(1) It's a fanfare for the common dog: a nuzzly celebration of humanity and the deep, hopeless love of doggy-woggies that is written on Britain's heart in pet-friendly ink.
(2) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(3) Soon after comes the familiar sight of folk having doggy-style sex with cheerful hookers in rooms lit by candles: Game Of Thrones is back, rude, raw and handing Mad Men its arse in the ratings.
(4) Fast-forward a couple of grim decades held together by Xanax and gritted teeth, and Leslie is a screw on doggy death row, a supervisor at a full-to-bursting kennel in South LA.
(5) Some pre-match emails: "I have a feeling that little doggy's about to chew on some fenders, Mr. G," writes Byron Whitley from New York.
(6) The top 12 list in full Doggie Doo, John Adams, RRP £22.99 Fijit Friends, Mattel, RRP £54.99 Fireman Sam Pontypandy Rescue Set, Character, RRP £29.99 Kidizoom Twist, VTech, RRP £49.99 LeapPad Explorer, Leapfrog Toys, RRP £79.99 Lets Rock Elmo, Hasbro, RRP £69.99 Milky the Bunny, Flair, RRP £59.99 Monster High Lagoona's Hydration Station, Mattel, RRP £39.99 Moshling Tree House, Vivid, RRP £18.99 Nerf Vortex Nitron Blaster, Hasbro, RRP £44.99 Ninjago Fire Temple, Lego, RRP £91.99 Star Wars Ultimate Force Tech Lightsaber Assortment, Hasbro, RRP £39.99
(7) If there was a 50-year-old male director who was saying come in, take your clothes off, do a doggy-style sex scene, I would be the most annoying actress in the world.
(8) Between interviews with the likes of Marianne, who designs "high-end doggy fashions" for expressionless bichon frise Lily, there are wordless montages of activity on the heath, the theme of each being, roughly, "dog".
(9) The website is a curious affair – a sort of doggy dating site riddled with twee canine puns from “how to create a pawesome profile” to a section devoted to “waggy tales”.
(10) Try its big hit burrito ($12) or one of the doggy-themed scrambles: the Fetch (bacon and egg) or the Stay (with mushrooms, seasonal greens and roasted sweet potato (both $9.50).
(11) Although Doggie Doo, a plastic dog that poos out plasticine and recently made an appearance on the Jonathan Ross show, didn't make it on to the children's list it was clearly the star of the show at the media launch of the Dream Toys on Wednesday.
(12) When Louis returns later in the programme, Caspar has chomped up Nancy's leg and been despatched to doggy Broadmoor in the sky.
(13) Freddie, 11, and his friend Harry, nine, headed straight for Doggie Doo on arriving at the official preview.
(14) When I grew out of it, I forced my mum to separate the feet from the legs so I could keep wearing it, my tell-tale human ankles the only thing gradually distancing myself from my doggie identity.
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(16) "With his left paw, the cat's keeping the doggie in place, and the right one is ready to swing at the canine's face.
(17) Bone Doggie and the Hickory Street Hellraisers at the Denton Arts and Jazz festival.
(18) "Having taken a closer look at the cute cat and the funny doggie, the cat seems to be ready to take a swipe at the dog, and the dog looks fearful," opines Cecilia Marjakangas.
(19) Once it was a magazine so important that even Mrs Thatcher deigned to be interviewed for its pages, albeit disastrously: she announced her favourite record was not by Duran Duran or Madonna but Lita Roza’s 1953 novelty How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
(20) Tom took great delight in revealing that her favourite singer was Cliff Richard, whom she admired for being professional, and that her favourite record – on-message for the cost-conscious curator of an economic boom – was the fearful 1953 novelty hit (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?
Hibernation
Definition:
(n.) The act or state of hibernating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on the fact that all hibernators, at their regulated minimal body temperature, display a uniform turnover rate, related to body weight, the hypothesis is developed that cold tolerance of mammals is generally limited by a common specific minimal metabolic rate, which larger organisms, because of their lower basal metabolism, already attain in less profound hypothermia.
(2) Throughout the hibernation season (October to April), white adipose tissue-saturated FA percentage decreased, monoene percentage remained constant, and diene percentage increased.
(3) The role of cyclic changes of protein synthesis rate in adaptation of cells of hibernating mammals to functioning at various temperatures is discussed.
(4) In this animal, central vasopressin infusion during the winter prevents hibernation.
(5) To clarify the cause of uncoupling of Ca influx through Ca channels and the contractility of the myocardium in hibernating chipmunks, the electromechanical effects of two different internal Ca store inhibitors, caffeine and ryanodine, and a cardiotonic agent, isoprenaline, were investigated in papillary muscles of hibernating animals.
(6) The mechanism(s) regulating the duration of the period of hibernation was considered to be concerned with some aspect of metabolism and probably the same for all three species.
(7) The possible mechanisms in regulation of the respiration rate of mitochondria from liver of hibernating ground squirrels have been investigated.
(8) Does ursodeoxycholic acid (UDC) production protect hibernating species of Ursidae against gallstone disease?
(9) Such responses to equithesin were not observed in the non-hibernating rodent species.
(10) In neurons from other structures (lateral septum, medial preoptic area, hippocampus) in the brain slices of both hibernating and waking ground squirrels, thyrotropin-releasing hormone did not usually affect the level of spontaneous discharges.
(11) Fetal mesencephalic tissue was grafted into the lateral ventricle following pregraft refrigeration in calcium-free magnesium-free buffer at 4 degrees C. Fetal mesencephalic tissue was hibernated for 5, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 hours (group A, B, C, D, E, F and G, respectively).
(12) We find that during hibernation the marrow cavity of the long bones is filled with lipid deposits interspersed with vascular sinusoids containing mononuclear cells and red blood cells.
(13) Ten milligrams of lyophilized plasma albumin fractions from hibernating ground squirrels, woodchucks, black bears, and polar bears produced similar inhibition, with partial reversal by naloxone.
(14) We studied nutrient absorption across the brush-border membrane in jejunal tissues from active 13-lined ground squirrels and in hibernating squirrels that had not eaten for at least 6 wk.
(15) Plasma ANF of both groups of nonhibernating marmots was significantly higher (P less than 0.01) than that the hibernating group, but there was no difference between nonhibernating males and females.
(16) The CG and associated DB were therefore found to exert antagonistic effects which are responsible for the control of spermatogonial DNA synthesis in hibernating Helix aspersa.
(17) U69593, however, antagonized hibernation induced by HIT in summer active ground squirrels.
(18) Grafted fetal mesencephalic tissue which had been hibernated for 16 hours or less survived well.
(19) Over 60% of the blood CO2 stores accumulated at the beginning of the hibernation bout were released by hyperventilation during the first period, prior to the full development of thermogenesis.
(20) The heart of ground squirrels is covered by a large amount of brown adipose tissue during the whole period of hibernation.