The carnage that can be caused by atomic warfare adds to the responsibilities of our statesmen.
The public was more interested in carnal pleasures than in spiritual matters.
The lion is a carnivorous animal.
The party degenerated into an ugly carousal.
Welcoming constructive criticism, Lexy appreciated her editor's comments, finding them free of carping.
Buzzards are nature's scavengers; they eat the carrion left behind by other predators.
Though not a professional cartographer, Tolkien was able to construct a map of the fictional world.
We could not appreciate the beauty of the many cascades as we made detours around each of them to avoid getting wet.
The differences created by caste in India must be wiped out if true democracy is to prevail in that country.
Sensitive even to mild criticism, Woolf could not bear castigation that she found in certain reviews.
The number of automotive casualties on this holiday weekend was high.
A cataclysm such as the French Revolution affects all countries.
Many chemical reactions cannot take place without the presence of a catalyst.
Airplanes are sometimes launched from battleships by catapults.
She gazed with awe at the mighty cataract known as Niagara Falls.
The Johnstown flood was a catastrophe.
He taught by engaging his pupils in a catechism until they gave him the correct answer.
Though the captain claimed he was never, never sick at sea, he finally qualified his categorical denial; he was hardly ever sick at sea.
Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a catharsis by purging the soul of base concepts.
Some drugs act as laxatives when taken in small doses but act as cathartics when taken in much larger doses.
He was extremely catholic in his taste and read everything he could find in the library.
At the opening of Congress the members of the Democratic Party held a caucus to elect the majority leader of the House and the party whip.
When water from the shower leaked into the basement, we knew it was time to caulk the tiles at the edges of the shower stall.
The psychologist maintained there was a causal relationship between the nature of one's early childhood experiences and one's adult personality.
The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.
In order to prevent infection, the doctor cauterized the wound.
As described by Chaucer, the cavalcade of Canterbury pilgrims was motley group.
Sensitive about having her ideas taken lightly, Marcia felt insulted by Mark's cavalier dismissal of her suggestion.
I respect your sensible criticisms, but I dislike the way you cavil about unimportant details.
I intend to cede this property to the city.
Hamlet resented his mother's celerity in remarrying within a month after his father's death.
She spoke of the celestial joys that awaited virtuous souls in the hereafter.
Though the late Havelock Ellis wrote extensively about sexual customs and was considered an expert in such matters, recent studies maintain he was celibate throughout his life.
Soldiers dislike having their mail read by a censor but understand the need for this precaution.
censorious people delight in casting blame.
He was censured for his inappropriate behavior.
I was particularly impressed by the statue of the centaur in the Roman Hall of the museum.
On the centigrade thermometer, the freezing point of water is zero degrees.
Many automatic drying machines remove excess moisture from clothing by centrifugal force.
At the dairy, we employ a centrifuge to separate cream from milk.
Does centripetal force or the force of gravity bring orbiting bodies to the earth's surface?
Because he was in command of a company of one hundred soldiers, he was called a centurion.
The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.
Mathematics problems sometimes require much cerebration.
Ordinary dress would be in appropriate at so ceremonious an affair.
The workers threatened a cessation of all activities if their demands were not met.
The cession of Alaska to the United States is discussed in this chapter.
The collar chafed his neck.
When you separate the wheat from the chaff, be sure you throw out the chaff.
Sometimes his flippant and chaffing remarks annoy us.
Her refusal to go with us filled us with chagrin.
In a small room adjoining the cathedral, many ornately decorated chalices made by the most famous European goldsmiths were on display.
Like the chameleon, he assumed the political coloration of every group he met.
Martin Luther King, Jr., won the Nobel Peace Prize because he championed the oppressed in their struggle for equality.
He tried to bring order into the chaotic state of affairs.
Political commentators have deplored the importance of a candidate's charisma in these days of television campaigning.
When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her friends were sure they'd been duped by a charlatan.
A prudent, thrifty New Englander, DeWitt was as chary of investing money in junk bonds as he was chary of paying people unnecessary compliments.
With his hammer, he carefully chased an intricate design onto the surface of the chalice.
They could not see the bottom of the chasm.
Examining the car after the accident, the owner discovered that the body had been ruined but that the chassis was unharmed.
Her chaste and decorous garb was appropriately selected for the solemnity of the occasion.
Whom God loves, God chastens.
I must chastise you for this offense.
A chauvinist cannot recognize any faults in his country, no matter how flagrant they may be.
Thrusting out her arm, Grandma checked Bobby's lunge at his sister. "Young man," she said, "you'd better check your temper."
During his checkered career he had lived in palatial mansions and in dreary boardinghouses.
With her cheerful smile and rosy cheeks, she was a particularly cherubic child.
Your deceitful tactics in this case are indications of chicanery.
Grandma began to chide Steven for his lying.
Poe's chimerical stories are sometimes too morbid for reading in bed.
chivalrous behavior involves noble words and good deeds.
His flushed, angry face indicated a choleric nature.
Martha Graham introduced a form of choreography that seemed awkward and alien to those who had been brought up on classic ballet.
The doctors were finally able to attribute his chronic headaches and nausea to traces of formaldehyde gas in his apartment.
The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
Dismayed by his churlish manners at the party, the girls vowed never to invite him again.
The paramecium is a ciliated, one-celled animal.
She claimed her ex-husband was a total cipher and wondered why she had ever married him.
Lacking his code book, the spy was unable to decode the message sent to him in cipher.
This tiny circlet is very costly because it is set with precious stones.
Because of the traffic congestion on the main highways, she took a circuitous route.
He was afraid to call spade a spade and resorted to circumlocutions to avoid direct reference to his subject.
Although I do not wish to circumscribe your activities, I must insist that you complete this assignment before you start anything else.
Investigating before acting, she tried always to be circumspect.
In order to circumvent the enemy, we will make two preliminary attacks in other sections before starting our major campaign.
The citadel overlooked the city like a protecting angel.
She could cite passages in the Bible from memory.
Although internal Revenue Service agents are civil servants, they are not always civil to suspected tax evaders.
Cassandra's clairvoyant warning was not heeded by the Trojans.
She clambered over the wall.
The clamor of the children at play outside made it impossible for her to take a nap.
After avoiding their chaperon, the lovers had a clandestine meeting.
The blacksmith was accustomed to the clangor of hammers on steel.
Wishing to be undisturbed by the bell, Dale wound his scarf around the clapper to muffle its striking.
We woke to the clarion to muffle its striking.
His fellow classmates laughed at his claustrophobia and often threatened to lock him in his room.
Even though he wore shoulder pads, the football player broke his clavicle during a practice scrimmage.
The lightening cleaves the tree in two.
Erosion caused a cleft in the huge boulder.
