Word Finder - chased

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To pursue.

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To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser

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I need something to chase this shot with.

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To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.

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Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.

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To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch

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To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed

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The rally chased the starter.

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To groove; indent.

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To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.

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chase the pipe

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To cut (the thread of a screw).

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To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.

When I ran, he chased me and I fell.

You chased me until I caught you.

I had the feeling if I hadn't, he might have chased them down himself.

He chased a piece of sausage around his plate with the fork.

Do you think she chased the poor boy down the mountain?

He chased after her, in time to catch a glimpse of yellow as she barged out the door toward the parking lot.

The pure joy of it chased away all his doubts.

Nope. He chased me like a Saturday kid's movie.

So now he's suggesting I chased Billy down the mountain until he went over the side!

The sadness in her voice chased away his mirth.

Carmen dreamed all night about being chased by a dog with red hair.

I chased them into the forest and ended up surrounded.

I could never make sense of them, but they had to do with being chased by monsters.

As early as 1860 there had been disturbances of a serious character, and the Chinese were chased off the goldfields of New South Wales, serious riots occurring at Lambing Flat, on the Burrangong goldfield.

When disturbed they go off at a swift trot, which soon leaves all pursuit from a man on foot far behind; but if chased by a horseman they break into a gallop, which they can keep up for some distance.

The reason Sarah always chased this now made sense.

Running around like a scared sissy boy, being chased by a seven week old kitten.

The amount of debt being chased by Britain 's bailiffs has soared by 70% over the last 2 years.

I think Billy Langstrom was killed because someone chased him down the mountain.

She clung to one of the warriors, attempting to climb him as the cat-like critter-- convinced it was a game-- wagged its tail and chased her around the large man in the center of the room.

If Dulce hadn't chased him so hard, would he have fallen in love with her?

Martha, always the caring hostess, finally went upstairs and chased Quinn from his quarters, freeing up the now-dismantled lab room.

She screamed when she saw a figure at her bedroom window and her father chased him.

I've chased more bad guys running Bird Song bed and breakfast than when I was a Parkside, Pennsylvania police detective.

The warmth of the evening chased out Bird Song's guests—all non-dieters probably queuing up for ice cream, or maybe simply promenading the Victorian village streets as alpenglow painted the surrounding peaks in pink.

I think now that he knows you were on the mountain and you suspect something about the vodka, he realizes you heard the siren so he's setting it up to look like it was me, not him, who chased Billy.

He can't prove you chased Billy down the mountain any better than you can prove he did.

If he could only be sure it wasn't Lydia who'd chased Billy Langstrom down the mountain, siren screaming, to his rolling, crushing death.

I can't prove why you caused Billy Langstrom's death but I know you chased him off the road and I think I know why.

And he knows we suspect he may have chased Billy to his death.

You really think Fitzgerald chased Billy down the mountain, huh?

Some kids are saying that guy Fitzgerald chased Billy down the mountain and got him killed.

Pumpkin told me they thought he chased Billy down the mountain to his death!

Hadn't she been delighted when he chased and tackled her?

Mrs. Lincoln attempted to attend the service but was chased away.

Laser fire chased them across the sky, and he gripped the edge of the open bay tightly, not wanting another fall from the sky.

At the Sanctuary, Kris was just getting ready to return to his tent when Kiki burst onto the beach, looking as if he were being chased by demons.

Between you and me, I think he chased out some of the earlier tenants with the volume.

Do you think we chased the mountain lion away?

He had risked his own life to protect her from the wild dogs, and chased the man who smashed her windshield.

But when the Syrians chased him into the mountains, 6000 Jews went over to him and, with their aid, he put down the rebellion.

Circlet and arches are richly chased and jewelled; they are filled out by a cap of stiff material, often red velvet, ornamented with pictures in embroidery or appliqué metal.

More particularly, chased and inlaid metallic wares, bez (thin cotton) and carpet - weaving receive government support.

Towards all her Magyars, especially the Catholics, she was ever most gracious; but the magnates, the Batthyanis, the Nadasdys, the Pallfys, the Andrassys, who had chased her enemies from Bohemia and routed them in Bavaria, enjoyed the lion's share of her benefactions.

The circlet is much wider and is richly chased and jewelled, and from it rise eight large leaves, the intervening spaces being filled with fleurs-de-lys of definite outline.

The shock was too great; the Prussians gave way immediately and were chased back into the woods by cavalry.

Its fertility was famous in ancient times, and still more the red pottery made of the local clay, with its imitation of chased silver.

The Dogs Act 1865 rendered owners of dogs liable for injuries to cattle and sheep; the Dogs Act 1906 extended the owner's liability for injury done to any cattle by a dog, and further, where a dog is proved to have injured cattle or chased sheep it may be treated as a dangerous dog and must be kept under proper control or be destroyed.

But Forbin was chased away from the Firth of Forth by a fleet under Sir George Byng; he refused to allow the young adventurer to land farther north, and the Jacobites doubted that France was never serious in the enterprise.

Multan had previously fallen; and the Afghan horse under Dost Mahommed, who had forgotten their hereditary antipathy to the Sikhs in their greater hatred of the British name, were chased back with ignominy to their native hills.