(n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Texas car chase started when a sheriff's deputy in Montague County tried to pull over the Cadillac around 11 a.m. local time Thursday, authorities there said.
(2) So Big Machine signings such as the Cadillac Three – marketed as the "Nashville Nirvana" – made good on promises to tour early and often.
(3) The US president's 4.5-tonne Cadillac limousine has already prompted a degree of over-excitable prose about its eight-inch armour plating, built in tear-gas cannon and oxygen supply and claimed ability to emerge unscathed from a direct missile strike.
(4) On the ground, the president travels in a black Cadillac nicknamed “the Beast”, ready to repel assailants with rocket-propelled grenades, pump-action shotguns and tear-gas cannon.
(5) On Monday it issued a recall for another 3.36m cars including Chevrolet Impala, Cadillac Deville and Buick Lacrosse for an ignition issue that can lead to power steering and power braking being turned off while the car is being driven.
(6) It took long minutes for the police and his friends to extricate him sufficiently to squeeze him into a black cadillac.
(7) The list of property to be seized featured nearly 20 luxury cars, including a pink Cadillac, several Mercedes, a Maserati, a Lambourghini and a Rolls Royce Phantom with the number plate "God".
(8) The German automaker announced Friday it will create another line at the plant, producing the X7, a larger SUV with three rows of seats similar to a Cadillac Escalade.
(9) Michael Sheehan The director of the vulture fund Donegal International likes to be known as Goldfinger, after the James Bond villain, and has a penchant for expensive Cadillacs.
(10) "I don't think they were very happy that mother got a new Cadillac every year and they had to use an old car," he told the Baltimore Sun in 1992.
(11) In preference to the traditional motorised black hearse, funeral directors have reported demands for Rolls-Royces and pink Cadillacs and even a tandem bicycle alongside traditional hearses, while JCB diggers, camper vans, pickup trucks, a skip lorry and double-decker buses have also headed up funeral processions.
(12) By 2pm, when President Obama's armoured Cadillac – "the Beast" – swept through the centre of Enniskillen in a 20-vehicle motorcade, 50 police officers were lining the sides of the town's old bridge, with armoured Landrovers parked at either end and inflatable police dinghies buzzing slowly in the lough below.
(13) After I rebuked him for his impertinence in waiting in the wrong place, thereby delaying me for at least 12 seconds, he lead me out to his highly polished black Cadillac sedan.
(14) General Motors’ Super Cruise system, for example, which is due out on the 2017 Cadillac CT6, will let drivers take their hands off the wheel at any speed on the highway, but will not change lanes by itself.
(15) About 36% of all children had dental fluorosis, ranging from 12.2 in Cadillac to 51.2 in Richmond (1.2 ppm).
(16) Approximately 65% of all children were caries-free, ranging from 55.1% in fluoride-deficient Cadillac to 73.7% in Redford (1.0 ppm F).
(17) "You can't go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags pay, but that doesn't really matter, does it?"
(18) "They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music."
(19) It also becomes a preferred vehicle provider, with the chance to get many more people behind the wheel of a Chevrolet, Buick, GMC or Cadillac.
(20) Schad was arrested several weeks later in Utah while driving Grove's Cadillac.
Camelot
Definition:
(n.) See Camelet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sir Richard had been within one hour of signing the necessary documents before Camelot managed to muscle its way back in to contention through the high court.
(2) Challenged by Camelot in court for her conduct in selecting Branson, the lottery regulator was forced to resign and the competition was re-opened.
(3) In August, after several delays, the commission named the People's Lottery as preferred bidder and excluded Camelot from the running.
(4) "We're regularly approached by and undertake discussions with third parties about possible concepts and ideas for future National Lottery games," said a spokesman for Camelot.
(5) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
(6) His mother's earlier marriage to Hugh Auchincloss made him a cousin of Jackie Kennedy, giving Vidal a front-row seat at the court of Camelot, before banishment in 1963 after a row with Bobby Kennedy.
(7) Degree in business organisation at Heriot-Watt University Career Had trials for Hibernian FC 1984 Graduate trainee, Mars Pedigree Petfood 1986 Media sales, Daily Telegraph 1988 Media executive, Saatchi & Saatchi, made media director in 1990 1995 Joint chief executive, Saatchi & Saatchi 2000 Chief executive, Football Association 2003 Chief executive, Royal Mail He is on the boards of Camelot and Debenhams Family Married to Annette; two daughters
(8) A spokeswoman for Camelot described the justification as "absolute rubbish".
(9) Notices were pinned to windows of the building saying that a writ of possession was obtained from the high court on 24 November giving Camelot permission to remove the “unlawful occupants” on 1 December.
(10) Then he's off, calling the national lottery "a tax on the poor" and noting that "she" – Dianne Thompson, Camelot's chief executive - "earns £1.8m".
(11) He gathered a brilliant assembly of aides around him, generally assumed to be the nucleus of a Kennedy-style Camelot that would take the shuttle down to Washington in due course.
(12) Contacts Agencies seeking to place "property guardian" tenants include : Ad Hoc , 020 7226 9900, www.adhoc.eu Ambika , 020 7376 9740, www.ambikaproperty.com Camelot , 0845 262 2002, camelotproperty.com
(13) Also chairman of Octopus Publishing, Hemscott financial data and Camelot.
(14) But earlier this year Camelot lost its contract with Hackney Council.
(15) Fellowes has been named alongside media heavyweights including former BBC and ITV chairman Michael Grade, as revealed by MediaGuardian.co.uk yesterday , who has enjoyed a colourful media career including work as a journalist, talent agent, US TV producer and senior management positions including chairman of Camelot.
(16) Camelot provides security for empty buildings, including offering space to property guardians who pay a reduced rent to live there on a temporary basis.
(17) "It's not accurate, of course," says Chris Chibnall, who "show-ran" ITV's appointment-to-view whodunnit Broadchurch , as well as Law & Order: UK and Camelot.
(18) Camelot provides property guardians , who move into empty buildings to prevent them from being squatted.
(19) The basic reason why no such thought could be contemplated was spelled out by National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, former Harvard Dean and reputedly the brightest star in the Camelot firmament.
(20) In Apple's top-grossing iPhone apps chart , nine of the top 10 were games: Candy Crush Saga beat Clash of Clans, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Top Eleven, Hay Day, The Hobbit, Kingdoms of Camelot, Megapolis and Marvel: War of Heroes, with only dating service Match.com breaking up the gaming.