What's the difference between barney and scuffle?

Barney


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (2) Photograph: Alex Lake for Observer Food Monthly Sky Sports’ managing director, Barney Francis, added: “We wish Gary all the very best as he returns to football with our blessing and begins his managerial career with Valencia.
  • (3) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
  • (4) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
  • (5) Forty-nine out of 50 of the most popular Premier League games were shown on Sky Sports last season and a quick look at our opening schedule of fixtures shows Sky Sports is still the place to go for more of the games that matter,” said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.
  • (6) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (7) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Bizarre spectacle as world's press swarms over woman in (very small) chile shirt.
  • (8) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Today I ruined the World Cup by writing an article about how exciting it was.
  • (9) Wales’s epic journey comes to an end as Ronaldo gets to run the Portugal show | Barney Ronay Read more Adrien Silva 6 Provided a teasing cross for Ronaldo from the left wing late in first half and was comfortable in possession without any truly blistering moments.
  • (10) Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) @JacobSteinberg come on Steinberg.
  • (11) After issuing a warning yesterday we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today," said Sky Sports' managing director, Barney Francis.
  • (12) Forget the soundbites and sniggers, Brendan Rodgers deserved better | Barney Ronay Read more In his final press conference, just over an hour before his contract was terminated, Rodgers spoke of the rebuilding job which was required at Anfield and the time needed and he reiterated that in a statement released by the League Managers’ Association.
  • (13) The conserved open reading frames of Tc1 and Barney share identity with a structurally similar family of elements named HB found in Drosophila melanogaster, after the introduction of 3 small centrally located deletions in HB1.
  • (14) A new look for Darth Vader, as imagined by designer Barney George (www.barneygeorge.com) So how will Episode Seven play out?
  • (15) Northern Ireland are homeward bound but their fans are leaving on a high | Barney Ronay Read more Grigg failed to make it off Northern Ireland’s bench in France, but became one of the names of the tournament after the 90s song Freed From Desire was adapted in his honour.
  • (16) When her career took off at the age of 10 – a childhood of performing in the living room led to a stint jollying around with Barney the purple dinosaur in the 90s series Barney & Friends – Gomez's mother, Mandy Cornett, became her manager, a relationship Gomez now describes as "like a Gilmore Girls bond, except the dialogue's not as clever".
  • (17) The Sky Sports managing director, Barney Francis, said he had spoken to Keys and Gray personally.
  • (18) Until the 2008 financial crisis, Citi was able to claim to be one of the biggest financial institutions in the world as a result of the takeovers it was permitted to make as a result of the legislative changes – including a move into investment banking by buying brokers Smith Barney and parts of Schroders.
  • (19) Barney Chilton, the editor, told the Guardian: "On the Red News forums the percentages have ebbed away from Moyes like the English coastline.
  • (20) England’s future still has promise, but Wayne Rooney is part of the past | Barney Ronay Read more But the surprise is that people are surprised.

Scuffle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to strive or contend tumultuously; to struggle confusedly or at haphazard.
  • (n.) A rough, haphazard struggle, or trial of strength; a disorderly wrestling at close quarters.
  • (n.) Hence, a confused contest; a tumultuous struggle for superiority; a fight.
  • (n.) A child's pinafore or bib.
  • (n.) A garden hoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
  • (2) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
  • (3) The trials of those arrested over the scuffles on 6 May 2012 have become known as the Bolotnaya affair, after the square in which the clashes took place.
  • (4) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
  • (5) One BNP supporter who was injured in a scuffle said: "I've put my best suit on today and come out for a peaceful demonstration and this is what's happened.
  • (6) Passengers scuffled with a man suspected of leaving the bag before the blast went off but failed to detain him.
  • (7) A minor scuffle erupts and four white shirts immediately converge on the referee and after a minor argument both players are booked.
  • (8) Minor scuffles were reported, but the ranks of riot police mostly looked on as largely peaceful and white-collar crowd - variously estimated at 10,000 to 70,000 - assembled without a permit in People's Square.
  • (9) Mostly, I thought about being at Barack Obama’s inauguration ; not at the ceremony itself, but the back of the crowd approximately three miles away, in frigid DC weather and surrounded by thousands of other scuffling, freezing, depressed-looking people, trying to squeeze a sense of occasion from what felt like being at the back of a demo.
  • (10) "Mubarak is the solution," chanted the crowd, some of whom also briefly scuffled with the supporters of people killed during the 2011 uprising.
  • (11) Scuffles break out and four protesters are arrested, bundled off to the station in the same tuk-tuks they arrived in.
  • (12) Surveillance video taken from a Ukrainian airport shows Klymenko and the country's chief prosecutor scuffling with guards who try to detain them and overturning a metal detector gate as they try to reach their plane.
  • (13) Chad's Hissène Habré removed from Senegal court as scuffle breaks out Read more Habré had refused legal representation, saying he did not recognise the court’s jurisdiction, and vowed not to cooperate with the trial.
  • (14) More pressure from LA, a scuffle behind the net and Dominic Williams cross-checks King and he will go to the box.
  • (15) Fifteen people were arrested a day after the results when scuffles broke out between police and protesters outside Downing Street.
  • (16) The voice of the survivors is being ignored, the concerns of the people and many clergy in Chile are being ignored, and the safety of children in this diocese is being left in the hands of a bishop about whom there are grave concerns for his commitment to child protection.” Barros was installed as bishop of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno last weekend amid unprecedented opposition, and scuffles inside the cathedral by protesters who say he is unfit to lead.
  • (17) According to the weekly magazine Friday, the scuffle took place in the early hours of 16 January, when the wrestler should have been preparing for his bout later the same day.
  • (18) eKathimerini.com reports that "a few dozen pensioners" demanded a meeting with health minister Andreas Lykourentzos, and briefly scuffled with police.
  • (19) There were scuffles in Cambridge as crowds attempted to storm the university's Senate House.
  • (20) Over the past few years, the two teams have developed a bit of a dislike for each other stemming from a preseason game that was called early after a tackle by former KC midfielder Roger Espinoza led to a scuffle between the two teams.