(1) In this society saturated with diet tips and fitness blogs, with “bony boasters” showcasing their ribs on Instagram and bikini selfies on newsfeeds, our food neurosis seems explicit, on the table for all to see.
Boater
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
(2) As a result, none of the venues are fit for swimmers or boaters, she said.
(3) City authorities encased the river bed in concrete in the 1930s, turning it into a flood-control channel that was a byword for contamination and forbidden to boaters.
(4) It is more serious in patients type blue boaters and less frequent among patients type pink puffers.
(5) Boaters and swimmers have largely ignored the dropping water levels in a place where splashing in cold fresh water on 100-plus-degree summer days is a treat.
(6) You don’t have to be a boater to appreciate London’s navigable waterways but living like this has encouraged me to explore places along less well-trodden towpaths.
(7) The vision is for an "aquatic National Trust" galvanising the estimated 11 million Britons who regularly benefit from them – boaters, anglers, cyclists, runners, Sunday strollers and waterside property dwellers – to invest time and money to protecting them for generations to come.
(8) As they walked into the ballroom where Warren spoke on Friday, hundreds of supporters snatched plastic boater-style hats declaring that the wearer backed “Elizabeth Warren for President,” a campaign that does not yet exist.
(9) He brought along a pack of non-filter cigarettes, a wide-brimmed boater hat and a bomber jacket.
(10) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
(11) The author examined a group of 20 patients with the predominance of chronic bronchitis--blue boaters (average VC was 1.95 l, FEV1--0.81 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 52 mm Hg and 68 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 47 and 51 mm Hg respectively) and 20 patients with the predominance of emphysema--pink puffers (average VC--2.30 l, FEV1--0.86 l, PaO2 while breathing atmospheric air 60 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg after giving oxygen, PaCO2 39 and 40 mm respectively).
(12) Swimmers, boaters, and motor vehicle occupants were most frequently represented.
(13) Organisations representing Britain's 33,000 boaters and three million anglers agree something has to be done.
(14) David Suchet, the actor and boater, sent a message of support, saying: "I am fortunate in my life to have travelled extensively and enjoyed many other rivers worldwide.
(15) Delegates (1,650 of them by midday) are mostly lower-to-middle class, middle-to-old-aged white people, hordes of elderly bald men with red faces and moustaches (a terrifying sight); kilts, straw boaters and striped blazers, women dressed elaborately in Ukip gold or purple, a few tattoos and eyebrow rings too, a smattering of posh and Paul Sykes, ex-Tory zillionaire developer and Nigel-backer.
(16) Most boaters canoe or kayak the route, though motorboats and sailboats can be used in some sections.