(n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade.
(n.) One who sails near the shore.
Example Sentences:
(1) This a time when these crucial policies, central to everyone’s lives and the future of the nation, have been on a roller coaster ride through years of political disruption.
(2) Thus for many, the IVF-ET procedures were like an emotional roller coaster on which they experienced a wide range of feelings during a brief period of time.
(3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
(4) The reality is that life’s a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
(5) Gift shops were selling artists' posters, greeting cards, mugs and coasters for a fraction of the price.
(6) Then, in an unrelated incident two weeks after the shooting, the town's famous Grade II listed roller-coaster, which featured in an episode of Only Fools and Horses, was subject to a major arson attack that destroyed almost a third of its frame.
(7) But this leaves a roller-coaster in spending with cuts in the first three years and then a splurge at the end of the next parliament.
(8) But it is the hosts who seem more anxious ahead of a potentially roller-coaster match against opponents of reliably relentless energy and craft.
(9) We glimpse the record player amid stacks of coasters, magazines and empty cigarette cartons.
(10) A news helicopter hovered overhead, along with a swarm of television news trucks in what is ordinarily a tranquil meadow in a large, wooded section within sight of a roller coaster at the Kings Dominion amusement park along Interstate 95.
(11) The diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor can thrust a patient and family onto an emotional roller coaster.
(12) Purchase whale-stamped coasters, decorative fish, or seashell trays made from bamboo—proceeds go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium .
(13) Then there are the plates, the coasters, the Christmas ornaments.
(14) The coaster is touted as the tallest steel-hybrid roller coaster in the world.
(15) The news comes after a roller-coaster week for the president, who disappointed many with a lacklustre performance in the first presidential debate against Mitt Romney , before Friday brought encouraging news on the jobs front .
(16) A second fear survey which contained duplicate items from the first was administered to the same students in a laboratory setting prior to watching videotaped scenes of fish, rats, mice and a shorter roller coaster ride.
(17) Days after the roller-coaster was torched, two men strolled into the Tivoli arcade, one of the few remaining on the seafront, and doused its slot machines in petrol before setting them on fire, causing £500,000 of damage.
(18) That means the markets will go up and down like a roller coaster, and it will be hard to hold on.
(19) Tea is served on souvenir coasters from Manchester, the city she represents in parliament, and to which she returns each Friday.
(20) The roller-coaster is on prime land just behind Margate's sea front where a number of other buildings have been torched in mysterious circumstances.
Rollercoaster
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Example Sentences:
(1) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(2) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(3) When I was younger I was up and down like a rollercoaster.
(4) Now that the rollercoaster has dipped many are surveying the scene, and the strongest candidates are a former regime man (Amr Moussa, also ex-head of that club of dictators otherwise known as the Arab League), and a former Muslim Brotherhood man (Abdel-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh , who was kicked out of the movement back in the day when it still maintained that it wouldn't contest the presidency).
(5) HSBC’s shares have been on a rollercoaster ride since Gulliver and departing chairman Douglas Flint took charge six years ago, and are little changed from where they started out.
(6) (“Get your tissues ready: It’s time for an emotional rollercoaster.”) His mum, Figen, he wrote on his feed , had told him she was having a bad day because she had taken a stall at a craft fair and no one had bought any of her knitted creations.
(7) Steel was left with what she called a “complete rollercoaster of emotions” not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
(8) Harman said this morning that Ed Miliband's victory, and the decision by his defeated brother, David, to step down from frontline politics, had resulted in a "real rollercoaster" of an event.
(9) Some fear-stoking simply goes too far: we don't mind being scared (we actually enjoy the experience of a rollercoaster ride) but child abduction, no thanks.
(10) A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious injuries in a rollercoaster crash at Alton Tower has had her leg amputated.
(11) My life has been a bit of a rollercoaster, to say the least, over the last couple of years.
(12) Alton Towers is to open what it claims is the world’s first rollercoaster that combines a physical ride with virtual reality, giving passengers a “customised journey into space” via headsets that use groundbreaking technology.
(13) In 12 to 18 months’ time I believe Alton Towers will be back to where it was.” He offered no update on the future of the Smiler rollercoaster.
(14) Alton Towers to open 'groundbreaking' virtual reality rollercoaster Read more The Staffordshire theme park was beginning its first season since 16 people were injured in the Smiler accident , with its owner hoping to make a fresh start in spite of opposition from some of the victims.
(15) "We cannot permanently ride a rollercoaster on Greece; we have to know where things are going, and the Greeks have to tell us where they would like things to go," he told German ZDF television.
(16) "With the dramatic undersupply of homes making finding a stable place to live increasingly unaffordable, we need to see the government put the brakes on our rollercoaster housing market and commit to building the affordable homes that we desperately need."
(17) That’s not because the numbers might be disappointing (and they probably will be) but because the company is the owner of Alton Towers, the theme park where last month’s horrific rollercoaster accident left four people seriously injured.
(18) In this rollercoaster political world, photographs of the happy occasion were released by North Korean state media on the same day that London Olympic organisers were forced to explain how they allowed the South Korean flag to be pictured on big screens at Glasgow's Hampden Park ahead of the North Korean women's football match against Colombia.
(19) As analysts predicted a weakened Reuters potentially falling prey to a rival, Grigson and Glocer survived several rollercoaster years of plunging stock prices.
(20) It’s like having your own private rollercoaster.” Tesla customers weren’t asking to go faster, he added, but the company wanted to see if they could do it.