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Bridal


Definition:

  • (n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
  • (n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dallas nurse Amber Vinson was diagnosed with Ebola days after visiting Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal store in Akron in October.
  • (2) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
  • (3) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
  • (4) There's a bridal gown for three- to six-year-olds, for instance, complete with a fake corsage.
  • (5) It's not like we are all going to be marching into Catholic churches in bridal dresses, but you just want to have the option.
  • (6) Whether it was because the walks gave mixed cultural signals, or my upbringing left me in ignorance of their significance, I don’t know, but they seemed part bridal, with the girls in their snowy dresses, part May queen festival and part brass band competition.
  • (7) She’d started work two hours early, at 3am, so she could leave in time to help the bridal party with their hair and nails before washing her car, attaching white ribbons to the bonnet and driving people to the ceremony.
  • (8) I’m only eating grapefruit and steam until my wedding.” “I enrolled my whole wedding party in bridal boot camp.” “I bought my dress in a size four even though I’m a size six.” And that’s totally fine, of course, if that’s your priority.
  • (9) 8 The Sensual World Celtic influences meet Balkan soundscapes on The Sensual World, which employs Bulgarian folk singers and – on this title track – a Macedonian bridal dance played on Uilleann pipes.
  • (10) Most of all, it knows that happy endings come in all guises, not just with a bridal veil.
  • (11) She references the recent study as she sits with me last Saturday afternoon, taking a few minutes away from a bridal shower for her granddaughter to talk about the spill and the proposed pipeline.
  • (12) Commercially available bridal veil nylon (BVN) in 2.0-3,0-, and 4.0-mm hexagonal mesh is being used as a sterile dressing for burns and many surgical problems.
  • (13) Operators of a north-east Ohio bridal shop linked to an Ebola survivor say the store is closing because it lost significant business and has been stigmatized.
  • (14) As she fretted over her bridal veil, Nancy told Diana, as she always had, "Nobody will be looking at you".
  • (15) Health officials said Vinson went to a bridal shop in Akron on Saturday, but otherwise remained at home with her family.
  • (16) Why I can’t wait to be a fat bride | Lindy West Read more It’s not that I’d ever particularly yearned for a grand gesture – the relationship I cherish lives in our tiny private moments (and, as I’d later discover at my bridal shower, I’m surprisingly uncomfortable being the object of public sincerity) – but the older I get and the longer I live in a fat body, the harder it is to depoliticise even simple acts.
  • (17) Traditional or spiritual motivations aside, the procedure is deemed a practical necessity for many parents – without it they cannot get a high bridal price when their daughter is married – if she can get a husband at all.
  • (18) My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a festival of class contempt; almost all bridal reality TV shows emphasise the greed, the covetousness, the shrill vulgarity of the female protagonist with all eyes upon her, while the real princess bride – Catherine Middleton for example – escapes any censure.
  • (19) As a finalist in the floristry category, Richards will spend two days in a packed exhibition hall, alongside 18 other young hopefuls from all over the world, completing tasks that could include anything from making a bridal bouquet to embellishing an item of clothing using petals and leaves.
  • (20) The bride's sisters made up the bridal party, and stepdad Bruce Jenner walked her down the aisle, the story said.

Bridle


Definition:

  • (n.) The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
  • (n.) A restraint; a curb; a check.
  • (n.) The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
  • (n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.
  • (n.) A mooring hawser.
  • (v. t.) To put a bridle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse.
  • (v. t.) To restrain, guide, or govern, with, or as with, a bridle; to check, curb, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse.
  • (v. i.) To hold up the head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It led on the bridle over the last but come second, called Doctoor.
  • (2) Fanti, who earns $68,000 a year after 24 years on the job and two promotions, bridles at the notion that government employees are overpaid.
  • (3) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (4) The use of various trephine sizes and the use of a bridle suture versus a scleral ring were evaluated by several visual parameters.
  • (5) The middle ear cavity contained a loose mass of connective tissue with few cells, forming sail-like bridles between air-filled spaces.
  • (6) Strength and direction of the bridle can be modified.
  • (7) The newly designed nasal bridle described herein has the advantages of easy and rapid placement.
  • (8) Nick bridles at suggestions that as there are rarely that many lights on in One Hyde Park flats at night, it might mean not many of the foreign buyers actually live there.
  • (9) Santos had bridled at suggestions before the game that Greece’s tactics have not developed since winning the European Championship in 2004 with a watertight defence and set-piece prowess.
  • (10) Beside the boluses for the forestomach of ruminants there are the hollow bridle for horses, the ear swabs (for resorptive application), the ocular (ocusert), nasal, and vaginal forms (for resorptive therapeutic use), the skin transmembrane therapeutic systems (TTS), the pourable (pour-on and spot-on) forms, 'autodas' osmotic mini-pumps, the depot-forms, the implants, the aerosol (inhalational) forms, the 'ear rings' (ear tags) as well as the dewlaps, the rings (for tails, limbs, and ears) and the medicated feeds and liquids, and the intramammary, intrauterine, and other therapeutic forms.
  • (11) Progressive Canadians are especially outraged at Harper’s introduction of controversial anti-terrorism laws ; environmentalists have bridled at a climate change record that includes dropping out of the Kyoto Protocol, while others are frustrated by what they see as Canada’s diminished standing on the world stage.
  • (12) U-shaped bridles snap on the frame front and an adjustable, interlocking strap fits over the bridles and passes under a protective mask sealing area.
  • (13) NSA veterans have bridled in the past at what they consider Obama’s tepid support, but both sides earlier showed support for each other.
  • (14) Even by those standards, the treatment of the Liu family is severe and underscores how the Nobel award embarrassed the Chinese government, which bridles at criticisms of its human rights record and its authoritarian political system.
  • (15) Those who encountered Refn through his hyper-stylised LA thriller Drive might bridle at Only God Forgives, whose fugue-state narrative style, amnesiac and futureless, has more in common with Valhalla Rising, the hallucinatory but only intermittently engaging Viking movie he made before Drive (though parts of it were magnificent, including Gary Lewis's Scottish pagan talking of the barbaric Christians: "They eat their own god; eat his flesh, drink his blood.
  • (16) A newly designed nasal bridle and rationale for its clinical use are described.
  • (17) If you want to see sleaze, just look in the mirror.” He also bridles slightly at the mention of the other phrase that is frequently applied to him – dirty trickster.
  • (18) Brennan bridles at that, saying it would be "a very weighty decision in terms of declassifying that report."
  • (19) These have been more dominated by bridle and adhesions (56%) from which (42%) post operative.
  • (20) Of Rojo’s injury, Van Gaal said: I don’t think he’s available next week [for the visit of Crystal Palace].” When it was put to him that United have only half the amount of Chelsea’s 26 points, the 63-year-old bridled.

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