(1) If the axeman cometh, then he does so with a cheery smile and a glint in his eye, a man who once said his favourite Star Trek character was The Borg, “an alien species which is very similar to the Whips’ office … a collective consciousness dedicated to the eradication of all other species”.
(2) Clearly George Osborne and others needs to end their love affair with shale gas, diesel farms and trying to expand airport runways.” Jeremy Leggett, the founder of world leading renewable energy company Solarcentury, spelled out the challenge for Rudd and George Osborne, the latter being seen as the real axeman of green policies.
(3) Asked how he was feeling earlier this month, he replied: "Well, the axeman cometh."
(4) A day ago Osborne was the mad axeman, today he’s the tooth fairy.
(5) David Laws, the millionaire axeman from the Liberal Democrats , is a cat who walks alone, according to colleagues.
(6) Ray Celestin took the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for his debut, The Axeman’s Jazz , set in a 1919 New Orleans stalked by a serial killer, while Peter May took the Crime Thriller Book Club best read for Entry Island , in which a murder on an island 850 miles from the Canadian mainland is investigated.
(7) The casual listener could have been forgiven for thinking that the great axeman had decided not to chop anything at all.
Saxophone
Definition:
(n.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three saxophone players with upper limb amputations have been successfully rehabilitated to play their musical instruments using skin-conductivity touch control.
(2) With the promise of a new set starting at midnight, his third of the night, I arrive around 11pm to hear him still in full flow, vein-popping saxophone pealing out into Mornington Crescent.
(3) An embouchure aid was constructed as a means of bringing relief to the many clarinet and saxophone players who suffer chronic lip irritation as the result of playing their instruments.
(4) I have seen a lady who plays the saxophone fantastically.
(5) Mr Woodhouse has an obsession with vitamin pills, Jane Fairfax plays the tenor saxophone and Frank Churchill has been living in Australia: meet the cast of the modern-day Emma, which is to be rewritten for the social media generation by Alexander McCall Smith .
(6) The mechanical and electrical modifications to the saxophone are described, as well as the principles of operation of the skin-conductivity touch control module.
(7) To make ends meet during my two and a half years there, I played saxophone in Hamburg.
(8) Saxophones dominated (sometimes Jones would hire two), but if the approaches reflected Coltrane's, they were closer to the saxophonist's soulful, preacherly manner of the early 1960s than the stormy odysseys later.
(9) Fool's Gold, a larger local collective, is an overlapping mass of saxophones, guitars, bongos and tambourines.
(10) He sometimes played in a saxophone trio with Lester, five years his senior, and his sister Irma, the trio later expanding to a short-lived 10-piece saxophone ensemble.
(11) His half-brother, Terry Burns, nearly a decade older than David, introduced him to jazz musicians, such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis , and in 1961 David’s mother bought him a plastic saxophone, introducing him to an instrument that would become a recurring ingredient in his music.
(12) Instrumental composition: Pensamientos for Solo Alto Saxophone and Chamber Orechestra, Clare Fischer.
(13) Against the cell’s peeling walls and grimy sink and toilet, Ai’s stool and Fela’s saxophone hold out the promise of bold but joyous antagonism.
(14) Unexpected sounds echo over Piraeus port in Athens: a saxophone, a violin, an accordion.
(15) They followed the head girl for a day – she was the lead in the school play, plays the saxophone, gets A-stars, and so on.
(16) Her listed interests include learning to play the saxophone, supporting Manchester United, and doing cryptic crosswords.
(17) Louis van Gaal gave a charismatic speech at Manchester United’s annual awards evening in which the manager acknowledged the fans for their support, roared, “We are very close” regarding the gap to Chelsea and left the stage before returning to thank a saxophone player .
(18) Louis van Gaal has stopped thinking about saxophone solos for long enough to determine that his Manchester United squad is spineless.
(19) It is distinguished from semantic memory, which is memory for facts, and other kinds of implicit long-term memory, such as your memory for complex actions such as riding a bike or playing a saxophone.
(20) Other more benign stickers showed royals partaking in hobbies often publicised by the palace’s media arm, such as King Bhumibol Adulyadej playing a saxophone.