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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A tall, drunk-looking woman in a red jump-suit swayed in the doorway. holding on to the outside of the jamb .
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Anne tried to get her fingers into the jamb , but could not.
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I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
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I went up to the mystery door and slid my strip of steel between it and the jamb .
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Kirov waited patiently for several minutes before the door created open and Zhukov's bearded face peered round the jamb .
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She pushed her shoulder away from the jamb and turned and slip-slopped across the hare study floor.
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The sides, or jambs, must also be straight, plumb and square with the sill.