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Bruin


Definition:

  • (a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
  • (2) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
  • (3) But that is the thing that we have to do: We have to try and fight through that,” Team Canada assistant coach Claude Julien said before his Bruins played the Kings Monday night .
  • (4) Houston bring on Weaver for Bruin (who has cut a rather lonely figure up front, all alone) 3.38am GMT 72 mins SKC win anther corner and Zusi puts it into the right area but again it's met by a Houston head.
  • (5) In Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Boston Bruins held a 2-1 lead over the Chicago Blackhawks with 77 seconds remaining in regulation and looked poised to force a Game Seven in Chicago.
  • (6) Bruins, Cnossen and van Boheemen built their first rough prototype using the heater element from a hairdryer and some other stuff they picked up at the home improvement store, Home Depot for €40 (£33).
  • (7) Then Jonathan Toews stunned the Boston crowd by pushing the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, tying the game up at 2-2 with little more than a minute left.
  • (8) The large effect of low PCO2 on both fetal and adult erythrocytes was related to the higher affinity for CO2 of deoxyhemoglobin compared to oxyhemoglobin and a model for CO2 binding analogous to that described by de Bruin et al.
  • (9) Chicago's Andrew Shaw finally ended t he fifth longest ever Stanley Cup final game 12:08 minutes into triple overtime (112:08 in total to save you the mathematics) and capped a 4-3 comeback victory for the Blackhawks over the Boston Bruins.
  • (10) And it paid off in a goal early on, care of Chris Kelly , a new standout in the Bruins lineup.
  • (11) Here's a look courtesy of our favourite wikipedia: 1942 Stanley Cup when the Toronto Maple Leafs came back and won four straight over the Detroit Red Wings 1975 Stanley Cup quarterfinals when the New York Islanders came back and won four straight over the Pittsburgh Penguins 2004 American League Championship Series when the Boston Red Sox came back and won four straight over the New York Yankees 2010 Stanley Cup conference semifinals when the Philadelphia Flyers came back and won four straight, winning the fourth game 4-3 after being down by a score of 0-3 to the Boston Bruins 2014 Stanley Cup conference quarterfinals when the Los Angeles Kings came back and won four straight over the San Jose Sharks.
  • (12) BRUINS 4, DEVILS 3, OT In Boston, David Krejci completed his second career hat trick in overtime to give the Boston victory and its first season sweep of New Jersey since 1985-86.
  • (13) Updated at 2.56am GMT 2.55am GMT 45 mins Bruin breaks past one and then two men and shoots hard and low from 22 yards out.
  • (14) With two fast goals in the dying moments of the third period Monday night in Boston, the Chicago Blackhawks came from behind to beat the Bruins 3-2 and win the 2013 Stanley Cup.
  • (15) Several studies have suggested that binding of the receptor antibody and TSH to the TSH receptor is mutually exclusive (Manley et al., 1977; Petersen et al., 1977; Rickards et al., 1981) but recently the formation of termolecular complexes consisting of detergent solubilized receptors, labelled TSH and Graves' IgG has been reported (Konishi et al., 1982; De Bruin et al., 1984).
  • (16) 7.56pm GMT 2 mins: A long ball for Will Bruin in the SKC box but he's judged to have fouled Collin.
  • (17) The Rangers will play the winner of Wednesday's Game 7 at Boston between the Bruins and Montreal, while Chicago will meet either Anaheim or Los Angeles, with the Ducks leading that series 3-2.
  • (18) #RunWithUs November 7, 2013 HoustonDynamo (@HoustonDynamo) The @DirectEnergy starting XI: Hall; Sarkodie, Boswell, Brunner, Ashe; García, Creavalle, Clark, Davis ©; Barnes, Bruin #DreamScreamBelieve November 7, 2013 That is quite an impressive piece of sponsorship that the Dynamo managed to slip in there.
  • (19) In and around that they gave up two soft goals to Will Bruin, whose resurgence under Coyle is one of the early stories of the season.
  • (20) Bruins and his colleagues also approached academic medical researchers, who agreed that malaria detection was a good use for their PCR machine.

Folk


Definition:

  • (n. collect. & pl.) Alt. of Folks

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ‘Many of our kids become radicalized at some point’ – that’s what the government wants to hear, that’s what these folks want to hear.
  • (2) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (3) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
  • (4) Our folks died to get us the right to vote, so go out and use it," he told his flock.
  • (5) These folk spend in a day what most people earn in a year on hiring hotel suites and setting up temporary fashion-show rooms in the hysterical hope that their wares will attract the eye of that most important person in town that week: the celebrity stylist.
  • (6) Among these volunteers, there were some folk healers.
  • (7) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (8) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
  • (9) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
  • (10) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
  • (11) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
  • (12) If you speak to hard-nosed folk in Washington, they think it's a good relationship, but it's not the 'special relationship'."
  • (13) Anything to get attention!” Who wouldn’t want to have these folks in charge?
  • (14) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
  • (15) And she met Jimmie Miller, better known later as the folk singer Ewan MacColl, who became her husband.
  • (16) If you needed a soundtrack to a film about dodgy diplomatic manouvering by folk in linen suits, this would do the job.
  • (17) "OK, folks, you can plan something else for Oscar Night 2013 .
  • (18) Self-care, such as resting by lying down, using home remedies and self-medication including household drugs, Toyama kusuri and folk medicine, was practiced for 101 problems (62.7 percent).
  • (19) These are folks in special circumstances, complex circumstances, therefore the government must assist.
  • (20) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.

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