Sparks flew as the broadsword mated with the dagger and swept it aside as if it were no more than a feather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Fearless]

Rescue Orbiter resumes control in ALT to maneuver stack to long-term mated gravity gradient / Torque Equilibrium Attitude (TEA). ".    From Wordnik.com.  [NASASpaceFlight.com] Reference

Joel Burns was 'mated' as well as 'married;' and when his wife died, he did not really lose her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Another proposal I read, decades ago, would have "mated" clips to weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

The 200 highest-scoring genomes were then randomly "mated" and mutated to produce a new generation of programming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aftermath News] Reference

Stiehl tells the story of how one of his clients manufactured products that "mated" with another company's products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

This is where the orbiter will be "mated" with the solid rocket boosters and the external tank on its final stop before the launch pad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

I sure hope you mean "mated", as in getting a pal to play with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

They looked like best buddies or maybe a mated pair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wayne Pacelle: A Beautiful Mind: Exploring the Emotional Lives of Animals] Reference

But all Jake had was sea poup, which Runny mated host.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shel Silverstein's 'Runny Babbit' Tales] Reference

Tennessee, and mated her to a young horse named Tom Hal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

"The game is over -- you have given me check, and mated me!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

The soul of an artist, mated with the existence of a serf!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

Both engines are mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video: 2011 Ford Edge] Reference

Councillors check-mated the Governor's order by arresting the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Madras] Reference

It is a more serious matter when they are not naturally mated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

Both engines will be mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pricing: 2011 Buick Regal] Reference

So far as I knew to the contrary, my only child was mated to a felon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

The mocking-birds have mated and begun the construction of their nests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

His meagre physical means and his fervent spirit were pathetically ill-mated.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference

In chess, there are more ways of resigning a game before you get actually mated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lubomir Kavalek: Steinitz's Immortal Chess Game] Reference

Moya conned us in like a dream, paralleled, rectified, grappled, and mated locks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Attrition] Reference

Most marriages were unhappy because the contracting parties were not properly mated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

It will be mated to a choice of a paddle-shifted CVT or a six-speed manual transmission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzuki unveils Kizashi midsized sedan] Reference

How friendly they were, how well-mated they appeared to be, how appreciative of each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

A man, however, may be married and not mated, and consequently reap trouble and unhappiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

How chatty and cheery a pair of newly mated birds appear, in counsel over their nest-building!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference

Both engines are mated to a seven-speed automatic transmission and configured as rear-wheel drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class coupe] Reference

Our 550i GT had the 400-hp twin-turbo V8 mated to an eight-speed automatic — a spectacular combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the wheel: BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo - A hatchback for the jet set] Reference

A second group of normal-sized females was fed a healthy diet before being mated with similarly sized males.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble] Reference

 The front - or all-wheel-drive Crosstour will come only with a 271-hp, 3. 5-liter V6 mated to a five-speed automatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Impression: 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour] Reference

It is a serious matter for two persons, even when they are naturally mated, to undertake to live together in peace and harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

The covies heard it and mated in the fields; the quail wooed his love in the wheat; the robin whistled to his love in the glen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

It is the drug cartels 'new global reach that, when mated with the post-communist world economy, has bred the new organized crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Mafia] Reference

The zoo hosted several mated pairs, and gibbon couples yodel formal songs complete with overture, codas, interludes, duets and solos.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’] Reference