Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: guides
IPA transcription: [ɡ'aɪdz]
Usage examples
  • "Tell them to put it upon the guides."
  • My interest was first roused by talk among our guides.
  • Tell them now--send them my message--to put it upon the guides.
  • In primitive society instinct and appetite must generally have been safe guides.
  • There'd be a leak, with all the guides and others here, and we can't afford that.
  • Tools are portions of matter, such as bone, wood, iron, which man guides and directs in applying his energy to things.
  • In the bee, the will is constant and uniform, because the instinct which guides it is invariable, and constitutes the animal's whole life and nature.
  • In like manner the speaker has certain instruments and tools at his command by which he builds his argument, plays on the feelings, and guides the beliefs of his audience.
  • Somehow, he got his hand on a gun, though only guides were supposed to touch them, managed to overcome its safety devices, and then pulled the trigger with the gun pointed the wrong way.
  • The eldest fought with distinction throughout the Indian Mutiny and in the defence of Lucknow, and another commanded the crack cavalry regiment, the "Guides," at Peshawar, and fell fighting in one of the turbulent North of India wars.