noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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Said it got him out of the rut for a while.
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With wholesaling, you get into such a rut because of buyers' demands.
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Sometimes you have to listen to some really weird things to get yourself out of that rut .
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He'd got into a rut .
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Then, a curious thing happened: Duval not only won a tournament, he got in a rut .
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It was a way of not getting into a rut .
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Exercises 1-3 were designed to get me out of a rut in my playing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The carriage became stuck in a rut , and we all had to get out and push.
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The road to the farm had deep ruts in it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fighting occurs during the rut as males compete for dominance.
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Her firefly eyes clicked open and closed, and along her forehead the horizontal grooves had deepened into sharp narrow ruts.
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His owner is into a living but predictable rut .
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It had the face of an elephant in rut , Melanie thought.
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It was the intent face of female in rut - yet it was also the face of Justine, impersonal with death.
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Jeri and I thrashed ahead, following subsidiary ruts in the dried mud, and then tire marks in the grass.
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She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle, avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage.
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Some ruts are deeper than others, but all of them can do damage to your career.