(n.) A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
(n.) Room in a bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(3) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(4) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(5) A property may be considered overcrowded if two children above 10 of the opposite sex have to share the same bedroom.
(6) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
(7) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
(8) Bargain of the week Charming but teeny-tiny one-bedroom period cottage, £55,000, with williamsonandhenry.com .
(9) He gave the example of a one-bedroom flat in Camberwell, south London, which was on the market at £360,000.
(10) That included "a higher minimum wage; stopping the abuse of zero-hours contracts; skills and careers for all our young people; banks working for businesses again; energy bills frozen; 200,000 homes built a year by 2020; power devolved; the bedroom tax abolished; and our National Health Service restored".
(11) The bedrooms have sea views over the Sound of Sleat, which you can cross during the summer on the original Skye ferry, which carries just a few cars at a time across the Kylerhea narrows.
(12) There are currently 800,000 more one-person households in New York than there are studio and one-bedroom apartments.
(13) The following levels were obtained: (1) For the patient to be discharged from the hospital, the maximum residual radioactivity should be less than 0.51 GBq if the distance from the patient in bedroom is 50 cm or more and the ages of her children are all over one year.
(14) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(15) I lived on Southwark Bridge Road before every patch of it was developed into posh apartments – a small, one-bedroom flat will now set you back £500,000.
(16) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(17) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(18) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(19) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(20) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
Slipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, slips.
(n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
(n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
(n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
(n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
(a.) Slippery.
Example Sentences:
(1) But two of the three judges who subsequently considered the issue said: “We are also of the opinion that there was no basis for the primary judge to conclude that Brough was part of any combination with anyone in respect to the commencement of these proceedings with the predominant purpose of damaging Slipper in the way alleged or at all.” Brough said Dreyfus should look at the federal court’s findings on 27 April 2014 – which appeared to be a reference to the decision handed down on 27 February 2014.
(2) In fact, Slipper's role as a senior detective in the Metropolitan police was much more significant over the years than that one incident, which led to both a book and a television film, might indicate.
(3) Dreyfus asked directly whether Brough agreed to obtain unauthorised copies of the Slipper’s diary for a journalist, and whether as a matter of government policy the minister now gave unauthorised copies of other documents to journalists.
(4) Mal Brough has vowed to stare down calls to resign over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper as the Labor party seeks to build pressure on Malcolm Turnbull for backing the special minister of state.
(5) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
(6) On Tuesday, Brough told parliament the interview with 60 Minutes, which was aired in 2014 and featured an admission from Brough that he had asked former staffer James Ashby to procure Slipper’s diary, was selectively edited.
(7) But he said: “I don’t think you should call for the resignation of the Speaker lightly.” The former Speaker Peter Slipper was ordered to pay back $954 worth of expenses after a court found he had misused his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries.
(8) In Peter Slipper’s case, he has paid back more than $14,000 under the Minchin protocol .
(9) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
(10) Dreyfus asked the same question as Hayes: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” “No,” Brough said.
(11) It never does | Lenore Taylor Read more Jamie Briggs resigned as the minister for cities and the built environment after “inappropriate” conduct towards a staffer during an official visit to Hong Kong and Mal Brough stood aside as special minister of state pending a police investigation into his alleged role in the downfall of Peter Slipper.
(12) In 2014 a magistrate convicted Slipper of dishonestly causing a risk of loss to the commonwealth and ordered him to repay the $954.
(13) Peter Slipper's resignation followed a heated debate in parliament during which the prime minister, Julia Gillard , and the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, traded insults over the use of misogynistic language in politics.
(14) Mal Brough faces fresh parliamentary pressure over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper , after his attempt to walk away from a key admission was undermined by 60 Minutes releasing the unedited interview exchange.
(15) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
(16) Tales from the Golden Slipper is at the Orkney Arts Theatre , Kirkwall, on Friday and Saturday, and at Stenness School on June 29.
(17) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
(18) James Ashby’s case against Peter Slipper and the Commonwealth, and the associated infusion of media and political involvement, would have to be one of the grubbiest assaults on a government in recent memory.
(19) The member for Fisher [Brough] stated to me that we needed to destroy Peter Slipper and he had all the evidence to put Peter Slipper away for a very long time.
(20) It transpires they are antique slippers used in the foot-binding process to which Chinese women were subjected: "I make art out of them.