(v. t.) A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
(v. t.) To use; to enjoy.
(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
(v. t.) To deserve; to earn.
Example Sentences:
(1) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(2) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
(3) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
(4) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(5) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
(6) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
(7) Cameron said the common cause identified in the text referred to the fact his party and Brooks's newspapers had the same agenda.
(8) But yes, the thing about Brooke is that she’s the classic American hustler,” she says.
(9) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
(10) Summer Zervos: Apprentice contestant claims Trump kissed and groped her Read more “There’s an old principle,” said William Galston , a former adviser to Bill Clinton and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
(11) As the strain of this unconsummated relationship told on both parties, Brooke’s true feelings began to surface.
(12) And Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers, which is also calling on members to back the boycott, said there were ways of moderating teacher assessment to make it more reliable.
(13) He said he counted dozens of Afghan asylum seekers who have been brought to Brook House immigration removal centre, near Gatwick, over the last few weeks.
(14) All the subjects took the Brook Reaction Test, the aim of the inquiry being to ascertain whether this test differentiates (scored blind) between the experimental groups and their controls.
(15) Two hundred ninety-eight ileal pouch patients and 406 Brooke ileostomy patients who had the operations performed for chronic ulcerative colitis or familial adenomatous polyposis formed the basis of the study.
(16) 8.22pm BST 39 mins Ball given away again in midfield , although Brooks then defends against Dzeko well enough.
(17) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
(18) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
(19) 3.38pm BST My colleague Libby Brooks , who is at the scene, says she has gone round the back of the building and can see most of the roof destroyed.
(20) John Brooks, a 21-year-old centre-back who had never played in an official game for the USA, coming off the bench to score an 86th-minute winner in their World Cup opener against Ghana on Monday night .
Brookside
Definition:
(n.) The bank of a brook.
Example Sentences:
(1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(2) The functional end results in the San Francisco General series were rated excellent or satisfactory in 40 per cent and failures in 60 per cent, and in the Brookside series there were 75 per cent excellent or satisfactory results and 25 per cent failures.
(3) He became a producer and director, advising on the creation of Brookside, but then he was approached to help with the second series of Spitting Image.
(4) I remember one of Brookside's leading writers, Jimmy McGovern, telling me in 1996 how the problem for the show began when, as he put it, "inflation set in".
(5) "We went last year and the party was on the Brookside set.
(6) In the San Francisco General series the incidence of avascular necrosis was 43 per cent and of non-union, 23 per cent, while in the Brookside series the incidences were 12.5 per cent and 12.5 per cent, respectively.
(7) Brookside was, at the time, especially radical since it junked that staple notion of the British soap, that the action must revolve around the local pub.
(8) Phil Redmond , the man behind Grange Hill , Brookside and Hollyoaks, has criticised the lack of working-class voices on British television and called for the BBC and Channel 4 to be merged.
(9) A lready well-known as the setting for soaps - Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, previously Brookside - the north of England has been having something of a moment in shorter-run TV dramas.
(10) Colin Russell's arrival in Albert Square in 1986 felt like a watershed, as did the 1994 kiss between Beth and Margaret (Anna Friel and Nicola Stephenson) in Brookside.
(11) It all goes back to Brookside and Beth Jordache's lesbian kiss and the domestic abuse suffered by her mother resulting in Trevor being buried under the patio.
(12) They were so popular that what happened in Albert Square or Brookside Close could provoke questions in parliament; today they are so marginal to British TV and national life that it is difficult to imagine that happening again.
(13) In a retrospective review of 119 intracapsular hip fractures treated by the Deyerle method (seventy-nine patients treated at San Francisco General Hospital and forty at Brookside Community Hospital), fifty-nine patients were available for follow-up after two or more years or were rated as failures before that time.
(14) Northern slaughterhouse, more like’ Read more The 66-year-old, who oversaw Brookside for 21 years before its cancellation in 2003, said television was no longer representative of the diversity of the UK and was failing to tell “ordinary stories”.
(15) A smile breaks out as I wave hopefully and Manc scally mutates into professional scouser: Phil Redmond CBE, writer and creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks, not to mention honorary professor of media at Liverpool John Moores University .
(16) "Paul Abbott (Clocking Off, Shameless) came through Coronation Street, Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Hillsborough, The Street) came through Brookside.
(17) At the bar, I found myself next to a genuine star, Sue Johnston of Brookside and The Royle Family, who was lovely.
(18) Then, Brookside (1982-2003), set in a Liverpool suburb, and later EastEnders (1985-present), set in a fictionalised east London, gave the British soap a new lease of life by returning the genre to its manifest destiny: right down to the specially built cul-de-sac in suburban Merseyside and the faux-East End Albert Square in Hertfordshire, the new soaps were simulacra that told us about how we really lived.
(19) Brookside is a second or third tier treatment unit for disturbed adolescents.
(20) The road was lined with housing estates under construction, with vast homes, like Brookside on steroids.