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Dilly


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of stagecoach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
  • (2) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (3) [Ranieri] could see that mentally we were still in bed, so he shouted: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!
  • (4) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
  • (5) INA Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dilli Haat market stall.
  • (6) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
  • (7) All it took was to listen out for the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” of Ranieri’s alarm bell.
  • (8) Really, no one knows what happened in that room.” Players get away with the same or worse all the time, Dilly adds.
  • (9) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
  • (10) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
  • (11) One year it was the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” bell, and another it was a golden toy Ferrari – a riff on the fact that one newspaper had described Cagliari as a sports car racing through the lower divisions.
  • (12) After Danny Drinkwater told of the manager’s habit since the start of the season of ringing an imaginary bell to stress how important it is for players to stay alert – with his regular cry of “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” becoming a catchphrase the squad now use cheerfully themselves – Ranieri revealed the gifts he gave his players at Christmas.
  • (13) That’s why we organised these events.” Under a canopy of glittering red hearts hung to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the flashmob handed out leaflets and danced to a song specially written for One Billion Rising, called Jago Dilli Jago or Awaken Delhi, asking people to end the silence around sexual violence.
  • (14) He changed tack, led the party, resigned, dilly-dallied between Westminster and Holyrood, then came back to fill a talent and charisma gap.
  • (15) At Christmas, he gave us each a bell with ‘Cagliari Calcio, dilly-ding, dilly-dong’ and his name on it.
  • (16) But be warned, Claudio, I nominated Garry Monk for this award last year … Amy Lawrence Dilly ding, dilly dong all the way.
  • (17) She's actually rather nice, Dasha, somewhere underneath her careful circumspection, her desire not to betray her boyfriend, her politely masked impatience with those who think she's dilly-dallying at projects she really cares about.
  • (18) Danny Drinkwater provoked much amusement among the British press corps last month, when he revealed the manager’s technique of saying “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” to restore focus whenever energy levels start to dip during training .
  • (19) 9.37pm GMT 90+3 min: Giaccherini finds himself in space down the left on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area, but dilly-dallies too long, fails to put in a corss and tries to stab the ball forward towards towards Altidore instead.
  • (20) Dilli Haat , a two-minute walk from the station, is a collection of more than 150 stalls selling artisan goods from across India.

Filly


Definition:

  • (n.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.
  • (n.) A lively, spirited young girl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three unusual ovarian abnormalities are presented, a large, oestrogen-producing granulosa cell tumour, an oestrogen-producing large follicle in a 4-month-old filly, and an ectopic progesterone-producing adrenal structure bordering on neoplasia.
  • (2) The filly did not respond to glucocorticoid treatment and was euthanatized.
  • (3) After 5 weeks rest in a stall and 11 months at pasture, the filly was trained and raced without lameness.
  • (4) Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was diagnosed in a 2-year-old Standardbred filly.
  • (5) Intramuscular hemangiosarcoma resulting in severe anemia and thrombocytopenia was diagnosed in a 3-year-old Thoroughbred filly.
  • (6) The phenotypic effects in a yearling Arab filly of a newly described equine autosomal trisomy syndrome for chromosome 30 (65,XX,+30) consisted of small size and severe angular deviation of front legs accompanied by mild polydactyly, but no mental dullness.
  • (7) A 6-month-old Clydesdale filly had chronic abdominal distention and intermittent febrile episodes.
  • (8) A 6-month-old 300-kg Quarter Horse filly was treated for septic arthritis of the distal interphalangeal joint and septic navicular bursitis that developed as a result of a deep puncture to the foot.
  • (9) Group-1 fillies also had markedly high serum creatine kinase activity.
  • (10) Height, girth and circumference of the cannon bone below the knee were recorded, measurements for colts and fillies are shown separately.
  • (11) Samples from each of 239 clinically normal mares and 30 colts and fillies believed not to have been exposed to CEMO were negative with titres of less than 256, the majority of samples (97 per cent) showing a titre of 32 or less.
  • (12) During exploratory surgery, 3.5 and 2.0 meters of thickened terminal small intestine were removed from the colt and filly respectively, and a jejunocecostomy performed.
  • (13) No significant sex difference was found between colts, geldings and fillies.
  • (14) A fusion defect of the proximal and middle phalanges of both hindlimbs, osteochondrosis dissecans of the distal interphalangeal joints of the forelimbs, and subluxation of all 4 distal interphalangeal joints occurred in a Standardbred filly.
  • (15) A 2-year old Thoroughbred filly was examined for a 1-month history of persistent nasal discharge.
  • (16) Itraconazole, a tricyclic azole effective against a number of deep mycotic diseases, was used to treat a Quarter Horse filly with coccidioidomycosis.
  • (17) The screws were removed after 11 months because the filly became lame in the affected limb.
  • (18) The study demonstrated marked fluctuations in serum muscle enzyme concentrations which were more pronounced in two-year-old fillies than three-year-old fillies and colts.
  • (19) The clinical and ophthalmoscopic features of a congenital coloboma of the lens in a 3 year old Hanoverian stallion and of an ectopic lens in a 6-month old Hanoverian filly are described and depicted.
  • (20) Severe mitral regurgitation developed secondary to scarring of the valve, which resulted in the filly's death.

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