(n.) An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
(n.) A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen of these fragments have been found by one man, Blaine Alan Gibson, the result of an independent, self-funded investigation he began 18 months ago.
(2) Third-year quarterback Blaine Gabbert, still just 23, was also showing some signs of improvement before a hairline fracture to the thumb of his throwing hand ruled him out of the last two weeks of preseason.
(3) One home in an outlying valley was destroyed on Thursday night, said Bronwyn Nickel, a spokeswoman for Blaine County, where the fire is burning.
(4) Amateur investigator Blaine Gibson , a lawyer from Seattle who has travelled the world trying to solve the MH370 mystery, has also recovered other possible MH370 debris, but authorities have yet to confirm if any of the pieces belong to the missing plane.
(5) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, magician David Blaine, author Tim Ferriss and actress Felicia Day are among its “most loved” broadcasters at launch – a metric based on how many hearts they’ve received from viewers.
(6) The brutality of North Korea's prison camps was revealed last year in a book by defector Shin Dong-hyuk, who worked with former Washington Post reporter Blaine Harden to tell of his experience since birth in Camp 14.
(7) My choice is that I like this country, I respect our flag, and I don’t see all the atrocities going on in this country that people say are going on.” Kaepernick, who burst from obscurity to lead San Francisco to within five yards of a Super Bowl title during the 2012 season, has yet to take a snap in three regular-season games as a backup to starter Blaine Gabbert.
(8) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
(9) Other lots included a Damien Hirst painting, a private performance by the magician David Blaine, who also attended, and a week-long stay at DiCaprio’s home in Palm Springs that went for $140,000.
(11) The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said on Friday it had been contacted by Blaine Gibson, an American adventurer who has been hunting for the aircraft over the past year.
(12) Blaine Alan Gibson has spent much of the past year travelling in the Indian ocean region, attempting to solve the mystery of what happened to MH370.
(13) At first, her ideas about beauty and goodness, her mysterious glamour and charm will dazzle and seduce her girls – “the crème de la crème” – at the Marcia Blaine School, but in the end the same gifts will cause her downfall.
(14) 🎉😂💘🎉😂💘🎉😂@raisingmalawi.org A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Nov 27, 2016 at 9:34am PST Other lots up for auction include a private game of poker with actors Edward Norton and Jonah Hill, a week in Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, a private dinner performance by the magician David Blaine, and artworks by Ai Weiwei, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel , Marilyn Minter and Damien Hirst.
(15) Let’s make sure that we take care of the heritage of the Native American people.” Added militia member Blaine Cooper: “The rightful owners need to come back and claim their belongings.” But Kennedy said the tribe has a good relationship with refuge officials and noted that the Paiute people refuse to communicate with militia leaders or visit the occupation.
(16) Perry is known fan of magic in real-life, as evidenced by her appearance in David Blaine's Real or Magic, a special that features Kanye West and Woody Harrelson – together.
(17) Richard Westcott (@BBCwestcott) Has Blaine Gibson found more of MH370 Madagascar?
(18) Kaepernick is in competition to win back the starting quarterback job in San Francisco that he lost to Blaine Gabbert last season.
(19) American blogger Blaine Gibson, who has been conducting his own search for the missing plane, said he located the debris and showed it to officials.
(20) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
Slain
Definition:
(p. p.) of Slay
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(2) The son of the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings.
(3) Facebook posts about slain members appeared soon after.
(4) Groups of women from outside the city arrived bearing photos of their relatives, slain victims of femicide.
(5) The Spanish forward showed good determination to beat Amorebieta to James Milner's long ball into the box but looked as though he had been slain by an assassin's bullet when he got there.
(6) Much earlier, he was the mole finally unmasked by Sir Alec Guinness and slain by Ian Bannen in John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
(7) The charismatic daughter of the slain hero of Burma's campaign for independence from Britain has a huge international following.
(8) He said all embassy workers were now safe and offered his condolences to the family of the slain guard.
(9) The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a charity created after 11 September 2001, has said it will pay off the home mortgages of the two slain officers.
(10) On Sunday, he said neighbours saw two funerals for slain fighters, one with four bodies and one with two.
(11) That’s where we as a country were 50 years ago, as civil rights organizers prepared to march the 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery to honor the recently slain church deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson and all the other nonviolent activists shot and killed by police and white vigilantes.
(12) Contemporaneous accounts report his body was found among others slain, a halter was thrown around his neck, his naked body was slung over a horse with head, arms and legs dangling, and he was bought to a church in Leicester and irreverently buried.
(13) There were few professional athletes more demonstrative in their disgust with the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin two years ago than LeBron James, who protested by convincing his Miami teammates to pose for a special photograph donning hoodies like the one Martin wore when he was slain, then told his tens of millions of fans on social media: We Want Justice .
(14) Two early recorded instances of dental identification of men slain in battle during the fifteenth century are given.
(15) According to one investigation, between January and September 2009 more than 1,400 civilians were slain in the provinces of North and South Kivu, at least 701 by the FDLR and the rest by Congolese and Rwandan government-allied forces.
(16) Yesterday Novak Djokovic, the four-time champion, was slain at last by the magnificent Stanislas Wawrinka - what a backhand on him, eh - and today one of Andy Murray or Federer is bound to follow.
(17) The story called “ That’s my boy: kids witness war’s horror ” was about Khaled Sharrouf’s Australian son holding up the decapitated head of a slain Syrian soldier.
(18) And baby turkeys were slain, their limbs torn apart,” the Dallas Morning News reported at the time.
(19) I saw my mother’s dead body two days ago,” said Naimul Khan, son of the slain Nazma Khanam.
(20) Children pull T-shirts to their noses and mouths so they don't retch but cannot resist peering at the slain young men.