It is clear what kind of viewer he is aiming at and pandering to from the off, as he promises to get the prisoners "off their arses".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2012
It was he who judged the days after Jade Goody's death to be the perfect moment to brand her "ignorant" and "puerile" and just another one of those "poor benighted people making arses of themselves".
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2010
More of us would rather watch a bunch of saggy old arses and a parrot called Max not eating mashed potato from a fork; that's either quite charming or very depressing, I'm not sure which.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2010
You’ll watch your sons going around with broken shoes and their arses hanging out of their trousers.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
