noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
zebra crossing
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crossing
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Crossing roads is always frightening at first, and the patient may have to relearn how to use pelican and zebra crossings.
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The zebra crossings are faded to near invisibility and pedestrians look astonished to be allowed to cross by them.
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Driving home one night at about 11 o'clock, through a fairly rough area, I stopped at a zebra crossing .
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Maybe a zebra crossing could be placed here? 4.
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Having assisted an old woman at a zebra crossing , I was granted three wishes.
finch
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But young male bullfinches, or zebra finches , are much more flexible.
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The conversation continued, punctuated by the Frenchtaxicab calls of zebra finches .
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A zebra finch will not sing unless there is sufficient testosterone in its blood.
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Insofar as a zebra finch can be said to have a mind, the hormone is a mind-altering drug.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A herd of zebras, hence, produces about a quarter to a third of its weight in prey carcases per year.
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And in the mountain zebra there is an unusual, fine grid-iron pattern along the central line.
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Insofar as a zebra finch can be said to have a mind, the hormone is a mind-altering drug.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly among fifteen hundred people making black-and-white film, there was talk about zebras.
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Plus the best and most affordable selection of fake fur cushions in town - zebra , leopard, tiger among others.
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The conversation continued, punctuated by the Frenchtaxicab calls of zebra finches.
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We ate raclette and gelato and haggis and reindeer and zebra and water buffalo.