(1) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(3) At the base gates an American sentry, suspicious of the bedraggled Afghan, yelled at him to stop.
(4) Among those who finally decided that Kobani was on the brink was Mukdad Bozan, travelling with his wife, a wailing baby and three bedraggled older children.
(5) A telling paragraph in the club’s accounts reads: “The directors believe the company is not at risk with its strong financial position, no borrowings, an increased turnover and a modern fit-for-purpose stadium to play in.” Yet Blackpool’s healthy financial position is at odds with their performance on the pitch – a pitch, incidentally, that has not been relaid since the summer of 2013 and would shame even the most bedraggled of municipal surfaces.
(6) McMahon passed that on to his England team-mates, who figured they'd be lining out the next day against a band of bedraggled buffoons.
(7) Nearby, two clerks from India's ministry of women and child welfare wheel piles of brown, bedraggled office files on swivel chairs toward a waiting van bound for the central records office.
(8) Others still hold out hope of moving northwards, with a group of bedraggled asylum-seekers dressed in oversized anoraks holding up a German flag on Wednesday, signalling that they still hoped to get to Germany.
(9) We’ve got a point, we will carry on working tomorrow and I’m sure that if we apply ourselves as we did in the second half we will get more points.” That may turn out to be true, but much of the fans’ frustrations here stemmed from the fact that Rayo appeared far more alert than their bedraggled hosts from the start; with just two minutes gone the left-back Nacho volleyed at goal and forced a corner.
(10) The role requires a substantial downgrading of Cotillard's natural glamour – Sandra is rake thin and washed out, emotionally bedraggled and popping Xanax.
(11) They could have led by the required scoreline at half-time, such was the pace, power and penetration of their game and so bedraggled were Galatasaray.
(12) We must look a bedraggled mess when we arrive because lovely owners Elena and Roberto rush to dry us and warm us up, show us our cosy larch-floored room and give us drinks, and even the keys to their car, so that we can drive to the nearest restaurant still open, in Alagna.
(13) With two goals in Sunday's demonstrative romp-and-stomp over StubHub Center tenant Chivas USA (nobody really calls this a "rivalry" anymore … not even the priciest PR firm could spin it thusly considering Chivas' bedraggled state) Donovan has matched Jeff Cunningham's all-time mark of 134 league goals.
(14) They have become ideal opposition for those in need of a win, whether a bedraggled Chelsea last Saturday or a besieged Manuel Pellegrini.
(15) Gunfire and shelling had tailed off in Debaltseve by Thursday morning, after thousands of Kiev’s forces made a bedraggled, dangerous retreat from its bombed-out streets.
(16) As Worthy Farm's usual residents – 350 dairy cows – were set to replace Glastonbury's 170,000 bedraggled festival-goers, Eavis cannily set the rumour mill rolling for next year's headliners.
(17) Sadly, what we are likely to see in the red box is a few bedraggled rabbits offering pre-election gimmicks and the chance to drown our sorrows for a few pennies less this year.
(18) You can merely choose between wearing something protective and becoming soaked in sweat from the inside, or something cool and becoming bedraggled in the traditional manner by the precipitation outside.
(19) The sight of so many Uncle Sams, Statues of Liberty and Captain Americas traipsing the last few miles of dual-carriageway hard-shoulder like bedraggled refugees should make Fifa question their criteria for stadium allocation (it won’t).
(20) Inside the ceremony at a university sports hall in the New England university town of Durham a clergyman intervened to denounce gays in lubricious detail, while outside a bedraggled group of demonstrators waved banners warning "Fags Doom Nations".
Decaying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decay
Example Sentences:
(1) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) In the absence of prostigmine, increasing the concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft did not change the time constant for decay of end-plate currents.
(4) The kinetics of bimolecular decay of alpha-tocopheroxyl free radicals (T) was studied by ESR mainly in ethanol and heptanol solvents.
(5) For those synapses that were close to the soma the time constant for decay for the non-NMDA component, which was voltage insensitive, ranged from 4-8 ms. 7.
(6) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(7) In one normal ear, ten noise trauma ears, 11 Meniere disease ears, and 24 eighth nerve lesion ears to reflexes or reflex decay that were suggestive or retrocochlear lesions were observed.
(8) Biochemical, molecular, and immunohistologic studies have identified membrane cofactor protein (MCP) and decay accelerating factor (DAF) on trophoblast cells, which could assist in preventing lysis of the cells by complement-activating maternal antibodies.
(9) It has been 40 years since the first community in the United States added a regulated amount of fluoride to its public water supply to prevent tooth decay.
(10) This could reflect the existence of a parallel set of synapses with fast decay that serve as a shortterm store.
(11) However, clemastine caused a decay in subjects' performance in both Experiments I and II, but only on the tracking task.
(12) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
(13) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
(14) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
(15) Left ventricular relaxation rate was measured by calculation of a time constant of left ventricular pressure decay (T) derived from an exponential curve fit to the digitized tip-micromanometer left ventricular pressure signal.
(16) Factors increasing presynaptic activity (frequency or number of afferent stimulations) during the induction event did not affect the relative amount of LTP decay.
(17) Inhibitor activity decayed with time after radiation (2 Gy) with no activity detected at 6 h even though the cells remained in G2 phase, suggesting that either synthesis or activation of additional components is necessary for recovery from G2 arrest.
(18) These results are consistent with the previous observation in HTC cells that the decay rate of ODC activity in the presence of cycloheximide correlated well with the proportion of ODC present as a complex with antizyme, suggesting the ubiquitous role of antizyme in ODC degradation.
(19) The outward current decays exponentially with an early and late phase.
(20) The decay of acid soluble radioactivity was similar in the two groups, although protein synthesis was lowered by vitamin A deficiency.