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Blay


Definition:

  • (a.) A fish. See Bleak, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukip acts immediately in circumstances such as these.” In the footage, Blay is heard to express his frustration with suggestions that Jayawardena has a bright political career ahead of him and especially at the possibility that he could rise to be Britain’s first prime minister of Asian descent.
  • (2) If he is, I will personally put a bullet between his eyes,” says Blay.
  • (3) It makes me quite sick,” said Blay of the situation.
  • (4) Footage of Blay’s exchange with a Daily Mirror reporter , which reportedly took place outside an event at which the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, was speaking, was posted on the newspaper’s website on Tuesday evening.
  • (5) In the video, Blay said: “He’s planned the birth of the child, there’s no doubt about that”.
  • (6) I hope to contribute positively to our country by representing my community – the community in which I grew up – in parliament.” In the footage, Blay is heard attacking Jayawardena’s heritage, saying: “His family have only been here since the 70s.
  • (7) In an expletive-laden rant, Robert Blay said the Conservative party’s candidate in North East Hampshire, Ranil Jayawardena, was “not British enough to be in our parliament” and accused him of timing the birth of his child to coincide with the general election.
  • (8) A Ukip spokesman said: “Mr Blay has been suspended with immediate effect.

Flay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
  • (2) It was like a triple-bill version of those events that became such a feature of the 2005 campaign, when Tony Blair insisted on following what he called a “masochism strategy.” The leaders of the three main parties had to play the submissive, smiling politely as the flesh was flayed off them.
  • (3) Federer flays a backhand into the corner but Murray reads it and eventually he's able to send an easy backhand past Federer.
  • (4) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
  • (5) Nuclease S1 analysis also revealed a protected fragment whose size was consistent with a transcript initiating in vivo at a consensus "nif" promoter sequence in front of the flaY gene.
  • (6) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
  • (7) He has another flay at goal after gliding in from the right.
  • (8) We demonstrate here that two flagellar genes, flaE and flaY, whose products function in trans to modulate the level of transcription of other flagellar genes, are themselves temporally controlled.
  • (9) His skin was flayed by metal-hooked whips and a crown woven with thorns sunk into his scalp.
  • (10) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
  • (11) The land is low-lying, dwarfed by loch and sea, and flayed by wind.
  • (12) Incredibly, he was honoured by an international press that is now flaying him.
  • (13) This conclusion is based on two observations: the low level of synthesis of flagellins and chemotaxis proteins in flaY and flaE mutant strains occurred at the correct time in the cell cycle, and complementation with plasmids containing intact flaY and flaE genes resulted in the synthesis of normal levels of flagellins and chemotaxis gene products with the maintenance of temporal cell cycle control.
  • (14) In the old days, he would have flayed any minister daring to call for Bennite state investment to halt the sorry neglect of manufacturing.
  • (15) Clinton flayed Trump on his refusal to release his tax returns, on his “long record” of “racist behavior”, on his lack of knowledge about the deal to withdraw US troops from Iraq, on climate change being a Chinese “hoax”, and on and on.
  • (16) Its coarse, flayed bark made crisp curls and revealed holes and channels deep inside.
  • (17) He hits a high flay to right that looks like the crowd blows back into play.
  • (18) Using plasmid complementation, we have mapped the extent of the flaY and flaE genes.
  • (19) But he also feels a kinship with the tragic Fitzgerald, who set out to write a beautiful, groundbreaking, modernist book and found himself flayed by the critics and hung out to dry.
  • (20) "He has also compared one of Boris Johnson's staff to a war criminal, called for bankers to be hung, said those who don't vote for him will be 'flayed for all eternity' and likened the mayoral campaign to the second world war, referring to Boris as Hitler," the campaign said.

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