noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
carry
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There was also a small contingent of Napster supporters carrying placards in support of the beleaguered music-swapping service.
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A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
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More than fifty dyslexic children lined the paths carrying placards .
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Typically, about a dozen of the demonstrators carried six-foot wooden placards with giant photos of aborted fetuses.
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They were carrying placards and posters.
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Today the man carrying the placard warning that the end is nigh may well be wearing a white laboratory coat.
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They're carrying placards supporting a doctor who practises environmental medicine.
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And would they be willing to carry their placards outside polluting workplaces?
hold
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We don't hold up placards telling the audience what to do.
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They shout, sing and hold their placards high, demanding the right to a clean, safe, healthy environment.
wave
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He waved the placard in a wild and thoroughly stupid manner.
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And then her teenage years will be spent ripping up trees and waving placards outside the U.S.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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One placard in the crowd read, "Enough is enough!"
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small group of black dancers picketed the theater for two days, carrying placards and occasionally shouting slogans.
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At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.
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He turned, like a winning boxer, and raised up both arms, still brandishing the placard .
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He waved the placard in a wild and thoroughly stupid manner.
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However, the department says it can do nothing about people with questionable disabilities legitimately obtaining a placard .
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It voted last week to determine whether doctors are giving placards to the undeserving.
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The men, members of the gay rights group Outrage, paraded placards in front of the altar before leaving peacefully.
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This made a placard spring out in the kitchen.