(1) It is by no means a total success artistically but it has enough tension, feeling and originality of theme and speech to make the choice understandable, and the evening must have given to anyone who has wrestled with the mechanics of play-making an uneasy and yet not wasted jaunt, just as it must have awoken echoes in anyone one who has not forgotten the frustrations of youth.
(2) No effect was apparent, when subjects were awoken during the first hours of sleep, which is known to be a quiescent period of adrenocorticotropic activity.
(3) At 7am, the president was awoken and told that two units of the navy had rebelled at Valparaiso, controlling two of the country's three cruisers.
(4) Dreams can occur during all sleep stages but the most vivid dreams tend to be reported when people are awoken from REM sleep.
(5) One older son, Faizullah, recalled being awoken by someone telling him there had been a shooting at his father's compound.
(6) Transitory eye pain occurred during sleep in a 62 year-old patient, who complained of being often awoken during the second half of the night.
(7) Drilling on a small scale has already given rise to small earth tremors – people in the village of Singleton, Lancashire, were awoken by small earthquakes in April and May 2011, caused by fracking by Cuadrilla.
(8) She was awoken by an alert call from the Environment Agency at 6.30am, warning of severe flooding in the area of her home, which is a mile from the coast.
(9) A neighbour in the village of Seaton, awoken by a suspicious noise, saw the car disappearing down the street.
(10) 2.22pm GMT 20 mins City have awoken from that the daze heaped upon them by Borini’s punch on the nose and look to have recovered their nerve.
(11) Modernisation now looks like a brief nightmare from which a relieved party has awoken, and most elements of the Tory agenda seem to have been signed off by their campaigning guru Lynton Crosby .
(12) Early on Monday, Thiele had awoken to shouts and felt his fourth-storey corner office swaying.
(13) It would put the existing architecture into a kind of zero-price “sleeping beauty style” hibernation, with the independent Climate Change Authority getting a last-minute stay of execution so it can advise on when it should be re-awoken.
(14) Buffon came for a corner with all the effectiveness of a suddenly awoken man groping in the dark for his dressing gown.
(15) Sewell reveals that when he went to pick up his US co-conspirator from his hotel, Mendez was still asleep and had to be awoken with a phone call.
(16) Riding crops Because … This crisis has not only tainted millions of low-grade, meat-based ready meal experiences and potentially become a danger to public health, it has awoken one of the most important and volatile pressure groups in the country – the half-arsed Photoshopping community.
(17) But his parents had relatives in France; and so the two children, at the age of 11, were awoken in the middle of the night and bundled into a car for hope of a better life.
(18) The drilling fight has awoken this normally laconic city of roughly 125,000 inhabitants 40 miles north of Dallas.
(19) Then Matt Holliday laces a double into the gap in right-center field, and the Cards bats have awoken in the third.
(20) Rolling Stone described her new studio album, Soldier of Love, as "unimpeachably excellent" while Billboard said: "It's been 10 years since Sade released an album, but be forewarned – the giant has awoken."
Dash
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
(v. t.) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin.
(v. t.) To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress.
(v. t.) To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture.
(v. t.) To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.
(v. t.) To erase by a stroke; to strike out; knock out; -- with out; as, to dash out a word.
(v. i.) To rust with violence; to move impetuously; to strike violently; as, the waves dash upon rocks.
(n.) Violent striking together of two bodies; collision; crash.
(n.) A sudden check; abashment; frustration; ruin; as, his hopes received a dash.
(n.) A slight admixture, infusion, or adulteration; a partial overspreading; as, wine with a dash of water; red with a dash of purple.
(n.) A rapid movement, esp. one of short duration; a quick stroke or blow; a sudden onset or rush; as, a bold dash at the enemy; a dash of rain.
(n.) Energy in style or action; animation; spirit.
(n.) A vain show; a blustering parade; a flourish; as, to make or cut a great dash.
(n.) A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis.
(n.) The sign of staccato, a small mark [/] denoting that the note over which it is placed is to be performed in a short, distinct manner.
(n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone.
(n.) A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually, when the noise died down, the pair made a dash for it, taking refuge in a nearby restaurant for the rest of the night.
(2) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
(3) Play Video 6:52 Prime minister Theresa May calls general election for 8 June – full video statement If May wins a large Commons majority, the lingering hope that Britain will change its mind will be dashed.
(4) The UK government's plan to push Europe to deeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions has been dashed by the EU's energy chief.
(5) These kind of occasions have been arranged to add a dash of colour to what has been, for England, a grey Euro 2016 qualifying process.
(6) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(7) Even then, there remains concern about how strictly changes will be enforced amid the dash to complete the unprecedented “nation building” programme given the fixed deadline of the 2022 World Cup.
(8) for boys with the CAHPER tests were: sit-ups .42, broad jump .69, shuttle run .50, arm hang .43, 50-yard dash .60, 300-yard run .65; for girls the r values were about half the values for the boys.
(9) There are so many coaches in this world who want to work but can’t and there are those dashing blades who, through their quality and prestige, could work but don’t want to, because life as a parasite fulfils them professionally and economically.
(10) He has broken four Guinness world records, most of them for speed–mad 100-metre dashes across dizzyingly high wires, and frequently appears on Chinese television.
(11) Leftist Israelis condemn him for masterminding that 1982 invasion and for dashing peace hopes as a minister in the 1990s.
(12) We desperately looked for medical help – dashing around Harley Street and goodness knows where.
(13) The warning, in a report by the energy regulator, Ofgem , could embolden the government to trigger an early "dash for gas" which critics fear would mean higher carbon pollution for decades to come.
(14) Yet her hopes may be dashed: although she is pregnant with her first child, she lives with her husband's 16-year-old daughter from a previous marriage, and family planning officials may consider the teenager her own.
(15) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(16) As for the competition … England: Vauxhall Astra Familiar but unexciting, a bit middle-of-the road and somehow lacking the dash of its foreign competitors Belgium: Nissan Leaf Undoubtedly one to watch for in the future, but no one quite trusts it just yet.
(17) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
(18) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
(19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
(20) But I don’t think [Lords chief whip] Ben Stoneham is going to be very accommodating to anyone.” Brexit weekly briefing: article 50 moves closer but EU dashes divorce deal hopes Read more Labour has promised no “extended ping pong” as it does not want to frustrate the timetable for triggering article 50, but it has laid eight amendments on issues from EU nationals to quarterly reporting to parliament about the Brexit process.