(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.
Skimmer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
(n.) Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
(n.) Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
Example Sentences:
(1) 39 min Superb football from Spain: Fabregas drifts inside before floating a rescue-club chip towards Torres, who flicks it over his head before testing Afinkeev with a skimmer.
(2) The government sent skimmers and booms to help clear up the oil , while BP recruited an "armada" of fishermen , otherwise banned from fishing for shrimp off the waters off Louisiana, to help lay some of the 2.25 million feet of containment booms to contain the slick.
(3) The sections of boom he had seen out in the sea were laid piecemeal and at random, and there seemed to be far too few skimmers drawing up the oil.
(4) Collisional activation was carried out in the high-pressure region between the capillary exit and the skimmer entrance to the mass analyzer.
(5) There have been more than 6,390 vessels (including skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery ships) and over 11m feet of boom deployed offshore to reduce the amount of oil reaching the shoreline.
(6) Clutch size (3.1 to 3.4) of Lavaca Bay black skimmers (Rynchops niger) was no different than that (3.4) at a reference colony near Laguna Vista.
(7) Desolvation is effected by the use of controlled heat transfer through the long capillary tube and collisional activation in a region of reduced pressure between the capillary tube exit and the skimmer.
(8) Heavy metal and selenium concentrations were analyzed in breast feathers of adult black skimmers Rynchops niger, a species with marked sexual size dimorphism in which males average 35% heavier than females.
(9) Some 266,000 barrels of oil had been collected by skimmers out of a total of more than 6m barrels that had dispersed since the rig exploded on 20 April.
(10) His next save was genuinely required as he dived low to deny Necid’s low skimmer.
(11) The positive-ion spectrum was dominated by an ion corresponding to a sodiated molecule when a low potential difference between the capillary exit (nozzle) and the skimmer was employed, but when the capillary exit voltage was increased, fragmentation of PAF was observed.
(12) Eggshell thinning in Forster's terns (7%) and black skimmers (5%) was below that associated with lowered reproduction.
(13) The cost of dealing with the disaster includes the flotilla of 275 skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery vessels being used to collect and disperse the slick, as well as the efforts to stem the spill on the sea bed.
(14) "There were no visible research vessels, and the only visible relief effort in this area was about 30 shrimp boats off the shore of Little Gozier island pulling booms, with no skimmers taking the oil off the surface."