(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.
Luxury
Definition:
(n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
(n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.
(n.) Lechery; lust.
(n.) Luxuriance; exuberance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(2) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(3) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
(4) He reduced the standard rate to 8%, but introduced a higher rate of 12.5% for petrol and some luxury goods, doubling the upper rate later that year to 25% before lowering it in 1976.
(5) Likewise, Brynjolfsson doesn’t find the idea of machine-generated populist luxury outlandish.
(6) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
(7) Scheveningen's prison's spacious, individual cells and family rooms for visits may soon seem luxurious in comparison with the cold comfort of life behind bars in England.
(8) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(9) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(10) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(11) "You look at Tesco and Morrisons, they are feeling the effects, so it's no wonder I'm finding it hard to get people to buy what are effectively luxury items they don't really need."
(12) Not everybody has the luxury of being able to earn 20% less, but I wager more people could than do now.
(13) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(14) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
(15) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
(16) If you look around at how incredibly luxurious some base camps are, you can see their point," he said.
(17) While companies such as Google and luxury brands like Lexus have dominated the headlines with advances in driverless cars, Daimler board member Wolfgang Bernhard told reporters autonomous trucks were likely to hit the roads first.
(18) For luxury brands like Gucci, Prada and Burberry it is a way to clear unsold goods under the radar and McKenzie reveals that while fashion labels "don't like us to talk about them", they "make a ton of money out of their outlet businesses".
(19) Within the security of such luxury, it’s easy to laugh at Menstrual Hygiene Day.
(20) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.