(n.) An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
(n.) A gallows.
Example Sentences:
(1) A collection of poems by his widow Karen Green, entitled Bough Down, won praise earlier this year , and Quack This Way , a tribute from his friend Bryan A Garner was published this month.
(2) Bough Down is a collection of prose poems interspersed with small collages, in which Green charts her "passage through grief", said small US publisher Siglo Press, which released the book earlier this spring.
(3) "They shiver in the wind and throw out boughs with a calculated aim, which is to be beautiful," wrote Ronald Blythe of a pair of young ashes near his home in Essex.
(4) Fragments showing up on the ceiling and the other walls – partly covered by a particularly horrible 1960s version of Morris's classic willow boughs design, whose owner could never have guessed they were burying a genuine piece by the master – suggest there is much more work to come.
(5) Instead, I fixed my eyes upwards to those boughs laden with keys.
(6) Then relax under laden boughs in the idyllic Orchard Tearoom, while the kids chase the peacocks.
(7) P. obscura primarily moves quadrupedally along large boughs; P. melalophos relies more on leaping between smaller supports.
(8) The modern day druids and pagans who assemble bearing green boughs for the winter and summer solstices, much mocked for inventing supposedly ancient rituals, may not be so far off the mark after all.
(9) "I worry I broke your kneecaps when I cut you down," she writes in Bough Down .
(10) Gerard Manley Hopkins admired the "contradictory supple curvings" of an ash's boughs.
(11) The plant Soma is described as "thousand boughs" and photographic evidence has been offered in support.
(12) Frank Bough took over as the main anchor in 1968 and stayed for 15 years, followed by Des Lynam for a decade from 1983 and then Steve Rider.
(13) It also introduced them to famous hosts from David Coleman to Frank Bough and Des Lynam.
(14) Right now wade, ankle deep, through flame-coloured leaves, catch a glimpse of ripening blue sloes shimmering in the undergrowth and dodge overhanging boughs laden with berries and rose hips.
(15) Alex is perched on a bough above him, naked under an olive-green parka, wide open down the front.
(16) Travel is primarily by brachiation along large boughs.
(17) "Ms Green turns out to be a profoundly good writer: Bough Down is lovely, smart and funny, in addition to being brutally clear and sad," writes the Wall Street Journal .
(18) In the tree picture, Lutz is on a lower bough, wearing only a red PVC coat, which is hanging open.
(19) On Breakfast Time, from 1983, he had a pop news slot and became the presenter Frank Bough's once-a-week stand-in.
(20) "Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject.
Bought
Definition:
(n.) A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
(n.) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
() imp. & p. p. of Buy.
(p. a.) Purchased; bribed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Buy
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(4) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(5) The odds are that Zuckerberg will one day face an opponent that can't be bought."
(6) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
(7) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(8) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
(9) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
(10) In the past when banks have been bought, there has been a period where the cover has applied to accounts held in both the "bought" bank and the buyer to give customers who now have more than £85,000 in a single institution time to move the excess.
(11) Data from a sample of completed property sales provided by mortgage lenders, representing about 65%-70% of homes bought with mortgages.
(12) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(13) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(14) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(15) Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is widely seen as sustainable, at least in the short term, as its bonds are bought up in large part by domestic investors.
(16) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(17) "I can't believe we nearly bought this," says the wife.
(18) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
(19) Some were bought by corporate breweries that turned them into straight venues.
(20) But Erik Britton, of City consultancy Fathom, said: "The LTRO [long term refinancing operation] and all those things, all it's done is bought a bit of time, but it hasn't addressed the structural problems, even slightly, even for Greece."