(n.) A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.
(n.) Fig.: A little; a bit; as, a crumb of comfort.
(n.) The soft part of bread.
(v. t.) To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fundus appeared to consist of multiple, scattered, pale, bread crumb-like lesions that seemed to lie deep to the retinal vessels and anterior to the retinal pigment epithelium.
(2) The only small crumb of comfort for Osborne is that when he delivers his budget in March it will be too soon to know the GDP figures for the first quarter of 2012 — so although we may already be in recession by then, we won't know it.
(3) To – as our north of England editor Helen Pidd wrote last week – no longer live on crumbs, while others in London enjoy entire loaves.
(4) One crumb of consolation is that the damage was to Wilshere’s left ankle, rather than the more problematic right one, which kept him out for 17 months from June 2011.
(5) Press the fillets first into the mustard and paprika, then into the crumbs.
(6) The champagne bottles are in the recycling bin, the bouquets on the compost heap and the cake crumbs swept away.
(7) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
(8) In another experiment, minced meat was mixed with starch from golden bread crumbs (3%) or potatoes (4%), with and without glucose (1, 2 or 4%).
(9) There were crumbs of brilliance for fans on luvvies' day (nice to see Sir Bruce Forsyth so attentive, nice), most of them from the racket of the defending champion.
(10) The measure of humidity, of peroxides and of the staleness of crumb are favourable for a good conservation.
(11) One inmate was denied outdoor exercise for 60 days for trying to feed crumbs to birds.
(12) Evidence that the lesions were well placed included interruption of weight gain, transient aphagia, disrupted nest building, increased spillage of food crumbs and in some cases abnormal postures or movement.
(13) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(14) Brush off any crumbs from the marzipan and worktop before wrapping the cake, to be sure that the outside of the cake will have a smooth, neat finish.
(15) Biomicroscopy also revealed a progressive disruption of the homogeneous nature of the corneal stroma by the appearance of large 'bread crumb'-like opacities that started at 72 h and was still present at the end of the evaluation period.
(16) The leftist, pro-Kurdish HDP party gained a small crumb of comfort from passing the 10% threshold it needed to secure seats as a party in the new parliament – less than the 13% it scored in June, but enough to deny the AKP a so-called supermajority, the 330 MPs a ruling party needs to be able to call a referendum on changes to the country’s constitution.
(17) Whatever crumbs of wrongdoing there may be, they don’t amount to something worthy of Watergate, or even the myriad gate-suffixed scandals since.
(18) "Widening inequality is creating a vicious circle where wealth and power are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving the rest of us to fight over crumbs from the top table," Byanyima said.
(19) He continued to live off his notoriety, posing for photographs with tourists in exchange for money, selling souvenir T-shirts that commemorated his escapes, scrabbling for crumbs from the media table and charging tourists £40 for a barbecue at his house.
(20) You are poor in the wealthiest city in the world, the crumbs fall downwards, you will be given a chance to get up again.
Nobody
Definition:
(n.) No person; no one; not anybody.
(n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.
Example Sentences:
(1) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(2) I knocked for quite some time but there was nobody there.” A neighbour said the family had not been home for “a while”.
(3) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(4) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(5) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(6) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
(7) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
(8) They are learning that education isn’t stimulating and nobody is listening to their needs.
(9) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(10) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(11) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
(12) Quantitative easing, which nobody had heard of until it started happening, entered the language.
(13) Nobody said anything to me.” The victory was Villa’s second over Albion in five days.
(14) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
(15) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
(16) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
(17) Nobody's mobile phone bill should come to £230 in one month.
(18) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(19) It would leave us facing a world nobody would want to inhabit.
(20) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.