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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.

Redolent


Definition:

  • (a.) Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As one example, certain aspects of Gawain's situation seem oddly redolent of a more contemporary predicament, namely our complex and delicate relationship with the natural world.
  • (2) Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will not face battery charges Read more In a jeremiad against political correctness redolent of his future employer, Miller writes that “politically correct dictates are anathema to American values”.
  • (3) In the light of four proven cases of myocardial infarction in patients under treatment with hormonal contraceptives, the authors point out: the sudden 'inaugural' appearance of the infarction during a therapeutic course; the appearances of the lesions on coronary arteriography; on 2 occasions a lacunar form on the proximal segment of a main coronary trunk, in one case lesions more redolent of atheroma, and in one case a completely normal vascular tree.
  • (4) Photograph: Kemal Jufri for the Guardian From above, the designers’ illustrations for the Great Garuda project are redolent of the artificial Palm islands off the shore of Dubai .
  • (5) It played into Russia’s propaganda war against Ukraine and was redolent of Stalinist-era show trials of dissidents.
  • (6) The practicality, ironically, was redolent of the modern Chelsea and in some ways the victors stole their opponents' clothes.
  • (7) But the last minute Portland goal (in yet another piece of symmetry, redolent of the one they conceded late against Seattle in the semi-final first leg) just did enough to sow a doubt in RSl's minds and to give Portland a realistic target to reel in in two weeks time.
  • (8) Even the name Jeremy Hunt is so redolent of upper-class brutality that it feels like he belongs in one of those Martin Amis books where working-class people are called things like Dave Rubbish and Billy Darts (No shade, Martin – I’m just a joke writer: I envy real writers, their metaphors and similes taking off into the imagination sky like big birds or something).
  • (9) "Inevitably, the document will be long, informative and redolent of civil service expertise and attention to detail.
  • (10) The charts are filled with posthumous releases by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, and tracks that seem so redolent of the previous decade that you mentally file them away as being products of the 50s, rather than the 60s: Susan Maughan's Bobby's Girl, Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Elvis Presley 's Return to Sender.
  • (11) Each 60-minute show ratchets up the tension with a countdown and split-screen effect redolent of 24.
  • (12) The poem about Brearley, the memoir of Mac, the loyalty to his friends from Hackney Downs (he is still, 50 years on, in regular touch with three of them, even though two live in Canada and the other in Australia), the Wisdens and scrapbooks and numerous postcards in his study are all redolent of a man for whom the past is ever present.
  • (13) Byrne's brief epistle was redolent of a similar valedictory message left by Reginald Maudling to James Callaghan after Labour won a narrow victory in the 1964 general election.
  • (14) TV drama Bo's account of the confrontation was still more redolent of a TV drama: he said he had walked in on Wang declaring his love to Gu Kailai .
  • (15) These records often sat at the cutting edge of musical fashion, but at the same time, Optimal’s vinyl production lines were redolent of a world that had recently disappeared from view.
  • (16) The genius of Game of Thrones is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a middle ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.
  • (17) The hunt for the killer of schoolboy Danny Latimer, led by two detectives played by former Doctor Who star David Tennant and Olivia Colman, gripped the nation in a style redolent of "Who shot JR?"
  • (18) It has a hymn-like opening chorus, very melodic and redolent of traditional Russian Orthodox chanting .
  • (19) Twombly returned to sculpture, which he had abandoned in the late 1950s, producing objects redolent of classical architecture or ancient rites, while in his paintings a little later he introduced luminous, watery tones.
  • (20) Roland Barthes wrote an arch meditation on the "indolence" of his scrawls, which for him bore the erotic redolence of some crumpled pair of pants discarded by a rent-boy.

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