Applying
Both words in one sentence
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Dan Spivey tended to degenerate into maniacal laughter when applying his sleeper hold.
Source: Laughing Mad - The strictness that was their halmark was partly due to the nuns applying the same standards to their students that nuns were expected to hold themselves to, and also partly because Catholic schools both then and now were occasionally used as reform schools for problem children.
Source: Stern Nun - In a very rare example of this applying to enemies, the tall enemies that throw boulders in the inverted castle's underground cave have the rock included in their hitbox when they hold it, but no invincibility frames.
Source: Mercy Invincibility
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