Swedish English Dictionary

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underbar in English:

1. wonderful wonderful


Wonderful!
Mary is really great. She cooked a wonderful meal for me and even washed the dishes herself.
A house that keeps out rain and dew and is impervious to heat and cold is a wonderful thing.
Wonderful was the fighting spirit of the Australian rugby team.
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
New Russians, you say? Wonderful! That's just what we need!
I know Andrina doesn't take things seriously, but she is a wonderful friend.
Tokyo was really wonderful and the welcome the Japanese extended to us was also just as wonderful.
People, like peacocks, will never tire of displaying to friends and potential mates just how wonderful they are.
It is wonderful to think of Spring, when the new buds of the persimmon burst forth.
What a fantastic idea, and what a wonderful way to learn more about Roman history!
Is it sometimes wonderful what doctors can do nowadays?
What a princess I'd feel like if I were able to go to Akasaka, have a wonderful meal and stay at a hotel.
My wonderful wife is so stingy that ... "You boasting? Or complaining?"
His boosterism makes it sound wonderful but I wonder if he understands how hard it's going to be to actually carry out.

English word "underbar"(wonderful) occurs in sets:

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2. great


Great, isn't it?
A great warrior radiates strength. He doesn't have to fight to the death.
Though the Incas built up a great civilization, they had no system of writing.
If it were not for great books, our lives would be much the poorer.
Most people have great disinclinations to get out of bed early, even if they have to.
The cones of the jack pine, for example, do not readily open to release their seeds until they have been subjected to great heat.
Wouldn't it be great if a gender-neutral pronoun for "he" or "she" existed in English?
This drawing is less than great. He needs to do something with the line here at the back of the leg.
We humans have a great way of twisting facts to fit our conclusion as soon as we have made one.
All great men are dead and I am not feeling too well myself.
By the 1750s, all the tribes of the Great Plains had horses.
The small country is making great efforts to keep up with other developing countries.
A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.
Being written in great haste, this letter has quite a few mistakes.
General Lee and the Confederate Army lost the great battle.

English word "underbar"(great) occurs in sets:

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