(n.) A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.
(n.) A flock of birds, especially quails or larks; also, a herd of roes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
(2) When a fortysomething regional television star took a screen test at Sky Sports insiders suspected that producers instantly marked her down against the bevy of gorgeous babes competing for presenting gigs.
(3) Under Paul's leadership – not Sterling's – the Clippers predictably became a top-three team in the Western Conference, re-signing Griffin, luring Rivers, and attracting a bevy of the usual ring chasers.
(4) Quantum of Solace has been the summer's most gossiped-about musical guessing game, with a bevy of artists mooted and ultimately dismissed from contention.
(5) At worst the resultant photo opps would make a refreshing change from the unconvincing hard hat ’n’ hi-vis poses politicians usually have to strike when they announce an economy-boosting initiative (blue sky idea: a shot of George Osborne and a bevy of female orthodontists affix gap-busting braces to the teeth of the female employees of the future!).
(6) Government ministers and the courts are taking heed, announcing a bevy of measures – from fines for burning garbage to coal-fired power plant upgrades.
(7) When he did meet Guevara, holed up on a bleak mountain-top, he came with ample supplies of whisky and bevies of attractive women.
(8) And a whole bevy of Californian public infrastructure projects, all either already leased or set to be leased for 50 or 75 years or more in exchange for one-off lump sum payments of a few billion bucks at best, usually just to help patch a hole or two in a single budget year."
(9) If you do your part, you ought to be able to get ahead, and when everybody does their part, America gets ahead too.” Clinton unveiled a decidedly progressive agenda, listing a bevy of issues on which she pledged to lay out specific proposals in the coming weeks.
(10) We conclude that Bevi is a preferred integration site for the baboon type C provirus in the human genome.
(11) But now a bevy of women, in a matter of days, have taken back the tit.
(12) A bevy of other bills disguised under the notion of religious liberty but seeking to chip away at LGBT rights has spread across the nation.
(13) Because all methods attempt to predict the severity of fetal hemolysis based on the original findings of Bevis and on the amount of unconjugated bilirubin in amniotic fluid as measured by its optical density at 450 millimicron, they share two possible sources of error: calculation of exact gestational age and accurately reading bloody or contaminated amniotic fluid.
(14) Breitbart’s threatened litigation is especially ominous coming after a bevy of suits won by billionaire conservatives against news organizations, as Emily Bazelon chronicled in New York Times Magazine.
(15) Trump denies the charge he mocked a disabled reporter, and despite a bevy of antisemitic incidents involving Trump and his supporters over the past months, he has also directly sought Jewish American support.
(16) On stage, a bevy of young women jumped up and down screaming: "Long live the great leader!"
(17) It carried a specialist disco page, Steppin’ Out With Bev Hiller (well into adulthood, I laboured under the misapprehension that Bev Hiller was the same person as the academic and author Bevis Hillier, perhaps relaxing after a hard day researching the decorative arts of the 1930s by reviewing Zapp’s More Bounce to the Ounce).
(18) In allowing the release of the photos, Carter has reversed the decisions of two of his Pentagon predecessors and a bevy of senior military officers over the years.
(19) A bevy of politicians launched this singularly gloomy report.
(20) Ilha do Farol has a long, sandy beach and a bevy of ramshackle beach bars.
Bey
Definition:
(n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's Bey and Jay, smoking a cigar in what looks like a well-manicured garden!
(2) To mark the beginning of Ramadan, the human rights group Reprieve has released to the Guardian a video in which the actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) submits himself to the enteral feeding imposed in Guantánamo.
(3) But I have lower standards than Slate because I really don't care why Hov and Bey are forsaking meat, fish and dairy as there are too many other compensations here.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yasiin Bey force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure.
(5) Remember that she's often brought into the "life" by drug dealers who promise her a celebrity lifestyle, clothes like the ones Beyoncé wears, and situation where she can live like Queen Bey: looking hot, being desired by alpha males, wielding power over others with her body and sexuality.
(6) The tour played into both of the pair's strengths: Jay brought the Brooklyn bravado and Bey brought the southern strut.
(7) Wearing a dusty pinstriped suit jacket and apologising for not having showered in six days, 51-year-old Peter Bey was unsure.
(8) It shows a plastic tube being inserted through Bey's nostril into his stomach.
(9) This report clarifies a physiological function of cadaverine in this organism by using DL-alpha-difluoromethyllysine, which had previously been shown to be a selective irreversible inhibitor of lysine decarboxylase of Mycoplasma dispar (Pösö, H., MaCann, P.P., Tanskanen, R., Bey, P., and Sjoerdsma, A.
(10) The reason I heard of Cafe Gratitude is because Gwyneth Paltrow recommended it on her blog Goop – the bible of elitist food fussiness – and I would bet my cashew nut butter that Gwynnie recommended it to her friends Jay and Bey.
(11) They upped the tempo with Upgrade You, and Bey released her golden mane, hair flipping around her husband in true Sasha Fierce fashion.
(12) As a recent New York Times article points out, so-called Queen Bey seemed to stop accepting face-to-face interview requests altogether some time between spring 2013 and the surprise release of her self-titled album in December that year.
(13) 3.6m page views, 438 comments 2) Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video Monday 8 July 2013 In a distressing four minutes and 38 seconds, filmed for the Guardian and the campaign group Reprieve by the Bafta-winning documentary-maker Asif Kapadia , the rapper agreed to be force-fed in the same way as 45 inmates at Guantánamo Bay were undergoing each day.
(14) Frankly, with her two earpierces and stripped back performance, she may as well have had "suck it Bey" painted on the side of the baby grand.
(15) Once the show finally began, Jay and Bey charged through their repertoire at a spitfire pace.
(16) Long time Bey fans will recall an early Destiny’s Child era cover of The Face in 2000 while newer ones will think of the Drunk in Love video on the beach.
(17) Bey, like many others, is hip to the freeing possibilities of good health, even if that means restricting the things you eat.
(18) These results provide support for the postulated mechanism of action of DFMO [Metcalf, Bey, Danzin, Jung, Casera & Vevert (1978) J.
(19) Yasiin Bey, AKA Mos Def, meanwhile, took consciousness to another level in a video to highlight the inhumanity of force-feeding Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers .
(20) In a true nod to the 1930s outlaws, Jay and Bey eventually get caught by what we assume is the police and shot to death in their car.