Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie

The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates By Stephen King

            

•  Pronunciation:

• Wyward is an adjective.
• Definition: A person who does only what they want and often changes their behavior in ways that are difficult to control.
• The original sentence: 

"A mother scolding her wayward eleven-year-old who’s come late to the supper-table yet again—but now it emerges in a kind of horrified growl".

• Sentences:

1. The father had trouble communicating with his wayward son.

2. My daughter can be very wayward.

3. I am your child, your wayward child.

4. This is a wayward country.

• Pronunciation:

• Wreckage is a noun.
• Definition: A badly damaged object or the separated parts of a badly damaged object.
• The original sentence: 

"Her husband crawled from the wreckage of the burning plane".

Sentences:

1. Wreckage was just found in the woods.

2. Citizen photographers have registered the wreckage across the country.

3. There's just too much pain and wreckage between us.

4. There are 12 million tons of wreckage which need to be cleared.

    

• Pronunciation:

• Dismembered is a verb.

• Definition: To cut, tear, or pull the arms and legs off the body of a dead person  or animal.

• The original sentence: 

"Others might picture burned bodies or dismembered heads with grinning teeth".

• Sentences:

1. According to the autopsy report the painter dismembered his wife.

2. That day, the dismembered body of a man had appeared on the railway tracks.

3. I used to live in a box outside the metro and before that I dismembered people for a living.

4. Elements forming an integral part of artistic, historical or religious monuments which have been dismembered, of an age exceeding 100 years.

Pronunciation:

• Chuckles is a verb.

• Definition: Set of sounds that are emitted and gestures or movements that are made when laughing.

• The original sentence: 

"He chuckles as if this is funny. She supposes that in a way it is".

Sentences:

1. Juliet chuckles, saying she doesn't even know what that means anymore.

2. This last comment drew some chuckles.

3. A round of chuckles rumbled through the unit.

4. Gabrielle chuckles, and shakes her head.

• Pronunciation:

• Beeps is a verb.

• Definition: It's a short loud sound.

• The original sentence: 

“Hearts, he agrees. The phone beeps again, as if seconding that".

• Sentences:

1. When the thermometer beeps, remove it and check the digital reading.

2. Two beeps indicate that the call has been declined.

3. A new, fully charged battery will produce 6 or 7 beeps.

4. You can adjust the volume of the beeps.

• Pronunciation:

• Beaded is an adjective.
• Definition: Covered with small drops of sweat or a similar liquid.

• The original sentence: 

"Annie looks guiltily down at her own legs, still beaded with water".

• Sentences:

1. After an hour of aerobics, your face will be beaded with sweat.
2. Young specimens often have drops of a clear liquid beaded on the gills.
3. Beads of sweat began rolling down their faces.
4. Squeeze a bead or two of glue onto the seam. 

• Pronunciation:

• Stirring is a noun.
• Definition: A beginning of motion or activity.

• The original sentence:

"She imagines him licking off those beads and is horrified to feel a sexual stirring".

• Sentences:

1.  1. I feel a stirring of curiosity.
2.      The first stirrings of revolution.
3.  3. It could be we are witnessing the early stirrings of a revolution.
4.  4. He first stirrings of a sense of guilt.

     

•     Pronunciation:

•     Gutters is a noun.
•     Definition: Trough along the eaves to catch and carry off rainwater.
•     The original sentence: 

     "And not to let the McCormack kid do the gutters this fall..."

•     Sentences:

1.      The roof, all windows and gutters were replaced in 2003.
2.      Brian and Kristy are a great team for cleaning the gutters.
3.      Update electric, new roof, sofet and gutters, and exterior doors. 
4.      Did you fix the gutters?

•     Pronunciation:

•     Grief is a noun.
•     Definition: Deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement.

•     The original sentence:

     "She whispers, then covers her mouth to hold in laughter that is some emotion even more complicated than grief finding the only way out it has".

•     Sentences:

1.      A huge outpouring of national grief for the victims of the shootings.
2.      Their grief soon gave way to anger.
3.      His grief over his son's death.
4.      The feelings of grief and distress were intense.

      

•     Pronunciation: 

•     Glances is a verb.
•     Definition: To take a quick look at something.
•     The original sentence:

      "There is no record of an incoming call at-she glances at the bedside clock and sees it's now 3:17 P.M." 

• Sentences:

1. Glances at his watch.
2. I glances back.
3. I picked up the phone book and glances through it.
4. I glanced up again to see that one of them had slipped.