(n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
(n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MP for Romford urged Cameron to show "bulldog spirit" at the talks.
(2) In each case a small bulldog clamp was applied to the renal artery for less than 30 minutes.
(3) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(4) The chief justice is pursuing him with bulldog determination and the letter of the law is on his side.
(5) The former MEP called for the British "bulldog confidence" to come to the fore to push for the completion of the single market.
(6) Duplication of a kidney and ureter in an 18-month-old male English Bulldog was demonstrated radiographically and was confirmed surgically.
(7) Unilateral ataxia of the head and trunk and right-sided paralysis of the trigeminal, facial, and hypoglossal nerves were the major neurologic dysfunctions in a nine-year-old male French bulldog.
(8) They rallied to make the top eight and were outstanding last week to beat the Western Bulldogs in their elimination final.
(9) Rosie Redknapp chose to give his his Monaco bank account the password Rosie47 after his beloved pet bulldog.
(10) The Conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson , said the coalition looked like "a kind of cross between a bulldog and a chihuahua".
(11) Redknapp told the court that when asked to chose a password for the account, he had opted for Rosie47, in honour of his pet bulldog and the year of his birth.
(12) You battered the Canterbury Bulldogs to win the World Club Challenge in February - was that the highlight of your career so far?
(13) We go out on the field together and it’s 26 blokes knocking seven shades out of each other.” The 27-year-old captained his Batley Bulldogs side against their local rivals, the Dewsbury Rams, on Sunday.
(14) Spina bifida was diagnosed in four English Bulldogs and one Collie dog.
(15) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(16) In order to test whether the use of vascular rings to assess residual vascular function may be a better method, rabbit thoracic aortas were occluded by five types of clamps: a Fogarty softjaw bulldog, a Fogarty Hydragrip, a 6-inch Satinsky clamp, an Edslab bulldog, and a silicone vessel band.
(17) It is a model of temporary intestinal ischemia and consists of occluding both superior mesenteric vessels with a bulldog clamp for varying periods of time.
(18) Even by the seldom conventional standards of the professional football world, the saga of bonuses, offshore bank accounts and a beloved bulldog that has unfolded in the sober confines of Southwark crown court over the last three weeks has been a remarkable one.
(19) Single right coronary artery (CA) associated with pulmonic stenosis was found in 3 English Bulldogs and a Boxer, suggesting a genetic predisposition for the associated anomalies.
(20) Did I skulk in dodgy pubs with bull-necked men with shaved heads and bulldogs?
Mammoth
Definition:
(n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.
(a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
Example Sentences:
(1) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(2) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(3) Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
(4) The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said only that he was under investigation, but the website of the People's Daily, the official party newspaper, drew links to Ji's oversight of mammoth infrastructure projects in the city and his connections to a detained construction tycoon.
(5) Although EU member states will provide more than half the staff, debt-ridden Athens faces a mammoth task in getting 1,500 staff in place at a time when public sector recruitment is frozen.
(6) Looking beyond the liberation ceremony, the NTC faces a mammoth task.
(7) Another mammoth playoff effort by Houston and it is they who will face the winners of New York Red Bulls vs DC United in the Eastern Conference final.
(8) 3.49am BST Rangers 2-2 Kings, 4:45, 3rd period Yet another turnover by Giradi and big Jeff Carter is skating in front of the net - he unleashes a mammoth shot that's high and wide!
(9) DNA was isolated from tissue samples of several mammoth specimens, radiocarbon dated between 10,000 and 53,000 years old.
(10) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
(11) The humanitarian system: 'A mammoth machinery losing track of what it is for' Read more Now we must turn these commitments into action.
(12) Other artefacts from the site include an exquisitely carved mammoth ivory spearhead.
(13) Former schemes were tiny but this one is mammoth, the debt kept cunningly off the public borrowing books (which the Office for National Statistics allowed; it's said the Treasury was amazed).
(14) After the biggest debt write-down in the history of world finance and two EU-IMF-sponsored bailouts worth a mammoth €240bn (£190bn), Greece is still far from being saved and, worse, is slipping inexorably into social meltdown with its political arena ever more radicalised.
(15) Even now, there is a sense that it could go either way, that we might pass this mammoth test or flunk it.
(16) To do so would be a mammoth task: 300 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute, which would require more than 50,000 full-time staff doing nothing but watching videos for eight hours a day.
(17) The new system was devised under Labour, but campaigners blame this government for rolling it out nationwide last year, beginning the mammoth task of retesting all 1.6 million incapacity benefit claimants, at a rate of 11,000 a week, before the system was ready.
(18) Other economic data from China has underscored the country’s mammoth task of rebalancing the economy away from reliance on its vast manufacturing sector and exports to a more diverse mix.
(19) Mancini has a clause in his £35m, five-year contract that following his removal ensures he will not receive a mammoth payoff from City akin to that which José Mourinho can expect if removed by Real Madrid as their coach.
(20) It would then launch a rights issue at €0.05 a share, well below the current price of €0.30, to give bondholders a cash top-up payment, while repaying some of its mammoth bank debts with the €200m proceeds of its continuing disposals programme.