Chapter 10 of Roy Blakeley's roundabout hike is here in full — 96 sentences across 20 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of Roy Blakeley's roundabout hike is here in full — 96 sentences across 20 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them. Dub ate seven. Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped. So then we each took one. That made twelve for Pee-wee.
Chapter 10 of Roy Blakeley's roundabout hike is here in full — 96 sentences across 20 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
From this reading “THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.”
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
From this reading “THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.”
give a nickname to
From this reading “Dub ate seven.”
being one more than ten
From this reading “THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.”
move back and forth very rapidly
From this reading “THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.”
take the midday meal
From this reading “THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.”
of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
From this reading “Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.”
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
From this reading “That made twelve for Pee-wee.”
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at or in the front
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
separated in space or coming from or going to a distance
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
give a nickname to
From this reading Dub ate seven.
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading So then we each took one.
take in solid food
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
being one more than ten
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
move back and forth very rapidly
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
take the midday meal
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
engage in
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading So then we each took one.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
From this reading Dub ate seven.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading So then we each took one.
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading That made twelve for Pee-wee.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading THE DISTANT FLICKER I made flipflops for lunch and Pee-wee ate eleven of them.
subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
From this reading So then we each took one.
inflected form of “take” — carry out
From this reading So then we each took one.
the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
From this reading That made twelve for Pee-wee.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading So then we each took one.
at the time that
From this reading Sandy said he could eat them as fast as I could make them, but I was four ahead of him when he stopped.
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