What's the difference between breeze and cakewalk?

Breeze


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Breeze fly
  • (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
  • (n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
  • (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
  • (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
  • (v. i.) To blow gently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (2) He "jumped without hesitation", said official sources quoted in the Daily Breeze.
  • (3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
  • (4) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
  • (5) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
  • (6) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
  • (7) In Zanzibar she lived in a modest breeze-block house with some of her "grandchildren" and their pigeons.
  • (8) But here, in our PS4 demo, everything is rendered in exquisite detail with real-time sunlight pouring in over the undulating mountains, reflecting over grasslands that sway in the breeze.
  • (9) The notion drifted away on the Istanbul breeze in the second-half, particularly after he had been forced to substitute Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini at half-time.
  • (10) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
  • (11) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (12) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
  • (13) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (14) One clip shows Yeates breezing into the shop, allowing the door to swing closed behind her.
  • (15) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
  • (16) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
  • (17) The occurrence of high concentrations of a PCB (Aroclor 1254) in the Pensacola estuary prompted field and laboratory studies by the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA).
  • (18) The architecture of the city acts as a giant cooling system that funnels Atlantic breezes through shaded streets in a triumph of civil engineering.
  • (19) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
  • (20) This created a single new company with a different name, Solar Breeze (Consolidated) Limited.

Cakewalk


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameroon’s early endeavour ensured this would be no cakewalk however.
  • (2) That combination had earned them the lead, the England striker’s first Liverpool goal converted slickly to suggest a cakewalk ahead.
  • (3) Finally, Walker's cakewalk indicates how energized the right is.
  • (4) "Governor Romney kept on making mistakes month after month so it made it look artificially like this was, might end up being a cakewalk," Obama said.
  • (5) They will be looking for Shaw to provide growth and although she admits it will not be a "cakewalk", she is comfortable with the challenge.
  • (6) To fully decommission Fukushima Daiichi might take 40 years and no one expects a cakewalk.
  • (7) It's this "hex factor'" as Linder puts it, that lends recent marathon gallery performances such as "The Darktown Cakewalk" and "Your Actions Are My Dreams" their dandy-occultist allure: Linder channelling mediums and beauty queens, ragtime performers and figures from magical English legend.
  • (8) Choose your cliche to describe what this election should be: cakewalk, turkey-shoot, breeze.
  • (9) It has been a cakewalk for the most part and it must have been slightly startling for Hodgson that Switzerland , their only opponent of real note, often passed the ball with greater distinction.
  • (10) The occupation was going to be a cakewalk, and British troops were supposed to be past masters at counter-insurgency.
  • (11) Adding more layers on top within the two-year timeframe allowed for Britain’s departure could prove far from a cakewalk.