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Adore


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
  • (v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
  • (v. t.) To adorn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
  • (2) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
  • (3) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
  • (4) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
  • (5) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
  • (6) I adore them all, from the grand level of chaining yourself to a building to the less high-maintenance, where you can pop home for your tea.
  • (7) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (8) Her family said Boden was “loved and adored by her family, friends and boyfriend”.
  • (9) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
  • (10) Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
  • (11) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
  • (12) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
  • (13) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
  • (14) The digestive system of the Ophryoscolescides includes different parts : the adoral ciliary zone, the cytostome, the oesophagus, the endoplasm, the rectum and the anus.
  • (15) How would you describe a person with an adoring sister and admiring father creating a child despised by father and siblings?
  • (16) While his political allegiances led to the ransacking of his office in 1965, following the coup d'etat the year before that brought the military to power under General Castelo Branco, Niemeyer remained a well known and popular figure among ordinary Brazilians, to whom he was always "Oscar", and evidently adored, although younger generations of Brazilian architects have inevitably felt hidden in his shadow.
  • (17) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
  • (18) Babyhood lasts for so little time that I am happy to take the route nature intended and feed my children without using formula and the look of adoration from your baby is worth it.
  • (19) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (20) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.

Afore


Definition:

  • (adv.) Before.
  • (adv.) In the fore part of a vessel.
  • (prep.) Before (in all its senses).
  • (prep.) Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
  • (2) To determine if androgens antagonize the changes in cortical bone after gonadectomy, we treated orchiectomized (ORX) rats with testosterone (T) and 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT), and ovariectomized (OVX) rats with the afore-mentioned androgens, as well as the synthetic androgen fluoxymesterone (Fl) and the nonsteroidal estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES).
  • (3) Immediate and late results of therapeutic draining of the pyo-inflammatory foci in the uterine tubes, monitored by the afore-said methods, are analyzed.
  • (4) 122 male AMI patients and their partners completed a questionnaire for the purpose of judging the afore-mentioned characteristics in the AMI patients.
  • (5) Clinical variants of the fragment site and the aggravating factors were defined, as were the informative value of each of the afore-said methods for each of these clinical variants.
  • (6) The discovered bones are, as a common feature of this locality Basta, strongly sintered--indication on the afore mentioned reactivity of the aride soil as well.
  • (7) After 12-14 hours fast and prior anaesthesia with sodium pentobarbital intraperitoneally, blood and the afore-mentioned organs were removed for enzymatic study of the serum and the organs after homogenization and centrifugation.
  • (8) Acute phase reactants such as plasma fibrinogen and alpha 1 antitrypsin were changed to a much lesser extent in the initial stages of peripheral arterial disease, and the afore mentioned antiprotease increased significantly only in stage IV.
  • (9) In this presentation the attempt is made to transfer the afore-mentioned concept of normality to the situation in later periods of life.
  • (10) Toxic effects of the afore-mentioned heavy metals at the tissue level have been discussed.
  • (11) The afore said methods of investigation appear very useful in the diagnostic and therapeutic management of such patients.
  • (12) Values of the afore-mentioned parameters of 34 chemicals compared to a standard are presented for 3 insect species: red cockroaches, house flies and bed-bugs.
  • (13) Subsequent autopsy revealed the development of chylothorax and chylopericardium due to the existence of a thrombus obstructing the ostium of the left thoracic duct, as a consequence of the particular location of a central venous catheter in the left subclavian vein in the proximity of the confluence of the left thoracic duct in the afore-mentioned vein.
  • (14) The cognitive structural developmental model, the relation between emotional and cognitive development and the afore-mentioned variables are discussed.
  • (15) The staining pattern of the cultures with the afore mentioned markers was not affected by the growth factor treatment.
  • (16) When such a preparation is obtained from bladders which had been preexposed to serosal fluids containing the tritiated form of 4,4'-diisothiocyano-2,2'-disulfonic stilbene, the subsequently isolated membrane proteins are enriched in tritium as well as in the afore-mentioned enzymes, none of which is inhibited.
  • (17) These results allow us to confirm that there is not an eventual thyroid function alteration during complicated diabetes as opposed to the afore-mentioned increase of the extra-thyroid factors.
  • (18) This fact necessitates development of methodologic approaches to chronotherapy of the afore-said disorders.
  • (19) In this review the authors summarize the main clinical indications of the afore said methods specifically in the field of the neurological disorders.
  • (20) Anyone who catches this bug is compelled to visit County Clare in search of proof that real life in this quiet backwater is hilariously similar to the afore-not-mentioned series in all its crackpot, rustic eccentricity.

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