(1) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
(2) Chippers did not seem to be compensating; their cotinine values equaled those expected when regular smokers were not compensating for reduced cigarette availability.
(3) This study explores the behavior of tobacco "chippers"--very light smokers who regularly use tobacco without developing dependence.
(4) Chippers' blood nicotine levels increased significantly, in amounts equaling those of dependent smokers.
(5) Out of the 15 chippers examined, 5 presented vibration-induced white finger syndrome.
(6) Blood samples were obtained before and after 10 chippers (smoking up to 5 cigarettes per day) and 12 dependent smokers (20 to 40 cigarettes per day) smoked a cigarette.
(7) But I am a little taken aback by how chipper he is.
(8) In contrast to the deprivation and destitution that can result from sanctioning, the fictional Zac and Sarah, with their beatific expressions beaming out from leaflets, are eerily chipper.
(9) chippers 17 July 2013 9:26am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate As a teacher (and a parent) I find this incredibly depressing.
(10) However, the digital artery flow rates of the severe VWF group increased substantially (to about three times the resting level) after the chipping episode, whereas the flow rates of the novices and the non-VWF chippers did not change appreciably.
(11) Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire showed us chipper orphans in a development porn-esque version of India; much of the media westerners encounter of the global south is produced by white people, for white eyes, featuring white voices .
(12) Despite higher air lead concentrations, sanders' blood lead levels were not elevated compared with chippers and were only slightly elevated compared with non-lead workers.
(13) An associate at the meeting described him as seeming "quite low" and "not as ebulliant and chipper as usual".
(14) I think in some ways she represented his sanctuary.” She speaks in a chipper, chatty manner, much like Mrs Booth, but in tones crisper than the character’s soft burr.
(15) For 1,028 male workers (705 riveters, 284 chippers, and 39 grinders), the prevalence rate of the syndrome was 13.4% and for a reference group of 256 workers it was 1.6%.
(16) This finding, when coupled with other data about chippers' smoking patterns and nicotine absorption, establish that chippers cannot maintain substantial plasma nicotine levels between cigarettes, and thus suggest that attempts to maintain minimal trough levels of nicotine do not underlie chippers' smoking.
(17) Assays of cotinine (a long-lasting nicotine metabolite) also suggested that chippers' per-cigarette nicotine absorption equaled that of dependent smokers.
(18) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
(19) There were puppies and cookies, and while it was cute and chipper, it was immediately forgettable.
(20) Indeed, when asked about Congress, Bernanke adopted the chipper tone of a wife who knows her husband will never pick up his socks and has just accepted the task.
Knife
Definition:
(n.) An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc..
(n.) A sword or dagger.
(v. t.) To prune with the knife.
(v. t.) To cut or stab with a knife.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(2) Leicester looked a little sorry for themselves and, with their concentration down, United twisted the knife.
(3) Frontal afferents to the medial basal hypothalamus of the rat were interrupted by a Halász knife, and 4 weeks later the brains were processed for immunostaining of CRF-fibers.
(4) Earlier this year the Guardian launched Beyond the Blade , a long-term project looking at young people who are victims of knife crime.
(5) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(6) More conservative approaches have been used in young women requesting preservation of their childbearing ability, including CO2 laser excision, knife excision, cryotherapy, and electrocauterization.
(7) One day, a man she had interviewed held a knife to her throat, holding her captive for 10 days and only releasing her when the French embassy came looking for her.
(8) In the wake of a second fatal police shooting in the St Louis area after the death of Michael Brown , concerned citizens are asking why officers had to kill Kajieme Powell, a 25-year-old man who was holding a knife and “behaving erratically.” They want to know why officers don’t shoot someone like Powell in the leg or the arm, rather than aiming for vital organs, or why they don’t just use a less lethal weapon, like a Taser.
(9) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
(10) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
(11) I don’t remember what happened afterward.” By morning, Israeli newspapers had published the official version of Anas al-Atrash’s death: A 23-year-old Palestinian had run from his car and rushed at a checkpoint soldier with a knife.
(12) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
(13) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(14) Hogan-Howe waded into the row, saying gang members heard simple messages such as that there was a minimum five-year jail sentence for possession of a gun, but had no idea about the equivalent sentence for carrying a knife.
(15) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(16) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(17) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(18) Lysine vasopressin and a long-acting analogue N alpha-triglycyl-lysine vasopressin were compared in a prospective randomized double-blind study including 71 women undergoing cold knife conization of the uterine cervix.
(19) There was a 24% rise in knife crime in London in the 12 months ending in March.
(20) Once, the inquest heard, he threatened Luke’s football coach, telling him: “I have a knife with your name on it.” When Anderson killed Luke there were four warrants out for his arrest including one related to his possession of child sex abuse images.