Get out! This store is no place for grubby urchins!
Because of its ursine appearance, the great panda has been identified with the bears; actually, it is closely related to the raccoon.
The revolution ended when the victorious rebel leader usurped the throne.
The loan shark was found guilty of usury.
Shangri-la was the name of James Hilton's Tibetan utopia.
His friends laughed at him because he was so uxorious and submissive to his wife's desires.
Whereas relativity theory undermined the Newtonian mechanics, cosmology was undergirded by it.
Uncertain which suitor she ought to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.
The candidate's vacuous remarks annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes
In summer, college students wander the roads of Europe like carefree vagabonds.
She followed every vagary of fashion.
He tried to study, but could not collect his vagrant thoughts.
Because he was a stranger in town with no visible means of support, Martin feared he would be jailed as a vagrant.
She was a vainglorious and arrogant individual.
I found the valedictory address too long; leave-taking should be brief.
You're going to have to come up with a better argument if you want to convince me that your reasoning is valid.
I will not publish my findings until I validate my results.
He received the Medal of Honor for his valor in battle.
Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of vampires.
We are the vanguard of a tremendous army that is following us.
They fired upon the enemy from behind trees, walls and any other point of vantage they could find.
She delivered an uninspired and vapid address.
Without her glasses, Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a variegated blur.
The lord demanded that his vassals contribute more to his military campaign.
This much vaunted project proved a disappointment when it collapsed.
After what seemed an eternity, the wind veered to the east and the storm abated.
I do not understand how you can vegetate in this quiet village after the adventurous life you have led.
He spoke with vehement eloquence in defense of his client.
The train went by at considerable velocity.
The venal policeman accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.
The rival mobs engaged in a bitter vendetta.
The fruit vendor sold her wares from a stall on the sidewalk.
Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to recognize his fundamental shallowness.
We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader.
In China, the people venerate their ancestors.
We may regard a hugry man's stealing as a venial crime.
The hunters dined on venison.
The wine did not flow because the air vent in the barrel was clogged.
He vented his wrath on his class.
We shall now examine the ventral plates of this serpent, not the dorsal side.
This ventriloquist does an act in which she has a conversation with a wooden dummy.
A group of venturesome women were the first to scale Mt.Annapurna.
The attorney asked for a change of venue; he thought his client would do better if the trial were held in a less conservative county.
I can recommend him for this position because I have always found him veracious and reliable.
Trying to prove Hill a liar, Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her veracity.
I know you don't like to talk about these things, but please try to verbalize your feelings.
He repeated the message verbatim.
After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.
This article is too verbose; we must edit it.
Monet's paintings of the verdant meadows were symphonies in green.
Despite all attempts to protect the statue from the elements, it became coated with verdigris.
Madame Curie knew she was on the verge of discovering the secrets of radioactive elements.
Critics praised her for the verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth. She was completely believable.
The four verities were revealed to Buddha during his long meditation.
Cut out those old-fashioned "thee's" and "thou's" and write in the vernacular.
We may expect vernal showers all during the month of April.
He was a versatile athlete; at college he had earned varsity letters in baseball, football, and track.
Let us drop a perpendicular line from the vertex of the triangle to the base.
We test potential plane pilots for susceptibility to spells of vertigo.
She approached her studies with such verve that it was impossible for her to do poorly.
We discovered vestiges of early Indian life in the cave.
Please try not to vex your mother; she is doing the best she can.
The infant, though prematurely born, is viable and has a good chance to survive.
There was a variety of viands at the feast.
Many people get a vicarious thrill at the movies by imagining they are the characters on the screen.
Humbled by life's vicissitudes, the last emperor of China worked as a lowly gardener in the palace over which he had once ruled.
I am very happy to be able to provide you with these victuals; I know you are hungry.
Politicians vie with one another, competing for donations and votes.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Although he was over seventy years old, Jack had the vigor of a man in his prime.
The New Yorker published her latest vignette.
She is a liar and is always trying to vilify my reputation.
I hope to vindicate my client and return him to society as a free man.
She was very vindictive and never forgave an injury.
The poet wondered what the vintners could buy that would be half as precious as the wine they sold.
The habitat of the horned viper, a particularly venomous snake, is in sandy regions like the Sahara or the Sinai peninsula.
I do not accept the premise that a man is virile only when he is belligerent.
She is a virtual financial wizard when it comes to money matters.
A virtue carried to extremes can turn into something resembling vice; humility, for example, can degenerate into servility and spinelessness.
The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose virtuosity on the violin thrilled millions.
The virus is highly virulent and has made many of us ill for days.
The doctors are looking for a specific medicine to control this virus.
The stern visage of the judge indicated that she had decided to impose a severe penalty.
She disliked the visceral sensations she had whenever she rode the roller coaster.
The trunk of the maple tree was viscid with sap.
Melted tar is a viscous substance.
Before filling its edges, the keysmith took the blank key and fixed it firmly between the jaws of a vise.
She was given to visionary schemes that never materialized.
The vital, highly energetic first aid instructor stressed that it was vital in examining accident victims to note their vital signs.
Fraud will vitiate the contract.
Although this plastic has many vitreous qualties such as transparency, it is unbreakable.
Such vitriolic criticism is uncalled for.
He became more vituperative as he realized that we were not going to grant him his wish.
She had always been vivacious and sparkling.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposed vivisection and deplored the practice of using animals in scientific experiments.
Aware that she was right once again, he lost his temper and called her a shrew and a vixen.
The crowd grew vociferous in its anger and threatened to take the law into its own hands.
Jeans became the vogue on many college campuses.
The political climate today is extremely volatile: no one can predict what the electorate will do next.
