(n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.
Example Sentences:
(1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(4) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(5) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Raj Janagam co-founded Cycle Chalao in 2009, and the project ran for a little over a year – between Mulund train station and a nearby college – with 30 bikes and a user base of around 750.
(8) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(9) A camera located in Downing Street shows Mitchell leaving 9 Downing Street and approaching the main double gates on his bike at 19.36:14 and as he stops to talk to police officers, a woman crosses on the pavement proceeding towards Trafalgar Square.
(10) A " bike for the strike " event is scheduled in Oakland on Friday.
(11) Control data were compared to data derived from a simulated triathlon (0.8-km swim, 75-min bike, and 40-min run).
(12) Matthew Golby, prosecuting, said Antwi was part of a group which surrounded the police car off Brixton Hill and he was captured on CCTV aiming his bike at the car.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
(14) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(15) Visiting an exercise class, Mr Blair, without changing out of his suit, spent some minutes pedalling on an exercise bike for the benefit of cameramen.
(16) But the increase in people cycling does seem to be boosting bike awareness and challenging the car mentality.
(17) Cycling is a mainstream form of active transport and recreation, but the human trauma costs of bicycle riding are unacceptable,” said Tracey Gaudry, CEO of the Amy Gillett Foundation , a bike safety awareness group set up in honour of the Australian athlete who was killed in a cycling accident in Germany.
(18) A 2014 report by the US Public Interest Research Group found that young people were driving less , driving shorter distances and using more transit, biking and walking to get around.
(19) Then I tried out a fold-in-half bike called the Bickerton .
(20) Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker is out now.
Bise
Definition:
(n.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
(n.) A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.
(n.) See Bice.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Kerry arrived in Paris, he rushed to warmly embrace the French president, but when Hollande went to give Kerry a typical French greeting ( une bise ), Kerry fumbled – and for a moment it looked like the two men were about to start french kissing for real.
(2) Maybe that will come later, although Merkel never did warm to l'art de la bise , the art of kissing introduced to her by Nicolas Sarkozy which helped to earn them the joint moniker "Merkozy".
(3) 2015: John Kerry fumbles a French kiss with François Hollande Facebook Twitter Pinterest You must remember this: une bise is just une bise .