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Brogan


Definition:

  • (n.) A stout, coarse shoe; a brogue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
  • (2) 6.42pm: Benedict Brogan on his blog says Vincent Cable has been seen in the Treasury this afternoon .
  • (3) Brogan added: "It has been a privilege to work for Paul Dacre and his remarkable team at the Daily Mail.
  • (4) The Daily Telegraph columnist Benedict Brogan recalled in 2011, when Rock started working in No 10, that he and Cameron repaired to the Two Chairmen pub on the day John Smith died in 1994.
  • (5) Ben Brogan does something similar at the Telegraph, as he did in pioneering form at the Mail previously.
  • (6) Brogan, who is returning to the Telegraph after almost five years at the Mail, four as political editor, will write a weekly column and a blog on Westminster.
  • (7) • Benedict Brogan in the Daily Telegraph says Tories are pessimistic about their chances of winning the next election.
  • (8) Benedict Brogan says Dan Snow's attempt to stage a Dunkirk-style rescue for Britons stranded in France provides a good example.
  • (9) I'd better give you the context: He was being grilled on the BBC Campaign show by host Jon Sopel, the Times' Rachel Sylvester, and Benedict Brogan from the Daily Telegraph.
  • (10) So much of the man has been so carefully stage-managed that we are still confused as to what he really represents, as Benedict Brogan pointed out in an excellent piece in the Telegraph earlier this week.
  • (11) • Benedict Brogan at the Telegraph says that Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband's reshuffles were more interesting than David Cameron's - but that that might not be a good thing for them.
  • (12) Brogan also wrote that Rock coined the phrase: "Cows moo, dogs bark, Labour put up taxes."
  • (13) The deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph, Benedict Brogan, said on Tuesday that he believes the right course of action is to launch a breakaway regulator.
  • (14) Benedict Brogan, the Daily Telegraph chief political commentator and associate editor, has been appointed deputy editor .
  • (15) Studies of time estimation have provided evidence that human time perception is determined by an internal clock containing a temporal oscillator and have also provided estimates of the frequency of this oscillator (Treisman, Faulkner, Naish, & Brogan, 1990; Treisman & Brogan, 1992).
  • (16) Brogan wrote: "For my part – and this is a personal view – I've concluded that we should note the outcome, thank the politicians for their engagement, and quietly but firmly decline to take part."
  • (17) Lib Dems • Benedict Brogan at the Telegraph says Norman Baker is a crank.
  • (18) Three hours later, soaking wet again, we arrive in the attractive market town of Ennis, home to well-known music pubs such as Brogan's, Cruises and the Diamond Bar.
  • (19) A 36-item scale developed by Brogan and Kutner was used to measure sex-role orientation.
  • (20) Benedict Brogan, the Daily Telegraph 's chief political commentator, who appeared on the show earlier this year following the paper's revelations about MPs' expenses, notes its host's uncanny ability to ability to manipulate the audience, a skill very few presenters possess.

Shoe


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg.
  • (n.) Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use.
  • (n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
  • (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
  • (n.) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
  • (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
  • (n.) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
  • (n.) The trough or spout for conveying the grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
  • (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
  • (n.) An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
  • (n.) An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
  • (n.) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; -- called also slipper, and gib.
  • (n.) To furnish with a shoe or shoes; to put a shoe or shoes on; as, to shoe a horse, a sled, an anchor.
  • (n.) To protect or ornament with something which serves the purpose of a shoe; to tip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) 39.5 per cent of children have had suitable foot for weight-bearing, with normal shoes, and 23, 25 per cent have had prosthesis for discrepancy.
  • (3) You could easily replicate the biggest threat he faces in the film by slipping off your shoes and taking a broom handle to a greenhouse.
  • (4) Less than 50% gained complete relief, however, and 58% experienced persistent discomfort in certain types of shoes.
  • (5) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (6) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
  • (7) A 5-year-old boy had accessory calcaneus (os trochleare) with pain, shoe pressure, and a varus position of the foot not reported previously.
  • (8) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (9) These include disease activity, presence or absence of symptoms, degree of deformity and resultant potential for complications, shoe intolerance, and level of activity.
  • (10) Founded in Belgium in 1953 it expanded into the UK by buying 47 Shoe City shops in 1998.
  • (11) It is concluded that the coefficient of limiting friction obtained during full-sole contact with the floor is a suitable means of distinguishing between tractional qualities of shoes.
  • (12) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (13) In follow-up examination of 71 cases for periods longer than one year, 79 per cent of the patients showed that the UCBL shoe insert and the Helfet heel seat improved the clinical and roentgenographic appearance of the foot.
  • (14) Conservative treatment consists of exercises and shoe appliances.
  • (15) You will leave your house without your watch or wristband, but you will never leave your house without your shoes.” Blending in with existing apparel The challenge faced by Google Glass and other wearable technologies is that they rely on the user being prepared to wear an extra item of apparel.
  • (16) The Guardian witnessed one desperate vignette in Gevgeliya on Saturday: a Syrian woman in her 40s asking a fellow traveller for money to buy shoes as hers were in tatters.
  • (17) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
  • (18) There has been a marked decline in the purchase of formal shoes over the past decade.
  • (19) The only people we saw was a small party on snow shoes.
  • (20) I'm glad I didn't say I'd eat my shoe if one of Carragher and Terry didn't give away a penalty.

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