(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
(n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most defendants in multimillion-euro fraud cases turn up to court ashen-faced and sullen-looking.
(2) In the ashen aftermath of war, it is impossible to imagine what this place looked like before, or what really happened here.
(3) Of the 33 symptom complex patients, 5 had Atropine, most of whose heart rates returned to normal after 2 seconds to 2 minutes, as did their dizziness, perspiration, and ashen coloring.
(4) Having spent more than £1bn they do not expect to be at Wembley ashen-faced, watching a limp defeat in front of a global audience.
(5) Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt walk into the green room, looking ashen.
(6) The murine dilute suppressor gene, dsu, was previously shown to suppress the dilute coat color phenotypes of mice homozygous for the dilute (d), leaden (ln), and ashen (ash) mutations.
(7) On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
(8) The last time Alan Pardew faced Sunderland he ended the afternoon ashen-faced and speaking of deep hurt.
(9) The bit I love was David Beckham afterwards, he was sort of ashen-faced, and he said: ‘I don’t mind people lying to me, but lying to the future King of England?
(10) The French president, who travelled to Nice with the prime minister, Manuel Valls, after delivering an ashen-faced TV address at 4am from the presidential palace, was under pressure to explain what concrete measures he had taken since the Paris attacks in November to crack down on the threat of terrorism.
(11) This goes on for several minutes until, finally, Eldar, ashen, tight-lipped, excuses himself, pulls his microphone from his shirt, and exits the studio.
(12) As Melancholia's star Dunst looked on ashen-faced – at one point attempting to halt his flow with a restraining arm on his shoulder – he said: "I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew ... Then it turned out that I was not a Jew ...
(13) Antin said an ashen-faced and “visibly shaken” O’Reilly rushed down a nearby alleyway with a secondary cameraman to film replacement shots, which were to be broadcast later as if live.
(14) A s the survivors of Australia 's bushfires began to emerge from the ashen landscape, so too did the stories .
(15) In Tatton, Cheshire, an ashen-faced George Osborne is shown on TV conceding defeat.
(16) Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel look fairly distraught, while Brendan Rodgers is ashen-faced on the sideline.
(17) It wasn’t hard to imagine the ashen-faced Sir Humphreys praising his “courageous” suggestions.
(18) All of France is under threat from Islamist terrorism,” said an ashen-faced Hollande in a televised address from the presidential palace just before 4am, hours after a driver ploughed a lorry at high speed into a crowd gathered on the Nice seafront to watch the Bastille Day fireworks.
(19) Some pigment is often present in the mandibles and the mature feathers display an ashen cast.
(20) Their ashen faces told of the real disaster hitting Japan.
Bloodless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
(a.) Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
(a.) Without spirit or activity.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2 The use of labetalol intravenously produced hypotension and a bloodless operating field in patients undergoing plastic surgery and in those undergoing radical surgery for the removal of carcinoma.
(2) It is then suggested that this method bloodless drainage may be successfully carried out in cases of accidental lesion of the oesophagus without perforation of parietal pleura, caused by peroral endoscopic manoeuvres or dilatation of oesophageal anatomical and functional strictures.
(3) With careful refinements in the pump oxygenator and a nonblood prime, bloodless open heart surgery may be performed almost routinely.
(4) The suture described is simple, easy, quick, bloodless, anchored to three points in the cervical musculature and is passed deep to the cervical blood vessels.
(5) Always performed under local anesthetic with a practically bloodless field, this surgery never induced any general complication.
(6) Canine gastroduodenopancreatic blocks were isolated and perfused ex vivo with oxygenated bloodless fluorocarbon emulsion.
(7) The studies were carried out under the conditions of acute and chronic experiment as the arteria pressure was recorded by blood and bloodless method.
(8) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(9) Endotoxin induced large increases in pulmonary artery pressure, pulmonary vascular resistance, alveolar-arterial O2 gradient, alveolar dead-space ventilation, postmortem gravimetric lung weight of bloodless lung, albumin and total protein concentrations in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, and the number of neutrophils recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.
(10) Our results demonstrate that bloodless cardiac surgery on bypass is feasible in children as shown in this special group of children of Jehovah's Witnesses.
(11) Red storm Lucas’s films have always been rather bloodless.
(12) There appears to be no evidence supporting the idea that bloodless hypothermic perfusion permanently damages human kidneys or increases the chances of rejection.
(13) The carbon dioxide laser facilitates resection by providing a bloodless field, and reduces the possibility of viral seeding of the conjunctiva by sterilizing the operative site and sealing the lymphatics.
(14) As an aid to accomplishing a safe and bloodless dissection, these vessels have been described--the deep inferior epigastric vein, the iliopubic vein, the rectusial vein, the retropubic vein and the communicating rectusio-epigastric vein, and their relationship into a venous circle.
(15) We developed a novel method which enables bloodless exposure of the levator veli palatini muscle in rat in order to investigate the physiological properties of this muscle.
(16) Performance of a vascular anastomosis or repair requires meticulous, gentle technique and a bloodless operative field.
(17) From these results two equations were derived, one for each of the upper and lower limbs, which give the minimum tourniquet pressures to produce bloodless fields.
(18) Deaths from uncontrollable hemorrhage might be prevented by arresting the circulation under protective hypothermia to allow resuscitative surgery to repair these injuries in a bloodless field.
(19) The concentration of cefotiam (CTM) in the serum and the bloodless lung with time is discussed.
(20) The use of a bloodless solution and high pressure to accelerate microporous membrane oxygenator (MMO) failure was investigated.