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Example sentences for "paying tribute"

  • And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.

  • Of paying tribute to Caesar and of the resurrection of the dead.

  • That is, some that belonged to Herod, and that joined with him in standing up for the necessity of paying tribute to Caesar, that is, to the Roman emperor.

  • No man possessing an American heart will submit to the degradation of paying tribute to any nation on earth, nor suffer the freemen of America to be taxed without their consent.

  • Precisely the same reasoning employed by the Americans in 1801 against the custom of paying tribute to the Barbary pirates.

  • This practice of paying tribute was a system of international tipping.

  • Tipping nowadays is of precisely the same morality as paying tribute to the Barbary Pirates was in Jefferson's day, which the American conscience finally abolished.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anyone else; attack the; considerable number; cotton fabrics; dead stop; heart tells; including fishing and forestry; know how; less numerous; living trees; medical officers; mentioned also; might have been the; minutes before; party members; paying tribute; paying women; score strong; small pots; soak them; wedded life; whether you; woollen goods