(a.) Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nestling beneath the craggy wall of Fort Saint-Jean, a 17th-century stronghold that once housed the Foreign Legion, the squat glass building is shielded from the harsh Mediterranean sun by a dark filigree veil.
(2) I got lost for a few minutes walking along the craggy coast that looks out on Vatnsfjörður while searching for Hellulaug.
(3) Covering much of Mount Desert island off the coast of Maine, the park has spectacular scenery with craggy inlets and rolling hills.
(4) Wrap up warm and channel your inner Jules Verne as you soar at bird-of-prey height above the craggy peaks, snowy meadows and white forests around Alta Pusteria.
(5) UN groups say at least 40,000 members of the Yazidi sect , many of them women and children, have taken refuge in nine locations on Mount Sinjar, a craggy, mile-high ridge identified in local legend as the final resting place of Noah's ark.
(6) Alleati also organises sunset apéritifs at sea with wine and snacks (€25pp) Palmarola Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy This is the Pontine’s icing on the cake, a craggy gem with pink coral beaches, pebble shores and sea stacks such as the Rifles, a collapsed natural arch.
(7) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
(8) That’s a boat of refugees, and it’ll arrive on this side in about 15 minutes.” And sure enough, it does, leaving its 50-odd Afghan and Pakistani passengers to haul themselves up a craggy scree to reach the road above.
(9) As grim as a gargoyle, craggy as a crag, jaw set in steel – even the famous smirk was well hidden behind the scowl.
(10) Nevertheless, her home came to symbolise the whole surreal madness of Craggy Island, and she still gets visitors from all over the world.
(11) It's an ideal stop-off for hikers heading along the South West Coast Path from St Ives to Zennor, and has a big enclosed garden with a smattering of picnic benches, palm trees and a view from the headland over the craggy Atlantic coastline.
(12) You could almost believe, on nights when sea frets dog the craggy coast, that a black-clad figure haunts the narrow alleys.
(13) Here are Zara Phillips and craggy Mike Tindall, all jeans and grassy banks, watching Prince Harry play polo at Beaufort.
(14) The Fifth Fleet's greatest concern is that such asymmetric warfare could be used to overpower the sophisticated defences of its ships, particularly in the narrow confines of the Hormuz strait, which is scattered with craggy cove-filled Iranian islands ideal for launching stealth attacks.
(15) A 26-year-old male in whom CAH had been diagnosed neonatally, was referred for further investigation of a craggy mass in the left testis.
(16) A craggy, weathered testament to the elements that could stop a clock.
(17) The hard iron that once was their advantage – the presses and trucks – now become a killing weight around their craggy necks.
(18) The Senda Ecológica (ecology path) runs around the city from Saint Martin bridge in the west to Alcántara bridge in the east, following the craggy gorges of the Tagus.
(19) As the dust dissipated, its outline grew and filled out, revealing a 82,000ft peak with a 20-mile wide caldera in its full craggy glory.
(20) It's as if they've tried to match Daniel Craig's craggy toughness with earthier sounds.
Tor
Definition:
(n.) A tower; a turret.
(n.) High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) V cholerae O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Inaba, was isolated from three city water samples.
(2) The El Tor vibrios survived for 12 to 24 days in experimentally contaminated sewage water, and for up to 10 days in sewage-contaminated soil.
(3) The Caudal neurosecretory system and the neurohemal organ of a fresh water fish, Tor tor, is described.
(4) Searching through Tor, it is possible to access a site which will sell 100 credit cards (with the CVV2 digits – the three numbers on the reverse of the card) for just $150 (£98), around £1 per card.
(5) For more mainstream users, it could mean running Tor so that your children's location can't be identified when they are online, or could mean a political activist in China, Russia or Syria could protect their identity.
(6) A nucleotide sequence homologous to the 1.2-kb V. cholerae biotype el tor DNA coding for both the 14,000- and 22,000-Da proteins is present in all strains of classical vibrios but is not transcribed.
(7) A point source outbreak of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Inaba infections occurred aboard an oil rig south of Port Arthur, Texas, in September 1981.
(8) In this study, the in-vitro activity of ampicillin, chloramphenicol, oxytetracycline, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), cefoperazone, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, ceftizoxime, ofloxacin, pefloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and fleroxacin against clinically isolated strains of V. cholerae biotype El-Tor have been investigated.
(9) Security blogger and former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs wrote on Sunday that users were identified using a flaw in Firefox 17, on which the Tor browser is based.
(10) The CAMP reaction is easy to perform and may be useful for routine use in the differentiation of V. cholerae biotype El Tor from classical V. cholerae.
(11) This study provides arguments that (1) strains of biotypes cholerae and El Tor are different clones, (2) a cholera pandemic is not a single world-wide epidemic (due to a single clone) but rather a simultaneous occurrence of several epidemics (several clones involved), and (3) epidemic waves of biotype El Tor could be due to the emergence of new clones.
(12) The "NAG" vibrios were practically identical with the "E1 Tor" vibrio in biochemical properties, polypeptide composition, enteritogenic activity in rabbit ileal loops and showed various antigenic similarities in gel precipitation and indirect immunofluorescence tests.
(13) Derivatives of JBK 70 and CVD 101 (CVD 104 and 105) deleted of genes encoding the EI Tor hemolysin still caused mild diarrhea.
(14) International Business Times reported that part of the GCHQ-NSA collaboration will focus on trying to decrypt messages sent through Tor.
(15) In contrast, only one of the nine El Tor strains studied produced detectable amounts of TCP surface antigen in vivo and no fimbriae or surface antigen reacting with anti-TCP serum was found on El Tor vibrios from human cholera stools.
(16) Its software package – the Tor browser bundle – can be downloaded and used to take advantage of that technology, with a separate version available for Android smartphones.
(17) The article summarizes the experience of diagnosis and treatment of El Tor cholera in servicemen during an outbreak of intestinal polyinfection in the conditions of dry hot climate in desert and mountainous terrain of Afghanistan.
(18) Compact DNA form presents a tor with 100 nm external diameter and 430 nm width.
(19) So even if the NSA aims to surveil everyone, everywhere, they have to be a lot more selective about which Tor users they spy on."
(20) Prior administration of TOR increased nuclear uptake of [3H]E2 whereas TAM had no effect.