(n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
Example Sentences:
(1) This delay enabled the badger cullers to drive away into the darkness and continue their work without having to suffer the terror of a journalist politely stammering, "Excuse me sir, how is the badger cull going?"
(2) "He confirmed the final licence conditions had yet to be met by the cullers but could be fulfilled at any time, meaning badgers could begin to be killed immediately.As winter approaches, time is fast running out for the cull to begin because badgers lie low in their setts in the cold weather.
(3) In the early hours of Tuesday two saboteurs in Gloucestershire found a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
(4) The lead American inspector, Floyd Culler, an expert on plutonium extraction, noted in his reports that there were newly plastered and painted walls in one of the buildings.
(5) The main reason for it in this situation is simple: the cullers know only too well that no amount of reassuring information about the cull's efficiency, humaneness or safety can disguise the fact that badgers are being shot dead and most of the country finds this distressing and would like it to stop.
(6) It highlighted one incident in Gloucestershire in which two experienced saboteurs came across a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
(7) When the government announced the cull and argued that it was necessary to tackle bovine TB, there had already been a standoff between saboteurs and cullers.
(8) Those occupations with the highest estimated rates included helicopter and agricultural pilots, demolition labourers, deer cullers and commercial deer shooters.
(9) The concerns raised in the leaked note will be celebrated by the activists, who have added heat-detecting sensors to their armoury this year to help them pick out cullers in the pitch black.
(10) This time some activists will use thermal imaging devices they say will allow them to spot cullers from up to 1km (0.6 miles) away.
Duller
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Dull
(n.) One who, or that which, dulls.
Example Sentences:
(1) One aspect of it was just a little bit duller than it’s ever been before and that’s part of the mix and the chemistry that they’re going to have to get right,” Westacott told Fairfax Radio on Monday.
(2) It didn’t help that even as the games between the two teams became longer, duller and less meaningful , the networks kept committing to air as many of them as possible to a national audience, hoping for another epic season like 2003 or 2004, a move which resulted in diminishing returns.
(3) After 300 strokes, Ti.180 did not grow duller than N.T.. As the scaling strokes increased, the edge deformation of N.T.
(4) Nevertheless, the battle won, it might prove a duller place.
(5) Cannes, and cinema, would be duller and dumber without him.
(6) The sharper needles had long, narrow cutting edge geometries compared with the short wide geometries of duller needles.
(7) There are also the duller, more workaday parts of Venice, in which one is introduced to the disquieting idea that the entire city is an occult conspiracy, leading inexorably to death.
(8) In 25 out of 27 (93%) specific fluorescence was still present in cells of the convalescent specimen but was much duller.
(9) New research not yet included in the IPCC also suggests there may be a link between the melting of the Arctic and duller, wetter summers in the UK, said Stott, but this is still in its early stages.
(10) Fluorescence-activated cell sorter analysis of lymph node cells showed a separation into duller and brightly positive cells whereas in the thymus the bright population is absent.
(11) Not only did Italy eventually score, getting a goal that only rarely felt imminent in a game that was mostly dull when it wasn’t duller, but also a last-minute appeal for a penalty when Andreas Granqvist tumbled was turned down by the referee, Viktor Kassai.
(12) The intensity of CD5 expression on B cells was at least 10 times 'duller' than on T cells, CD5 'dull' cells were CD3 negative, and T cells bearing the gamma delta antigen receptor did not express either CD4 or CD8 on their surface.
(13) Without his input, arguably, the world would be a far duller place.
(14) Like, it was ironic and also, totally funny at the same time.” Luke & Charlotte, however, are duller than Dido in a load of beige-grey ditchwater.
(15) The data show that the distal edge of maxillary canines of A. afarensis became far duller than would be predicted from changes in crown shape.
(16) The cutting quality of Ti.400 grew duller than that of N.T.
(17) Also, the duller the trephine was, the larger the diameter of the cut, due to difficulty in tissue penetration.
(18) Helen chooses to see her much duller father as utterly blameless - apart from the way he used to administer sun cream, leaving white question marks on her sunburnt back every summer.
(19) With Great Apes his obvious relish at creating a whole world from one idea sustained the promise of his shorter fictions to novel-length; How The Dead Live enlarges upon an early short story in which the dead simply move to duller parts of London.
(20) Without her, comedy would have been safer and duller.