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WALK IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enter by walking
Example:
She walks in at all hours, as if she lived here
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "walk in" is one way to...):
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
walk-in (person who walks in without having an appointment)
Context examples:
She proposed a walk in the grounds.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Last Thursday (May 7th), I, my niece, and your two brothers, went to walk in Plainpalais.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
One day they went to walk in the wood, that they might be alone; and Jorindel said, “We must take care that we don’t go too near to the fairy’s castle.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She absented herself as little as possible from Lady Bertram, kept away from the East room, and took no solitary walk in the shrubbery, in her caution to avoid any sudden attack.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
What have I done to deserve such a fate, I who have tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my days.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I could see the windows of this part of the house.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Charles Musgrove, indeed, afterwards, shewed more of inclination; the child was going on so well, and he wished so much to be introduced to Captain Wentworth, that, perhaps, he might join them in the evening; he would not dine from home, but he might walk in for half an hour.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
We are all familiar with the feeling of relaxation and 'switching-off' which comes from a walk in the countryside, and now we have evidence from the brain and the body which helps us understand this effect.
(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He had to eat as he had never eaten before, to handle strange tools, to glance surreptitiously about and learn how to accomplish each new thing, to receive the flood of impressions that was pouring in upon him and being mentally annotated and classified; to be conscious of a yearning for her that perturbed him in the form of a dull, aching restlessness; to feel the prod of desire to win to the walk in life whereon she trod, and to have his mind ever and again straying off in speculation and vague plans of how to reach to her.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was impatient for the short walk in the interval, that Agnes might praise Dora to me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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