(1) I just spent five days there, taking photos of the nature and listening rain drops on the leaves and drainpipe.
(2) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
(3) If you haven't yet put water butts at the base of your drainpipes, why not?
(4) At a nearby house with yellow danger tape around it, the base of a drainpipe registered 22.1 microsieverts per hour.
(5) Bathwater and sludge in bathroom drainpipes may be an important habitat of Exophiala species.
(6) If your drainpipes that take rainwater off the roof of your home aren't connected to the sewerage system – and millions of properties aren't – you can apply for a rebate of between £17 and £50 a year.
(7) Staff at Hanson Academy turned away 152 pupils when they arrived for school on Tuesday morning, and a further 63 pupils were barred on Wednesday for a variety of breaches including the wrong trousers (drainpipes not allowed), the wrong shoes (trainers not allowed) and no tie.
(8) Samples of bathwater from 14 homes and 22 public bathhouses and sludge in drainpipes from 19 household bathrooms were plated out onto potato dextrose agar supplemented with chloramphenicol.
(9) Our practical experience ranges from coastal erosion and 18th century drainpipes being overwhelmed by heavier rainfall, through to book collections damaged by pests now surviving warmer winters."
(10) They were drainpipes, out of fashion, and I was the laughing stock of the school.
(11) The project was more or less complete – down to ornamental drainpipes and wooden-latticed balconies – when war broke out.
(12) Here’s the author William T Vollman on a visit in 2013: “Right by the pachinko parlour [the] scintillation counter read 4.2 microsieverts per hour — about 10 times the level of that mildly dangerous drainpipe in Hisanohama.
(13) With Friends, it strikes me as a case of ‘I’m a shareholder, get me out of here.’ “Both are up to their eyeballs in writing annuities, where new business is disappearing like a rat up a drainpipe.
(14) They lower her in and her two burly sons (in drainpipes and teddy-boy quiffs) shovel earth on top.
(15) De Halve Maan is in the final weeks of testing the beer pipeline: four separate polyethylene tubes that look like ordinary drainpipes.
(16) Buy pair of copper-coloured drainpipe jeans in Carnaby Street instead, but am made to return them because, apparently, they look "queer".
(17) The author of these words arrives in town in the late afternoon, driving a black Volvo 4X4, and dressed in togs that suggest the principal character from some noir thriller yet unmade, most of which match the colour of his car: a fedora hat, waistcoat, and daringly drainpipe trousers, set off with a white wing-collar shirt.
(18) Gaddafi was being pulled from a drainpipe just before Nasr fell.
(19) The reporting of MI6 help [for the 1996 plot], of Gaddafi being pulled out of a drainpipe and buggered with a bayonet - nobody cared,” she said.
Hopper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, hops.
(n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
(n.) See Grasshopper, 2.
(n.) A game. See Hopscotch.
(n.) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
(n.) The larva of a cheese fly.
(n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopper was a miner for 27 years at Wearmouth colliery, which was on the site where the Stadium of Light stands.
(2) Dyer declared a state of emergency, and alongside Mina, Hopper and a local imam urged Americans to give blood and unite.
(3) The resulting sequence shows 94% identity with that of the corresponding peptide from calf skin collage (Fietzek, P. P., Rexrodt, F. W., Hopper, K. E., and Kühn, K. (1973), Eur.
(4) The Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant ts351 had been shown to affect processing of 27S pre-rRNA to mature 25S and 5.8S rRNAs (C. Andrew, A. K. Hopper, and B. D. Hall, Mol.
(5) I imagine the unseen rooms, and scenes from Edward Hopper.
(6) One reason his name did not endure as long as, for example, his contemporary Edward Hopper was his early death, aged 42, from appendicitis.
(7) But regular hoppers can also buy London Cure smoked salmon from Waitrose, Ocado and some Sainsbury’s branches, and it will be stocked by 100 Tesco stores from October.
(8) Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of buying agents Garrington Property Finders, said the brisk pace in June was likely to be the high water mark for the property market for some time.
(9) The leaf-hopper P. pictus is a well-known pest of Calotropis plants.
(10) He didn’t languish in movie jail like Mickey Rourke; he didn’t fall off the map for a decade like Dennis Hopper.
(11) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
(12) Hopper believed that programs should be written in a language that was close to English rather than in machine code or languages close to machine code.
(13) Cutting down the possibility of hay dust entering the rabbits' eyes led to marked improvement: the conjunctivitis was virtually eliminated when hay was given in a specially-designed solid-sided hopper which prevented the release of dust during feeding and which, being detachable, could be refilled away from the rabbit rooms to minimize general atmospheric dust.
(14) The most severe fibrosis was found in the quartz-treated animals, followed in order of intensity by the heated clay, volcano, ash, hopper coal ash, stack coal ash, and coal-oil mixture ash.
(15) As she continued her work, Hopper served as the director of the US Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy's Office of Information Systems Planning from 1967 to 1977 and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1973.
(16) This face-off between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken showcases Scott's deft way with dialogue, as well as detonations.
(17) The results indicate that although different hoppers affect the quantitative nature of the results, the same general trends are apparent.
(18) When viewing with the lateral field alone, subjects were initially unable to locate the food hopper and, even after retraining, conditioned peck localization was profoundly disrupted.
(19) Lazaretto is dedicated to three feminist pioneers: Florence Green from Norfolk, the last surviving veteran of the first world war until her death in 2012; the American anarchist and writer Voltairine de Cleyre; and "Amazing" Grace Hopper , a computer scientist and rear admiral in the US navy.
(20) Elsewhere, levels of buyer confidence remain solid, but with the surge in purchases by buy-to-let buyers now over, sellers now need to think more carefully about pricing competitively,” said Hopper.