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Donned


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Don

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
  • (2) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
  • (3) Joint ROM was measured directly prior to, and again immediately following, the donning of the pressure support.
  • (4) Van Gaal has yet to win away from home – for the first time in 18 years United have gone six Premier League games without a victory on their travels – and with all due respect to their opponents on the road so far, MK Dons, Burnley, Sunderland, Leicester and West Bromwich Albion , they are not exactly world-beaters.
  • (5) A survey of university and university-affiliated hospitals was conducted to assess turnover among DONs and the reasons they leave their positions.
  • (6) MK Dons v Chelsea: match preview Read more The club annouced Pato’s arrival on an initial six-month loan move from Corinthians on Friday night after he attended a work permit hearing in London.
  • (7) Judy Murray, who will be among the celebrities donning the sequins and fake tan on the new series of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing , has revealed that her tennis champion son Andy warned her she would be a disaster.
  • (8) The dons had asked him about statistics, which he’d only just started studying.
  • (9) On the slab next to us was a group of disadvantaged youngsters, given a rare taste of self-esteem by donning climbing gear.
  • (10) Manchester United’s conquerors, MK Dons, were handed a favourable draw in the third round of the Capital One Cup with a home tie against a fellow League One side, Bradford City.
  • (11) Blatter is suspended now, but the Blatter regime is still in place, even if it is beginning to resemble a scene from a gangster movie, where the dons gather around their boardroom table in ever-depleting ranks, empty chairs marking those now in the hands of the law.
  • (12) Asked if it would be impossible to overlook the former MK Dons and West Brom manager's candidacy should Chelsea go on to claim the European Cup, Lampard said: "Nothing's impossible.
  • (13) Improvement in cosmesis, orthotic weight-reduction, ease of donning, marked relief of pain, and functional gains in ambulation were reported.
  • (14) Ji also featured in Sunderland's 4-2 win over Milton Keynes Dons in the second round of the Capital One Cup.
  • (15) "I was worried about MK Dons," acknowledged a relieved Di Canio.
  • (16) Another compared the country to a person without sufficient food donning expensive clothes: "It's the same as beggars donating.
  • (17) Based on a survey of 195 directors of nursing (DONs) practicing in rural community hospitals, the authors compare administrative assessments of recruitment and retention efforts of DONs practicing in various-sized rural facilities.
  • (18) The Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, made a more successful visit during the floods, donning waders to reach stranded residents, and his party is beginning to get a foothold in Somerset.
  • (19) When Oscar Pistorius donned a pair of carbon-fibre blades to compete alongside able-bodied athletes at the 2012 Olympics, he had ceased to be a disabled athlete; instead, he offered us a glimpse of a "superhuman" future where Paralympians aided by bionics or performance-enhancing drugs might set hitherto unimaginable sporting records.
  • (20) Draw in full Aston Villa v Birmingham Crystal Palace v Charlton Fulham v Stoke Hull v Swansea Leicester v West Ham Liverpool v Carlisle Manchester United v Ipswich Middlesbrough v Wolves MK Dons v Southampton Newcastle v Sheffield Wednesday Norwich v West Brom Preston v Bournemouth Reading v Barnsley or Everton Sunderland v Manchester City Tottenham v Arsenal Walsall v Chelsea Ties to be played in the week commencing 21 September

Downed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Down

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The remain side have already targeted Johnson’s credibility in attacks that the Brexiters believe were orchestrated by Downing Street.
  • (2) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
  • (3) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
  • (4) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
  • (5) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
  • (6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
  • (7) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (8) A small kitchen cabinet was due to meet on the morning of Friday October 5 at Downing Street, two days after David Cameron had concluded his no-notes conference speech in Blackpool with a challenge to Brown to "call that election".
  • (9) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (10) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
  • (11) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
  • (12) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
  • (13) Downing Street explained on Thursday night that Oliver and Michel shared the cost of the bill, and so no hospitality was extended and nothing need be declared.
  • (14) All children were between 5 and 11 years of age and included six Downs, six non-communicating and six children with rare syndromes or no known diagnosis.
  • (15) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
  • (16) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
  • (17) Asked about the comments at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said: "I understand she is now saying she didn't say what she is reported to have said so I think you might want to bear that in mind."
  • (18) "I have called for a progress report in Downing Street in October, with the search engines coming in to update me.
  • (19) Gillan is speaking at her office at Gwydyr House, the HQ of the Wales Office across the road from Downing Street.
  • (20) A camera located in Downing Street shows Mitchell leaving 9 Downing Street and approaching the main double gates on his bike at 19.36:14 and as he stops to talk to police officers, a woman crosses on the pavement proceeding towards Trafalgar Square.

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