(n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
(n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) 18) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 Needs: Offensive line, safety, defensive tackle, running back Pick: Kenny Vaccaro, safety, Texas Tony Romo often carries the can for the Cowboys' offensive calamities, but the truth is that not many quarterbacks look great when they are running for their lives.
(3) Now Brokeback Mountain, the tragic love story of two American cowboys, is looking to again chart new territory.
(4) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
(6) The Cowboys, meanwhile, move to 7-3 and are back on the play-off road after a couple of recent bumps.
(7) The Cowboys had one last chance to beat the Eagles but Kyle Orton, doing his best Tony Romo impersonation, threw an interception to end Dallas hopes.
(8) We've all timed our visit to coincide with the annual corrida , a cattle round-up in which all the area's vaqueros (cowboys) unite to retrieve more than 500 cows from all across the range.
(9) The former Foreign Office official, who has known Steele for 25 years and considers him a friend, said: “The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue.
(10) Much has been made of the personal battle being waged by Dez Bryant and Calvin Johnson at Ford Field, but it is instead Terrance Williams who blows this game open, scoring on a 60-yard catch-and-run to make it Cowboys 20-10 Lions .
(11) A good starting point is 1972's The Cowboys, in which Dern became the first man to kill John Wayne in a movie.
(12) Some of it is still naff, but that's bootcut-jeans-wearing cowboys for you.
(13) And it doesn't, because their film was released on the same day as Hollywood blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens , starring proven money-maker Daniel Craig.
(14) Her real passion has always been 1970s character films: Badlands, Midnight Cowboy and Bonnie And Clyde.
(15) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
(16) After a coroner recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at the inquest in Oxford in October, his family said US forces had been allowed to behave like "trigger-happy cowboys" and called for charges against those responsible.
(17) Christie, well known for his love of sports teams including the Dallas Cowboys, kicked off his visit by attending Arsenal’s 5-0 Premier League win over Aston Villa at the Emirates Stadium.
(18) And partly because too many European companies have a no-questions-asked policy towards every broker and cowboy willing to take troublesome waste off their hands.
(19) 3) Dallas Cowboys Last season: 8-8 The Cowboys have enough talent on their roster to be a play-off team.
(20) Alongside any stronger regime for penalties, we would urge measures to tackle domestic and small scale flytipping, for example, by unregistered ‘cowboy’ builders and householders who evade their responsibilities to dispose of waste properly.” Councillor Peter Box, the Local Government Association’s environment spokesman said: “Waste crime costs taxpayers tens of millions of pounds every year and is a burden on businesses, and residents.
Fella
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Example Sentences:
(1) I think this fella has got Crystal Palace stamped all over him – the way he moves, the way he chases, the way he works.
(2) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(3) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
(4) Shine, fellas, because no one’s letting you sing a verse.
(5) He tells his colleagues: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere fellas … I've just broken the Geneva convention."
(6) Richard Dawkins emailed to say, 'Nice one, fella.'"
(7) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
(8) Well it does, because let’s face it, a lot of time you’re watching fellas who’ve been out on the ale the night before.
(9) I met a nice fella in the Nottingham Naafi club, and he told me I was not to get married.
(10) "Unfortunately, no one will say that in advance and then some of them will go to the World Cup and play badly and say to you guys, 'I was bored' and you'll write and say 'poor fella'."
(11) Instead of slagging me off you want to try and spend a bit more time keeping your leggings on every time a fella so much as glances at you,” she told Sarah-Lou hours before she went into labour, before loudly putting in an order at the cafe.
(12) As you do that, you transfer the responsibility from the coaches to the players but then an hour before the game, there is a fella up the front telling them what to do.
(13) He's very, very professional, just a normal fella, really.
(14) The court heard in evidence that he was known in gangland circles as the Long Fella, and that he engaged in violence, intimidation and money laundering and benefited from the proceeds of prostitution.
(15) It shouldn’t be like this, but then I’ve heard all about this Grim Reaper fella and there’s no fooling him.
(16) "There was one fella I remember who was really upset because he'd got the one shoe that he wanted, but didn't have the other one.
(17) "There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down," he told the paper in Carmel, the California town where he served as mayor in the 1980s.
(18) He glows, you can’t really miss him when you do see him out there from a distance, and it’s like fluorescent blue when you see him up close.” Migaloo, whose name is an Aboriginal word for “white fella”, was the only known white whale in the world until 2011 when an all-white calf was filmed.
(19) You take a nicking on the chin when dispensed by a decent fella.
(20) Even the corner, the young fella [Ji], he can keep the ball much better if they have more desire.