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Bespectacled


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (2) Dressed in camouflage fatigues and with a bandaged right arm, the bespectacled man challenges western governments to “send all your forces on the ground” in the high-quality footage.
  • (3) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
  • (4) The bespectacled, golf-loving Scotsman sticks to touring his stores and getting involved in the detail of the business, politely turning away interview requests.
  • (5) As well as Sherlock, the bespectacled wizard found himself up against an hour-long edition of EastEnders on BBC1, watched by 7.3 million viewers (27.8%) between 8pm and 9pm.
  • (6) Months Four, Five and Six will see more and more of these tools – from dozens of T-shirt-clad bespectacled tech revolutionaries, coming online.
  • (7) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian Antonino Vaccarino, a sprightly, bespectacled 68-year-old, today runs a small cinema in the back streets of town, but once served as mayor before being jailed for five years for mafia membership – on the basis, he claims, of false accusations made by a turncoat.
  • (8) It’s a bit like Where’s Wally, but instead of a bespectacled guy in glasses and a woolly hat, you’re looking for two pale women scissoring in a roped-off field.
  • (9) "If you look at America, there were all sorts of scams like that back in the 19th century with railroads and the like," I remember one cheerful, bespectacled Russian twentysomething explaining to me.
  • (10) For Verhofstadt, the mop-haired bespectacled face of radical federalism for over a decade, there is, however, no going back.
  • (11) Jeb” might be the name of a new cholesterol medicine; the bespectacled man in the distracting shirt could be the doctor you should consult before asking whether Jeb is right for you.
  • (12) • tapas around €9, +34 917 52 61 06, saladedespiece.com Del Diego Besuited, bespectacled and frightfully polite, Fernando del Diego Madrid’s unexpected cocktail king.
  • (13) or 7-day delays were shown 20 photographs of faces, half of which were bespectacled, and then tested from a set of 40 consisting of the original 20 mixed up with 20 new ones, half of which were also bespectacled.
  • (14) Just a bleary-eyed, bespectacled Gotti being led out of the door of the home he shares with his wife and six children.
  • (15) One image shows the bespectacled Egyptian standing inside the cabin beside the plane door with a man who is grinning for the camera.
  • (16) The interview takes place before his curious encounter with Boris Johnson on Newsnight , but just after the great "Mr Idiot" spat , in which Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne insulted a bespectacled EU bureaucrat and Paxman failed to protect the victim, who grew so tired of Oborne's boorishness that he took off his microphone and terminated the discussion.
  • (17) Before that, the Fed was known as a haven of bespectacled economists, who would debate the economy invisibly and stay out of the stock and bond markets for the most part.
  • (18) James Mason plays Smiley (renamed Charles Dobbs) with the same bespectacled, hang-dog mien he wore in Georgy Girl the same year, making for one of the best Smileys so far.
  • (19) A great big sweaty bespectacled bear of a man, Raymond the Roller would run the heavy roller from one end of the pitch to the other at a fair old lick scattering any subs poncing about and traumatising the kids taking part in the penalty shoot-out.
  • (20) The aim was to test the feasibility of supplying bespectacled myopic seamen with contact lenses at the outset of operational missions.

Glasses


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (3) Retention of platelets from whole blood on glass beads was performed by the method of Bowie.
  • (4) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
  • (5) Analysis of bond values of glass ionomer added to glass ionomer indicate bond variability and low cohesive bond strength of the material.
  • (6) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
  • (7) A reference glass, five ceramic materials, and one resin-based composite were tested.
  • (8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (9) Samples of rockwool and glass fibre were compared with chrysotile fibres for their capacity to hydroxylate 2-deoxyguanosine to 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, a reaction that is mediated by formation of hydroxyl radicals.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (12) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (13) Three brands of glass ionomer were applied to prepared dentin surfaces of extracted human molars, after one of four treatments with polyacrylic acid.
  • (14) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (15) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
  • (16) When used in snail neurones such electrodes gave very similar pHi values to those recorded simultaneously by recessed-tip glass micro-electrodes.
  • (17) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
  • (18) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (19) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (20) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.

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