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Darn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
  • (n.) A place mended by darning.
  • (v. t.) A colloquial euphemism for Damn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (2) To non-artists, there may not seem to be anything original or provocative about love, death, loneliness or cheese, either – yet gosh-darned artists keep finding new ways for humanity to look at them.
  • (3) There were a similar number of sliding hernias in the Shouldice repair (14) and plication darn (20) groups.
  • (4) NBA.com writer Steve Aschburner notes that this is essentially a no-win situation for him : Physically, Rose faces a darned-if-he-does, darned-if-he-doesn't dilemma.
  • (5) It’s a darn sight better,” laughed Juris, “than visiting him in jail”.
  • (6) The British method known as "nylon darn" has shown to be effective in preservation of deep groin anatomy.
  • (7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
  • (8) Masuku also rejected the firebrand leftist Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): "I read the EFF manifesto and I found some pretty good darned stuff there but they are so radical and so violent, they actually sound racist.
  • (9) That was pretty darn special, but only, you'll notice, a three-goal salvage job.
  • (10) This identified a considerable range in methods of repair, with a Moloney nylon darn being the sole method used by 35% of consultants, and the Shouldice technique, either alone or in combination with other methods, being used by 20%.
  • (11) Marc Ostwald from Monument Securities says: They haven't quite sold the complete amount but they got pretty darn close … Demand still very much more domestic than anything else.
  • (12) I got back into a program of recovery and life has been pretty darn good ever since,” she said.
  • (13) Another, tweaking an obscure bit of the film's dialogue, said: "I'm afraid you're just too darned disorganised."
  • (14) Darn, I was looking forward to seeing what sort of penalty Ozil would take ... 7.15pm BST Arsenal 2-2 Hull: half-time in extra-time Stay tuned!
  • (15) But, after days of patient care, one of the craft's wings has been stretched out into an approximation of its original shape, and the holes have been patched up with ovals of metal riveted on to the body work, like a large-scale piece of darning.
  • (16) He said: "Let's be frank, he [Brown] was a darn sight better than at prime minister's questions."
  • (17) Her speech is American-accented and peppered with "darn" and "have a nice day".
  • (18) patient age was 58.3(1.5) (range 20-84) years for Shouldice repair and 57.0(1.2) (range 18-85 years) for plication darn.
  • (19) The inguinal darn for recurrent inguinal hernias appears to have a lower recurrence rate than the reported 15% to 30% following other techniques.
  • (20) 'We’re too darned modest about what we do': Radio 3 boss Alan Davey's typical day Read more In that week’s Radio Times, the BBC’s director general, Sir William Haley, had set out the Third’s stall to the nation: “presenting the great classical repertoire in music and drama, and so far as they are broadcastable, in literature and the other arts … it will seek every evening to do something that is culturally satisfying and significant.” It was the year that everything changed for the arts in Britain.

Shoot


Definition:

  • (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.
  • (v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.
  • (v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
  • (v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
  • (v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
  • (v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
  • (v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
  • (v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
  • (v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
  • (v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.
  • (v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
  • (v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.
  • (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
  • (v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
  • (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
  • (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
  • (v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
  • (v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
  • (v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
  • (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
  • (n.) A young branch or growth.
  • (n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
  • (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
  • (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
  • (n.) A shoat; a young hog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
  • (2) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (3) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (5) An investigation into the shooting by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s office has been completed and handed to the office of McGinty, the county prosecutor.
  • (6) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
  • (7) Holmes, 25, is charged with more than 166 separate offences relating to the mass shooting of 20 July in Aurora, including first degree murder.
  • (8) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (9) So far this year, we have seen more than 350 mass shootings in the US and it happens almost every day.
  • (10) I said ‘ periodista, no dispare ’ – it means ‘journalist, don’t shoot’ – ‘ por favor ’.
  • (11) Subway service was partially suspended and police blocked off the streets where the shooting occurred.
  • (12) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
  • (13) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
  • (14) They shouted at her: ‘Keep your hands in the air!’ They told her: ‘We’re going to shoot.’ “The shooting resumed.
  • (15) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
  • (16) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
  • (17) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
  • (18) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
  • (19) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
  • (20) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.

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