I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mirror image
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The situation is a mirror image of the one Republicans faced 25 years ago.
mirror site
one-way mirror
rearview mirror
side-view mirror
Trinity Mirror plc
two-way mirror
wing mirror
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
driving
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The driving mirror is first and foremost an image: a self-reflexive representation or, in psychoanalytic terms, a narcissistic identification.
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He watched in the driving mirror .
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In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive.
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The driver may also arrange a mirror additional to the driving mirror so that the speechreading passenger sitting next to him sees his face.
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Then I looked in my driving mirror and saw a girl I decided must be you.
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She looked up and found Alain's eyes on her, the dark gaze studying her through the driving mirror .
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I saw him in the driving mirror .
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He'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment.
large
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The remnants of the large antique mirror lay shattered around her feet.
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Susan was twenty-two, a computer operator in a large mirror company in an industrial park near their apartment.
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A large mirror above the basin revealed to Ludens at intervals the progress of his toil.
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A large mahogany mirror hung over the buffet.
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Manningham perched on a black leather stool by a well-stocked bar with a large mirror behind it.
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There is a large wall-size mirror , plush carpet, a leather chair and warm lighting.
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When handling or putting up large mirrors , it is essential to have help.
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Above this was a large rectangular mirror in a gilt frame.
little
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I looked into the little mirror for just a moment.
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A puddle is a little mirror .
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But I can see his eyes in the little mirror .
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There was a cracked little mirror hanging on the wall, showing a pale man wearing a wrinkled collar.
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She got to her feet, checked her cap in the little mirror on the wall and marched out into her department.
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When she looked in the little round mirror , she saw that she wasn't falling to pieces.
long
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She watched as Dana twirled and twisted before a long mirror , making the dress shimmer with a thousand lights.
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I saw her staring at me in the long beveled mirror behind the bar.
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Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it.
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The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs.
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Dao Van Lat studied his naked body in the long mirror and was seized afresh with an exhilaration of awe.
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Get a long mirror fixed to your bathroom or bedroom wall and take a good look at yourself front way on.
rear
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In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground.
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He could see her in his rear mirror , standing on the pavement looking wistfully after him.
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His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes' progress with mounting apprehension.
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One more dazzling feature is the anti-dazzle rear view mirror .
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But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit.
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I could see her in my rear view mirror .
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His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror .
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Cobalt looked in his rear view mirror and reported that the Josephs' car and Maurin's were not far behind.
rearview
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Jen said, eyeing them in the rearview mirror .
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Happiness is your competitors disappearing in your rearview mirror .
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The large eyes in the rearview mirror looked away.
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In the rearview mirror , the eyes were searching for and not finding Wally: they were startlingly large.
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His livid eyes floated in the rearview mirror .
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In the rearview mirror , I could see him scratching at his mustache with the corner of my business card.
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In her rearview mirror she saw she had his attention.
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He kept driving up the block, giggling when he spotted Ritchie running behind him in the rearview mirror .
small
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She examined her face in the small mirror .
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He imagined himself telling her, and saw her tiny face falling, shattering on the sidewalk like a small mirror .
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She opened the bag and got out a powder compact that had a small round mirror on the inside of the lid.
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From his jacket pocket he took a small vanity mirror and adjusted his hair.
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It's a small warped mirror reflecting one of the crises of our age.
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She propped her handbag in her lap, took out a small mirror and carefully smoothed the swept-up sides of her hair.
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One day the serious little girl brought him a small mirror , much cracked.
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He pulled a small mirror from his pocket and held it up to me.
■ NOUN
bathroom
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Pinning up her wayward curls, Lissa made a face in the steam-coated bathroom mirror .
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In the bathroom mirror , he saw that his hair had been streaked white too.
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Barring the nightly message of encouragement captain Kardar stuck to his bathroom mirror , there were no instructions from the skipper.
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He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times, breathing deeply.
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Gerald stood and looked at himself in the bathroom mirror for several minutes.
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Lily looked at herself in the bathroom mirror .
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She is staring at her throat in the bathroom mirror .
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On the evidence of his bathroom mirror , he looked better too.
hand
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He sat with his hand mirror all day and every day.
