(a.) A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer.
(interj.) Well done! excellent! an exclamation expressive of applause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
(2) The home side dominated the opening quarter of an hour as Argentina struggled to find their feet but the tide turned when Di Maria curled a right-footed shot past Claudio Bravo for the equaliser 10 minutes later.
(3) Ulivarri, the president of the Rio Bravo chamber of commerce, knew that the body might disappear for good if he did not move quickly, but he did not want to risk a confrontation with either gang, who are both known to monitor the road.
(4) In an event at the center's Studio 8, more typically used for the Sunday night NFL pre-game show, NBC executives, alongside Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, announced details of a broadcast plan that will make extensive use of digital platforms as well as the broader NBC cable family of channels (particularly on the final day of the season when every game will be broadcast simultaneously across a variety of channels including Bravo, E!, USA, MSNBC and others).
(5) The Americans, whose 1956 Bravo bomb had covered the people of Rongelap island in radiation, had removed all the population's thyroid glands to prevent cancer killing them and were using them as guinea pigs to see what further effect continued radiation had on their health.
(6) Flaviviruses were separated into eight complexes [tick-borne encephalitis (12 viruses), Rio Bravo (six), Japanese encephalitis (10), Tyuleniy (three), Ntaya (five), Uganda S (four), dengue (four) and Modoc (five)] containing 49 viruses; 17 other viruses were not sufficiently related to warrant inclusion in any of these complexes.
(7) "Three days before payday I would see people who normally eat not eating," said Bravo.
(8) Just as the report appeared, a long line of murderous attacks on reporters in the state of Veracruz culminated in the discovery of the decapitated body of a freelance website reporter, Moisés Sánchez , who had disappeared in the small town of Medellín de Bravo.
(9) This is a very big project for me and my family.” But his reflections on what he has seen so far chime with Bravo’s concern about an absence of Darwinism in Qatari football.
(10) Track listing: What Goes Boom Greens and Blues Indie Cindy Bagboy Magdalena 318 Silver Snail Blue Eyed Hexe Ring the Bell Another Toe in the Ocean Andro Queen Snakes Jaime Bravo Track listing for Live in the USA (feat Lenchantin on bass): Bone Machine Hey Ana Magdalena 318 Snakes Indie Cindy I’ve Been Tired Head On The Sad Punk Distance Equals Rate Times Time Something Against You Isla de Encanta Planet of Sound Reading this on mobile?
(11) First, Álvaro Negredo, once of this parish, came close to lobbing Bravo as the goalkeeper back-pedalled to tip over.
(12) Claudio Bravo made two superb saves – first from José Giménez’s header, then from Antoine Griezmann’s close-range shot.
(13) Mourinho was incensed that Clattenburg did not award his team a penalty and show a red card to Claudio Bravo after Manchester City’s new goalkeeper, at fault for Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s goal, dived into a challenge on Wayne Rooney 11 minutes into the second half.
(14) Reports have suggested the Barcelona keeper Claudio Bravo is set to complete a switch to the Etihad Stadium.
(15) Considering for each parameter the sum of the evaluations Alpha + Bravo, the clinically acceptable rate per cent of results has been quite good.
(16) Raymond Bravo, 36, from San Pablo, California, who earned $10.25 an hour as a janitor for a Walmart's Richmond Hilltop Mall store in California, working 30 hours a week, said he was fired from his job after taking part in the strikes and demonstrations in June.
(17) Thereafter Blackwood was a model of discretion, a mature performance in support of Bravo, who batted superbly.
(18) He dragged his shot wide of Claudio Bravo’s left-hand post but it was ample reminder that he was capable of piercing defences at any time.
(19) Bravo gets a fingertip to it, but can't keep it out.
(20) This includes Virgin Media Television, owner of channels such as Living, Challenge, Trouble and Bravo, and housed the company's 50% stake in the UKTV pay-TV joint venture with the BBC.
Desperado
Definition:
(n.) A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
Example Sentences:
(1) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(2) where, in certain circumstances, the authorities order an open, compulsory HIV test in an individual case or unlinked tests for epidemiological purposes, or, if need be, for a physician's notification of the public health authorities in cases of desperado behaviour by HIV positive patients.
(3) But for his friends, it is the slower, sweeter but still just as lyrically adept songs that show Zevon off at his best, such as Desperados Under the Eaves, which Hiaasen describes as "one of the finest, coolest rock songs ever written", and Boom Boom Mancini ("One of the coldest appraisals of the sport of boxing ever written," according to King).
(4) These were not the hardliners and ideological desperadoes that some people might imagine: their politics felt open, self-critical and realistic about the huge tasks it faces.
(5) Three more albums for American followed, with 2002's The Man Comes Around in particular earning rapturous critical acclaim for commanding reinventions of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Desperado and Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.
(6) She had a tiny part in the girl-gang movie Mi Vida Loca and was appearing on a Spanish-language television chat show when she was spotted by Robert Rodriguez, who was impressed by her "ballsiness" and cast her as the female lead in Desperado, the big-budget remake of his Mexican western El Mariachi.
(7) However, as the mockery of this year’s crop of Apprentice desperadoes gets underway, maybe we should stay aware of how we’re being “distracted”.
(8) My two favourite Tex-Mex establishments are Desperados (4818 Greenville Avenue, desperadosrestaurant.com ), a family-owned joint with great fajitas, and Pepe's & Mito's in Deep Ellum (2911 Elm Street, pepesandmitos.com ), which does chipotle wine sauce enchiladas I have had dreams about.
(9) They want to hear what the guy from Con Air and Desperado has to say.
(10) It's one thing to submit to this attention-seeking nonsense if you're a C-list reality TV desperado trying to get on the cover of Nuts; it's another if you are professedly one of the most powerful women in the entertainment business who has no need of such tactics.
(11) As an actor he has featured in EastEnders and as basketball coach Baggy Awolowo in the children's TV series Desperados .