"protest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Therefore, I was not surprised when, with only a halfhearted protest, he assented to Vance's proposal to revisit the Odell apartment.
- He groaned and tried to halt her progress, but his protests, halfhearted to begin with, grew increasingly feeble as she came closer to her intended goal.
- Father Abbot Markwart chuckled snidely throughout Dobrinion's halfhearted protest.
- The broadcast stated that the West stood by and issued only "halfhearted protests".
- Her halfhearted protest turned into total response.
- Ignoring her halfhearted protests, he hooked her by the arm and eased her to her feet.
- He put up a halfhearted protest, but he knew she was capable of following through on her threats, so he acquiesced in the end.
- Shadow paid for his own breakfast and, over Chad Mulligan's halfhearted protests, both hot chocolates.
- "Right," Jack said with an evil smirk, while Freddy spluttered a halfhearted protest.
- Arian's halfhearted protest melted to a moan of raw pleasure as he drew her nipple into his mouth, suckling fiercely, not as a child, but as a man - with a man's formidable hungers and undeniable needs.
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