When we're discussing the project timeline, don't touch that dial — we need everyone's full attention.

At the family reunion, a few guests snickered at the faces that only a mother could love, but she laughed off the remarks and hugged each child tenderly.

At the reunion, she reflected on the ties that bind her to her childhood friends.

Their years organizing community cleanups became the tie that binds them, even after they moved to different cities.

If you expect to finish the project with only a rough outline, that and a nickel will get you on the subway, but it won't secure any investors.

He keeps bragging that his contacts will get him in, but that and a nickel will buy you a cup of coffee.

If you think that and a token will get you on the subway, you clearly haven't checked the fares.

At the masquerade, there were faces that would stop clocks, each one more eccentric than the last.

When his friends dared him to text his ex, he realized he would not want to do that the next morning.

By biting the hand that feeds one, she risked alienating the very colleagues who helped her career.