(adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
(adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
() An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.
(n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
Example Sentences:
(1) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
(2) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(3) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
(4) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(5) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(6) First, contact your school, even if you are no longer a student there, recommends Ben Morse, head of Year 13 at the Piggott school, Reading.
(7) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
(8) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(9) The culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, added: "If [the digital economy bill] gets on to the statute books it will be with the co-operation of the opposition party and hopefully the Liberal Democrats and others too.
(10) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(11) Netanyahu 'told New Zealand backing UN vote would be declaration of war' Read more “What secretary Kerry will be doing is he will give a speech in which he lays out a comprehensive vision for how we see the conflict being resolved – where we see things in 2016 as we unfortunately conclude our term in office without there being significant progress toward peace,” the deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, told Israel’s Channel 2 television.
(12) Nor is Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, like Ben Ali.
(13) "Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dali," Obama's campaign spokesman, Ben LaBolt, emailed reporters.
(14) Ben Arfa does everything right again, apart from his finish.
(15) Aiyenugba duly saved Ben Frej's effort as Enyimba prevailed 5-3 and retained their crown.
(16) "A good game will have the expected progression at the end of each level, but it will also provide surprise rewards halfway through," says Ben Weedon, a consultant at PlayableGames, a company that carries out usability testing on new titles before they're released.
(17) Among more than 10,000 patients presenting to the Ben Taub Emergency Center over an 11-year period with thoracic injuries, 100 had clinical or radiographic clues suggestive of blunt trauma decelerative injury to the great vessels.
(18) Hunt joined culture secretary Ben Bradshaw in criticising the BBC Trust, the corporation's regulatory and governance body, saying viewers and listeners needed something that would better represent them.
(19) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
(20) BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief, Ben Smith, issued a statement announcing that Benny Johnson, the viral politics editor, had been sacked, and apologising to users of the site.
Crayon
Definition:
(n.) An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
(n.) A crayon drawing.
(n.) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
(v. t.) To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(2) Each subject selected one of six color crayons (red, yellow, green, blue, brown, or purple) to color the boy "to look" angry, happy, or sad.
(3) And when I began to write, at about the age of seven – stories in pencil with crayon illustrations, which my poor mother was obligated to read – I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading.
(4) During these years in Italy, Twombly's output sometimes reflected developments in the rest of the world: for example, as minimalist artists were creating a stir in America and Europe , in the late 1960s Twombly executed six monochrome canvases, the Treatise on the Veil, which are completely blank apart from measurements written in crayon over the grey paint.
(5) The Indonesian broadcasting commission has told RCTI, the private television network that airs the Crayon Shin-chan series, to either cut “indecent” parts of the programme or show it at a later time, when it will be missed by many in its target audience: young children.
(6) When I was eight or nine in kindergarten, I told stories about this weird kid in class who drew with black crayons.
(7) In the second group, the children were given the same promises, but they received the crayons and stickers as expected.
(8) Keita sent me a picture of the concept, a drawing he’d done on the top of a cardboard box in crayon,” recalls Hunicke.
(9) Children in the first group were given small boxes of crayons and promised larger boxes, which failed to materialise.
(10) Chip Lambert only sees the hopes for his absurd film script through the same eyes as the reader when he notices that the paper the film producer has given to her daughter for her crayoning ("ivory coloured" with "text on its reverse") is indeed that very script.
(11) Pictures of the bunks show crayon etchings of houses and smiling faces, hopeful images that could have been drawn by children in schools anywhere in the country.
(12) From the ink lines of a shirt pocket with spectacles poking out in a 1968 sketch of Christopher Isherwood, to the Fair Isle pattern of a jumper worn by Ossie Clark in an almost smudgy crayon picture from 1970 , clothes often feel part of the Hockney narrative or atmosphere.
(13) Crayons (2008) was her first studio album of new material for 17 years, and reached the US top 20.
(14) It’s like the partition of India – they just got a blue crayon out.
(15) The hinds were run with crayon-harnessed stags from insertion of CIDR devices (12 March or 9 April) and blood samples were taken every second day to determine plasma progesterone.
(16) She remembers how one mother would leave paper and a crayon in the hole for her daughter.
(17) With his penchant for mooning and blurting out risqué spoonerisms, Crayon Shin-chan has delighted Japanese children, and infuriated their parents, for more than two decades.
(18) It is the refusal to get dressed when you're in a rush, to brush their teeth, to use crayons on paper only, and not on the floor and furniture.
(19) They’re ‘anar-chics’, delinquents of the crayon and pen.” Zineb el-Rhazoui retorts: “People say we should respect religion, but our attitude to religion is the same as it is to any other ideology.” Willem keeps saying he has to go, but Florence offers him another glass of Côtes, and he stays.
(20) I really don’t see why they’re in such a rush to whitewash some of the work that I have done, and who I am and how I’ve identified,” Dolezal said on Tuesday, adding that at age five she “was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon”.