(v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
(2) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
(3) Last week Lebedev posted photos from his Hampton Court bash on his personal LiveJournal blog .
(4) In the end, Miliband's measures have a psychological effect not dissimilar to the youth-bashing policies that have come before: student fees, cuts to the education maintenance allowance and housing benefit for the under-25s , and the prioritising of private landlords at the expense of affordable housing.
(5) But at least it was offering something positive, not just bashing the Tories, like everything else.” But for many, it was symbolic of a vague and complacent Labour campaign strategy that would, ultimately, doom them to one of their worst ever election defeats.
(6) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(7) They are the only party which has refused to be drawn into the immigrant-bashing competition with the others, and the only which proposes a vote in the general elections for EU citizens based on residency, rather than nationality.
(8) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
(9) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(10) But Panmure's Zonneveld isn't so bashful - - he's got a target price of 570p.
(11) Jindal bashed the debate moderators to a crowd of roughly 50, saying: “The mainstream media lost the debate.” He went on to say that the GOP should take “a free market approach” to debates and “have as many debates as possible and let candidates decide which ones they should go to”.
(12) OFFICE COST PER DESK $10,430 pa Banker-bashing rating ■ ZURICH PROS The financial sector accounts for 6% of all jobs in Switzerland and 16% of tax revenue.
(13) If it means bashing your head against the wall, or whatever.
(14) I thought bashing bureaucrats was purely my domain.
(15) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(16) But I will also defend my record, and will not take lectures on “the politics of division” from parties that bash immigrants and those on welfare benefits, or from politicians disgraced by expenses scandals, discredited by lies told to justify war, and intent on scapegoating the vulnerable in our society for an economic crisis caused by the most powerful.
(17) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(18) Capitalism took a bashing in 2015: Corbynomics , the rise of anti-austerity parties Podemos and Syriza, Hillary Clinton slamming our culture of short-termism, COP21 protests and more.
(19) For many years afterwards, the family bashed their heads against a brick wall of indifference and worse.
(20) Debate moderators Anderson Cooper, Dana Bash, and Juan Carlos Lopez are sure to ask some tough questions of the candidates.
(n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
(n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
(n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.
Example Sentences:
(1) He made a great pass and CB hit a big shot.” Bosh praised his team-mate’s unselfishness.
(2) With this in mind, his new deal feels like Miami paying for past results, rewarding Bosh for his often overlooked contributions during the Heat's four-season reign on top of the East.
(3) Chris Bosh finished with 18 points as the Heat equaled the mark set by the 2007-08 Houston Rockets.
(4) Chris Bosh is on the line here, the whole Big Three are getting in on the freebies, and he makes both.
(5) Chris Bosh told those folks not to bother coming for Game 7.
(6) 1.23am BST Heat 13-5 Spurs, 6:54 remaining, 1st quarter Chris Bosh makes a layup and then, close to halfway through the first quarter the Spurs finally get their first field goal of the game, a Kawhi Leonard three-pointer.
(7) Because of the size and timing of Bosh's new contract, it felt like something of a panic move, one the Heat could regret around years four and five when Bosh will be far from his peak.
(8) Bosh and Wade - the other members of the Big Three who sat alongside James as he promised titles at his Miami welcoming party two summers ago - both had strong games.
(9) With Bosh back in the fold, it was all but inevitable that Miami would re-sign Wade, who also opted out of his contract earlier in the offseason .
(10) Needless to say, it would be a huge blow to the Heat if James took his talents anywhere else, particularly if there is any truth in the rumors that Bosh will head elsewhere, possibly to the Houston Rockets , if Miami fails to re-sign James.
(11) A big reason that the Heat have been surviving without Chris Bosh has been that they’ve gotten meaningful contributions from the likes of Luol Deng, Joe Johnson and Amar’e Stoudemire.
(12) The Boshe raid was part of Operation Thunder, which was launched in July 2013 and has resulted in the detention of 11,000 suspects and the seizure of eight tonnes of drugs.
(13) Who would have thought coming in that in a game featuring LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Paul George, Roy Hibbert, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen, Indiana's Lance Stephenson would be the best player on the court by far.
(14) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(15) Ignore the criticism and the played out, ( often transphobic ) jokes: there's a reason the Heat ran into trouble when Bosh was out with an abdominal injury in the 2012 playoffs.
(16) Dwyane Wade (3-13 FG, 10 points) was subdued and perhaps feeling his troublesome knees again and Chris Bosh had just 12 points, while point guard Mario Chalmers’ almighty struggles continued.
(17) If Wade and Bosh are healthier and more effective than they were during the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat should be able to the defeat the Spurs.
(18) Chris Bosh finally breaks through with a jumper and someone calls a timeout.
(19) Updated at 2.22am BST 2.20am BST Pacers 29-39 Heat - 5:52 remaining, 2nd Quarter West makes a jumper, but unfortunately for him that's completely overshadowed by the reappearance of Chris Bosh from the multiverse, he knocks off five straight points, the last three on a downtown shot assisted by the also recently resurrected Ray Allen and the Pacers call mercy... er, timeout.
(20) If we learned anything from LeBron’s last Decision, when very few real or self-styled insiders had him joining Bosh and Wade in Miami, it’s that nobody truly knows how the NBA offseason will pan out until all the contracts are signed (and sometimes not even then).