(n.) A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
(n.) The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(3) According to unconfirmed reports, he made up to £3m a year through the years of boom and bust and he now owns a £4m home in Fulham and another worth £2m in Chelsea.
(4) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
(5) The five major commercial banks saw around €2bn of deposits withdrawn by customers anxious that Greece was nearing the end of its credit line with lenders and about to go bust.
(6) Listen to Stoopid Symbol Of Woman Hate or Can't Stand Up For 40-Inch Busts (both songs were inspired by a hatred of sexist advertising) and you can hear Amon Duul and Hawkwind scaring the living shit out of Devo and Clock DVA.
(7) The bust-up could also weaken Sweden’s chances of re-election to the UN security council next year, which the government has made a strategic foreign policy goal .
(8) Photograph: Reuters “Williston was the refugee camp for the guys who went bust in 2008.
(9) At present, this test is too expensive to offer to the public although BP is touring the country to pass on green driving tips and bust some myths.
(10) According to some members of Aberdeen ’s energy sector, a group with a code of silence that would trump any Trappist throng, the North Sea is a busted flush, a dead zone of drilled-out fields with a long-term future to match.
(11) We will also generally pay 100% compensation to those who have retired on legitimate ill-health grounds, regardless of age, and those receiving a pension in relation to someone who had died at the time that the employer went bust,” says the PPF.
(12) As a company, the euro would have gone bust by now.
(13) A safety net to catch those fallen on hard times, come rain or shine, boom or bust, it would be there for all those who had paid in.
(14) Ministers can't expect firms to bust a gut to grow if they fail to take a long-term approach to creating an enterprise-friendly environment.
(15) The boardroom is surrounded by glass, which meant the bust-up was viewed by about 100 staff.
(16) In an interim review published last month, Myners has said the group must take urgent steps to reform a "massive failure" of governance or it will go bust.
(17) "The economy has been subjected to repeated 'boom and bust' cycles, above all in property.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands on ocean platform The busts Those accomplishments have not come without repeated failures, the most spectacular of which occurred during attempts to land their Falcon 9 rockets, named after Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon .
(19) Her attacks on the president are scathing and she sees him as a busted flush, placing herself at the heart of drives to rebuild the French right after Sarkozy "implodes" at the election.
(20) The government promised Kids Company £20m worth of funding last summer, 12 months before the charity went bust, its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh has alleged.
Lust
Definition:
(n.) Pleasure.
(n.) Inclination; desire.
(n.) Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
(n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
(n.) Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
(n.) To list; to like.
(n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(2) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(3) One is reminded of the fate of Iggy Pop’s album Lust for Life , also released in 1977, which looked all set to be his first successful US release, except that it arrived two weeks after the death of Elvis Presley.
(4) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
(5) The pioneering contributions of Dr. Lee B. Lusted in the study of diagnostic imaging efficacy are highlighted.
(6) He said : The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seeming delightful blood-lust the aerial weapons team happened to have.
(7) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
(8) In fact he is practically in residence: his new play, The Red Lion , opened last month; when we meet he is in final rehearsals for Three Days in the Country , a version of Ivan Turgenev’s study of love and lust, thwarted idealism and slow-fizzling marital despair.
(9) There are good reasons why investors are lusting for gold: Brexit, the Italian banking crisis, Chinese uncertainty, spiralling global debt and Donald Trump.
(10) The original article on the subject by Lee Lusted, describing the "state of the art" 20 years ago, is reviewed.
(11) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(12) Lack of factual knowledge, parental guidance and lust for material gains are some of the factors the girls felt may be responsible for the upsurge in adolescent sexual behaviour.
(13) Perhaps not surprisingly, given our cultural addiction to ever-longer working days, one of the few rising trends since the Observer surveys of 2002 and 2008 concerns the fact that a greater number of people are finding lust (and maybe love) in the workplace – often literally – and not only that, one in five people say they would sleep with someone to further their career.
(14) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
(15) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
(16) In Magic Mike , he deconstructed his own reputation as Cinema’s One Truly Objectified Male, whipping up the waves of female lust that buffeted the stage of the Xquisite like a conductor.
(17) The onus cannot be on women and girls to try to control male lust.
(18) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
(19) And, when it comes to football, there's that schoolkids versus the teachers syndrome Perfumo talks of, and which he describes in his book in terms of the old Oedipal thing of children lusting to annihilate their parents.
(20) Odenigbo infuriates Olanna by justifying his infidelity in an Igbo phrase, "self-assured enough to call what he had done a brief rash lust ": the translation of that formula into English shows it up.