(n.) One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.
(n.) The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.
(n.) In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.
Example Sentences:
(1) He made a great pass and CB hit a big shot.” Bosh praised his team-mate’s unselfishness.
(2) With this in mind, his new deal feels like Miami paying for past results, rewarding Bosh for his often overlooked contributions during the Heat's four-season reign on top of the East.
(3) Chris Bosh finished with 18 points as the Heat equaled the mark set by the 2007-08 Houston Rockets.
(4) Chris Bosh is on the line here, the whole Big Three are getting in on the freebies, and he makes both.
(5) Chris Bosh told those folks not to bother coming for Game 7.
(6) 1.23am BST Heat 13-5 Spurs, 6:54 remaining, 1st quarter Chris Bosh makes a layup and then, close to halfway through the first quarter the Spurs finally get their first field goal of the game, a Kawhi Leonard three-pointer.
(7) Because of the size and timing of Bosh's new contract, it felt like something of a panic move, one the Heat could regret around years four and five when Bosh will be far from his peak.
(8) Bosh and Wade - the other members of the Big Three who sat alongside James as he promised titles at his Miami welcoming party two summers ago - both had strong games.
(9) With Bosh back in the fold, it was all but inevitable that Miami would re-sign Wade, who also opted out of his contract earlier in the offseason .
(10) Needless to say, it would be a huge blow to the Heat if James took his talents anywhere else, particularly if there is any truth in the rumors that Bosh will head elsewhere, possibly to the Houston Rockets , if Miami fails to re-sign James.
(11) A big reason that the Heat have been surviving without Chris Bosh has been that they’ve gotten meaningful contributions from the likes of Luol Deng, Joe Johnson and Amar’e Stoudemire.
(12) The Boshe raid was part of Operation Thunder, which was launched in July 2013 and has resulted in the detention of 11,000 suspects and the seizure of eight tonnes of drugs.
(13) Who would have thought coming in that in a game featuring LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Paul George, Roy Hibbert, Chris Bosh and Ray Allen, Indiana's Lance Stephenson would be the best player on the court by far.
(14) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(15) Ignore the criticism and the played out, ( often transphobic ) jokes: there's a reason the Heat ran into trouble when Bosh was out with an abdominal injury in the 2012 playoffs.
(16) Dwyane Wade (3-13 FG, 10 points) was subdued and perhaps feeling his troublesome knees again and Chris Bosh had just 12 points, while point guard Mario Chalmers’ almighty struggles continued.
(17) If Wade and Bosh are healthier and more effective than they were during the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat should be able to the defeat the Spurs.
(18) Chris Bosh finally breaks through with a jumper and someone calls a timeout.
(19) Updated at 2.22am BST 2.20am BST Pacers 29-39 Heat - 5:52 remaining, 2nd Quarter West makes a jumper, but unfortunately for him that's completely overshadowed by the reappearance of Chris Bosh from the multiverse, he knocks off five straight points, the last three on a downtown shot assisted by the also recently resurrected Ray Allen and the Pacers call mercy... er, timeout.
(20) If we learned anything from LeBron’s last Decision, when very few real or self-styled insiders had him joining Bosh and Wade in Miami, it’s that nobody truly knows how the NBA offseason will pan out until all the contracts are signed (and sometimes not even then).
Poppycock
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Gerry Doherty, leader of the TSSA union, and a vocal opponent of Network Rail's bonus payments, said the company's claims of record punctuality were "poppycock".
(2) He said: ‘I’d replace it with something terrific.’” That mix of populism and poppycock presented by the resounding Trump is causing tension even within Fox .
(3) If that sounds like poppycock, it's probably because it is.
(4) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” The tensions surrounding the reshuffle were illustrated in the early evening as a heated discussion appeared to break out in Corbyn’s office after the Labour leader outlined his thinking for the reshuffle to Benn.
(5) • Peter Stott, Met Office Hadley Centre, to Phil Jones and others, 8 September 2004 (email 4923) Stott is preparing for a meeting with the ecologist David Bellamy, who has publicly called global warming "poppycock", and is being cautious about not overstating the evidence in case ongoing research shows it to be untrue.
(6) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “It’s poppycock and piffle”: Diane Abbott dismisses shadow foreign secretary rumour Lewis, a new MP who has served in the army in Afghanistan, said he would not be keen to take on a shadow cabinet role so quickly.