Sentence game

[aTOMiC]

I must extricate the plank from my own eye. You are but a minion to the multitudes. The ramparts are besieged with carrot munchers!


dumpster

sewage

septic

[Linna Heartbooger]

"Can I just pretend I don't know you next time you want to dumpster dive for some new luggage?" my friend asked me. Her key clicked and turned in the apartment door, and as we opened it, we were greeted with the unmistakable smell of sewage. "Uhhh, can I just pretend I don't know you the next time you have to deal with a septic system disaster?" I wondered back.

palatial
repel
blanket

[deer of the dawn]

The inn was anything but palatial. The lurid color of the shag carpet would repel anyone less exhausted than we were as we dropped our luggage and flopped on the bed. We didn't even get under the blanket!

fawn

buzzsaw

jelly bean

[aTOMiC]

My friend's 1961 Impala was painted Fawn-beige. Cutting wood at the lumberyard with the buzzsaw is simply awesome. Some people think that a jelly bean can unlock the secrets of the universe.


control

anterior

mucus

[Linna Heartbooger]

She tried to control her breathing so that the riding-beast would not grow any more agitated. It was all she could do to keep the domesticated giraffe from turning its anterior to the threat and speeding away. She fixed her eyes on the mucus shimmering on the sides of the giant slug and took another deep breath.

confrontational
botulism
absent

[aTOMiC]

"I don't mean to be confrontational but the enormous amount of botulism I found in the top drawer of your dresser makes me think I will be absent from your birthday party this afternoon."

[Linna Heartbooger]

"I don't mean to be confrontational but the enormous amount of botulism..."

I actually thought this was going to be about an enormous amount of botulism on this thread...

Give us three words!

[aTOMiC]

"I don't mean to be confrontational but the enormous amount of botulism..."

I actually thought this was going to be about an enormous amount of botulism on this thread...

Give us three words!

What the heck happened to my three words?

They were supposed to be nasal, leakage, suction!

[Linna Heartbooger]

"These letters both start with a nasal consonant, and have this tone," she intoned. I nodded, then looked over at my desk-partner, whose attention was only given to the slow leakage producing two dark spots on the underarms of our teacher's green dress. I rolled my eyes, then proceeded to pop and re-attach the suction cup on the window beside me.

directed
rock
tattered

[aTOMiC]

The tattered letters etched into the rock formation directed me to the hidden cave that contained the infamous lost socks of Dryer sheet Junction.

prescience

cerulean

damnation

[deer of the dawn]

Prescience overcame her trepidation. She steered the flyer into the cerulean depths, escaping gravity. Damnation was left behind, redemption was ahead.

Scarlet

Orlon

pneumopod

[aTOMiC]

The words "Scarlet, Orlon and pneumopod" were etched into the wooden casket which confounded the archaeologists who had discovered the box hidden the tomb's final antechamber.


Cowboy

Coward

Cowabunga

[Linna Heartbooger]

"Why do you always have to be such a cowboy?" she muttered to herself under her breath. She prepared for takeoff while trying not to silently condemn her quaking co-pilot to "pathetic coward." Feeling pity, she turned to her and said, "I think this is where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles go, 'Cowabunga, Dude!' "


adobe
recondite
acceptable

[aTOMiC]

Marvin closed his eyes, the words had been uttered in their proper sequence "adobe, recondite, acceptable" and with the trigger pulled Marvin's sense of self instantly bled away and was replaced with that of a stone cold, merciless assassin that was now compelled by forces he could not control to break into Southerland Castle and kill the beloved King, Kong of Nintendo.


Crush

Kill

Destroy

[Sorus]

"I could crush you with my bare hands," Bob lied.
"Would it kill you to be nice? No one will be able to play croquet if you destroy the field again."


Write
Right
Rite

[Linna Heartbooger]

To pick up the blade would be to write the warrant for my own arrest. So I guided my dun mare right over its haft at a trot - no need to pretend I didn't see it. Posing these strange and exasperating choices must be some sort of a rite of passage that came with the territory.

wall-eyed
disparate
chuck

[deer of the dawn]

Marvin closed his eyes, the words had been uttered in their proper sequence "adobe, recondite, acceptable" and with the trigger pulled Marvin's sense of self instantly bled away and was replaced with that of a stone cold, merciless assassin that was now compelled by forces he could not control to break into Southerland Castle and kill the beloved King, Kong of Nintendo.


Crush

Kill

Destroy

Just to remind us... the "Rules" of this game state that each word must be contained in its own sentence. For example:

She had such a crush on her neighbor! Her friends know that it would kill her to find out he was batting for the other team. But when they tried to let her down easy, she destroyed their gentle hints with her naive exuberance.

[aTOMiC]

The wall-eyed are not to be taken lightly.
Disparate is a word I will probably not use in a sentance again today.
I'd like to chuck this whole day and try again tomorrow.


gravy

mashed

potatoes

[Cord Hurn]

It turned out that emigrating to this new land didn't guarantee Hami a gravy job in a nice neighborhood.
Startled by this unsettling discovery, she felt her ladder to success had been mashed down to a tiny stepstool.
And now there were no employment opportunities around except to be hired to pick potatoes.

chronometer
lectern
briny

[aTOMiC]

The chronometer i have resting on my bedside table is correct twice a day.
Not using the word lectern in a sentence would disqualify me from this thread.
The briny deep is an oft used phrase in nautical themed works of creativity.


surveyor
azimuth
bearing