Emily had known Jill for so long that she could afford to astound her with her opinions. Jill was the ideally astoundable friend—she got astounded, but she stood her ground.

Females of the romaleid grasshopper Romalea guttata generate a defensive secretion in glands surrounding the metathoracic tracheal trunks and the secretion is stored in the tracheal lumina.

The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.

The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.