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Beholder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who beholds; a spectator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (2) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
  • (3) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
  • (4) Behold "The Spire", a 398ft needle penetrating the sky; symbol of Dublin's thrusting modernity (or, cynics suggest, the grip heroin holds on some parts of the city).
  • (5) The Queen of the Night by Marc Behm Behm, an American settled in France, wrote one of the great novels of obsessive detective fiction, The Eye of the Beholder.
  • (6) Behold this from our deputy first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, doing her best Michael Howard impersonation: "Right now, convicted prisoners who are serving prison sentences do not get to vote, and I do not consider that there is a good argument for changing the position for the referendum."
  • (7) On Obama's mandate for climate change action Mandates are sometimes in the eye of the beholder but I think all who look at these circumstances should agree that president Obama does have a mandate, should he choose to use it, to act boldly to solve the climate crisis, to begin solving it.
  • (8) The extent to which the hard right will go to perpetuate their views, and frankly, their prejudice, is a sight to behold.
  • (9) Greece's determination in this World Cup was a thing to behold and, their reputation unfairly traduced, they brought a fair bit of quick-breaking flair to the table too.
  • (10) The best contributions tell the truth, or if not the truth (a vexatious and flexible concept, given history’s tendency to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder) – then at least truth according to the person providing the story.
  • (11) Described as Blencathra's "shining beacon" by Alfred Wainwright, who also wrote that the sight of it at close quarters was sufficient "to make a beholder forget all other worries, even a raging toothache", Sharp Edge is a Lake District accident blackspot.
  • (12) Its headline was to be “Behold the demons we have unleashed”.
  • (13) And when we get together, lo and behold, we always remember it, it’s always there for us.
  • (14) "Lo and behold when Michael McCaskey called me and offered me this job it's kind of how it turned out.
  • (15) But for all that it is the awkward and prickly child of UK rave, the tenacity, love and enthusiasm within the grime scene is something to behold.
  • (16) Lo and behold, Charlotte Hole, second from the left in the front row in this picture, totes what the Mail says is a £1,100 Mulberry handbag.
  • (17) The faux-outrage from the right about the AWU cozying up to employers is something to behold, given that conservatives have long insisted the Labor party distance itself from precisely those unions that win the best outcomes for their members.
  • (18) When they occur, they are delightful to behold and should be cherished.
  • (19) I went in person on my lunch hour and, lo and behold, was told for the very first time that my party designation can only ever be changed during November each year,” he explained.
  • (20) Lo and behold, I had this Trump table down there,” Snover said.

Stalk


Definition:

  • (n.) The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.
  • (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.
  • (n.) That which resembes the stalk of a plant, as the stem of a quill.
  • (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring.
  • (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids.
  • (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.
  • (n.) The peduncle of the eyes of decapod crustaceans.
  • (n.) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • (v. i.) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun.
  • (v. i.) To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under clover.
  • (v. i.) To walk with high and proud steps; usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step.
  • (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game.
  • (n.) A high, proud, stately step or walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regeneration and reorganization of the proximal cut end of the pituitary stalk is demonstrated in Ompok bimaculatus with the aid of in situ staining technique.
  • (2) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
  • (3) The mesenchyme surrounding the stalk stains positively for fibronectin.
  • (4) Do know how much stalking is too much stalking Seven pages into Google is too much.
  • (5) A rich network of fibers was observed in the median eminence coursing towards the pituitary stalk.
  • (6) ECF1 is separated from the membrane-embedded F0 by a narrow stalk approximately 40 A long and approximately 25-30 A thick.
  • (7) Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies.
  • (8) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
  • (9) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (10) Septal release slightly decreased during pituitary stalk stimulation, whereas it did increase during stimulation of the supraoptic region.
  • (11) It is hemispherical in shape and is located at the end of a 1.5 mm long eye stalk.
  • (12) Since such rats supposedly have a normal pigment distribution and a normal pattern of decussation at the optic chiasm, this finding appears to undermine the suggested role played by stalk melanin in establishing the laterality of retinal fibre projections in other mammalian species.
  • (13) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
  • (14) Other steps, such as the introduction of a national stalking helpline and national revenge pornography helpline have assisted victims.
  • (15) And we know once they leave, men will follow and stalk them.
  • (16) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
  • (17) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (18) • One in 10 women have been stalked by a previous partner.
  • (19) Police investigating the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University massacre, which left 33 dead, mainly students, blamed Cho, a fourth-year English student who lived on the campus, for earlier incidents ranging from stalking women to setting fire to a dormitory.
  • (20) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.

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