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Bonnie


Definition:

  • (a.) See Bonny, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blake, 80, the star of In Cold Blood and the Baretta TV series, was accused of involvement in the death of his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley, who was shot outside a Los Angeles restaurant in May 2001.
  • (2) Later that day, Collins, Perkins and Jones were observed meeting again at the Castle pub, moving on to the upmarket Bonnie Gull Seafood Bar in nearby Exmouth Market.
  • (3) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
  • (4) Her first appearance in the New Yorker, in 1967, was a 6,000-word essay eulogising Bonnie And Clyde as "the most excitingly American movie since The Manchurian Candidate".
  • (5) It sends a signal to Xi Jinping that this is a president that means business Bonnie Glaser, foreign policy expert “The fact that he did this while Xi Jinping is in Mar-a-Lago is quite telling.
  • (6) I take you very, very seriously.” Pretzell and Petry are like Bonnie and Clyde, pursuing a course of ambush through the German public Jakob Augstein, Der Spiegel Not for a long time has so much been written and said about a single German politician (other than Merkel).
  • (7) An inquest into Bonnie's death has not yet taken place.
  • (8) A few yards from the Munich clock, the memorial to the victims of the 1958 air disaster, Ian McGill, 58, a haulage contractor from Bristol, was explaining its significance to his grand-daughters, Bonnie, eight, and Milly, seven.
  • (9) Measham's drug research was already in the pipeline when Bonnie died.
  • (10) The lovey-dovey duo – glimmers of spontaneous affection, particularly those initiated by Jay Z, sent the crowd into a frenzy – began with Bonnie & Clyde, with Beyonce seductively walking into view to reveal a fishnet leotard and matching ski mask.
  • (11) The actions of the police are showing the public what a tyrannical government looks like,” said Bonnie Leung, 27.
  • (12) When Don Was (Grammy-winning producer of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and many more) took over as president of the record label Blue Note earlier this year, one of his first decisions was to sign the 67-year old singer.
  • (13) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
  • (14) To this end he has, from the start, cloaked himself in personae, releasing his records via a small British independent label, Domino, under a series of tangentially related pseudonyms: Palace, Palace Music, Palace Songs and, latterly, Bonnie Prince Billy - 'It's got the Wild West, the Billy the Kid thing and the Celtic thing.'
  • (15) Bonnie Glaser, the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) thinktank in Washington, said a ruling that questioned or rejected China’s “nine-dash line” would not invalidate all of Beijing’s claims to land or maritime zones in the South China Sea.
  • (16) They are entirely without merit and are a classic example of studio 'bullying tactics,'" said lawyer Bonnie Eskenazi, in a statement.
  • (17) It makes sense to work with a UK law firm,” said Amasenibo Abere, a Bonny island community leader whose fishing grounds were devastated in late November 2014 when a Shell pipeline was damaged, spilling thousands of barrels of oil into creeks and swamps .
  • (18) I suppose my time there will pass quickly in a series of short, varied, representative scenes with Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out for a Hero playing in the background!” This was met in a silence chilled with liquid nitrogen.
  • (19) THE KALANICK FILE Born Travis Kalanick, 6 August 1976, in Los Angeles to Donald, an engineer, and Bonnie, who worked in advertising for the Los Angeles Daily News .
  • (20) Dawn McCarthy And Bonny "Prince" Billy Christmas Eve Can Kill You (Domino, 2012) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reading this on mobile?

Merry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
  • (superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
  • (superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.
  • (n.) A kind of wild red cherry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I did a quick survey of friends' and neighbours' families and found 11 young people and three men in their 40s and 50s on this merry-go-round.
  • (2) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
  • (3) On hearing the Rolf Harris verdicts, I felt vengeful, like many, I expect – condemning this man who led the public a merry dance and enjoyed enormous success while perpetrating abuse.
  • (4) Steph Merry, head of marine renewables at the Renewable Energy Association, said last year that only the giant barrage made sense.
  • (5) Interesting that there should be so many applications who are, according to the Merry Hill store, of an “incredibly high” standard, and so soon after graduation.
  • (6) Dinner guests were serenaded by opera singer Renee Fleming, a triple-Grammy award-winning soprano, who sang Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and the Puccini aria O Mio Babbino Caro.
  • (7) Banks stopped lending almost overnight, and the Wilsons' property merry-go-round suddently started looking increasingly shaky.
  • (8) Merry Go 'Round was praised by Katy Perry and a song that Musgraves co-wrote, Undermine , was played on the TV series Nashville , shown in the UK on Channel 4.
  • (9) With the private sector now calling the tune on affordable housing, while hiding the score in a locked room, it’s not hard to see why the chief executive of the National Housing Federation, David Orr, recently told his members that developers are “leading local authorities on a merry dance”.
  • (10) Amid all the schadenfreude, it’s worth remembering that two years ago, Arsène Wenger and his merry men were similarly derided after suffering a comical opening day home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa, before going on to win eight and draw one of their next nine league matches.
  • (11) Allowing for the odd lapse – such as his terrible musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2006 – he has done much fine work.
  • (12) Interviewed about the cuts and the economic outlook on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 on Sunday , Osborne looked grim and statesmanlike in repose – he has grown fleshier in office – but every time he began to speak his dimpled mouth formed a half-smile and his quick eyes were almost merry.
  • (13) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (14) We decided we wanted to offer it to a young asylum seeker.” At the Paris parish of Saint Merry to which and her husband, Philippe, belong, Pépin had heard of the Welcome to France project run by the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).
  • (15) "And going on that IVF merry-go-round with all the drugs and the stress, given the limited return ..." We also need to confront our illusions about having a genetic child if we are going to put so much faith in medical solutions, he adds.
  • (16) The last time he quit, two years ago as general election coordinator, he told Miliband: “After nearly 30 years of this, I feel like I’ve seen the merry-go-round turn too many times.” Unite had hijacked the selection process for the candidate for West Falkirk in favour of Watson’s office manager, Karie Murphy.
  • (17) At 14 she was high jumping 1.80m, she'd broken Katharine Merry's schools record, there was no hiding after that.
  • (18) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
  • (19) Given the attackers have only released a slice of the 100 terabytes of information they claim to have, Sony and its workers are set for a not-so-merry Christmas.
  • (20) Smoke, drink and make merry On the other hand, the British war veteran Henry Allingham had wildly differing advice (though he agrees on the smoking, at least), putting his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women. "

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