(1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
(2) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
(3) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
(4) I got quite emotional when I finished the book because I thought…" He lets the sentence hang and looks out of the window at the murky drizzle of a dank November evening.
(5) Come on Man City, you know you want him ..." Danke schon, dear readers, and auf wiedersehen.
(6) The men work on nearby construction sites, while the women spend their days in the dank, artificially lit alleys, stripping wire for copper and selling trinkets from closet-sized stalls.
(7) Danke!”) It rubs hard against an England fan’s sensibilities; to say nothing of an England Jewish-from-refugee-stock fan’s sensibilities.
(8) With the dank, fetid winds of manmade climate change blowing our way and worries over Russian military ambitions there has been much talk of Armageddon.
(9) Players of Philipp Lahm’s remarkable stature cannot be replaced; square pegs and round holes come to mind, but even during a period of some transition, these are the world champions – and in case anybody was forgetting, the players were greeted by a mosaic at one end of the ground reading “Danke” when they made their way on to the pitch.
(10) 8.00pm BST How far into the dank confines of the House Republican brain would you like to climb?
(11) Make no mistake about it: I was touched that 14 people would bother to come watch me in a dank, dark cave on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
(12) "Danke" says one in his native language in St Peter's Square.
(13) A severely mentally retarded girl is presented, with symptoms as described by Pitt, Rogers, and Danks (pre- and postnatal growth retardation, and unusual facies).
(14) She is played by Marion Bailey , and it is no exaggeration to say that when she arrives on screen, it is as if a column of soothing sunlight has fallen upon a dank meadow.
(15) From the look of recent production stills (grim pedestrian subways, dank council estates, McKay looking haunted): really not that easy.
(16) If you're a large corporation looking to wring the UK government for every penny it has and then some, these are the places you look – away from the main traffic of public discourse, in the dank side streets, where careers get lost and battles become too dirty to yield a clear victor – probation, adult social care, prisons, tagging, court interpretation.
(17) We showed previously that nuclear extracts from teniposide (VM-26)-resistant sublines of the human leukemic cell line, CCRF-CEM, exhibited decreased DNA topoisomerase II activity and ability to form drug-stabilized covalent protein-DNA complexes (Danks et al., Biochemistry 27:8861-8869; 1988).
(18) Most of the lines resemble atypical MDR cells (Danks et al., 1987; Beck et al., 1987).
(19) From the movies, you’d think Manhattan to be riddled with dank, dangerous, trash-strewn back-alleys, complete with rusting fire escapes and crumbling, graffiti-covered brick walls.
(20) European stock markets are inching higher on a dank morning in London, with traders warmed by the news that China's trade surplus swelled to its highest level in almost five years.
Rank
Definition:
(superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
(superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
(superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
(superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
(superl.) Strong to the taste.
(superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
(adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
(n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
(n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
(n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
(n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
(n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
(n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
(v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
(v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
(v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
(v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
(v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(4) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
(5) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(6) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(7) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(8) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
(9) The rank order of potency of the peptides tested was VIP greater than rat (r) peptide histidine isoleucine = human (h) PHI greater than rGRF greater than bovine GRF = porcine PHI = VIP-(10-28) greater than hGRF greater than secretin greater than apamin greater than glucagon.
(10) In the latter case, the studies have resulted in a ranking of processes and treatment methods to protect the environment.
(11) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(13) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
(14) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(15) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
(16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
(17) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(18) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
(19) The rank order of potencies of the four AEDs was: (a) in young: CBZ > PHT > PhB > VPA; (b) in adult: CBZ > PhB > PHT > VPA.
(20) Patients clinically evaluated as effective tended to be so pathologically as well, as shown by Spearman's rank correlation test which gave a significant correlation between the clinical and pathological scores.