"potential" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some people carry a ten dollar bill, to keep the potential mugger happy and stave off an angry attack.
- Every person looks like a potential mugger or bag-snatcher to him.
- Carol found herself wondering, idiotically, when exactly it had become fashionable for respectable lads to look like potential muggers.
- Every potential mugger was after us.
- Mr. Peak said that flashing his gun once protected him from two potential muggers at a highway rest stop.
- For recreation he walked the streets in a kind of trance, oblivious to traffic, pedestrians, and potential muggers.
- None of the potential muggers who watched his progress even considered making an attempt on him--there was something about the way he walked, one had said.
- It employed innovative methods, including possibly the earliest coordinated sting operations to elicit potential muggers.
- Across the car from her, Sergei looked like he was sleeping; eyes closed, posture slightly slumped but still alert enough to warn off potential muggers.
- My impression is that a woman who uses a tear-gas pen on a potential mugger or rapist is in a gray area.
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