(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.
Group
Definition:
(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
(10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.