(1) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
(2) We’ll probably never know what percentage of Labour MPs and experts are firefighting these events on a Glasto comedown.
(3) For the AU, it was a humiliating comedown after the inauguration of its new headquarters, which was accompanied by high rhetoric and performances by a brass band, dance troupes and singers.
(4) The comedown can be shocking in terms of feeling down or embarrassed by my behaviour, even if I feel that I wasn’t in the wrong.” Keane also accepts that his reputation means strangers are naturally wary in his company but argues that he is not the person many think.
(5) Theirs was a collective comedown from the adrenaline rush, exhaustion from an energy-sapping occasion inevitably creeping in as players attempted to comprehend what had just been achieved.
(6) For the person who led it from being just a concept that he struggled to interest carriers in, to a world-straddling behemoth, that's got to be a bit of a comedown.
(7) It was a big comedown, in personal and creative terms.
(8) But then the vision of a shrinking Fifa Fan Fest, which from the top of a building resembled an ant colony being dismantled by its own inhabitants, brought it all back home: the 2014 World Cup was over and the biggest Brazilian comedown was officially on – no matter that Rio de Janeiro’s most famous promenade, its bars, restaurants and car rental agencies still had a cacophony of foreign accents as a soundtrack.
(9) Our politicians have made a habit out of rejecting science, and we’re left with the comedown.
(10) He can joke about being approached by drug dealers in the street who mistake his quivering for a junkie's comedown.
(11) Whereas in reality, after I've savoured my coffee, there is only comedown.
(12) "Users told us there were terrible comedowns with mephedrone, but it was rather moreish," Measham said.
(13) Life after the political whirl of the White House was always going to be a comedown, even if you drink lots of coffee, and Engskov sounds like an ex-con when he says: "When I first got out of the White House I struggled … it was a difficult transition."
(14) That might be considered a comedown for a player who competed for the Belgian title while at Standard and began this season playing in the Europa League but he says the thrill of escaping relegation is similar to the buzz of challenging for higher honours.
(15) Insolvency amounts to a humiliating comedown for a studio with a back catalogue of 4,000 titles holding 205 Oscars between them.
(16) Rebecca Nicholson, writer John Grant provides a moment of magic For one all-too-brief hour, as the sun set over Glastonbury and John Grant took to the Park Stage on Saturday night, the unwashed festival masses were transported away from a world of mud, bruises and two day comedowns.
(17) JK Rowling's ranking – at number 15, with earnings of £13m – is a steep comedown since the heyday of Harry Potter in 2008, when she topped the highest-earners list with sales of £170m, more than the combined annual earnings of the nine other authors on the list that year.
(18) All Scottish newspapers suffered sales falls last month in the annual comedown in circulation following the boost given by the Edinburgh festival in August, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published today.
(19) Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns.
(20) The comedown from his moment of glory was swift and harsh.
Dismount
Definition:
(v. i.) To come down; to descend.
(v. i.) To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
(v. t.) To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
(v. t.) To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
(v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
(v. t.) To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; -- said esp. of artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) A German journalist, who witnessed the attack during Bastille Day celebrations in the French coastal city, said he saw a motorcyclist dismount and try to enter the cabin but fall and end up under the wheels.
(2) A gunman had pulled up on an expensive motorbike with a big engine, dismounted and pulled out two high-calibre handguns.
(3) A significant finding was the increased frequency of acute injury seen at dismount.
(4) Dismounting of a stable implant is a very rare occurrence.
(5) The smallest of mistakes – a step backwards on her dismount – put the gold out of reach and there followed a nerve-racking wait as Tweddle watched the final two competitors – Aliya Mustafina and Gabby Douglas – to see if she would maintain a position in the top three.
(6) Impact forces during landing in dismounts from the horizontal bar onto regulation gymnastic mats and in jumping from a height of 0.45 m onto a hard surface were measured.
(7) We dismount and herd them into a pen, where Juan Manuel pins each one down, Sol moves in with the de-worming fluid, and I brand them with chalk.
(8) Lesions had a negligible effect upon the tendency to hold lordotic postures after the male dismounted.
(9) It was the "double double" – a new dismount added to impress the judges – that cost Tweddle in the end, a step backwards as she landed it earning her an all-important deduction.
(11) I'm one of those guys who sits for two weeks glued to every sport, suddenly an expert on South Korean archery, dissecting the subtleties of a gymnast's dismount, praising the oar work of a New Zealand rower.
(12) Tweddle stared at the scoreboard diffidently: 15.916 – she had dropped 0.3 points for her shaky dismount, but was in contention for a silver medal.
(13) Besides showing increased frequency and intensity of lordosis, animals treated with both 6-OHDA and AMT retained the lordotic posture significantly longer after the male dismounted than animals given either treatment alone or vehicle controls.
(14) Photograph: Tom Jenkins "It's the greatest sense of relief," McCoy said, finally dismounted and at the centre of a hubbub that lasted all through the next race and up to the off-time of the one after that.
(15) By his own admission he "messed up" his second run, misjudging his dismount from the rail at the top of the course and leaving him in the wrong position to maintain speed for the jumps lower down.
(16) The second one is a marking device worn by sexually aggressive animals which will stripe with colored ink the back of estrous animals as the marker animal mounts and dismounts.
(17) Gillian Weatherley was on duty on 19 September 2012, with PC Toby Rowland, when Mitchell tried to cycle through the gates and engaged in an argument with the officers when he was told to dismount and walk through.
(18) We stopped in a gully for a sandwich and I dismounted using the well-known technique of collapsing into friendly arms.
(19) It will be closed between midnight and 6am; cyclists will have to dismount to cross; banned activities include social gatherings, playing musical instruments, making a speech, scattering ashes, releasing balloons, flying kites and all forms of physical exercise other than jogging.
(20) Whitlock showed off rigidly straight body lines and when nailing his dismount, Smith was on his feet with the spectators.