Although many grape vines have geographical names, those rarely reflect their real origin, if known at all.

The legend, like all army grapevine, got around to me.

The grapevine was that the reason for the school closure was to do with the fact that a lot of students from Bonda had absconded to go to war because Bonda was close to the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

The grapevine was that Saina believed that Gopichand was focussing more on PV Sindhu.·

I heard through the grapevine that Jim will be leaving soon.

I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.

The grapevine was so fast that sometimes news was circulated before it happened.

From the top he grapevined his leg around Tibbits' leg and planted his elbow in his opponent's opposite side.

The Low Mount is the position where your hips are tight to your opponent's and your legs are usually grapevined or locked underneath his.

So now she's grapevined me, I can't straighten my legs, which means I can't generate the momentum I need to bridge.

This results from the plug wires being grapevined around each other too closely.

I drove around town looking at the limp glitter of Christmas decorations grapevined around traffic lights which just blinked after a certain hour, even on a Friday night.

Balance on the back of the sit bones with the arms “grapevined” under the calves, with hands wrapping around to hold the ankles.

A matted beard tingled from his shin and grapevined all over the exposed parts of his body.

I grapevined my right arm around one of his legs, then flung myself backward to the ground, slamming the knife-wielding idiot into the ground, and my shoulders into the idiot.

Up on the stage, the dancers twirled and whirled in time to the music and then grapevined across the broad expanse and exited stage left.

The underwear-baker grapevined down the length of the display and grabbed a to-go box from the stack on top of it.

When the room grapevined left, I grapevined right, causing a head-on collision with the lady next to me.

The bridge is faced with rusticated stone and grapevined mortar joints, a trademark of WPA-built structures in southeast Colorado, and features beveled stone piers, corbeled copings and tapered voussoirs for the arches.

Generally the mortar line was “grapevined” (scored) and “penciled” (the score painted with a fine white line), which separated each brick.

For several years, as Mr. Watson's challenge gradually grapevined its way through the business world, many business groups asked Mr. Russell to speak at their directors' meetings and conventions.

But the story grapevined around to Marshal Petain.

Word of the fight grapevined fast, and from all the other bonus army camps reinforcements rushed in.

The doctor's orders were soon grapevined around the league, and all the bench jockeys on the circuit were quickly counting ten on every pitch Lefty made.

His flock had already grapevined the what and why.

It will not only be long remembered by the nine million Chinese on Formosa and the twelve and half million overseas Chinese, but will soon be grapevined to the Chinese mainland and whispered there from person to person among the hundreds of millions of Chinese who have been living and suffering for the last five years under Communist tyranny.

But with the Negro foster homes in Pasadena grapevined together, the circumstances of little Narva did not make anyone enthusiastic about taking her into their homes.

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