I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cold sore
sore throat
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The singer complained of a sore throat after Wednesday’s show.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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By lunchtime the next day, her eyes were so sore and swollen that she could hardly see.
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But the wound was still so sore and tender that she could hardly bear to think about it.
still
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He moved his shoulder experimentally; still sore .
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Anyway, he doesn't say much; maybe his mouth is still sore from his visit to the dentist's.
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My heart is still sore for the loss of him.
very
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Mrs Krueger seemed to have very sore feet.
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They are likely to bend forward and flex the limbs in order to gain relief from the tightness. Very sore to touch.
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Her poor old eye is very sore .
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Or possibly a sheep with a very sore throat.
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Chest very sore and tight, children may cry before they cough.
■ NOUN
back
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Me and my sore back have had several meetings now with Fielding's moneymen.
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Cormier has been limited to long-tossing so far after reporting with a sore back .
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Oh yeah and me and my sore back got hold of little Selina late one night.
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Well, I say that, but of course me and my sore back got up to all kinds of stuff.
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Me and my sore back composed a letter to Martina.
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Me and my sore back had cocktails with Butch Beausoleil.
foot
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Despite sore feet and blisters, they completed the 26 and bit miles to raise thousands of pounds for charity.
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Billy Owens, limited to two quarters because of a sore foot , added 18 points and six assists.
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All the same, I had sore feet and was feeling sorry for myself.
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Mrs Krueger seemed to have very sore feet .
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Victor Alexander, just acquired in a trade with Toronto, has a sore foot .
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And what had he got in return but mouthfuls of dust and sore feet ?
head
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Consistent testing Implicit in the anecdote about the sore head was the need to test the utterance.
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A day's work still to do before the Sabbath and they would have sore heads in the morning.
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Myeloski awoke like a grizzly bear with a sore head .
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Such people are like a bear with a sore head .
knee
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And Ceballos' counterpart on the Rockets, Robert Horry, was also sidelined, nursing a sore knee .
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Jenkins left the game when his chronically sore knees began bothering him.
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Carrington did not suit up because of his sore knee .
point
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Finally, there are plans to provide custodians a sore point to enable the churches to open for two hours a day.
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The potential restriction of physician income is a major sore point .
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Graduate entry with resultant opportunities for promotion was then - as now - an especially sore point .
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It is still a sore point with both grandparents that neither Alice nor Henry have been baptized.
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Another sore point was de Gaulle's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric, which sometimes came at the expense of substance.
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Private Eye was indeed an extremely sore point with Branson.
spot
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And now she had pierced her again in this sore spot .
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This is a sore spot with me.
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Tom gently washed Willie's body again and smoothed witch-hazel on to the sore spots .
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It's a warm good wine; it hits some little sore spot .
throat
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You may also have a dry irritating cough, a sore throat and a runny, itchy nose.
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Performances had to be canceled when she had a sore throat .
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Her only problem was a sore throat , which made speaking difficult.
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He was 15 and had gone to the doctor with a sore throat .
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If you have a sore throat , are you blocking communication?
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The patient should be advised to report immediately the occurrence of easy bruising, pallor, persistent sore throat , or fever.
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Balancing Breathing - do this more often when you have colds or sore throats .
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If you've got a cold or sore throat , they can advise which over-the-counter medicines to take.
thumb
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I mean, it sticks out like a sore thumb .
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For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb .
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We stand out like sore thumbs .
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There's no cover, and - as happened to me - any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb .
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The box at Marske-in-Swaledale, which turns its blank stainless steel back to the main road, is a particularly sore thumb .
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Having said that, in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb .
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You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sight for sore eyes
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A visit to the Westonbirt Arboretum with its 13,000 trees and shrubs is always a sight for sore eyes.
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That'd be a sight for sore eyes with that one.
be like a bear with a sore head
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His eyes looked red and sore , as if he had been rubbing them.
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Martin was unable to score at all in the game, complaining of a sore knee.
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My legs are still sore today.
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She missed more than ten performances that year due to a persistent sore throat and cough.
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She was sore because she wasn't asked to the wedding.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And they were sore as a boil, and righteously so.
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He was like Doctor Cooper poking a sore appendix.
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The sore , bruised, aching feeling makes him restless; always having to change position.
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The corners of the mouth may be cracked and sore and the tongue unusually red.
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The matter was not carefully investigated because Thebes was in sore straits at the time.
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They would do this for hours until my neck grew sore .
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We knew the sore facts we had both escaped.
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You have laboured up an unending hill with heavy feet which are swollen, sore and tired.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pressure
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During the peri-operative period pressure sore should be prevented by regular changes of position.
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They can also develop pressure sores on the elbows and other joints.
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There are two stages to pressure sores .
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A good, nourishing diet with plenty to drink will guard against pressure sores .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sight for sore eyes
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A visit to the Westonbirt Arboretum with its 13,000 trees and shrubs is always a sight for sore eyes.
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That'd be a sight for sore eyes with that one.
be like a bear with a sore head
running sore
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And Nat was like a running sore, crabby, miserable.
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But finally, she would make of it an ulcer, a running sore that would never heal.
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For Horace it might have been a short madness; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore.
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In fact Meadowell is an Elastoplast name like Sizewell, invented in the 1970s to disguise what was already a running sore.
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Such protestations ferment a running sore which breeds contempt for the authorities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fleece underblanket protects her from bed sores.
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Any sore that does not heaL Progressive changes in size or color or feeling in a wart or mole.
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During the peri-operative period pressure sore should be prevented by regular changes of position.
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His hands were gnarled, and his legs were covered with sores.
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Look out for smell of solvent on breath, nose-bleeds, sores around nose and mouth, weight loss.
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The key opens on to a beige carpet that looks like a water poodle with burns and saddle sores.
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Willie's arms and legs were covered in bruises, weals and sores.