(n.) The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself.
(n.) A utensil for covering the fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) It wants courts to be able to ban them from driving, to confiscate their passport, or even impose a curfew.
(2) The minimum legal driving age and curfew laws are found to be important determinants of fatalities.
(3) As long as the requirements of the law are there, if you try to evade arrest, refuse arrest... and you put up a good fight or resist violently, I will say: ‘Kill them’.” Duterte also vowed to introduce a 2am curfew on drinking in public places, and ban children from walking on the streets alone late at night.
(4) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.
(5) Freddie Gray protests sweep US from Baltimore to New York – as it happened Read more Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge.
(6) Six civilians who had been injured after Indian troops fired on rock-throwing protesters died overnight, and on Sunday a man was killed as hundreds of people defied the curfew and clashed with troops in the town of Pulwama.
(7) We’re staying here for justice.” Earlier, as the clock ticked towards the midnight curfew, hundreds more people had gathered in the street.
(8) Among other issues, before Monday's 2-1 defeat at Chelsea he also had to explain to Mancini why he had broken a curfew and was seen at 1am in Manchester's city centre on Sunday.
(9) Paramilitary troops patrolled the town when the curfew was lifted for two hours to let people stock up on food and medicines.
(10) A colleague elaborated that these "public order protection camps" would be fenced in, with inhabitants required to comply with a strict 10pm curfew.
(11) "Therefore, in order to relieve and mitigate the impact on people's daily lives, and to boost tourism by Thais and foreigners, the curfew order is being cancelled in the rest of the country."
(12) All clients were advised to return straight home and observe the 10pm citywide curfew, Finegar said.
(13) Students do not believe that the police enforce curfew restrictions vigorously, but many parents require their children to obey the law.
(14) Malki's military forces were dealing with us like chickens that have to go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 6am because of the two-year long curfew imposed on us.
(15) Sunday I decided I'd had enough of curfewed nights alone, so I went for a sleepover at my brother's.
(16) The lifting of the curfew allowed Nayeem to visit injured protesters recovering at Srinagar’s main hospital, many of them from serious pellet injuries to the eyes caused by shotguns used by security forces to disperse crowds .
(17) Their living conditions are characterized by lack of sanitation, shortage of water (especially in comparison to Israel proper), unemployment, curfews and closing of schools during tense periods by the military authorities as collective punishment for incidents.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amateur video purports to show people burning a portrait of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Palmyra after the historic city fell under Isis control Local activists said Isis had imposed a curfew and was sweeping the city for remnants of Assad’s forces.
(19) I said publicly that the police should be allowed to use water cannon and curfews.
(20) Before kick-off there were stories of 20 Cowboys players missing a midnight curfew after dinner at the Tower of London and the team were also said to be concerned about the off-the-field activities of the star receiver Dez Bryant.
Curlew
Definition:
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some once-common bird species, such as lapwings and curlews, whose populations have declined rapidly in recent years, could vanish altogether from smaller breeding sites, experts warn.
(2) The number of grey partridges in the UK sank by 50% since 1970 due to the intensification of farming, while curlew sandpipers in Australia lost 80% of their number in the 20 years to 2005.
(3) Even so, 37 birds once common in the UK, such as lapwing, puffin and curlew are now close to dying out because of habitat loss, climate change and increasingly intensive farming.
(4) Breeding birds feeding on the estuary in summer include curlews, shelducks and oystercatchers.
(5) Third-stage spiruroid larvae were found encapsulated on the serosa of the small and large intestines and in the mesentery of one of 15 adult upland sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda) from Manitoba, Canada, and three of 18 adult long-billed curlews (Numenius americanus) from Alberta, Canada.
(6) As it foraged next to a lone Eurasian curlew , both probing the waterlogged pasture with their long, down-curved bills, it was easy to see how the ibis came by its alternative (though taxonomically incorrect) name of "black curlew".
(7) Skylarks, yellowhammer, linnets and stone curlews are among the species the RSPB is most worried would suffer from the loss of set-aside.
(8) Stone-curlews (also known as ‘thick-knees’) are members of the wader tribe (though I have never seen a stone-curlew actually wade); and are mainly nocturnal – hence the large eyes.
(9) He said snipe, redshank, lapwing, curlew and black-tailed godwit, were all species that had declined rapidly in numbers in recent years.
(10) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(11) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
(12) It would be tragic to imagine a world without puffins, curlews, turtledoves and oyster catchers.” .
(13) STAY a five-minute drive away at Lower Stock Farm (01934 862 997, lowerstock.co.uk , doubles £75) set in 250 acres of working land The Curlew at Bodiam, East Sussex Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos They like to point out that stile meets style at the Curlew at Bodiam (mains from £21) and big city cuisine almost certainly influences this country kitchen.
(14) Almost a year on, the radio series will soon reach its end, with Kate Humble's account of one of our more elusive birds, the stone curlew .
(15) What about the argument that declining birds such as curlew thrive on land managed for grouse?
(16) As I peer through my binoculars, a huge eye stares back at me: belonging to a Bush Stone-curlew .
(17) This brought on an unprecedented wave of extinctions or near misses; the Carolina parakeet and the Rocky Mountain locust were driven to extinction and the Pronghorn antelope, the bison, black-footed ferret, Eskimo curlew, ivory-billed woodpecker, heath hen and others were brought to the brink.
(18) Owned by Mark and Sarah Colley and awarded a Michelin star in 2011, the Curlew uses the best (mostly local) ingredients while still offering remarkable yet affordable dinners.
(19) There were golden plover and curlew and lapwing displaying and it was pretty impressive but if there had been a pile of 400 stoats by the road and however many foxes and weasels and a pile of illegally killed hedgehogs, badgers, peregrines, goshawks and short-eared owls then the lapwing and curlew don’t look quite so impressive.
(20) As I left a curlew flew soundlessly through the ash grove.