(v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
(v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
(2) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(3) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(4) On such occasions, one has the distinct sense of a festival simultaneously basking in the limelight while wearing a clothes peg on its nose.
(5) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(6) In the bask of the incandescent, you are prone to believe that human beings are essentially good, that tomorrow will be a better day, that love will triumph.
(7) Polysaccharide aminoaryl ethers capable of binding to proteins by azocoupling present special interest in view of their utilization as modifying baskings.
(8) Just as Brown was basking in a rare upturn in the polls following Barack Obama's visit, he has been derailed.
(9) I wish that I could just bask in the knowledge that the pope and the people in the pews share many of my views for a transformed church.
(10) When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko's victory over the American Jeff Monson.
(11) "Colleagues at the trust took the decision to conduct it last summer, when the corporation was basking in the Olympic afterglow – that was before the events of last autumn about which much has been written.
(12) Thus Page 3 was able to bask, for the briefest of moments, in its almost accidental association with hippie culture and the sexual revolution.
(13) There are Rumpole societies of lawyers basking undeservedly in his popularity from Los Angeles to Perth.
(14) The size of the telencephalon, 34% of the total brain, equals that in some other sharks, whereas the cerebellum, 30% of the total brain in the basking shark, is significantly larger than in any other shark investigated.
(15) De Bruyne’s finish was immaculate, picking out the bottom corner after Fernandinho’s layoff, and City were left to bask in the warm afterglow of their finest European night of the modern era.
(16) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
(17) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
(18) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
(19) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only covers three shark species: whale shark, basking shark and great white shark.
(20) With incredible complacency, politicians from both sides of parliament basked in the glory and reacted smugly when the US and the eurozone hit a brick wall.
Bast
Definition:
(n.) The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
(n.) A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank seems to want to solve the problem by changing its label on business as usual to sound climate-friendly Elizabeth Bast, OCI OCI considers “fossil fuel” lending to include oil, gas, and coal projects, as well as policy loans, transmission and distribution, and financial intermediaries that have been found to be directly linked to or to support oil, gas or coal development.
(2) They said that, at the network’s most recent meeting in Dallas, the president of the rightwing Heartland Institute Joseph Bast led a workshop in which a presentation was made that denounced the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has produced some of the most authoritative accounts of global warming, as “not a credible source of science and economics”.
(3) Cover with a lid and return to the oven for 2½–3 hours, basting the pork regularly with the liquid in the pot.
(4) The bioactivation of HMBA by pure BAST I was dependent on the presence of 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) in the reaction and was inhibited by dehydroepiandrosterone, a physiological substrate for BAST I. Glutathione, a cellular nucleophile with important protective properties, decreased DNA adduct formation in the HMBA sulfation reaction in the absence of glutathione S-transferase activity.
(5) Higher levels of BAST I activity and immunoreactivity as well as HMBA-DNA adduct formation were detected in female rat liver cytosol than in male rat liver cytosol.
(6) As shown by immunoblotting analysis, the main reactive antigen recognized by anti-BAST was a non-glycosylated 32-kDa placental protein which was antigenically related to SSAV p30.
(7) There was no one around, it was a weekday, and the locals were at work and the tourists were in Copacabana, basting on the beach.
(8) Though Pope Francis’s heart is surely in the right place, he would do his flock and the world a disservice by putting his moral authority behind the United Nations’ unscientific agenda on the climate,” Joseph Bast, Heartland’s president, said in a statement.
(9) These results indicate the usefulness of BAST I to investigate the sulfation and activation of HMBA and probably other hydroxymethylated polyaromatic hydrocarbons to electrophilic and mutagenic metabolites under defined reaction conditions.
(10) The data suggest that BAST I is the same protein as hydrosteroid sulfotransferase 2 (Marcus, C. J., et al.
(11) The mouse liver showed BAST activity for lithocholic acid, taurolithocholic acid and taurochenodeoxycholic acid, whereas the rat liver and kidney had the activity for taurodeoxycholic acid in addition to these compounds.
(12) The dental health care system and dental education as presently structured do not appear to be serving the bast interest of the public.
(13) A non-glycosylated 19-kDa protein was also considered to be one of the anti-BAST-corresponding antigens.
(14) Optimal pH of liver BAST in the two species was different from that of the rat kidney.
(15) Although maximum activity occurs with 5 mM MgCl2, Mg2+ is not essential for BAST I activity.
(16) The roast prime rib – up to an 18oz cattle baron’s cut (a whopping $50, if you will) – is a hunka rosy, fat-basted prime beef.
(17) BAST was inactive towards taurocholic acid, 7 alpha- or 12-monohydroxy-5 beta-cholanoic acid.
(18) com Fennel basted pork chops with rhubarb British pork chops and pink rhubarb make a glorious and surprisingly quick spring supper.
(19) This paper describes a simple technique for inserting basting sutures to secure full-thickness skin grafts.
(20) Its most popular item ordered online so far is a basted turkey breast with a smoked bacon lattice.