to book
/ˈbʊk/
verb
to arrange and confirm a seat, ticket, room, or place on a transportation, accommodation, or event
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1I'm a travel writer, and I'm doing a book on mountains in North America.
2He wrote the definitive book on Tesla's life.
3Errol Morris wrote a really great book.
4He wrote a very important book on cyberwar.
5Books make a great gift for babies of all ages.
a
/ˈeɪ/, /ə/
determiner
used when we want to talk about a person or thing for the first time or when other people may not know who or what they are
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1A girl brings back some oranges.
2A woman brings back some bananas.
3His most successful business as a teenager was running a lottery.
4Every grain tells a story.
5A colleague was physically there.
flight
/ˈfɫaɪt/
noun
the act of traveling in an airplane
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1Your taste buds take flight.
2It took flight.
3Its first instinct was flight.
4Flights are very expensive.
5A man, a wingless mammal took flight.
train
/ˈtɹeɪn/
noun
a series of connected carriages or wagons pulled along a railroad line by a locomotive
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1A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train.
2He is travelling to Paris on the Eurostar train.
3Across the road, a train waited.
4Training the abs.
5Train, train, train some more.
accommodation
/əˌkɑməˈdeɪʃən/
noun
a place where people live, stay, or work in
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1Higher ranked individuals, though, of course have more spacious accommodations.
2some living trees have made accommodations for them, too.
3Two of them are offering accommodations on the main exercise.
4What are the accommodations?
5We have public accommodations.
to go
/ˈɡoʊ/
verb
to travel or move from one location to another location
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1After lunch, Jimmy and his mother went to the park.
2A lot of Scottish Americans go back to Scotland as tourists.
3They went up to the eighth floor.
4Jake went back to his apartment.
5The butcher goes through about 15,000 pounds of beef and 9,700 pounds of chicken each week.
by
/ˈbaɪ/
preposition
indicating the means of doing or achieving something
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1My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
2Don’t be wowed by his toxic shirtless masculinity or his judo skills.
3I'm being frisked by Conan.
4In cats, this ocular occurrence boosts low-light sensitivity by almost 50%.
5You can go to a park by yourself with a basketball.
bus
/ˈbəs/
noun
a large vehicle that carries many passengers by road
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1Kenny gets off the bus with his bag.
2I miss buses.
3People use buses every day.
4Then our final word is bus.
5Bus is coming.
plane
/ˈpɫeɪn/
noun
a winged flying vehicle driven by one or more engines
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1I remember planes.
2We shoot down planes.
3Planes fly across state lines.
4Planes are a relatively recent invention.
5One, two, three, go: - Plane.
to rent
/ˈɹɛnt/
verb
(of an owner) to let someone use a property, car, etc. for a particular time
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1So, a renter can rent a bicycle, a car, a helicopter, a house.
2So rent some sound equipment.
3Rent a bike dispenser in the Netherlands.
4Rent money, baby.
5- Rent a puppy
car
/kɑɹ/
noun
a road vehicle that has four wheels, an engine, and a small number of seats for people
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1A police car stops the young man in North Street.
2It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
350% of the commercial driver's license tests will include car.
4Daddy can drive car.
5Car made a marshmallow gun shooter type thing.
flat
/ˈfɫæt/
noun
a place with a few rooms in which people live, normally part of a building with other such places on each floor
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1-This bottle of champagne is flat!
2'This table is flat.'
3The bottom is flat.
4A flats or a wing? - Flats are, flats or, flats or a drum.
5Lay the console flat
to stay
/ˈsteɪ/
verb
to keep being in the same state or situation
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1Sara's father stays at home.
2This little piggy stayed home.
3The organization stays a lot longer.
4Stay the heck away from it.
5Stay awesome possums.
in
/ˈɪn/, /ɪn/
preposition
at a point inside or within a space or an area
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1Some bacteria help humans in many ways.
2The old woman looks in her bag.
3In 2009, two researchers ran a simple experiment.
4Our story begins in the year 1963.
5My mother believed in dreams and possibilities.
hotel
/hoʊˈtɛɫ/
noun
a building where we give money to stay and eat food in when we are traveling
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1Then he drove into London, but he didn't find his hotel.
2My sister's got a little hotel by the sea.
3Hotels present similar challenges.
4Hotels have the weirdest lotions.
5Hotels always have good shrimp cocktails for some reason.
hostel
/ˈhɑstəɫ/
noun
a place or building that provides cheap food and accommodations for visitors
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1Life for mostof these workers is confined to the factory floor and adormitory in a migrant's hostel.
2And they found a hostel.
3- This is a Hostel Saw.
4Consider youth hostels, especially in the more expensive cities around the world.
5It reminds me of Hostel.
to eat out
/ˈiːt ˈaʊt/
verb
to eat in a restaurant, etc. rather than at one's home
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1The average millennial eats out 5 times a week!
2Eating out too much.
