(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.
Earthen
Definition:
(a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The find is a few miles from Bredon hill, which has been a scene of human activity down the ages and still boasts the earthen ramparts of an iron age hill fort.
(2) Uranium tailings piles are generally rehabilitated by covering them with a number of layers of earthen materials.
(3) They were beaten before being shot dead, their bodies buried in an earthen dam, and their car set on fire.
(4) The rate of 222Rn gas transport through earthen materials controls 222Rn releases to the atmosphere and to indoor environments.
(5) Ironically, another UN body – Unesco – listed earthen architecture as a world treasure a decade ago.
(6) Samples of groundwater and soil were collected from test pits placed 25 m intervals on five axes extending from an earthen waste disposal pit for produced water near the San Juan River of northwest New Mexico.
(7) Djinguereber mosque, in common with most buildings in city-centre Timbuktu, is constructed in mud brick; more elegantly known as “earthen architecture”.
(8) Monumental structures were built in the form of terraced platforms, ranging from the earthen mounds of Cahokia in the Mississippi Valley near St Louis to the stone-faced Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacan and the monumental adobe structures on the Peruvian coast, such as the Pyramid of the Sun in the Moche Valley.
(9) When the men were released that night, Klansmen – organised by Edgar Ray Killen – followed them, murdered them and buried them in a nearby earthen dam.
(10) A system of johads , earthen dams that hold water and allow it to percolate down replenishing the aquifer, had once allowed the region to stay green despite minimal rainfall.
(11) Regarding the analysis of correlations between the concentrations and construction materials, radon concentrations were generally high in Japanese houses with earthen walls and in concrete structures.
(12) albopictus were commonly found in earthen ware jars, tin cans, ant traps, rubber tires, bowls, and drums; ant traps were the most common indoor habitat and tin cans were most common outdoors.The majority of Ae.
(13) Results obtained from pilot studies and the operation of a plant scale treatment facility located at the Williamson Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant at Austin, Texas, demonstrate that culture of the water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes in shallow earthen basins is effective in the removal of algae, fecal coliform bacteria dn deleterious impurities from wastewater stabilization pond effluent.
(14) It is not just nature that he replicates: there are abstract artworks made of clay, geometrical models, a statue of a child hugging a donkey, and what seems to be the face of Jesus Christ emerging from a chaotic, earthen swirl.
(15) The jury, three of whom were black, convicted Killen on Tuesday on three counts of felony manslaughter, finding that he organised a posse to kidnap, beat and shoot Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney and bulldoze their bodies under an earthen dam.
(16) Whole grain flour of one variety (HC-4) of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum L. Leeke) after giving different treatments (defatting, butylated hydroxyanisole, ascorbic acid and thermal) was stored in earthen pots at prevailing room temperature (28-34 degrees C) and relative humidity (70-80%) for 30 days.
(17) Milne said that Trump’s threat to build a wall along the US-Mexico border had special resonance in Aberdeenshire; Trump’s staff surrounded his home with a six-metre high earthen wall and then rows of trees, blocking his house from being seen from the course.
(18) Yesterday, fewer than 100 metres from the earthen pile, a khaki traffic jam of British Warrior armoured cars sweated oil in the still mid-afternoon heat.
(19) Studies on the changes occurring in the microflora at the time of 45-day ripening and 4-month storage of cheese produced in pitchers (earthen jugs) were performed.
(20) In recent decades the pushing back of the dates for the various phases of Stonehenge's construction, together with extensive new evidence from digs at the nearby massive earthen henge at Durrington Walls, have contributed to a different sort of a narrative; and there's general archaeological consensus that this entire part of Wiltshire, from the huge earthworks at Avebury and Silbury Hill, stretching down the Avon to Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, and taking in the strange features known as the cursus and the Stonehenge Avenue (parallel earthwork ridges running for several kilometres) as well as scores of barrows (or burial mounds) constituted an integrated "sacred landscape".