Example Sentences
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Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this purpose specially prepared coppered asbestos rings are used, which will stand both water and intense heat.
From Gas and Oil Engines, Simply Explained An Elementary Instruction Book for Amateurs and Engine Attendants by Runciman, Walter C.
He put them all on the ace and coppered the card.
From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.
I’ve jest give Mrs. Campbell a bird’s-eye view of your career, so you’re coppered on that bet from the start.”
From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane
To seaward he could gaze down a vista of rocky and deserted islets resembling slag heaps, where the sinking sun showed like a red-hot spot in the huge, coppered oven in which he found himself.
From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John
