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Chast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) to chasten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
  • (2) Watson, of Harry Potter fame, tweeted a photograph of herself doubled up in stitches and linking to the Guardian report of the Twitter backlash against Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç, who said in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday that women should be "chaste", know the difference between public and private, and "she should not laugh in public".
  • (3) Chast did all the things one has to do; she put them somewhere decent and clean.
  • (4) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
  • (5) We are in the kitchen of Chast's house, overlooking her garden.
  • (6) Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
  • (7) Those who know and love Chast's work think of her as the queen of family angst, a brilliant chronicler of domestic strife, and the account of her parents' last year – as they move from the apartment, to hospital, to a care home in Connecticut – is an extraordinary record of the love, fury and ambivalence that often characterises these experiences.
  • (8) Her lurid totem with black lacy detailing edged it over Richard’s more chaste mill and Luis’s industrial mechanism.
  • (9) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
  • (10) "Her emotions were very primary colours," says Chast.
  • (11) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
  • (12) Roz Chast explores her relationship with her parents in her graphic memoir.
  • (13) Her father died first, aged 95, and as Chast's relationship with him had been closer, she was less riven by guilt than she was during her mother's last days.
  • (14) Chast had done right by them, but she was still sick with regret after they were gone.
  • (15) 2) Strictness in child rearing, shielding the child from any knowledge of sexual relations and its possible outcome in the hope of keeping her chaste but in fact often leading to early sexual relations.
  • (16) And so, when Chast's mother injured herself in a fall and her father started showing signs of dementia, Chast moved them to a care home near her house, where the contrast in weekly expenditure was so horrifying, she says, you could only laugh.
  • (17) But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
  • (18) Anne later said they had played cards in the bed, and told a lady-in-waiting that her husband was a perfect gentleman, giving her a greeting and a chaste kiss each night and before he left her in the morning.
  • (19) The first indication Roz Chast had that her elderly parents weren't coping was when she noticed the level of grime in their apartment.
  • (20) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.

Chest


Definition:

  • (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
  • (n.) A coffin.
  • (n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
  • (n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
  • (n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
  • (v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
  • (v. i.) To place in a coffin.
  • (n.) Strife; contention; controversy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (2) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (3) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
  • (4) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
  • (5) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
  • (6) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
  • (7) None of these were apparent on prior roentgenograms of the chest.
  • (8) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
  • (9) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
  • (10) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
  • (11) Five normovolemic patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for atypical chest pain syndrome volunteered for this study.
  • (12) Of the 2,472 patients with chest pain evaluated by the emergency medical technicians, 453 (18%) were diagnosed with AMI during hospitalization.
  • (13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
  • (14) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
  • (15) The effect on mortality, serious ventricular arrhythmias and chest pain seemed to be similar in different age groups.
  • (16) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.
  • (17) ECG and chest impedance were continuously monitored and recorded.
  • (18) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
  • (19) Spirometry and lung volumes, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide, chest radiograph, methacholine airway challenge, and bronchoalveolar lavage were done.
  • (20) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.

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