(n.) Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
(n.) That which is given generously or liberally.
(n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
(3) The bounty on his head seems to confirm the NTC's preference for Gaddafi's summary execution.
(4) In a memo sent out to the NFL's 32 teams, Goodell ordered owners to make sure their clubs are not offering bounties now.
(5) The US had offered a bounty of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest, putting him in the same echelon as IBaghdadi and Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, who is believed to be based in Pakistan.
(6) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(7) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
(8) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
(9) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
(10) And while plans for a spin-off movie based around bounty hunter Boba Fett appear to be on hold, there are increasingly powerful rumours that the greatest Star Wars icon of all time, Darth Vader himself, will appear in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .
(11) Vitt was aware of the bounties and, according to the league, later admitted he had "fabricated the truth" when interviewed in 2010.
(12) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
(13) Picking up, it seems, from Private Eye's fortnightly teasing, by which Gordon Brown is depicted as the Supreme Leader of some decidedly half-cock Soviet-style state, here we see a heroic communist-style family, circa 1945, gazing into the bountiful lands of New Labour's next five year plan.
(14) Never needing to work again, he ploughed his bounty into various large-scale commercial properties then sailed around the world for 14 years with his wife, Julia.
(15) – sadistic mob boss Black Mask has placed a hefty bounty on the nascent superhero's head.
(16) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
(17) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
(18) In the space of five days, panic-stricken authorities have launched the biggest manhunt in modern times, placed a €4m bounty on his head – dead or alive – and thrown a security cordon around the capital not seen since the 2004 Olympics.
(19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
(20) The Linwood Street urban farm is now in its fourth planting season, producing a bounty of corn, squash and potatoes for local residents to harvest, again for free.
Opulence
Definition:
(n.) Wealth; riches; affluence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) Using skills acquired in his first job with the accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and his second, buying and selling companies for JP Morgan, he minted a commercial model from the calm opulence of United's discreet Mayfair office that soon became the envy of the football world.
(3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(4) The film attacked Luzhkov's opulent lifestyle and that of his wife, Yelena Baturina, the world's third richest woman.
(5) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
(6) This is a song so opulently miserable that it's almost a parody of heartbreak songs.
(7) Merkel was on Monday the first western leader to woo Erdoğan in his new presidential palace in Ankara, a widely mocked exercise in over-the-top opulence that cost a reported $600m (£415m) to build.
(8) The wedding was a characteristically opulent affair, with specially made china bearing the logo Prince had taken to using in lieu of a name in the wake of his rebellion against his record label, Warner Brothers (he was known publicly as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince at the time).
(9) The refurbishment of the Kensington Palace apartment for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, a renovation boosted by £4.5m of taxpayers' money, has made the space neither "lavish" nor "opulent" but just like "an ordinary family home", according to royal aides.
(10) On Sunday, almost a year after the internet entrepreneur and several of his associates were arrested in a spectacular dawn raid on the mansion, about 200 invited guests will gather at the opulent estate for the launch of Mega.
(11) This time, though, Valery Gergiev and co are not bringing one of their Russian specialities, but Die Frau ohne Schatten, the most opulent of Richard Strauss's operas.
(12) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.
(13) It is made of luxurious materials including silver and silk, with an ostrich feather and a neat row of holes that would once have carried an opulently jewelled hatband.
(14) But if you’re investor Carl Icahn, billionaire owner of Atlantic City’s decaying but still opulent, elephant-fronted Taj, you have some odds in your favor.
(15) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum The sheer opulence of the materials, including little pearls and gems stitched into the fabric, doomed many of the items when they fell out of fashion or favour after the Reformation and there were bonfires of precious fabrics to recover the gold and silver from the thread.
(16) Based on this information, a subsegment of the total area is delineated as a possible neighborhood for an office location and a physician-opulation ratio for this subsegment is determined.
(17) Flamboyant opulence and welfare-to-work, it's fair to say, are not the easiest of fits.
(18) I remember sitting in my parents’ council house in Carshalton and hearing about the incredibly opulent funeral of Queen Mary and thinking, no matter how rich or important you are, life always ends the same way.
(19) If you see a medieval city on screen today, chances are it was knocked up on a computer, and even as you watch it, all this on screen opulence – based on binary units of data – will look as convincing a year from now as the back-projection in Hitchcock's Marnie.
(20) The former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb has provided 11 luxury watches to secure the $10m (£6.4m) bond that enabled his release from custody, along with his wife’s wedding ring, three opulent cars and 10 properties.