Verb (used with object) : They finally succeeded in collaring the unwilling dog. ,We collared the little fellow and brought him, struggling all the while, into the house. ,The reporters collared the witness for an hour. From Dictionary.com.
Gilbert Arenas watched in collared shirt and tie on the bench. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
The investor is said to have "collared" the shares, limiting potential gains as well as potential losses. From Wordnik.com. [Collar Fund Offers Low Risk, Low Reward] Reference
The photo is Colleen with an elk calf that they captured and "collared" as part of an ongoing survival study. From Wordnik.com. [Q&A, Colleen Shannon, Pa Land Management Officer] Reference
Jim, arriving just too late to save his own, promptly "collared" those of. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Bush Maid] Reference
"collared"; for no better term can express the action of the Corean policeman. From Wordnik.com. [Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm] Reference
Atherton collared the youth by the shoulder which Mr. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Brian, what does that mean to you - blue-collared soul?. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaslight Anthem: Songs For The Working Class] Reference
I collared the worm and watched it move across the wet pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Fiction with Teratoma Preserves] Reference
An ecological study of the collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris). From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
Those enzymes proved elusive, but one of them has now been collared. From Wordnik.com. [An Alzheimer's Advance] Reference
"You collared him, I guess you mean to say," spoke Tom with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
She looked like a military wife in leather shoes and a high-collared dress. From Wordnik.com. [A Final Mission] Reference
Lead singer Brian Fallon has described the band's sound as blue-collared soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaslight Anthem: Songs For The Working Class] Reference
But it cemented Koizumi's reputation as a maverick within the stiff-collared LDP. From Wordnik.com. [Looks Are Everything] Reference
A sergeant who came along, however, promptly collared the man and turned him out. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
He wore thick glasses and a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows. From Wordnik.com. [He Was From Minnesota] Reference
At that point, the program had collared about 70,000 people for secondary screenings. From Wordnik.com. [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference
People still use the word when they want to suggest high-collared Victorian rectitude. From Wordnik.com. [Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?] Reference
"But I guess you knows as well as I do that Broken Feather collared a whole heap of 'em?". From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
This is a factory bar, full of blue collared losers, and its only two in the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [So then she says] Reference
Nearing 50, he's still the consumer's open-collared champion, taking on the corporate suits. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Dreams] Reference
Does business casual mean neatly pressed pants and a collared shirt or cut offs and T-shirts?. From Wordnik.com. [What Not To Wear to Work] Reference
But what are some of the more creative ways in which we collared ones are taking care of ourselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth E. Evans: Clergy, Heal Thyselves] Reference
So the guimpe was brought, a lace guimpe with long, lace sleeves, and a high collared neck of lace. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
When the train arrives, a group of six women in baggy shorts and oversized collared polos enter the same car. From Wordnik.com. [After the brawl: Verbal assault on the train] Reference
He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Young, Gay and Murdered] Reference
I was too steeped in the life to be easily turned around by a starch-collared cleric and a couple of do-gooders. From Wordnik.com. [Makes Me Wanna Holler] Reference
The goal was to track her, and other collared tigers, to learn what size territory and how much food a tiger needs. From Wordnik.com. [The Militia Earns Its Stripes] Reference
The third wore a collared shirt and bow tie, her long black hair halfway down her back, complemented by size 3 jeans. From Wordnik.com. [t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference
Painted in 1893, the work depicts a rather staid image of the artist wearing a high-collared shirt and a plain black suit jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond 'The Scream'] Reference
Mike was wearing a leather vest, purple collared shirt, jeans, a crazily tied tie, and a sick guitar cloth hanging out of his back pocket. From Wordnik.com. [When Heartbreaker Mike Campbell met a young fan, he didn't just string him along] Reference
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