(interj. & adv.) Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
(n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(2) 1.35am GMT Email Resins Man bids us adieu: Well I was two innings too early.
(3) The Liverpool team coach snaked out of Goodison Road with police vans for an escort and irate Evertonians lining the route to bid it adieu.
(4) However, I have chosen today to bid adieu to this profession that I have loved so much.
(5) Vidic and Giggs were on the bench, alongside the 21-year-old defender, Michael Keane, while Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra were not in the 18, and so were maybe denied a last home adieu as each may depart this summer.
(6) His task was to get himself out of a hole of his own making on Britain’s potential exit from the European Union, woo back Tory voters attracted by Ukip and manage those of his increasingly militant backbenchers whose goal is to say adieu to EU membership.
(7) Cannes contenders Grace of Monaco (director Olivier Dahan, the opening night film); Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas); Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello); Kis Uykusu (Nuri Bilge Ceylan); Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne); Mommy (Xavier Dolan); Captives (Atom Egoyan); Adieu au Langage (Jean-Luc Godard); The Search (Michel Hazanavicius); The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones); Futatsume No Mado (Naomi Kawase); Mr Turner (Mike Leigh); Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach); Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller); Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher); Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako); Relatos Salvajes (Damian Szifron); Leviafan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
(8) The cover of Monday's influential news weekly Der Spiegel declares "Adieu Greece", arguing that it is time to kick the country out of the euro.
Aloha
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But the Hawaii-set romance Aloha , which features A-list stars Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams, opened during a month of traditionally stronger box office returns.
(2) Cameron Crowe has apologised for casting the white actor Emma Stone as a “part-Asian” Hawaiian in controversial “whitewashed” romance Aloha.
(3) A watchdog group once calculated that the Aloha state trips cost taxpayers $3.5m a pop – in airfare, security arrangements, communications and medical staff.
(4) So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.” Aloha review – inspiration overdose at the pixie-dust buffet Read more Aloha stars Bradley Cooper as a defence contractor who falls for Stone’s US Air Force pilot after being assigned to oversee the launch of a military satellite from Hawaii.
(5) Aloha review – inspiration overdose at the pixie-dust buffet Read more US box office chart, 5-8 June Spy – $30m, new San Andreas – $26.4m, $99m Insidious: Chapter 3 – $23m, new Entourage – $10.4m, new Mad Max: Fury Road – $7.9m, $130.8m Pitch Perfect 2 – $7.7m, $161m Tomorrowland – $7m, $76m Avengers: Age of Ultron – $6.2m, $483m Aloha – $3.3m, $16.3m Poltergeist – $2.8m, $44.4m
(6) In truth, I don’t really understand it because I don’t feel if people were sitting down to interview Bradley Cooper they’d be like ‘let’s talk about [his flops] Aloha and Burnt’, or if they were sitting down with Robert De Niro, ‘let’s talk about Dirty Grandpa’ – and that feels sort of different with me.
(7) Analysts are predicting that Aloha, opening against earthquake thriller San Andreas , could bring in $12m on its opening weekend, though the negative reviews could reduce takings.
(8) Aside from the option of deep-fried cheeseburger sushi – "I won't say it's the most delicious thing ever," says Hua – Yatta offers innovations such as the barbecue and pineapple Sweet Aloha Hawaiian roll and the opportunity for budding foodies to build their own sushi by selecting coloured sticks from the counter, each colour representing a different ingredient.
(9) But Cameron Crowe’s controversial, critically panned Aloha opened in sixth place with just $10m.
(10) While some have been quick to judge a movie they haven’t seen and a script they haven’t read, the film Aloha respectfully showcases the spirit and culture of the Hawaiian people,” it said last week.
(11) The bad buzz has been building for months and finally this week US critics were allowed to judge whether Cameron Crowe’s new film Aloha was worthy of a garland.
(12) Picoplankton from Atlantic Ocean (Hydrostation S, Sargasso Sea) and Pacific Ocean (Aloha Station) sites were collected in a three-stage process: (i) collection of seawater through an intake covered with 10-microns-pore Nytex; (ii) concentration by a tangential flow filtration device equipped with 10 ft2 (0.929 m2) of 0.1-micron-pore fluorocarbon membrane; (iii) collection of cells from concentrate by centrifugation.
(13) Oscar nominations 2016: The Revenant leads field, Mad Max in second place Read more In the last few years, there has been Emma Stone’s casting as an Asian-American in Aloha , and the all-white casts of Gods of Egypt, Exodus: Gods and Kings, and Noah.
(14) We believe the film will be around for many, many weeks to come.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The tale of a defence contractor who falls for a US air force pilot while working in Hawaii, Aloha has attracted criticism from campaigners who allege Crowe “whitewashed” the state’s Asian-Pacific islander population .
(15) The star attraction is Morgan’s Vintage Dance Hall (46 High Street) offering dance lessons from swing to samba and a Saturday night party with punters clad in 1940s gear, all two-tone shoes, A-line dresses and Aloha shirts.
(16) Same-sex couples are taking advantage of Hawaii's newfound aloha for gay weddings.
(17) Sinking to the bottom of the chart was Aloha, Cameron Crowe’s critically trashed romantic comedy about a defence contractor (Bradley Cooper) falling for a pilot (Emma Stone) while working in Hawaii .
(18) Cameron Crowe's new film Aloha accused of 'whitewashing' Hawaii Read more Producers of Aloha were doing their best to play up the film’s performance, despite its low opening chart position.
(19) Aloha opened at No 6 in the US box office chart with $10m at the weekend, on par with Cameron’s previous film, We Bought a Zoo, which went on to make $120m.