(n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
(2) With Richard Davenport taking second place – an athlete who has not yet run the A-qualifying standard – Van Commenee can select two further athletes to travel to Daegu.
(3) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(4) These results indicate that the ATPase polypeptide traverses the membrane an even number of times, in support of a previously published topological model (Hager, K. M., Mandala, S. M., Davenport, J. W., Speicher, D. W., Benz, E. J., Jr., and Slayman, C. W. (1986) Proc.
(5) There has also been a complaint made to the government by a company about how the dredging and sea wall contract was handled , and concerns about the cosy relationship between Shorrock and Good Energy – Shorrock was until recently a paid adviser to Good Energy, which is run by his wife, Juliet Davenport.
(6) They’re in the minority.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farmer Peter Edwards, who founded Delabole windfarm, and Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy, which bought the farm in 2002.
(7) Smash, with an all-star cast including Debra Messing, Jack Davenport and Anjelica Huston, began on Sky Atlantic with 75,000 viewers, a 0.4% share of the audience, between 10pm and 11pm on Saturday.
(8) • Jack Davenport stars in Breathless, which starts on ITV at 9pm, 10 October
(9) 'We do have a tendency to come to the same place from totally different directions, have a massive scrap, and then something comes out of it,' says Davenport cheerfully, as we head off for a tour of the edit suites, where a large team of editors and compositors is layering blue-screen images onto footage recorded in nearby Warwickshire woodland.
(10) Having joined Ragdoll in 1991, Davenport had worked with Wood on the Bafta-winning Tots TV and Brum before they co-created Teletubbies, the first show to be aimed squarely, and controversially, at pre-schoolers.
(11) I'm responsible for the finances, and the longer things take, the more money you're spending [Davenport groans in protest].
(12) She’s the best fighter, the best competitor we’ve ever seen in women’s sports,” said Lindsay Davenport as Sharapova saw off another match point.
(13) Davenport said goodbye to the theatre without too much regret when Wood offered him a job as a puppeteer on Tots TV.
(14) Juliet Davenport, founder of Good Energy , said: "This will undermine growth, investment and jobs in a sector which is helping to introduce more competition and new players into the energy market.
(15) Next on Davenport’s wishlist for the site is a solar farm, and an energy storage plant, a technology many believe will be key for renewable energy’s next big breakthrough.
(16) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(17) In the companion paper [Davenport, L., Knutson, J. R., & Brand, L. (1986) Biochemistry (following paper in this issue)], a specific application to a problem of importance of lipid biochemistry--e.g., the origin of the membrane probe order parameter in lipid bilayers--is presented, demonstrating the role rotational heterogeneity may play in biochemical fluorescence.
(18) Juliet Davenport, the founder and chief executive of the renewable power supplier Good Energy , another of the letter's signatories, said Britain needed a more inclusive approach to the way it invested in its energy infrastructure.
(19) The total prevalence of diabetes (15.6%) was lower than the 19.0% described in the study of Aboriginals in Davenport [Wise et al., Med.
(20) Andrew Davenport was born in Folkestone, the son of a Michelin tyres sales manager and a housewife.
Sofa
Definition:
(n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(3) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
(4) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(5) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
(7) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
(8) Since furanoses in the envelope form are analogous (in some ways) to half-chair or sofa conformations and since lactones with six-membered rings probably have half-chair or sofa conformations, the results indicate that beta-galactosidase probably destabilizes its substrate into a planar conformation of some type and that the galactose in the transition state may, therefore, also be quite planar.
(9) Many iPad users see the device as a more relaxed device than a computer: something to be kept close at hand on the sofa or even in bed, with its instant-on nature.
(10) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
(11) Christine Bleakley, Chiles's co-presenter on The One Show, had been linked with a possible move to ITV to join Chiles on the GMTV sofa.
(12) The couple, who are Polish nationals, claimed he had fallen off a sofa.
(13) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(14) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(15) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
(16) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
(17) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
(18) After all, who needs private detectives to follow Tom Watson when you can find out about his office playlist and Portal 2 marathons from the comfort of your own sofa?
(19) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
(20) He then took aim at the viral picture of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting in the Oval Office in a strange, overly comfortable manner, shoes on the sofa.