(1) Have I Got News for You on BBC television and The News Quiz on Radio 4 are its obvious, much cosier, successors.
(2) The maths of stellar decline dictates that the man should now only be able to play ever cosier venues.
(3) There’s lights, temporary overlay.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London 2012 gold medallist Hannah Cockroft says the new Olympic Stadium ‘looks different but just as nice, a bit cosier’.
(4) Persimmon says a Space4 home is 50% more energy efficient than a traditional house, and cosier to live in.
(5) The friction between Halloween Town, ruled over by Jack Skellington, and the far cosier Christmas Town, which lies outside Jack's dominion and comprehension, is for Elfman symbolic on several levels.
(6) But some critics believe Lebedev's relationship with the Russian government is cosier than he likes to make out.
(7) Line of Duty, which provoked some controversy with its on-screen violence, was up against the second half of a far cosier detective drama in ITV's Midsomer Murders, which celebrated its centenary episode with a trip to Copenhagen featuring stars of Danish dramas (Ann Eleonora Jorgensen from the The Killing and Borgen's Birgitte Hjort Sorensen).
(8) What’s wrong with moderates is that they lack militancy.” Astor was “far too worldly, too steely, too tactful to hark back with nostalgia to the cosier heyday of the late 1940s and early 1950s,” recalled John Thompson, who joined the paper as its news editor in 1962, but he regarded the years between 1948 and Suez as the Observer ’s golden age.
(9) The new archbishop will have to manage a graceful retreat from the pretentious fantasy that the Anglican communion is something like the Roman Catholic church, only nicer and cosier.
(10) The back rooms, where reading and singing groups meet, are cosier.
(11) By the end of the 1940s people were becoming seriously fed up, epitomised by the transformation of the black market spiv from a demonised figure into something altogether cosier – but it did much to ease the worst years of austerity.
(12) But critics claim that HMRC is hiding the scale of the tax gap, as it finds itself dragged into ever cosier relations with big business.
(13) And we mustn't fall into the trap of using "domestic violence" to imply a kind of cosier or lesser violence.
(14) "By stimulating billions of pounds of private-sector investment, the green deal will revolutionise the way that we keep our homes warm, making them cosier, more efficient and all at no upfront cost."
(15) M&S sells 40 styles ranging from cosy shearling to suede moccasin boasting hi-tech fabrics such as Thinsulate (which claims to makes slippers cosier) and Freshfeet which is "capable of combating the bacteria that cause odours".
Coster
Definition:
(n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(2) It is shown that the time dependence of this structural relaxation--which was first published by Sargent (1975)--is at variance with a three capacitor equivalent circuit of the membrane, which was suggested by Coster and Smith (1974) on the basis of a.c. measurements.
(3) The energy imparted to biological tissue after the decay of incorporated Auger emitters stems from two sources: (a) energy deposition by the Auger and Coster-Kronig electrons and (b) the charge potential which remains on the multiple ionized atom after the end of the cascade.
(4) Rabbit corneal KS and DS PGs each contain two kinds of PG (Gregory JD, Coster L & Damle SP (1982) J. Biol.
(5) Radionuclides for therapeutic applications fall into three general categories: beta-particle emitters, alpha-particle emitters, and Auger and Coster-Kronig-electron emitters following electron capture.
(6) Comparison with the predictions of an earlier analysis of this system (Coster, 1965) shows that the latter is valid to a good approximation for membranes > 70 A in thickness.
(7) Evil-but-gorgeous Cersei has long been in a secret incestuous relationship with her no-less-evil-and-similarly-gorgeous brother Jaime, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau with an eye to being as hunky and wisecracking as Errol Flynn in tights or Flynn Rider in Tangled.
(8) Estimates of Auger electron yields and yields of very-low-energy electrons from Coster-Kronig transitions are presented.