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Bowling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bowl
  • (n.) The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.

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.

Pin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To peen.
  • (v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  • (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
  • (n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
  • (n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
  • (n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use
  • (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  • (n.) A linchpin.
  • (n.) A rolling-pin.
  • (n.) A clothespin.
  • (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  • (n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  • (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
  • (n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
  • (n.) Mood; humor.
  • (n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
  • (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
  • (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
  • (n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
  • (2) In difficult fractures we feel that change from external to internal fixation should be performed earlier; it makes early removal of the fixator pins possible and prevents the problems associated with prolonged use of fixator frames.
  • (3) The changes in nuclear morphology (karyometry) and DNA content in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) were analyzed on tissue sections.
  • (4) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (5) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (6) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
  • (7) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
  • (8) A Charnley apparatus or turnbuckles placed between the pins on each side of the fracture provided the mechanical advantage for repositioning the fracture fragments and achieving rigid fixation during healing.
  • (9) Ankle arthrodesis treated by external fixation frequently results in complications from pin tract infections, loss of position, nonunion, and malunion.
  • (10) There were no cases of pin-track osteomyelitis, fractures through pintracks, or neurovascular damage from pin insertion.
  • (11) We discuss the indications for operative treatment and the technique of internal fixation with 3 resorbable pins.
  • (12) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
  • (13) The OECD pinned the blame for the disadvantage for girls in maths and science on low expectations among parents and teachers, as well as lack of self-confidence and what it called the ability to “think like a scientist” in answering problems.
  • (14) Retrograde intramedullary pinning was accomplished in all calves, using 2 (n = 4 calves) or 3 (n = 8 calves) pins.
  • (15) The defective pinF gene is suggested to hae the same origin as P-pin on e14 by the restriction map of the fragment cloned from a Pin+ transductant that was obtained in transduction from S. flexneri to E. coli delta pin.
  • (16) The document says that Sienna Miller suspected her mobile phone was not secure and changed it twice, but Mulcaire's handwritten notes show that he succeeded in obtaining the new number, account number, pin code and password for all three phones.
  • (17) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
  • (18) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
  • (19) In AP and lateral radiographs of the hip, measurements are made of the cervicofemoral angles, the diameter of the femoral head and neck, and the distances from the central femoral neck axis to each pin.
  • (20) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.

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