(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Reservations are necessary during high season: they welcome everyone, but late comers can end up sleeping on the floor.
(4) Aortic intimal rhythmic structures were significantly more frequently detected in the aborigines than in those born in the North and new comers.
(5) Late comers were more likely to report a number of delaying factors or to have financial worries.
(6) When another corner, at the other end, was curled in by Mónica Ocampo it eluded all-comers before grazing the bar.
(7) Broecker then introduced the pair to his great friend, the late mail-order clothing tycoon Gary Comer.
(8) Thursday’s game between USA and Germany, for example, will be a clash of a legitimate soccer dynasty versus a legitimate up-and-comer.
(9) Even though it spent millions designing Android, Google made the software available to all comers at no charge.
(10) In the office, wedged between the two main studios, I sit down with three of Oguns' up and comers.
(11) In those untreated "new-comers" therapeutical effect comes earlier than in cases of premedication.
(12) So did Attlee.” Blunkett did the rounds: the combative former education and employment secretary, the take-on-all-comers home secretary, says he has done his time.
(13) We can talk about the fact that a ban in the US or UK wouldn’t stop the “bad guys” from getting perfect crypto from one of the nations that would be able to profit (while US and UK business suffered) by selling these useful tools to all comers.
(14) Retrospective and prospective studies of a total sample of 232 attenders at groups of Gamblers Anonymous suggest that total abstinence from gambling was maintained by 8% of all comers at one year from first attendance and by 7% at two years.
(15) The contest, which is open to all comers, takes place in one of the flooded quarries every September.
(16) Don’t take all the huff and puff of the new comer in the US seriously,” Khamenei said, according to the transcript of his speech on his official website.
(17) Leicester did save some face with their second-half performance, featuring a splendid goal from the substitute Demarai Gray, but they barely looked recognisable from the side that were taking on all-comers not so long ago and it was a jarring reflection of their deterioration that Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, the two players who shared last season’s individual awards, were substituted at half-time.
(18) As Amartya Sen points out in his book The Argumentative Indian, there is a long, deep tradition in the country's discourse, of encouraging argument from all comers.
(19) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(20) Oddly, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , so effective every week in taking on all comers in his LBC phone-in programme Call Clegg, took two questions from supporters and only one from the irritated lobby correspondents .
Cower
Definition:
(v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.
(v. t.) To cherish with care.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(2) In the cities worst hit by street fighting, such as Aden, civilians are either cowering at home to avoid sniper fire and bombardment or have joined the more than half million Yemenis forced out of their houses and now looking for food and shelter.
(3) Reporters were initially told that one of Bin Laden's wives was killed while he was using her as a human shield, prompting headlines such as "Osama bin Laden killed cowering behind his 'human shield' wife ".
(4) The trial on Friday heard from defence ballistics expert Tom Wolmarans who testified that it was impossible to be certain how Steenkamp fell when she was hit by bullets, challenging the prosecution's implication that she might have been cowering in fear.
(5) The special constable found his driver, cowered behind her shield and watched a brick fly through the air, strike the ground and split in two.
(6) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ed Miliband challenges David Cameron to name a date for a TV debate The Labour leader renewed his call to Cameron to face him in the one-on-one debate proposed by broadcasters on 30 April, saying that the prime minister was “cowering from the public”.
(8) The chilling claim that we are all surrounded by an invisible peril was the prelude to evoking an evil that we had long thought was behind us, with May declaring: "It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery."
(9) The Labour party have been hiding in the shadows and cowering in fear.
(10) The Prison Service launched an investigation after footage filmed in Forest Bank showed an inmate, who appeared to be hallucinating because of the effect of drugs, writhing on a bed in his cell and cowering in fear at the sight of an apple.
(11) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(12) Mangena said Steenkamp was shot in the right hip and was cowering when she was hit in the head.
(13) State radio went dead, and fearful residents cowered in their homes.
(14) He is cowering in the tradition of silence that he inherited,” said Jason Tompkins, an organizer with Black Lives Matter of Chicago.
(15) Furthermore, reading through his old interviews, it seems this is very much the new, improved, media-friendly Richard Ayoade: one journalist who encountered him just as the IT Crowd broke found him "cowering" behind his glasses and complaining that he was "terrible at talking, with words".
(16) Survivors fled into three eastern enclaves where the Bosnian republican army had resisted: Goražde, Žepa and Srebrenica, their populations swelled by displaced deportees, cowering, bombarded relentlessly and largely cut off from supplies of food and medicine.
(17) An age group from 30 to 78 years has been cowered with an average age of 59.
(18) The journey has caused the burger to steam into greyness, glueing itself to its soggy bun.The £32 steak appears, cowering in the corner of its container like a whipped puppy.
(19) Valentina, a 61-year-old market trader in Ilovaysk, said she had spent 23 days cowering in a cellar with several dozen others, and had been threatened by Ukrainian volunteer battalions who tried to use her and others as human shields and stole mobile phones and other property.
(20) For the left upper limb, the site of amputation was at the level of the Cower third of the forearm.