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Example sentences from the Web for massesIn a culture that worships celebrities while pretending to disdain them, the Sony emails are catnip for the masses. The Disaster Story That Hollywood Had Coming|Doug McIntyre|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST Under the Sun King, such humor—and the laughter associated with it—was seen as more suitable for the masses. The French Court’s Royal Ban on Smiles|William O’Connor|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Today, the iconic name shepherds the masses to galleries and museums the world over. Decoding Vincent Van Gogh’s Tempestuous, Fragile Mind|Nick Mafi|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast. ISIS and BS|Amal Ghandour|October 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“In a sense, the masses are not organized,” says Lo, who is with the South China Morning Post. Occupy Hong Kong Hangs On|Lennox Samuels|September 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is certainly better suited to the bold outlines and masses of the Norman period. The Cathedral Church of York|A. Clutton-Brock In our judgment, that is the only way to raise the masses to a consciousness of their rights and responsibilities. The Political Future of India|Lajpat Rai Industrial crises follow each other with increasing severity and the masses are becoming more and more pauperized. Labor's Martyrs|Vito Marcantonio The boulders of Erreré are entirely distinct from the rock of the Serra, and consist of masses of compact hornblende. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866|Various We simply fell over the cliff, plunging, caroming, and ricocheting down through the masses of vegetation. In Africa|John T. McCutcheon
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pl nthe masses the body of common people (often foll by of) informal, mainly British great numbers or quantitiesmasses of food Words nearby massesMassena, mass-energy, mass-energy equation, mass-energy equivalence, Massenet, masses, masseter, masseteric artery, masseteric nerve, masseur, masseuse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to massesproletariat, riffraff, rabble, mob, commonalty, multitude, hoi polloi, lower class, rank and file, great unwashed |