(n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
(v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russia's strongman garners tacit support, and even some quiet plaudits, from some of the world's most important emerging powers, starting with China and India.
(2) This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric Garner, and a thousand stories in between.
(3) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
(4) Named after one Nobel laureate and directed by another, it’s garnered support from some of the biggest names in science.
(5) Garner, 43, died on 17 July as he was put in a chokehold – a procedure that has been banned in the force since 1993 – by officer Daniel Pantaleo, and was heard on video footage of the arrest saying, “I can’t breathe”.
(6) Few details are currently known, but this police murder is in the same vein as what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, and Dontre Hamilton in Milwaukee,” the group said in a Facebook post .
(7) Soaring SNP membership, at 103,000, would be equivalent to a UK-wide Labour or Tory party garnering 1.2 million supporters.
(8) She’s handling it very well,” Garner-Snipes replies.
(9) She has already started her rounds of the constituencies to garner support, and has profited from Johnson’s indecision on whether he would or would not return to parliament.
(10) Specific questions garnered information about practices in interviewing children and accused adults, assessment protocols, criteria used to substantiate the allegations, and factors that might distort children's responses.
(11) The show has shrugged off the bonds of mere TV, and garnered a cultural presence rarely seen since the shows of the 1970s – the so-called “golden age” of television.
(12) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.
(13) "This information has been instrumental in garnering the attention of the citizens of the world who expressed solidarity with those suppressed individuals and may even put pressure on their own governments to react.
(14) If Eric Garner’s killer can’t be indicted, what cop possibly could?
(15) An overcome Esaw Garner was escorted from the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, which was packed with hundreds of people.
(16) And this week, at a summit of police and religious leaders convened by De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, he drew a sharp contrast between the violent clashes between police and protesters in Ferguson with the peaceful protests that have marked Garner’s death.
(17) Sure, they have watered-down, sexualized soaps such as Teen Wolf and the TV version of 90s slasher flick Scream, but Scream’s premiere garnered only a million viewers, compared to 10.1 million for AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead .
(18) … Like that in any way mitigates what was done to him.” Sharpton said police tried to taint Garner’s image after his death by quickly releasing his arrest record.
(19) She loves the story of A Lion Called Christian - a two-minute film clip relating to the 35-year-old book and documentary that became an international phenomenon last year, garnering 44m hits on YouTube.
(20) In footage of the moments leading up to the chokehold , Garner is heard telling police: “Every time you see me, you wanna harass me, you wanna stop me … I’m minding my business, officer.” Garner repeatedly complained that he could not breathe when Pantaleo had him in a chokehold.