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Bye


Definition:

  • (n.) A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.
  • (n.) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.
  • (n.) A dwelling.
  • (n.) In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • The Kansas City Chiefs remain undefeated as they head into their bye week, moving to 9-0 with a victory in Buffalo.
  • (2) Even Ed Miliband had a polite pause before the assault, but now they are more crassly brutal than ever: “Red and Buried” (Daily Mail); “Bye, Bye Labour” (Express); “Leader Nightmare” (Sun); “Death of Labour” (Telegraph).
  • (3) With the win, Carolina clinched both the NFC South title as well as the second seed in the conference, giving them a bye week and guaranteeing them home field advantage in their first postseason game.
  • (4) Someone once said that the best Raymond Chandler novel is the first one you read, because between the debut of Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939) and his last significant appearance in The Long Good-bye (1953), the books are pretty even in quality and there's nothing quite like the initial impact of Chandler's style, Marlowe's company and their colourful southern California locale.
  • (5) "I'll be happy if I can get to 84, and then just say: 'Bye-bye.'"
  • (6) Rival internet service provider BT submitted a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority about one of the TV ads, which featured Bolt promising that customers could say "bye-bye to buffering and hello to a superfast broadband".
  • (7) Bye then went on to argue that given “the absolute dearth of information Missouri has disclosed to this court, the ‘pharmacy’ on which Missouri relies could be nothing more than a high school chemistry class.” He added: “I once again fear Missouri elevates the ends over the means in its rush to execute Taylor.” Bye’s dissent was backed by two other judges on the appeals court.
  • (8) When each interaction with a grandchild or good-bye kiss to a spouse may be the last, a sense of poignancy may permeate even the most casual everyday experiences.
  • (9) The Everly Brothers' breakthrough hit was Bye Bye Love (1957), still regarded as one of their most impressive creations.
  • (10) Photograph: Jason Bye Wayne Lawrence, from Norfolk bought a Mercedes in 2003 and insured it through Mercedes-Benz.
  • (11) But we fear some evil spirit might take hold of the British, and that in the referendum they will say “bye” to the EU.
  • (12) I don't think people realise what it's like to say to your family and friends, 'Right, good-bye, I'll see you in two months'."
  • (13) Our jury gave Rasoulof the director's prize for his anguished film Good-Bye, and I'm very proud of this.
  • (14) So I invited my friends to my "Bye Bye Boobies" Party.
  • (15) Our jury prize went to the Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev 's gripping drama Elena, while the director's prize went to Iranian film-maker and campaigner Mohammad Rasoulof for his courageous movie Good Bye.
  • (16) The truth is, you don’t really need to … Okay, gotta go, bye.
  • (17) From 1957 the plangent voices of the Everly Brothers rang out to herald the birth of the rock'n'roll age in America, with songs such as Wake Up Little Susie, Bye Bye Love, Cathy's Clown and All I Have to Do Is Dream.
  • (18) Bye bye, Boris, the man who wouldn’t clear up his own mess | Marina Hyde Read more But in hindsight, the Machiavellian move was perhaps not totally unpredictable.
  • (19) 4.36pm BST Oh no he didn't … Kristof Terreur (@HLNinEngeland) Bye bye Afro.
  • (20) I guarantee if I go on a mission those little fuckers are going bye-bye.” At their next meeting, in August, the group decided on their final target, a converted apartment that serves as a community mosque, embedded in the heart of a complex populated entirely by refugees.

Goodbye


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
  • (2) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
  • (3) That certainly was the feeling as Gerrard said goodbye on Saturday evening to the stadium that has been his professional home for the past 17 years.
  • (4) While building a structure that would enable us to realise our strategic vision was crucial, saying goodbye to close colleagues – some of whom had been with our legacy organisations for over a decade – was really hard.
  • (5) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (6) After he read the telegram, Hunt turned to his signals officer and said: "They might have added goodbye and the best of British!"
  • (7) When we say goodbye, Max turns in the passenger seat, and says, simply: 'Be gentle with her.'
  • (8) The gaffer’s not actually spoken to me and I’ll go in and say goodbye but I think it will be fine.
  • (9) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
  • (10) Goodbye to the States, to the Caribbean, to Indonesia, possibly to India.
  • (11) Goodbye Cherry Street Bed and Breakfast, Punxsutawney .
  • (12) The two women who remain in jail, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, smiled through light tears after hugging Samutsevich goodbye.
  • (13) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
  • (14) He's a really powerful character and supporters were hoping he would say goodbye.
  • (15) When I say goodbye to him every day,” she told a court recently, “I sit hoping he comes home from school.
  • (16) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
  • (17) It was a heartfelt goodbye from the king of British pop to the king of British shopping, one scouser to another.
  • (18) She was born on the estate, and is also saying goodbye to neighbours and friends she has spent a lifetime with.
  • (19) 4.14pm GMT Goodbye from Glenn Greenwald Just to take a break from the debate for a second: Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian today, and has written a final column looking back at his time with the paper and attacking a climate of hostility towards press freedom in the US and UK.
  • (20) She won’t be there to say goodbye.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev (right) with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin this month.

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