(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(5) The five major commercial banks saw around €2bn of deposits withdrawn by customers anxious that Greece was nearing the end of its credit line with lenders and about to go bust.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.
Sneaky
Definition:
(n.) Like a sneak; sneaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(2) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
(3) Expert view A sneaky, bar-room blow When Alexander Lebedev said he "neutralised" a man by punching him in the face on Russian television, he echoed the dark argot of the KGB, the agency of which he was a member long before spending a slice of his fortune on the Independent and the Evening Standard.
(4) The national team’s visit to Parramatta Stadium on Saturday night was no PR-stunt, nor was it a chance to simply get the boys out for the evening and avoid the temptation of a sneaky late-night visit to Kings Cross’ nightspots.
(5) Presidential candidate Marco Rubio escalated his criticism of his opponent Ted Cruz this week by suggesting a central component of the Texas senator’s tax plan was both “intentionally sneaky” and a “dangerous expansion of Washington’s power”.
(6) Marco Rubio accuses Ted Cruz of 'intentionally sneaky' tax policy Read more In a defiant statement announcing his boycott, the Paul campaign said: “By any reasonable criteria, Senator Paul has a top-tier campaign.
(7) Photograph: Garrett MacLean The sneaky bidder was trying to wait just until the end in hopes I wasn’t watching and snake the Terrys’ house out from us.
(8) On a rare occasion when they broke, Steven Fletcher endured the agony of a sneaky knee in the lower back from Fabricio Coloccini.
(9) Active for Life – a social enterprise organisation that promotes physical literacy – recommend doing this, and suggest a relay race in which students jump into and over various obstacles , or a rolling race in which students work together to move like “sneaky snakes” .
(10) That’s either lazy, sneaky or both.” Vanstone says the debate is not about anyone being weak on terrorists.
(11) Somehow, Seattle's fan base has become this larger than life entity that ranks with the best in the world, and strangely enough, this transformation seemed to happen under all of our noses, almost in a sneaky way.
(12) "He's gone down fighting," said the coach Ange Postecoglou , perhaps having a sneaky dig at Doncaster's relegation woes while he was at it.
(13) Last week I saw a man tweet: "Girl sat opposite on tube tried to take a sneaky photo of me.
(14) Collier apologised on Thursday and said he had no idea that the teenager, who was otherwise fully clothed and posing alongside an older man, was playing a prank commonly known as "sneaky nuts".
(15) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(16) But, what you don't get is a constantly updated stream of the most up to date publications; a sneaky peak of a chapter from a book on social work practice from @palgravesw , or free access to the best journal articles of the year thanks @routledge_phsc .
(17) So what if you had a very sneaky keylogger which waited until you were in a web browser and then sent its keylogging payload to its collection site?
(18) We’ve all been caught at various times having a sneaky listen to Euphoria .
(19) 82 min: Dempsey approaches the ref to show him blood seeping from his lip ... and the replay reveals the wound was caused by a sneaky clout from Yahia.
(20) Too many heavy meals, several large brandies, a few sneaky fags, plenty of afternoon naps, one unscheduled trip to Asda before a visit to the hydro-electric “northern powerhouse” and even the most limited of progress in EU renegotiations can feel like one giant leap for mankind.