(n.) The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.
(n.) Any place of public contest or exertion; any sphere of action; as, the arenaof debate; the arena of life.
(n.) "Sand" or "gravel" in the kidneys.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(2) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(4) Arena's final April issue goes on sale next Thursday, 12 March.
(5) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(6) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
(7) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(8) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
(9) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
(10) Despite her own success in that arena arriving seemingly overnight, Debicki rarely sets foot in LA.
(11) The Senate refused to agree to this, but did agree to a $430m cut to the Arena budget.
(12) It followed the quiet death last month of Arena, which expired due to old age and lack of personality.
(13) Prince began ambushing fans in February this year, playing his first big shows since 1995 as he took over arenas in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Leeds as well as intimate venues in London and Manchester.
(14) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(15) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(16) They were crestfallen at the end, Van Buyten departing the arena close to tears with this surely the 36-year-old’s last involvement at a major finals.
(17) A retrospective evaluation of 136 newborns treated with mechanical ventilation between 1983 and 1989 at the chilean's southernmost regional hospital of Punta Arenas is presented.
(18) Bayern's director of sport, Matthias Sammer, had earlier played down reports suggesting that Thiago was heading to the Allianz Arena.
(19) As a result, the procedure, on ethical grounds, has a small place in the arena of family planning.
(20) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
Bullfight
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Bullfighting
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's like watching a bullfight," says one Conservative backbench pessimist.
(2) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
(3) Seen as an art form rather than a sport by fans, bullfighting is also popular in southern France and some South American countries.
(4) José Tomás, a bullfighter loved by artists and leftwing intellectuals, was the star of a bill that included Marín and Juan Mora.
(5) Eight bullfighters have reportedly also died after being gored here.
(6) The number of bullfights across the country has fallen 46% in five years, and many bull rearers are cutting their losses and sending their herds to the abattoir.
(7) The emir's offer to fund the project is a step forward but the plans are still in the initial phases, pending the sale of the bullfighting ring by the current owner and the approval of the city of Barcelona.
(8) They can call it sport, they can call it tradition, they can write about its beauty, its poetry and its intricacy, they can invoke Hemingway and write about skill and ritual; for me that day the bullfight was a celebration of cruelty, of mob rule, of death, of picking on something weaker then you and amusing yourself at its expense.
(9) The current president of Catalonia, for example, was born in Córdoba in the south of Spain, and came to Catalonia at 16, and yet he has been absorbed into Catalan national life and is considered Catalan, even though, since there was a free vote, he actually voted against the ban on bullfighting on Wednesday.
(10) Last night he and the other bullfighters were greeted with cries of "Liberty!
(11) The 3-0 scoreline was nowhere as bad as their capitulation a few days earlier but the sense of melancholy was enhanced by the eerie indifferent atmosphere in Brasília – the booing and the ironic bullfighting-like chants to salute the Dutch passing proficiency never really threatened to reach the levels heard in Belo Horizonte, a city that unlike the Brazilian capital actually has a football culture.
(12) World Peace Is None of Your Business: tracklisting World Peace is None of Your Business Neal Cassady Drops Dead Istanbul I’m Not a Man Earth Is the Loneliest Planet Staircase at the University The Bullfighter Dies Kiss Me a Lot Smiler With Knife Kick the Bride Down the Aisle Mountjoy Oboe Concerto
(13) The bullfighting referendum came as Spain looks poised to ask the EU to rescue its ailing banks.
(14) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(15) Thereafter, throughout his life, he craved the company of risk-takers – bullfighters or big-game hunters – and longed to be accepted by them.
(16) Deputies in the local parliament, they said, had voted it through purely because bullfighting was emblematic of Spain and they wanted to differentiate Catalonia from the rest of the country.
(17) As Escamillo the bullfighter indicates in his famous aria, this is a community who fight for pleasure.
(18) In the early 2000s, the city's then mayor, Joan Clos, studied the possibility of building a mosque in Las Arenas bullfighting ring.
(19) On Sunday evening, amid the cheers of fans and the bloody death throes of fighting bulls, Barcelona hosted its last-ever bullfight.
(20) Since the region's ban on bullfighting came into effect, several plans have been batted around for the imposing century-old neo- mudéjar building, including a street market, luxury flats and a green space.