(n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.
(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.
(v. t.) To convey in a chariot.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
(2) The average fan remains ignorant in terms of it wanting it be Chariots of Fire.
(3) It is possible his delicate skills could have been of more benefit to Arsenal with longer on the pitch, though listening to the Stoke fans serenading their side at the end with Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and "One nil to the rugby team", one could understand why Wenger exercised caution, even if the rugby motif is a joke the home supporters enjoy.
(4) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(5) Mounted bowmen succeeded chariots in warfare, particularly nomadic Scythians who dominated Central Asia (1000-500 BC).
(6) Now she only needed to wait, resplendent atop her chariot.
(7) He would not have been out of place in Chariots of Fire."
(8) Updated at 10.03pm BST 7.22pm BST The soothing strains of Chariots of Fire come on the stadium stereo ... ... and Poland's Tomasz Majewski collects his gold medal for winning the men's shot put in what was a thrilling competition.
(9) The pits are filled with figurines of courtiers and animals, and you can see the fossilised remains of wooden chariots.
(10) The ropes are heaved, down come the statues, Axes demolish their chariot wheels, the unoffending Legs of their horses are broken.
(11) Once roused from her slumbers, Nemesis would mount a two-wheeled chariot drawn by griffins (Sturmey and Archer) and, brandishing an array of carpet tacks, set out on her mission to destroy cyclists who sneered.
(12) In the summer of 1981, for example – as Andy Beckett recounts in his book Promised You a Miracle – the rhetoric of advertising and film projected a concerted attempt at national revival against the odds: Chariots of Fire and a Mini Metro on the white cliffs of Dover, staving off European rivals.
(13) Huston joins the previously announced Morgan Freeman, who will play Ildarin, a chariot race trainer.
(14) Havers, who made his name as the hurdler Lord Lindsay in the film Chariots of Fire and was a staple of British television in the 1980s with programmes such as The Charmer and Don't Wait Up, defended his aunt after a lawyer representing victims of child abuse, Alison Millar, told The World at One that Butler-Sloss should stand aside.
(15) We sing to elevate sporting events – Abide With Me, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(16) Chariots is not the only theatre production currently exploring the world of sport.
(17) Greek sculptors in 350BC created a 40-metre-high monument, crowned by a colossal four-horse chariot on a stepped pyramid.
(18) The archaeologists believe it may have come from a chariot, but are only guessing since nothing like it has ever been found.
(19) Inscribed within this square, it stipulates that there must be “nine avenues running north-south and nine running east-west, each of the former being nine chariot tracks wide” – a principle that perhaps set the precedent for the scale of modern-day Beijing’s agoraphobia-inducing highways.
(20) American financiers in pink shorts and back-to-front baseball caps push the hedge fund managers of 2040 round in thousand-pound chariots, and every second store is an estate agency.” All of this is true.
Circus
Definition:
(n.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
(n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
(n.) Circuit; space; inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
(3) Four subjects had electrocardiographic evidence of the WPW syndrome and episodes of circus movement tachycardia.
(4) Circus-movement tachycardias were induced in eight patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, and conversion to sinus rhythm was achieved in seven.
(5) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(6) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(7) The balloons may have wilted and Nicholas Witchell's episiotomy stitches begun to heal, but the circus shows few signs of moving on.
(8) • simpsonstavern.co.uk Argyll Arms, Oxford Circus Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy The Spirit of Christmas Presents walks abroad.
(9) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(10) The leader of the RMT rail union, Bob Crow, said: "The whole sorry and expensive shambles of rail privatisation has been dragged into the spotlight this morning and instead of re-running this expensive circus, the west coast route should be renationalised on a permanent basis."
(11) Certainly it has the feeling of a circus act - riding two galloping horses in front of everyone.
(12) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
(13) Police officers had been unfairly targeted by lawyers in the inquest and “subjected to what can only be described as a media circus”.
(14) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(15) So while Labrinth, Heaven 17, The Proclaimers and Billy Bragg are playing on stage, kids will probably be more interested in the freesports park, Mr Tumble, the new Dance Space, junior football tournament, Insect Circus and kids' comedy club, to name but a few of the dozens of attractions.
(16) Beginning at 8pm with a sit-down dinner it had become, by 11pm, a circus starring supermodels.
(17) The two cases suggest the following conclusions: (1) dual A-V nodal pathways may allow the occurrence of double antegrade conduction of one P; (2) the atria are not necessary for A-V nodal circus movements in "dual pathway" A-V nodal reentrant PSVT.
(18) The performance of published electrocardiographic criteria to differentiate AV nodal reciprocating tachycardia from circus movement AV tachycardia was evaluated.
(19) He is part of a travelling circus, certainly, but the laughter stopped a little while ago.
(20) Six circus lions (Panthera leo) showed neurological and gastrointestinal signs after consuming casualty broiler chickens.