A small plane flying over the beach ________________________(e)d advertising flyers to the sunbathers below until beach police objected to the litter.

After breaking her hip, Mrs. Murphy was ____________________________, but she became morehopeful and cheerful when she was discharged from the hospital.

It will be many years before I can afford to travel much, but in the meantime, I get_______________________ pleasure from hearing about my friends’ exciting vacations.

In __________________________, Tim believes his marriage to Lily could have been saved. Butat the time, he was convinced that they should split up.

McDonald’s is certainly a(n) ________________________ restaurant chain. It’s almost impossibleto find a city that doesn’t contain a set of the “golden arches.”

While your natural instinct may tell you to resist, you will be safer if you just ________________________your valuables to a mugger.

Anita is ________________________ about not wasting her employer’s time. Although she uses acomputer all day, she never sends personal email or checks social media until she gets home.

The instructor was struggling to answer the student’s ________________________question, so she elicited further information to better understand the situation.

In many cultures, ______________________ is neither an acceptable nor honorable cause of death.

Anyone with even a(n) ___________________________ understanding of electricity knows it’s nota good idea to use a metal fork to take a piece of toast from the toaster.