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Bowled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bowl

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (2) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
  • (3) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
  • (4) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
  • (5) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
  • (6) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
  • (7) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (8) Tip out the mix into a large bowl and add the sugar.
  • (9) Bowles achieved a total of 70,300 votes, while Mansell had 65,923 – a difference of 4,377.
  • (10) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (11) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
  • (12) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
  • (13) Melissa Miller, an associated professor of political science at Bowling Green state university in northern Ohio, said it was notable that Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, made many more visits to Ohio campuses this year.
  • (14) For a time it did indeed appear as though Manning was destined to follow the same path as Marino – his great idol – remembered as one of the all-time greats but forever haunted over his failure to win a Super Bowl.
  • (15) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
  • (16) Roberts, who has also streaked at the Super Bowl and Royal Ascot, scored in the Liverpool v Chelsea Carling Cup game at Anfield in 2000 and the 2002 Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
  • (17) That will end the college football season, but hey I just realized that the NFL Playoffs are still going on which means we'll have more football liveblogging here at the Guardian starting again this weekend where we will cover every game up to the Super Bowl.
  • (18) Thirty-five normal-hearing listeners' speech discrimination scores were obtained for the California Consonant Test (CCT) in four noise competitors: (1) a four talker complex (FT), (2) a nine-talker complex developed at Bowling Green State University (BGMTN), (3) cocktail party noise (CPN), and (4) white noise (WN).
  • (19) I’ve seen them listed at odds as long as 33-1 for the Super Bowl, which definitely seemed too long to me.
  • (20) Last year in a Radar accessible toilet I discovered a dirty syringe in the bowl.

Hit


Definition:

  • (pron.) It.
  • () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hit
  • (v. t.) To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).
  • (v. t.) To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.
  • (v. t.) To guess; to light upon or discover.
  • (v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
  • (v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.
  • (v. i.) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, -- often with implied chance, or luck.
  • (n.) A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
  • (n.) A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit.
  • (n.) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
  • (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
  • (n.) A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
  • (3) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (5) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
  • (6) Botswana, Kenya, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have also been badly hit.
  • (7) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
  • (8) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (9) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (10) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
  • (11) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
  • (12) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
  • (13) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
  • (14) Government borrowing has hit a record high for a September.
  • (15) The weapon is 13 metres long, weighs 60 tonnes and can carry nuclear warheads with up to eight times the destructive capacity of the bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war.
  • (16) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (17) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
  • (18) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (19) Two short homologous sequences in the rat insulin I enhancer fragment used, IEB2 and IEB1, have been described as playing a dominant role in the regulation of HIT hamster insulinoma cell-specific transcription of the insulin gene (1).
  • (20) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.

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