(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.
Woodman
Definition:
(n.) A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.
(n.) A sportsman; a hunter.
(n.) One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.
(n.) One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
Example Sentences:
(1) New Channel 4 series Around the World in 80 Trades, in which economist Conor Woodman tries to trade his way around the world, beginning with the proceeds from the sale of his flat, began with 900,000 viewers, a 5% share, between 9pm and 10pm.
(2) Woodman's external laterofixation was performed in 31 patients, 1 had laterofixation by laryngofissure and 2 had endoscopic arytenoidectomy.
(3) Owner Steve Woodman, grandson of Chubby, took me down the river on his boat to see where they come from.
(4) The landlady of the local Woodman pub, Kath Dewhurst, recalled the multimillionaire dropping in to do the quiz with his wife, Julie.
(5) Pardew, his assistant John Carver, the coach Steve Stone and the goalkeeping coach Andy Woodman have been awarded identical deals in keeping with the eight-year contract that the influential chief scout Graham Carr signed in June.
(6) The manager’s only other option is the 17-year-old Freddie Woodman, with the situation complicated by the club’s decision to loan Karl Darlow back to Nottingham Forest for the season with no recall clause.
(7) In this part of the world, clams are as important as lobsters, and back at Woodman's a queue was forming at the self-service counter at 11.30am.
(8) During the period 1962 through 1974, 23 patients with complete bilateral paralysis of the larynx have been treated by the posterior extralaryngeal approach originally described by Woodman.
(9) It also suggests that the 1928-set film will "handily corner the upscale adult demo for the remainder of summer, continuing the Woodman’s late-career hot streak".
(10) Woodman’s school, rated outstanding, is £100,000 in the red for next year.
(11) It’s not a place we really want to go,” said Peter Woodman, headteacher of the Weald school in Billingshurst.
(12) Last year Woodman published an interesting carbocyanine dye binding method for determination of serum carbohydrate polyanions in sera of normal, traumatized, and tumor-bearing mice.
(13) England held their nerve throughout the penalty kicks, the captain Ryan Ledson leading the way with the first, Taylor Moore and Callum Cooke following suit while the goalkeeper Freddie Woodman saved from Dani van der Moot while Calvin Verdonk fired wide with Holland’s third attempt.
(14) But me, Andy Woodman [Newcastle’s goalkeeping coach] and Steve Stone [the club’s first team coach] would have a laugh and a joke about it.
(15) The administration of multiple doses of cocaine on a single day during late gestation is teratogenic in rats in which hind limb ectrodactyly is a major finding (Webster and Brown-Woodman, '90).
(16) In between “jobs” he is the landlord of the Woodman Inn, a pub in Manchester.
(17) It is argued that while infra-red recording techniques may be optimal for recording LEMs to verbal questions, the above results question the generalizability of strong LEM-spatial relationships obtained for a single blind subject by GRIFFITHS and WOODMAN [Neuropsychologia 23, 257-262, 1985].
(18) A 1% teacher pay rise, an increase in employer-paid pension contributions and higher national insurance rates for employers – all unfunded – means, says Peter Woodman, chair of the West Sussex Secondary Headteachers Association, that from 2016-17, every teaching post will cost him an additional 5% a year.
(19) Using an approach similar to the Woodman arytenoidectomy, the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle is exposed, and its fibers are partially incised.
(20) Woodman's restaurant is the spiritual home of the clam – Chubby Woodman claimed to have invented the fried clam in 1916.