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How to use rely on in a sentence

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Those lucky to own a horse were able to travel much better and faster than those who had to rely on mail coaches.
Forced to rely on their own resources, they sallied out of the city walls and routed Rory's army.
It is well known that speakers rely on prosodic and gestural features at the time of producing and understanding verbal irony.
Instead, waiters, waitresses and every other person who used to have to rely on tips to live were given a decent wage.
The majority of studies rely on survey research alone and there appears to be little qualitative work.
Do not rely on them for landing that assistant professor job, or anything else in academia.
At provincial level both associations rely on local accommodations to prevent fixture clashes in dual counties.
The chances are, in rural areas you will not have mains water and rely on a well or spring with a pump to supply water to the house.
A couple of years ago you could always rely on a lorry driver to give way and allow you to pass.
We rely on our muscles to walk, lift objects and climb stairs. However, in space muscles become weaker when there is no gravity to overcome.
It was a mark of the Scottish Executive's desperation to get off the Holyrood hook that the First Minister had to rely on fiscal jiggery-pokery.
We sing jingles, eat media recommended food and rely on the media to communicate with our dear ones.
Whatever they did, they did it well, for they could rely on a good education and on the self-assurance common to well-born individuals.
Unions often rely on volunteers to administrate, thereby keeping costs at a minimum.
Here I rely on Chun, who is somewhat more advantageously positioned to participate in this debate, to provide the critique.
Shame he seems to have to rely on wheedlingly bland ballads to keep him on the radio though.
His report is not helpful and given the shortcomings already adverted to, I prefer to rely on the evidence.
To rely on a phone call from California when so many lives are at stake is not enough.
Through her experiences, the main character realises that when all is said and done, she can only rely on herself.
Although they have two small eyes, whip scorpions rely on their first pair of legs to help feel their way around.
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