Because prices of food and clothing and almost everything else in that country have steadily gone up, the buying of the dollar has gone down.
. Don’t _______ your breath trying to persuade them; they’ll never listen.
If you lend me a pound, it will _____ me having to go to the bank.
I missed what was happening because I wasn’t ______ very closely.
She went to the station to meet her husband, but _____ him in the crowd.
It’s hard to rescue drowning people because they _____ so much.