How To Use At the ready In A Sentence
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On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his drawling sales pitch at the ready.
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Indians don't seem to believe in one percent milk at all, and don't realize that the ready-made paneer they buy in Indian stores is made of whole milk, which is loaded with fat calories.
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She also raced in blouses with bows on the sleeves and she always had a powder compact and her lippy at the ready.
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One loaded it into a dark-coloured car while the wheelman sat at the ready.
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My plaid shirt and cowboy hat are at the ready.
The Sun
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The two combatants once again faced each other, taking a couple of sidesteps, swords at the ready for the next exchange.
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One of the recurrent characters in his works is, in fact, a murderous gunslinger at the ready, pistol pointed toward an unseen target outside the frame.
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He gave the hand signal for swords and bows at the ready, and the command spread down the line.
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I personally indulge in cigars I wish I could use “lunt” the next time our Cigar Club meets and usually have at the ready C.H.
The Very Best Pipe Tobacco - 22 Words
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All the runners were at the ready, awaiting the pistol shot that would start the race.
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He wandered the seedy areas with his eyes wide open and his camera at the ready.
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Tamsin materialized at her side, notebook at the ready.
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There’s a cistern located directly behind the kitchen’s cookstove, which is never let to go out during the entire winter, but burns all night and day, so there’s always hot water at the ready.
One Night in Scotland
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soldiers with guns at the ready
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Squads of combat-equipped troops toting assault rifles and columns of Humvees with gunners at the ready crisscross its flooded streets.
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Everyone was confused and uncertain of what to do - until the British let out a loud "huzzah" and fired off a volley before advancing at the double quick toward you and your friends, bayonets at the ready.
The Moderate Voice
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Should the deal with Spyker fall through, Genii and partners remained at the ready to pursue talks with GM, Carlstrom said.
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One night, while we were chatting about how Kafele said there was a storm on the horizon (although no one else could feel or tell a thing), one of the Americans came up to the topsides holding a bowie knife at the ready.
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Attention turned as the front door of the main castle burst open and armored soldiers came rushing down the steps with weapons at the ready.
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students with pens and notebooks at the ready
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He's obsessive-compulsive, a man who cannot live without moist towelettes at the ready because, after all, there are germs everywhere.
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The police squad fanned out and with their weapons at the ready advanced towards the target dell.
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Then it is wallets at the ready as mummy and daddy start to fork out on designer romper suits, pushchairs and jewellery.
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Old Denny D. always seemed to be at the helm … and have a hilarious reverse frame moment at the ready. cee
For the kids… « Awful Library Books
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A montage: Guri faces LUKE SKYWALKER in Xizor’s castle, Luke holds his light saber at the ready.
Adventures in Comic Book Land
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I saw her watching the men driving off in their utes, chainsaws at the ready.
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That they have so arranged things that people can even imagine that they are needed to be always at the ready to guide our nation through the next crisis in its never-ending war against whatever the fake enemy du jour is today, is the best proof that these folks are the opposite of indispensible.
Matthew Yglesias » Against Appointed Senators
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Soldiers came charging through the forest, guns at the ready.
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Just a small advertising board heralds its arrival, but eagle-eyed consumers who spied the sign outside Dixons in Coney Street have already got their wallets at the ready.
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One night, while we were chatting about how Kafele said there was a storm on the horizon (although no one else could feel or tell a thing), one of the Americans, Brant Sherman, came up to the topsides holding a bowie knife at the ready.
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There's a modest fleet of trimarans and sea kayaks at the ready.
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He refrains from sabre-rattling with regard to Iran -- although I have no doubt the sabre is at the ready and will be unsheathed frequently on the campaign trail.
McCain’s Speech - Swampland - TIME.com
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Their spears were held at the ready, and they took short, cautious steps, like hunters stalking big game.
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If the audience isn't applauding, canned applause should be at the ready.
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On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
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He had his camera at the ready.
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Such is the life of a columnist with a value-investing bias; you always have the phrase "catching a falling knife" at the ready when writing.
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Ventricular burst stimulation may be delivered through a permanent pacer to terminate organized ventricular tachycardia (although this may prompt ventricular fibrillation so an external defibrillator must be at the ready).
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Whatever we think, we are courtiers in an oriental Sultanate, and there is a corps of janissaries, with bowstrings at the ready, at the palace door.
Murdoch 'a megalomaniac twister'
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The trailing primer wires were braided together and connected to a cable running out to an electrician safely sheltered in an adit, detonator at the ready.
Colossus
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Ah, Valentine's Day, a day of romance and expressions of love, flocks of chubby, pale-skinned, rosy-cheeked cherubs hovering, tiny bows and arrows poised, at the ready for any wandering souls in search of true love.
Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
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Richly decorated, grand pavilions and tents stand at the ready.
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Making an abhorrently violent film anti-violent screed at 24 frames per second is no small trick, and Professor Thurman assured me that the ready supply of filmic blood in "Kill Bill" and the other titanic Tarantino movies means the violence is shown as violence and hence abhorrent -- in contrast to fakey-bakey movies that show death without the red stuff.
Michael Conniff: CON GAMES: Violence On The QT With Quentin Tarantino
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And so firefighters were at the ready with what they dubbed a foam attack, a steady flow of foam and water to blanket the blaze and hopefully smother it.
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Having your phone at the ready or tapping away constantly gives rise to what experts are calling infomania.
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Though it seemed a bit 'kludgey' at first, this process has proven a lot easier than trying to keep a variety of socket sizes at the ready.
MAKE Magazine
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This was less of a problem last season with gunslinger Glen Rice at the ready.
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The station relied heavily on orcas to herd the southern right whales to the harpoons at the ready.
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Students were amazed at the way food was served, and at the ready availability of alcohol on board, especially during Prohibition.
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The audience could hear every word, and the harmony was so rich, so compelling, that the congregation sat on the edges of their seats, amens and applause at the ready.
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As for Axl, I will continue to follow his story in real time, occasionally going back to revisit some of the juiciest bits, checking my Google alerts for news of him, my bottle of Jameson always at the ready.
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The audience, all men, look sheepish, except for Mr. Winogrand, who stands with his Leica at the ready, his expression showing him concentrated on getting the best shot.
The Self and Others
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On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
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And with no long-term detention facility at the ready, they worry about missing chances to gather intelligence from suspects.
Clarity Sought on Detainees
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And in the meantime, a team of national guardsmen, FEMA, as well as state highway patrol troopers stand at the ready to respond as necessary.
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Behind them trailed a small escort of equally benumbed guardsmen, every one with weapons, if not in hand, then at the ready.
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They had their blades, ranging from daggers to swords, out and at the ready.
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This time she sat bolt upright, eyes opened, dirk at the ready.
Healing the Highlander
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Bottles at the ready, jam bubbling, temperature reached, pan off the stove and a warmed pyrex measuring jug used to slop it into the jars, bottle-washer following up with the cloth, wiping the bottoms clean of the jars – all well.
Archive 2008-08-01
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He gave out only his rank, name and serial number, cyanide capsule at the ready.
Times, Sunday Times
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Usually, US Army personnel are depicted on TV or in the movies as smart, fit, tall, handsome, virile men, eager to fight for their country and ever at the ready.
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Have the earplugs at the ready.
The Sun
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Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head.
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Most any prescriptivist you meet will have at the ready a set of examples of what is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe: ‘s used to form a plural when just s is called for.
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
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Tamsin materialized at her side, notebook at the ready.
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Groups of cheerful girls carrying heavy bundles of yarn and cloth move from one building to another, and vehicles are constantly at the ready, to transport the finished goods.
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They live for getting their kecks off and swaggering around 'chongs at the ready'.
Times, Sunday Times
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He considers himself quite the daring explorer as he travels the modern paved highways of Chiapas in his airconditioned SUV with the cel phone at the ready to summon Mr. Wizard whenever he confuses the orange-clad machete-wielding highway maintenance crews with militant indigenous thirsting for the blood of their next ladino victim.
Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip
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He later entertainingly disgorged his visual and aural memories of it all—the high pulpit with the red plush pillow for the Bible, the stiff wooden pews, the “melodeon,” or primitive organ; the caterwauling choir, the dozing oldsters, and his scattered fellow captives, the other boys, their spitballs at the ready, grateful for the diversion of a dog sitting down on the stinging warhead of a pinch bug—and getting up again.
Mark Twain
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At the ready with the muzzle up, you can quickly thumb a hammer back as you shoulder it.
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Traffic coming from the Quay direction was blocked off as far as Catherine Street while the ground immediately surrounding the building was cordoned off by tape, with mattresses at the ready, until she was removed to safety.
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In the middle of the zine is a fantastic pull-out called ‘Fighting Back’: a hand-drawn leaflet on self-defence for women and girls, which Isy has given up copyright for - photocopiers at the ready!
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So, vestments on, crucifixes at the ready.
Times, Sunday Times
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White pillars towered above him, and marble guards lined the aisle, stone spears held at the ready.
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Soldiers came charging through the forest, guns at the ready.
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their guns were at the ready
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And his antiseptic wipes are always at the ready.
Times, Sunday Times
