(n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a weekend of playing bagatelle, dining and watching films of Tsarist Russia, Butler found a moment alone with him.
(2) She celebrated her 21st birthday at the 400 Club, and was such a regular at the Bagatelle, a French restaurant with a dance floor, that the band used to play a spec ial tune the moment she arrived.
(3) While there are nearly no differences between physicians concerning the judgement of disablement in cases of grave ophthalmological clinical pictures, there exist greater differences in the judgement of so-called "bagatelle"-injuries and -diseases, which demand a temporary unilateral eye-dressing.
(4) Mark Moorhead Tropical architectural guru Facebook Twitter Pinterest Geoffrey Bawa’s house on Bagatelle Road, Colombo.
(5) A splendid way to learn about the man, his work and his art collection is to visit his house just off Bagatelle Road in Colombo.
(6) But that is mere bagatelle compared with the defiance of the energy privateers.
Cinch
Definition:
(n.) A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.
(n.) A tight grip.
Example Sentences:
(1) She's a Barbie but without the bullet boobs and cinched waist.
(2) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
(3) Among addition silicones, Cinch produced more than twice as much vertical change (-0.16%) than the other three products (-0.06%).
(4) Atlanta's Freddie Freeman is currently in place to reach the All-Star Game in Queens on Tuesday, beating out the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig, who many thought would be a cinch to win.
(5) The deal was cinched following Kerry's meeting today with Lavrov.
(6) Review of 17 cases in which the cinch was used as part of the surgical treatment showed the technique to be adjustable by reducing the overcorrection in 6 cases.
(7) And now Kris Jenkins will the Jim Valvano or Rollie Massimino of his time – the face of elation as the great victory is cinched, played on endless repeat for Final Fours to come.
(8) For the big night, Lybke turned out in pink pinstripes with red braces and cinching buckles.
(9) The type of soft tissue manipulation employed, in particular the use of the alar base cinch suture and V-Y closure techniques, were important factors in determining the response of the upper lip to the surgery.
(10) For increased understanding of its shortening and adjustment characteristics, a standard cinch was performed in animals and patients with strabismus.
(11) I pull on a T-shirt, sweatshirt and oversized jacket, and cinch the trousers – four sizes too big and stained – using a belt from one of the bags.
(12) In some far distant future, where interstellar travel is a cinch, he intervenes, often violently, to prevent even worse violence.
(13) His debut collection was quickly christened the “new look” , with a calf-length full skirt, cinched waist and fuller bust.
(14) The abdominal muscles not only constitute a multidirectional cinch that holds the abdominal contents in place, but they also determine the flexion and rotational movements of the trunk.
(15) Trump cinched his right to appear in the debates by hitting a campaign finance filing deadline on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
(16) Ten to 20 prism dioptres of reduction in the deviation was obtained with adjustment of the cinch on the first postoperative day.
(17) Carpentier-Edwards annuloplasty rings (20-24 mm) were inserted using a special buttressing suture technique that permitted alternate cinching of the ring down onto the annulus and subsequent removal away from the annulus.
(18) The modified O'Connor cinch operation is a useful, but little used, adjustable resection operation.
(19) Animal studies showed that, as each strand of the cinch was removed, a small, relatively equal release of the cinch effect occurred.
(20) Many spent entire days in bed, eyes cinched against the blinding pain caused by their illness.