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She stared at them in a hand mirror , looking angry and disturbed.
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She paused before the stage door and pulled a hand mirror from her purse.
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I reach for my hand mirror for confirmation.
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Next, use a hand mirror in conjunction with the wall mirror to get a back view of yourself.
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The curtain opened again, as if on cue, and Squirt came up behind Mulcahey with a hand mirror .
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I took a hand mirror and examined this wrinkle from the side, frowning to deepen it.
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He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head.
image
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But below the mirror images of arts and architecture lurks the threat of extinction - Venice is in Peril.
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Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
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Restructured urban space and the visual arts in the modernist city were mirror images of one another.
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The history that Mr Gingrich teaches is a mirror image of what the left is advancing.
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The lakes, or water, are seldom still and blue, reflecting mirror images of the detailed hills.
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But now notice that what happens in the foreign market is a mirror image of what happens in the domestic market.
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Edward M.. Kennedy, his ideological mirror image .
view
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His eyes continually flickered towards the rear view mirror as he monitored the Mercedes' progress with mounting apprehension.
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One more dazzling feature is the anti-dazzle rear view mirror .
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I could see her in my rear view mirror .
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His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror .
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Cobalt looked in his rear view mirror and reported that the Josephs' car and Maurin's were not far behind.
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And I wish with this high seating position that the rear view mirror wasn't so directly in my line of sight.
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Half an hour later, I see a blue flashing light, and matching stripes in the rear view mirror .
wing
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Hedges rose to either side and the Cadillac's wing mirrors clipped against them.
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Bill was leaning on his cab, spitting at the wing mirror and half-heartedly polishing it with his sleeve.
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All the controls are easy to use, although adjusting the wing mirrors took a bit of working out.
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I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest.
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Mobuto recoiled in horror, stumbling back painfully into the Studebaker's wing mirror .
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As the Ford charged after the Mercedes, Dunn saw in his wing mirror a spurt of tracer fire.
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The fork-lift truck was not fitted with either wing mirrors or a speedometer.
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They came down on the coach from Manchester and were delayed for an hour by a missing wing mirror .
■ VERB
glance
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Vic glances in his rear-view mirror and smiles thinly.
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In the bedroom, getting her car keys off the bureau, Toni glanced into the mirror .
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I glance in the rear-view mirror to see other cars close behind; slowing down but then speeding up again.
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He had glanced in the washroom mirror and it had not been a reassuring sight.
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He glanced in his mirror as he reset the key.
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She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day.
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She glanced into the rear-view mirror , convinced that hers was the only car on this lonely road.
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She glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw the headlights of the traffic behind her.
hold
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To help out, the second player holds up the mirror so that the first player can see his reflection.
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A chest of drawers held a square mirror and picture of a younger Roz in her college cap and gown.
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I held the mirror and the surveyor caught my light in his theodolite, many miles away.
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Nothing more than designer Starck holding a slightly surreal mirror to Los Angeles.
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She then tries to get as much as she can while a third person holds the mirror .
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Each girl holds a little handbag mirror in the palm of one hand, and a coiled cylinder of paper in the other.
look
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Sometimes he looked in the mirror and pulled. his lower eyelids down to see if he had anaemia.
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I looked into the mirror , my green eyes looking back out at me showing no emotion, no excitement at all.
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He looked in the mirror and could see a gout of her smoker's phlegm on his cheek.
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When I looked up into the mirror again, he was moving, crawling towards something behind him.
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The young fellow looked pinto the mirror , trying to find something to complain to the barber about.
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She did not look away from the mirror: an act of will.
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I looked into the mirror , searching once again into the riddle of my face.
reflect
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His face was reflected in the mirror , pale, the eyes open.
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The Gestalt reflected in the mirror is a pregnant one that will give birth to the self to come.
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A doppelganger is invisible except to its owner and is not reflected in a mirror .
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Civilization simply reflects them like a mirror .
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Poking my head into a cement-lined cell, I found myself reflected between greasy mirrors , a head in a grim void.
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Logically, Margarett, posing in her chair, should be reflected in the mirror , but she is not.
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Whatever nature may objectively be, it is reflected in the flawed mirror of the mind.
