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bear down
1. I really had to bear down this time
2. Eyes bear down upon me in the half-light
3. As soon as the Shenandoah had been freed of prisoners, she began to bear down on her next victim, which turned out to be
4. They all nodded in agreement as Manna changed course to bear down on the stricken vessel and its attackers
5. She took a huge breath, began to bear down again, and tightly grasped the quilt under her
6. Bear down hard! Keep the stern coming in ahead of the bow
7. His fat mean eyes would bear down on us like we were criminals
8. Her knees started to tremble and she felt a heavy weight bear down on her but she was determined to withstand it
9. It was just one of those awful human moments when everything seems to bear down with crushing cruelty and terrible agony
10. At first I was blinded by the light which seemed to bear down on me with such intensity, then as if a switch had been flicked the light went out and I was left in a blurred darkness
11. Then, as the horses bear down on you, excitement turns to terror
12. Garcia focused his weight to bear down on the knife
13. Soon he was running in Syd’s track and began to bear down on him
14. I decided to bear down on the Witnesses— try to fully understand who or what they represented
15. Hurricane-force winds would soon bear down on them
16. "Bear down!" Hannah said
17. The canines were so long that the cats couldn’t open their mouths wide enough to properly bear down on anything and the teeth themselves were very prone to breaking off, which was the saving grace for many of the creatures
18. He felt her bear down a little on his finger
19. Animating his followers by his voice, and his own example, Hawkeye then gave the word to bear down upon their foes
20. Headlights like hard objects swerve around stalled cars, bear down on bottlenecks at speed, as in some colossal game of chicken
21. Any more than he’d care to stop and stand in the open with a blood-bent knight sure to bear down on him at any moment