(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.
Schoolgirl
Definition:
(n.) A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to X2 (Chi-square) test and asymmetry coefficient (beta 1) it was pointed out that the distribution of menarche in examined schoolgirls was normal and symmetric.
(2) Residual urine volume (RUV) has been measured in 70 schoolgirls with asymptomatic bacteriuria using 121I-hippuran.
(3) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
(4) Nicola Tappenden was a 14-year-old schoolgirl, living in Croydon, when a psychic told her she'd grow up to do something very special.
(5) The stage-struck schoolgirl eventually was able (in a very unforeseen form) to return to her early love - of drama - and combine it with the later love - of her people, white and black.
(6) They said their leaders are being killed and they no longer want to fight but they are afraid of going back to their communities.” The schoolgirls were snatched by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok in April, sparking international condemnation and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
(7) Boko Haram attracted international condemnation for the mass abductions in April of more than 200 schoolgirls, and is blamed for this week's abductions of another 91 people – 31 boys and 60 girls and women.
(8) A survey of 204 south-Asian and 355 Caucasian schoolgirls was conducted in Bradford using the EAT-26 and the BSQ.
(9) It was the Guardian’s disclosure of the hacking of the missing Surrey schoolgirl’s phone that finally broke open the scandal.
(10) They drafted in schoolgirls to talk about education funding and Cumberbatch, representing Equity, to defend the arts, to demonstrate the beginnings of a broad coalition against the cuts.
(11) The incident sparked uproar, but the circumstances which led the schoolgirls to trek outside at night are not unusual in India .
(12) I’m not sure what my 14–year–old, Catholic schoolgirl self would have thought if she’d been given a preview of the past week’s news, and the role her teenage sweetheart played in making it happen.
(13) The Bethnal Green schoolgirls, however, appeared to vanish into the abyss after they landed in Turkey, never starring in propaganda videos or demonstrating what they were doing there.
(14) The 36-year-old was taken for treatment after he was attacked at Frankland prison in County Durham, where he is serving two life sentences for murdering schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.
(15) Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator and losing 2004 presidential candidate, has presided since then over the Obama administration's responses to crises in Syria and Ukraine and the current situation in Nigeria, in which the militant group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls.
(16) Twenty-four more Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists have escaped but 85 are still missing, an education official said on Friday.
(17) A senior aide to the president, Goodluck Jonathan, claimed the extremist group, which has been seeking to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, had agreed to release the 219 schoolgirls.
(18) The report said that it would not draw conclusions on evidence to the committee about Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl whose voicemail messages were hacked by the News of the World in 2002, because of an ongoing police investigation into Brooks.
(19) Regional data showed a significant negative correlation between the proportion of pregnant women aged 15-19 who were susceptible to the virus and rate of uptake of vaccine in 14 year old schoolgirls.
(20) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.