(n.) An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wonder how sick in the stomach Cameron felt when he saw himself in his Cotswold kitchen on TV.
(2) Mahmood took another royal scalp in 2005 when he posed as a property tycoon interested in buying Princess Michael of Kent’s 17th-century Cotswolds manor house.
(3) At the same time, the sentimental value of the countryside, which can be calibrated in the way a Cotswolds cottage is now an ultimate luxury, has never been higher.
(4) Liz Leffman, the Lib Dem candidate collecting signatures by the Cotswolds Kids clothing shop, sees Brexit as being on the ballot paper for this fight.
(5) He never lived in the house he bought in the Cotswolds.
(6) Schools like ourselves which are open to all pupils and serve a diverse community can’t plan, because … with surplus places in the South Cotswolds, we don’t know our final numbers till March each year,” Henson says.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Anti-badger gassing activists in the Cotswolds.
(8) If I’d grown up in a more normal household, maybe I wouldn’t have wanted to be one.” Although she moved to London after studying English at York University (she now lives in the Cotswolds), Yorkshire is an area she frequently returns to in her television writing.
(9) My husband and I began taking regular weekends away in the Cotswolds; we ended up making friends, and then hearing about a property for sale in the area.
(10) Racist jokes (some of which would have gone over my roof rack if I had been a Top Gear viewer) and an assault cost him his BBC slot , but he keeps his perch in the Murdoch press and, so I suspect, as court jester in the Cotswolds.
(11) The following year he scored a comic success as an old-fashioned, gentlemanly detective-inspector in Tony Bicat's spoof of the traditional country-house murder story, A Cotswold Death.
(12) I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds."
(13) If we were, we’d be living in a chocolate-box cottage in the Cotswolds,” she said.
(14) His tourist-guide zeal is so passionate, you might take him for an exile, a deracinated Lancastrian, rather than for what he really is – an Essex boy, with homes in London and the Cotswolds.
(15) Ukip had gone into Thursday's European poll with one representative – Farage – in the huge constituency which takes in nine counties and 8 million voters and stretches from the Cotswolds to Margate, and from the Isle of Wight to the southern suburbs of Milton Keynes.
(16) A flowering bluebell on the Cotswolds believes that Valentine’s Day falls in May.
(17) This Cotswold campsite offers two shepherd's huts with woodburning stoves and the chance to wake up to a carpet of blueness (from £70 per night, canopyandstars.co.uk ).
(18) The memorial is a 7ft-high curved wall of Cotswold stone designed to reflect the landscape of the Falklands and echoes a commemorative wall at the islands' San Carlos cemetery.
(19) She married partner Charlie Brooks, a racehorse trainer, last month, at St Bride's church on London's Fleet Street, and threw a huge party in the Cotswolds attended by some of the biggest names in showbiz, the media and politics.
(20) Gary Wright, who runs a family antiques business in the Cotswolds says that the rise in VAT will "hit our profits line.
Sheep
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
(n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
(n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(3) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(5) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(6) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(7) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(8) The plasma, urine, and tissue sulfathiazole concentrations were determined at various times following intravenous administration to 12 sheep.
(9) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(10) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(11) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(12) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(13) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(14) Periods of spontaneously occurring hypoxia have been observed in fetal sheep.
(15) The efficacy of other anthelmintics which have been used against paramphistomes in sheep is reviewed.
(16) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
(17) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
(18) In this ewe, and in 4 of 7 other sheep diagnosed as having abomasal emptying defects, aspartate transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities were high, and histopathologic evidence of hepatic congestion and ischemia was found.
(19) Also, Gs failed to hemolyze sheep erythrocytes when there was hemolysis by virions or an amino-terminal peptide of the VSV glycoprotein.
(20) It contained approximately 1% HP+cells and approximately 3% of all lymphocytes forming rosettes which sheep erythrocytes (E+ cells) present before fractionation.