| 词汇 | example_english_stick-of-furniture |
| 释义 | stick of furniturecollocation in Englishmeanings of stickand furnitureThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with furniture. stick noun uk /stɪk/ us /stɪk/ a thin piece of wood or ... See more at stick furniture noun[U] uk /ˈfɜː.nɪ.tʃər/ us /ˈfɝː.nɪ.tʃɚ/ things such as chairs, tables, beds, cupboards, etc. that are put into a house or other building to make it suitable and comfortable for living or ... See more at furniture Examples of stick of furnitureThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. They were sold three, four or five times without anybody putting a stickoffurniture into them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of them have not a stickoffurniture to their names. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I went into one house which did not have a stickoffurniture upstairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those elderly people have been left without one stickoffurniture, without one piece of bed clothing and, other than the clothes on their back, they have absolutely nothing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That may be the only property— that and the sticks of furniture inside the house—which he has got. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A man would put a few sticks of furniture into a house, just enough to make the idea of furniture not completely illusory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are a few sticks of furniture—twenty pounds would be a liberal valuation of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The impact of legislation should not depend on whether there are a few sticks of furniture in a room or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He turns the house into furnished accommodation, with a few old sticks of furniture tucked into different rooms. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People who have a couple of rooms to spare put in a few sticks of furniture and charge anything between £4 and £6 a week. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The importance of this case is that it demonstrates that it is not a simple matter of landlords shoving a few sticks of furniture into a room. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We sometimes read about the old ladies and gentlemen living and dying alone in abject poverty, surrounded by miserable sticks of furniture and with almost no bedclothes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A family, after a year in bed and breakfast, still needs help to get a few sticks of furniture together, but now such families are not entitled to a grant. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wish we could get an utterly new approach to legislation, which would be a landlord-tenant legislation, forgetting about sticks of furniture as being the basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of stick Go to the definition of furniture See other collocations with furniture |
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