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Covent


Definition:

  • (n.) A convent or monastery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
  • (2) Further success for the small Covent Garden theatre came when rising star Eddie Redmayne won best supporting actor for his portrayal of Mark Rothko's put-upon assistant in Red.
  • (3) It began in a tiny space on Monmouth Street in Covent Garden in the late 70s, as the first independent roaster.
  • (4) The council has long wished to establish a new cultural building: plans to create a Covent Garden of the north at the Palace theatre, in partnership with the Royal Opera House, foundered on the rocks of the financial crisis.
  • (5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
  • (6) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
  • (7) Coventional bright-field light microscope techniques were used to view the cell, the sarcomere pattern within the cell, and the position of the force beam.
  • (8) He said he believed opera was becoming more accepted by a wider part of British society than ever, and that BBC TV programmes such as Opera Italia , the BBC Four series fronted by the Covent Garden music director Antonio Pappano, and his Essential Ring, to be broadcast on the same channel this May, were crucial.
  • (9) Although they have two cafés – the original in Covent Garden, the second at Borough Market, both of which can generate seemingly endless queues – the retail drinks business only accounts for 5% of the six tonnes of beans that they roast a week.
  • (10) A couple of years ago I had lunch at Carluccio’s in Covent Garden with my breastfeeding daughter and my granddaughter.
  • (11) Now he was anxiously editing the film, but in Neal's Yard in Covent Garden.
  • (12) Kevin's mother once again gave the family space in her Covent Garden flat while they waited for the council to find them a home.
  • (13) Premier Inn has 72 hotels in Greater London, Travelodge has 67, Holiday Inn 38 and Ibis 24; and all brands continue to expand: a fifth Hub by Premier Inn is set to open on Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, for example; Ibis Styles is opening in west London; while Z hotels is adding Covent Garden and Soho to its collection of listed townhouses in 2018.
  • (14) Coventional measures of growth efficiency were also related to food intake; efficiency decreased with decreasing food intake.
  • (15) Coventional kittens, 12-27 weeks old, were inoculated with cell-cultured feline panleucopenia virus and killed sequentially between day 3 and day 24 after inoculation.
  • (16) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
  • (17) For Covent Garden he translated Die Fledermaus (1989), for the RSC, adapted A Christmas Carol (1994), and for OUP he produced The Oxford Book of Villains (1992).
  • (18) The glutaraldehyde method led to at least a five fold increase of the sensitivity compared to coventional adsorption.
  • (19) The recent experience of the Royal Opera might have been salutary: for as that company seeks a replacement for its head of opera, Kasper Holten, who is leaving in a year’s time , Covent Garden is known to be looking for someone who, unlike Holten, is not an opera director but will be prepared to devote all their energy and time to what’s going on at Covent Garden.
  • (20) Approximately 20% of the unintegrated MMTV DNA is present as double-stranded, covently closed circles (form I) with a molecular weight of 6 X 10(6) daltons.

Covet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
  • (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
  • (v. i.) To have or indulge inordinate desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (2) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
  • (4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
  • (5) It was a hat-trick of sex scandals involving Beckham, Eriksson and David Blunkett that landed the paper the coveted newspaper of the year award at last year's British Press Awards.
  • (6) Over the years the Oscars have been variously coveted and sneered at, have increasingly brought box-office value and personal prestige, become a media obsession, a gauge of industrial morale and a way of taking the national pulse.
  • (7) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
  • (8) China says it has launched the world’s first quantum satellite, a project Beijing hopes will enable it to build a coveted “hack-proof” communications system with potentially significant military and commercial applications.
  • (9) Sometimes I wonder if, 20 years hence, we as a society will decide that it doesn't make sense to grant women coveted spots in advanced programmes in business, law, science or medicine.
  • (10) The coveted stars of modern football do not want to work like that.
  • (11) Its use of the internet to carry voice calls threatened to undermine the world’s biggest telecoms companies, from AT&T to Vodafone, and made it one of the most coveted up-starts in the tech world.
  • (12) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
  • (13) The Spanish champions are seeking to renegotiate with the much-coveted pair, whose deals include buy-out clauses set at around £43m.
  • (14) There are no jobs currently in existence that we covet."
  • (15) In the latest sign that McDonald’s is trying to consolidate its control of the coveted breakfast market, the fast food chain has applied to trademark a new word that could appeal to late morning risers everywhere: “McBrunch.” The application, which the maker of the Egg McMuffin filed on 23 July, signals at the very least an interest in expanding what has been one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable day segments.
  • (16) It is ubiquitous, yet coveted, pricey yet just about affordable.
  • (17) On the edge of Scholar’s Piece, the strip of farmland just behind King’s College, lies a granite stone which has become arguably Cambridge’s most coveted tourist attraction.
  • (18) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
  • (19) When Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye receives a coveted Human Rights Defenders award in Geneva , his role as a fearless chronicler of his country's US-led drone war will have come full circle.
  • (20) Arsenal know that the Catalan club already covet two of their key players, the captain, Cesc Fábregas, and the full-back Gaël Clichy, but Arsène Wenger, the manager, has come to view Arshavin's pronouncements in the Russian media with a degree of amusement.

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