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It reflects off the cookie sheet in the same way light is reflected by a mirror .
see
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To the left of him in the mirror he could see the remains of last night's meal.
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In his rear-view mirror Jed saw the vial being passed round.
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In the mirror I could see his eyes watching his hands.
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For from her mirror she saw the driver's door of the Mercedes open and a tall, aristocratic man step out.
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In the rearview mirror , I could see him scratching at his mustache with the corner of my business card.
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In his shaving mirror he saw a face burned a deep brown by two weeks of fierce tropical sunshine.
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In the bathroom mirror , he saw that his hair had been streaked white too.
stand
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Paul is standing in front of his mirror , trying on his new ruffled Mississippi gambler's shirt and straight-leg black jeans.
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For a moment he stood before the mirror , staring into it.
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He saw me standing against the mirror and stopped.
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I stood before the mirror in the hallway, fixing my tie, whistling.
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On the left side of the painting is a standing mirror with a white wood frame.
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Twenty minutes later she stood in front of the mirror wearing the fragile lace undies which were also the result of her impulse-buying.
stare
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She paused in applying her make-up and stared reflectively at the mirror .
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I was staring at a wall-sized mirror when he walked into the bar.
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He stared into the mirror that hung above the mantelpiece.
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It was like staring at a magic mirror .
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He sat for hours staring into a hand mirror , tilting it this way and that and bending his head.
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I often caught myself staring into a mirror , wondering who that was staring back.
turn
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She turned away from the mirror and, putting her cosmetics in a vanity bag, opened the door.
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He turned toward the mirror over the sofa.
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Lily turned to the mirror and dragged off her hat.
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When the drill point is just through, turn the mirror over and drill from the other side.
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He turned from the mirror and started to clear the table.
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Jane turned back to the mirror .
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She turned away from the mirror , having glimpsed the skull behind her own face.
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Dropping the robe off her shoulders, Anne turned to a full-length mirror .
use
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If you use a mirror in this way, be careful where you position it.
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A mirror can make things look backward. Use a mirror.
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The magical illusion is created using mirrors , lights and paint.
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He also uses gold leaf on mirrors , then paints it to get an antique look.
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Next, use a hand mirror in conjunction with the wall mirror to get a back view of yourself.
watch
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She watched her at the mirror .
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He watched in the driving mirror .
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He watched Richard in the mirror , newly combed hair oddly neat against unshaven chin and eyes dull with tiredness.
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Instead she drove along side roads, following the motorway in parallel, always watching her rear-view mirror .
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That is, when they're not watching themselves in the mirrors , making sure that they are still up to the mark.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
full-length mirror/photograph/portrait etc
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Dropping the robe off her shoulders, Anne turned to a full-length mirror.
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He put his handkerchief in his pocket, and looked into the full-length mirror on the back of the guest room door.
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If a full-length mirror rests on the floor with the top tilting away from you it can make you look taller.
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On a platform nearby, another man jumps rope before a full-length mirror while a fourth pounds a speed bag.
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She caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror behind the wardrobe door and gave a disgusted snort.
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She grimaced a little as she caught sight of her own reflection in the full-length mirror.
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She stared at herself for some time in the full-length mirror of the attic bedroom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I saw her in the long mirror behind the bar, staring at me.
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She never left the house without having a quick look at herself in the hall mirror .
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The telescope contains a large convex mirror to collect the light.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest.
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It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror .
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It makes even the rocks part of its dancing mirror .
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She turned away from the mirror and, putting her cosmetics in a vanity bag, opened the door.
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The Cockring consisted of several bars, smoked mirrors, strands of white lights along the walls, and a sunken dance-floor.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Victor's expression mirrored her own, both of them staring in amazement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is a danger in the head mirroring this energising, anxiety-making delivery.
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Prior to 1982, unemployment among architects mirrored national trends.
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That mirrors the estimated national average.
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The directive contains requirements for the contents of prospectuses which broadly mirror those for listing particulars under the listing directive.
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The second day's trek mirrored the first in difficulty.
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These pressures often mirrored both bureaucratic rivalries and personal attitudes.
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To split up work into its components mirrored the intellectual tradition of calculus.