What's the difference between cheerio and goodbye?

Cheerio


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Jonathon Porritt – official government green adviser – this week left his Whitehall office after nine years trying to crash the gears of the machine of state, his staff of 60 in the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) didn't just say cheerio; they hired an old ship on the Thames, formed a blues band and sang him out to a Muddy Waters tune: For nine long years this green guru reigned Watching over Whitehall, his eye keenly trained Tree-hugger-in-chief or simply JP However you know him you should start to see He's a true ninja of sustainability Porritt stood to one side of the crooning SDC backing singers, delighted but emotional at his send off.
  • (2) Thirty-two subjects, 7 to 14 months of age, were observed grasping Cheerios from styrene surfaces that provided different amounts of support to the infants' hands.
  • (3) Calculations are reported which clearly indicate that there is general agreement in the magnitude of the fractal dimension from the "Cheerios" model, the "Discovery" experiment with those determined with the automatic sedimentimeter.
  • (4) Italy packed parmesan, olive oil and prosciutto; while the USA team brought oatmeal, Cheerios, peanut butter and A1 Steak Sauce.
  • (5) In this part of the study, "Cheerios" (trademark General Mills) are used as a macroscopic model.
  • (6) Join Barry Glendenning for what could be another early exit – Cameroon v Croatia – but from me, cheerio!
  • (7) If it is the 'common touch' we're after, then David Cameron munching breakfast Cheerios with his family is surely enough (I think he has my sofa, by the way).
  • (8) A Cheerios challenge where you didn’t have to put cereal on a sleeping baby’s forehead.
  • (9) On the flipside, she understands the moral outrage felt by millions in the developing world when the west wags its finger at them for wanting Cheerios for breakfast.
  • (10) In person, Bateman has the pleasing facial symmetry of a catalogue model and he delivers this damning verdict of Cera in the same nonchalant tone with which he talks about his current uncharacteristically swishy hair (“It’s ridiculous now; I look like a Bee Gee”) and his memories of working as a child actor in advertisements for Honey Nut Cheerios (“Ahh, I still remember having to follow that fake little bee around with my eyes …”).
  • (11) Ain't it grand that we'd sooner say there are too many human beings in the world than too much Coca-Cola, Honey Nut Cheerios or Special K?
  • (12) In order to examine the effect of rouleaux formation, the "Cheerios" are stacked one on top of another and then glued.
  • (13) Boxes of Cheerios cropping up on Citizen Kane's dining table?
  • (14) While a milky bowl with stray Cheerios communicates at least some mental competence, it is clear that the Woman Who Made up Her Mind, further evidenced by her painful gurning, really does have trouble processing abstract thoughts and, at the same time, providing her husband with a nutritious, if simple, breakfast – whose detritus he has now left her to wash up.
  • (15) It is interesting that a random sampling of "Cheerios" has the same volume distribution curve that is found for erythrocytes with a Coulter Sizing Apparatus.
  • (16) One minute you're absorbed by another gripping instalment of quality TV drama; the next, you're wondering why there's been a box of Cheerios hogging the shot for five minutes, or why all the characters are driving the same brand of car, or why that otherwise credible teenager is using Bing as their search engine.
  • (17) One patient had bizarre pelvic radiolucences ("Cheerios" in the pelvis) upon x-ray presentation.
  • (18) As a stunt for the the TV cameras they took generic boxes of Cheerios and repackaged them as ObamaOs and Cap'n McCains and sold them for $40 a pop (there's a venture capital firm in New York that keeps a box of ObamaOs in their conference room as a sad reminder of what happens when you don't see the potential in something – Airbnb pitched them early on and they turned them down).

Goodbye


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  • (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.