(n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
(n.) The act of croqueting.
(v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to using the facilities – two pools, a spa, tennis and croquet courts, and of course a beach – members have access to more than 30 guest rooms, from suites to cottages, where the cost of a stay can exceed $1,000 a night.
(2) The swimming pool, beauty salon, spa, tennis courts and croquet court shout aspiration, wealth and success, a version of the American dream.
(3) He has now acquired some of the trappings of the establishment himself, including the Chevening country house where John Prescott once embarrassed himself by being snapped playing croquet.
(4) With its beautiful old trees, astonishing silver collection, croquet lawn and chickens (which you can play on and feed respectively), Dunham Massey represents a quick and total escape from city life.
(5) The secluded lochside setting, with its restored wall garden and hens scuttling across the croquet lawn, is picture-perfect.
(6) Heywood had moved to China in the Nineties, marrying a local woman but remained very much an old-fashioned patriot, taking pride in his Harrow education and playing croquet.
(7) Allsports and JJB have both died in the face of Ashley's relentless discounting and aggressive acquisition of brands, which has included turning the croquet and tennis set's beloved Lillywhites in Piccadilly Circus, London, into a pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap bazaar.
(8) Beneath a particularly sparse offering she wrote : "The pizza in the first pic was alright but I'd have enjoyed more than 1 croquet.
(9) A cheaper option, however, between May and September, is to check in to one of the 11 simple bell-tents (or the single, more sturdy, timber-lined “glamping arc”) that are set up – behind the croquet lawn and mighty copper beech tree – in one of the estate’s mature gardens.
(10) There's also golf, tennis, croquet and a heated outdoor pool.
Flinch
Definition:
(v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
(v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
(n.) The act of flinching.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings could not be attributed to changes in flinch threshold as neither treatment nor time affected this measure.
(2) I noticed one of them hit him I don’t know where, but I saw him flinch,” Wilson said.
(3) Lesions of the central nucleus also decreased reactivity to shock (jumping and flinching) during shock presentation.
(4) She did not flinch when hostage-takers took over the Iranian embassy; most were killed by the SAS.
(5) Based on the mean thresholds obtained from a flinch-jump test, 8 rats were tested in a startle inhibition procedure with prestimulus intensities of 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.8 mA.
(6) Our forebears never flinched from modernising the Conservative party, so why should we?
(7) Burnham said that broadcasters cannot "flinch" from the need to look after contestants.
(8) Publication of the Prince Charles 'black spider' letters: live Read more But Kristina Kyriacou, the royal’s top media adviser, barely flinched when duty called as her protectee was confronted by the dogged Channel 4 reporter Michael Crick on Tuesday.
(9) In a second experiment it was observed that neither the shock-induced flinch nor the jump threshold was elevated after nigral lesions, suggesting that these lesions do not decrease the aversive motivational properties of foot shock.
(10) No change in the flinch-jump threshold was detected.
(11) Microinjections of morphine (10 microgram) at both sites significantly elevated the threshold of response in the flinch-jump test; but only at medial sites did naloxone (1 microgram) antagonise this effect.
(12) striker Clint Dempsey’s upcoming debut rap album , The Redux, choice rhymes including: “My game face won’t never flinch, “I’m beast mode, Marshawn Lynch.” O FIVERÃO LETTERS “We’ve all been there with Mario Balotelli (yesterday’s Bits and Bobs).
(13) This is the first time he even flinched, he smiled, went to mutter something, thought better of it and just carried on reading the paper.
(14) According to this hypothesis, the failure of these teratments to disrupt escape responding may be due to the fact that the unconditioned stimulus generates reflexive motor responses (flinch, jump, etc.)
(15) We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school's staff did not flinch.
(16) For the coverage that I am getting – the fact that it covers previous conditions, the fact that it doesn’t flinch at cancer treatments, the fact that my copays are reasonable and the pharmacy prescription requirements allow me to get the drugs I need – it’s a remarkable bargain.
(17) When it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn’s first act as leader was to go to the pub and sing the Red Flag , bankers flinched and Tories sneered, yet it was no surprise to me.
(18) Nociceptive thresholds were measured by the flinch-jump test.
(19) Now the sleeves are rolled up for the business of telling the press his party will flinch from any coalition with Ukip or the Scots.
(20) After both players tussled, mutually kicking out, television replays suggested Cissé was complaining Evans had spat in his eye but other images showing the United centre-half flinching indicated that this was far from one-sided.