(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".
Osier
Definition:
(n.) A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
(n.) One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
(a.) Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The paper presents the results of a 10-year study on waste water purification in forest soil, under conditions of lysimeters and in the field, using pine-, larch- and osier cultures.