I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
air chief marshal
air marshal
field marshal
marshalling yard
sky marshal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
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Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi did not want federal marshals to displace his authority.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger undergoes more perils as a federal marshal who erases the pasts of government informers and relocates them.
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Bottles, bricks and rocks were hurtling toward the federal marshals surrounding the campus administration building.
grand
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The 1997 grand marshals are Rev.
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The Stanley Cup parade was going to last for weeks, and he would be the grand marshal .
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Prosecutors, grand jurors, marshals and court stenographers are legally compelled not to reveal what happens in the grand jury room.
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field
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She was born in 1895 to an army major and his wife and was granddaughter to a field marshal .
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Lady Astor of Hever, daughter of first world war field marshal Earl Haig, has died aged 81.
fire
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There were not enough exits to satisfy the fire marshal , and the choir loft had begun to sag.
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The fire marshal discovered that the fire originated at a first-floor front window, the spokesman said.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a federal marshal
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Charlton Heston was the grand marshal of the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
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the fire marshal
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the end of the walk a marshal will sign your form.
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Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi did not want federal marshals to displace his authority.
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Joining the royal curia, he then became knight-deputy to the earl marshal and marshal of the household.
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You may possibly have the chance of being marshal to a judge; if so, of course jump at it.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
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He must have seen her marshalling her arguments , for he gave her no time to use them.
evidence
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The superior recognition of gender-marked nouns and pronouns were marshalled as further evidence of their precocious development.
support
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Table 5.4 summarizes the main evidence marshalled in support of her causal theory of social revolution.
thought
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Well, I have now marshalled my thoughts , summoning memories from that summer over seventy years ago.
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Slow down, marshal your thoughts and don't start speaking before you've got your brain in gear.
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She tried to marshal her thoughts , but they skittered wildly.
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She felt unable to marshal her thoughts into a semblance of logic.
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Breathing in deeply, she tried to marshal her thoughts .
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A bit nervously, he sat down with pen and paper to marshal his thoughts .
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Very carefully Mrs. Fanshawe marshalled her thoughts and her memories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Raia is a city police officer who marshaled support for the bill.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And to add to the horrors of the scene, the elements of heaven marshalled their forces....
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But generally the home defence were superbly marshalled by Kenny Rutherford.
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He seemed unable or unwilling to marshal even what he knew on the page.
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Organizations are creating teams to marshal the resources of this diverse, sometimes motley workforce.
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Table 5.4 summarizes the main evidence marshalled in support of her causal theory of social revolution.
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Under the experimental onslaught being marshalled, most expect the 17 keV neutrino to wither and die.