(Used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail.
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Examples for "tender "
1 Change the water and bring to boil for ten minutes until tender .
2 Construction companies, which often tender for government contracts, are the most affected.
3 However, the public was reminded that the new coin is valid tender .
4 Her voice faltered; a tender thought changed the form of the argument.
5 She said, however, that ICL would still receive priority in the tender .
1 Last year's debut model could crank through 600 billion operations per second.
2 Needless to say, Bennewitz was treated by many as simply a crank .
3 He had attempted in vain to take the pedal off the crank .
4 Of course, I may also have persuaded them that I'm a crank .
5 He only hoped the article wouldn't increase the rate of crank visits.
1 His methods, once dismissed as cranky and left-field are now accepted practice.
2 Though there could be a million explanations, that, too, made me cranky .
3 She's getting used to the gravity, but the drugs make her cranky .
4 He's cranky as a bear with toothache when we're still setting up.
5 I was cranky thinking about what I was about to see, Lego.
1 There isn't a New Englander on the payroll, even at the tippy top.
2 Barry suddenly found himself another inch higher up on his tippy - toes .
3 They parked themselves on Isabel's sofa with their laptops and began tippy - tapping away.
4 His selfimportant partner was tippy at the best of times.
5 He'd tippy - toed out at the crack of dawn, and he'd left Bob with me.
6 An egg balanced on a broom on top of a flea's tippy top hair!
7 I walked around the side of the house and stood on tippy toes, looking in.
8 Toddlers with the mental capacity to form complex escape plans using blocks and tippy cups.
9 Standing on her tippy - toes and raising her eyebrows, the pink-haired, 20-year-old Australian wears quirky well.
10 He could only reach up to my stomach, even standing on his tippy - toes and stretching.
11 A quick jerk brought Barry up on his tippy - toes .
12 Once again they tippy - tapped up the concrete stairs and made their way unsteadily to their room.
13 That was how Tommy described himself: tippy , but enthusiastic-whenhe wasn't Dipsy-Down ,ashe called it.
14 At her command I crawled into the tight tube and up and down the tippy board.
15 She puts away the lipstick, zips the bag, steadies herself in her tippy heels, and goes.
16 The tippy top schools like Harvard and Stanford will give you the money you need to attend.
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