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  • "Uh, thanks," said Colin, and Mr. Lyford ran off into the distance, weaving through the forest in search of more, fresher routings.†   (source)
  • The routings are convoluted to the point of being untraceable.†   (source)
  • And probably—certainly—ways to avoid betrayal while speeding up routings.†   (source)
  • Her son had won two great victories, smashing Jaime Lannister in the Whispering Wood and routing his leaderless host outside the walls of Riverrun in the Battle of the Camps, but from the way some of his bannermen spoke of him, he might have been Aegon the Conqueror reborn.   (source)
    routing = defeating in an overwhelming manner
  • His fleet was burned, his army routed.   (source)
    routed = defeated in an overwhelming manner
  • But they, if they meet and defeat a part of our army, are as proud as if they had routed us all, and when defeated they pretend to have been vanquished by us all.   (source)
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  • When they put the extension in the barn, they routed the line there first.†   (source)
  • Vince had created a "mesh 911" text address, routing it into the cell phones of Sergeant Williams' group.†   (source)
  • The Monroe Journal wrote: Too many of these rout-of-town; writers express open scorn for the people and institutions they encounter here, making no more than a superficial effort to gather facts.†   (source)
  • He continued routing his phone calls through Mercer House and dictating letters that were typed at home on his engraved stationery.†   (source)
  • It was December before he mentioned that he'd sent another Personnel Action Form to Washington, asking for transfer to Vietnam; those forms, as many times as he would submit them, were routed through his chain of command—including Major General LaHoad.†   (source)
  • Media inquiries were never routed to Kohler's office, so the incoming calls could only be one thing.†   (source)
  • Underneath that it said, "Antoine Thomas throws for 3 TDs, runs for 2, in 30-0 rout."†   (source)
  • But the actual beach, the one he and the corporals gazed on now, was no more than a variation on all that had gone before: there was a rout, and this was its terminus.†   (source)
  • Now the truth seemed obvious: his last words had been just another sleight of hand, and his last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.†   (source)
  • It's messy stuff and they would have routed me somewhere over the Baltic Sea, and it would have taken me forty minutes and the lady probably would have died.†   (source)
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  • I'd hoped that if he saw our left collapse, he might plunge into the gap, eager for a rout.†   (source)
  • "Anyway my plane got re-routed—" she took a gulp of her coffee, wordlessly offered the cup to me, want some? no? another gulp—"and I was stuck at Newark, and I thought, why not, I'll take the rain check and come into the city and see you guys."†   (source)
  • He puts Enrique with four immigrant men being routed to Orlando, Florida.†   (source)
  • We routed them after that!†   (source)
  • One mysterious phrase called out by an older boy could rout the whole group in shrieks and laughter.†   (source)
  • They send a message to Customer Experience, and it gets routed to one of us.†   (source)
  • This ain't a battle; it's a rout.†   (source)
  • In the village of My Khe, as in all of Quang Ngai, patriotic resistance had the force of tradition, which was partly the force of legend, and from his earliest boyhood the man I killed would have listened to stories about the heroic Trung sisters and Tran Hung Dao's famous rout of the Mongols and Le Loi's final victory against the Chinese at Tot Dong.†   (source)
  • All decisions are made through the Inquisitor now, all inquiries and requests routed through her.†   (source)
  • But they could not alter the arrangements in time with the civil and military authorities, the public and private corporations, the military band, the School of Fine Arts orchestra, and the schools and religious fraternities, which were prepared for eleven o'clock, so the funeral that had been anticipated as a historic event turned into a rout because of a devastating downpour.†   (source)
  • He pictured his fighting men as bees routing the rabbits.†   (source)
  • Although she could rout her, Jean Louise had not yet learned how to repair the enemy's damage.†   (source)
  • You've already routed them.†   (source)
  • It was as though the Indian blood had routed every trace of the Celtic strain.†   (source)
  • The telephone rang in the school office and one of the clerks routed the call to Khanum Shaheen.†   (source)
  • We sent return communication in a similar way, wrapping notes in the same plastic and placing them at the bottom of the mounds of dirty dishes that were routed back to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • The color was light gray, but they knew from Kemp's landlord -they had routed him out of bed at 4 Am.†   (source)
  • Once, we did take on Tia Flor, who indicated her large house, the well-kept grounds, the stone Cupid who had been re-routed so it was his mouth that spouted water.†   (source)
  • Winters, the vice principal, threading between cars, trying to rout out the smokers who don't have time or are too lazy to walk all the way down to the Lounge and instead try to hide out between the teachers' old Volvos and Chevrolets.†   (source)
  • For all he knew, I went around routing attacking vampires every day and the scene in the meadow had been nothing unusual at all.†   (source)
  • When the first Soviet officer was halfway down the gangway, he was dazzled by fifty high-intensity television lights and the shouted questions of television reporters routed out of bed to meet the rescue ship and so have a bright piece of Christmas season news for the morning network broadcasts.†   (source)
  • You must be planning to make San Antonio in one day, since you're starting this early," he added, still grumpy from having been routed out of bed.†   (source)
  • The boy had taken some more losses lately, including a rout at the Manhattan Chess Club, and this was deeply disappointing all around because Father Paulus had appeared.†   (source)
  • At most, it would have created a more entertaining spectacle and saved Bing, Lin, and Jimmy Smith from the humiliation of seeing their horse routed.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, it also routed some of the water her way.†   (source)
  • The blow to the nation's pride caused by the rout of Pakistan's forces during the Kargil Conflict had driven the democratically elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif from office.†   (source)
  • The bloody battle of Tarawa had demonstrated the need for many more Marines trained to rout out well-entrenched Japanese defenders.†   (source)
  • I recognize the legs on it, the design he had painstakingly routed on all four of them.†   (source)
  • Their enemies were routed and did not return.†   (source)
  • And many blacks, so accustomed to being routed by whites, feel a swell of jumbled, out-of-context pride.†   (source)
  • They had a small office at the airport where bags that had been routed to the wrong city or put onto the wrong plane would eventually end up, at which point one of their couriers would deliver them to their proper destination, whether it be a hotel or the bag owner's home.†   (source)
  • It turned into a rout, but Cesar celebrated with modest optimism.†   (source)
  • Can they be routed to you as well.†   (source)
  • It was a forced march, not a rout, as sometimes portrayed.†   (source)
  • "My transport's routed for New York.†   (source)
  • Stealing your forces blind and routing couriers to the banks in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • The cavaliers routed the forces in his parish and plundered his own dwelling of all that was portable—brass, pewter, and cloth.†   (source)
  • Routed south of Chicago, it crossed the Mississippi River from Illinois to Iowa at the city of Davenport.†   (source)
  • Apparently they thought it was our main body; anyway, the result was a rout, at a cost of two or three wounded to us.†   (source)
  • The Attolian army below completed its maneuver as the queen explained to the ambassador that a rout could yet be avoided by a more gracious retreat.†   (source)
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