I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cobbled streets (= with a surface made from round stones )
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The cobbled streets were closed to cars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible.
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You must cobble together whatever both / and hybrid design will get the job done. 2.
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Characters and their philosophies can be cobbled together from Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and a reading of contemporary papers.
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It is not that difficult to cobble together a budget that could at least appear to be balanced within five years.
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Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers.
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The Wisconsin experiment proved one could cobble together a fair approximation of a prairie.
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In Bloomington, Ill., police use a variety of gang definitions, cobbled together from various state and local edicts.
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Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre and yellow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gramm had hoped to cobble a winning coalition of social and economic conservatives.
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Humble houses were cobbled together from leavings stuccoed over and painted in pastel tones of pink, ochre and yellow.
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In Bloomington, Ill., police use a variety of gang definitions, cobbled together from various state and local edicts.
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In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible.
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It is not that difficult to cobble together a budget that could at least appear to be balanced within five years.
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Whitehall mandarins have discreetly voiced hopes that the party leaders will cobble together an agreement rather than face a second election.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls.
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Each of us spotted a different line of cobbles extending across the plain, perpendicular to the prevailing gradient of slope.
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Lyn walked across the cobbles and over the Old Town bridge.
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Once he stumbled on the cobbles.
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Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
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Quietly they huddled together on the cobbles of the drive.
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Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad's boots on the cobbles.
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To his left Corbett heard a slithering on the cobbles.