3Nearly half of which is eating out.
4And the dementia ate out the language parts of the brain.
5- Eat out?
to visit
/ˈvɪzɪt/
verb
to travel to a place for the purpose of exploration, enjoyment, or sightseeing
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1People enjoy visiting museums to see displays of wonderful paintings and sculptures.
2However, this does mean that practically anyone with the thirst for adventure can visit every continent, ocean, or country.
3Visit family.
4Clouds seldom visit this area.
5- Visited the set of Jurassic Park and Jumanji.
museum
/ˈmjuziəm/, /mjuˈziəm/
noun
a place where important cultural, artistic, historical, or scientific objects are kept and shown to the public
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1People enjoy visiting museums to see displays of wonderful paintings and sculptures.
2Museums help preserve human history by collecting works of art.
3Museums display these items so visitors can see them and learn from them.
4Art thieves believe they can easily steal something from a small museum without being seen.
5The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
and
/ˈænd/, /ənd/
conjunction
used to connect two words, phrases, or sentences referring to related things
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1The system revolutionized the restaurant business and introduced the term "fast food."
2His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
3And both methods came up with pretty similar results.
4And the court then has to make a determination.
5Chestnuts offer plenty of protein, vitamin E and dietary fiber.
art gallery
/ˈɑːɹt ɡˈælɚɹi/
noun
a building where works of art are exhibited to the public
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1The place is the Ritesville town art gallery.
2The dashboard of the Rolls-Royce Phantom can even become a bespoke art gallery.
3The Art Gallery has this work.
4Think of your room as an art gallery.
5The fantasy hideaway is more of an art gallery than a treehouse.
to buy
/ˈbaɪ/
verb
to get something in exchange for paying money
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1Money from a city job helped them buy these things.
2They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs Hermann bought a lot of things.
3To get cheap tickets, buy them an hour or two before it begins.
4I bought new equipment.
5It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
souvenir
/ˌsuvəˈnɪɹ/
noun
something that we usually buy and bring back for other people from a place that we have visited on vacation
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1Souvenir hunters had also taken pieces of the coffin and some of his bones.
2The souvenir draws attention to both precise birthdays 36, 80, and the long stage of life in between, the middle years.
3For youth, souvenirs are recommended.
4I brought back way too many souvenirs!
5He collected souvenirs.
to have
/ˈhæv/
verb
to hold, possess, or own an object or a quality
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1The arrangement had mutual benefits for the public and the museum.
2Apparently, the human nose has about one thousand different types of olfactory neurons.
3One clan in the USA - Clan Donald - has 4,000 families.
4Another brilliant physicist, Alexander Friedmann, had also reached the same conclusion.
5The city has a massive migrant workforce.
good time
/ɡˈʊd tˈaɪm/
noun
an enjoyable or exciting experience or period of time
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1Throughout the 2010s, Pattinson appeared in different roles in various genres outside of the Twilight films, including the Safdie brothers' thriller Good Time.
2Pattinson is a serious actor, as he's demonstrated in critically acclaimed indie films like Good Time and High Life since his brush with franchise fame.
3Since breaking out in Twilight, he's since delivered memorable performances in such varied films as Water for Elephants, Good Time, and The Lighthouse.
to meet
/ˈmit/
verb
to be introduced to a person; to see and talk to a person for the first time
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1Merchants from all over the continent met to trade their goods, but there was one problem: too many currencies in circulation.
2Meanwhile his halting, gauche attempts to seduce women were met by ridicule and rejection.
3Guys, meet video game researcher and level-30 demon slayer, Dr. Patrick Markey.
4yes guys, meet my blogging camera. -
5- Meet a giant fish like a boss.
new
/ˈnju/, /ˈnu/
adjective
recently built, invented, made, etc.
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1Their new house had a garden, but the garden was very small.
2I must start a new life among strangers.'
3His new mommy had medical professional training and it's a really good fit.
4I bought new equipment.
5Purchase prices have stabilized recently due to new policies, political unrest, and the global pandemic.
people
/ˈpipəɫ/
noun
human beings as a group, including men, women, and children
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1As a result, people in different locations had different local times.
2Long ago, people did not understand infection.
3People still write forgeries today.
4Most people believed him.
5People draw different conclusions from this.
holiday
/ˈhɑɫəˌdeɪ/, /ˈhɑɫɪˌdeɪ/
noun
a day or period of time fixed by law when we don't have to go to school or work
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1Holidays are a lot of work.
2The next topic is holidays.
3I hate holidays.
4Holidays are the time for Zen photographs on secluded beaches.
5We had holidays.
city
/ˈsɪti/
noun
a larger and more populated town
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1Some cities have even passed laws that allow Segways to travel only on sidewalks.
2Over half of the world's 7 billion people now live in cities.
3About 630,000 people live in the city and about 1.2 million in and near it.
4Look for the City men with their dark suits and umbrellas!
5The city has a massive migrant workforce.

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