(1) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(2) And Chalmers alley-oop pass to LeBron who dunks it, the Heat are still here.
(3) If you raise the floor of a basketball court by just a few inches, you will see many more slam dunks."
(4) 3.02am BST Heat 38-42 Spurs, 5:20, second quarter And Ginobili steals on the next possession, hey here's something good, he gets the ball into Tony Parker's capable hands and the point guard hits a two-pointer, Lewis misses a jumper on the other end and Duncan turns a Diaw steal into a dunk and now it's Miami's turn to take a time out.
(5) They can’t be charged with obstructing official business, since (according to the prosecutor) they did indeed cooperate with the investigation an tell the truth during the formal investigation.” The “best bet” would be obstruction of justice, he said, based on their initial false statements, but “that only works if they made the false statement with the purpose of hindering the discovery of a crime.” “There is an argument that their initial statements were made with that purpose,” he said, “though I don’t think it’s a slam dunk.” Since the officers cooperated with the formal investigation, Simmons said it’s unlikely Deters would want to present an aggressive case to the grand jury, as “it is always difficult to get police officers to testify against their fellow officers and it looks like these two did tell the truth when it really mattered.” Meanwhile, it emerged on Friday that Tensing was seeking reinstatement on the UC police force through his union.
(6) The Slam Dunk Contest, sorry the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest disappointed for the second year in a row.
(7) As Motion's prologue makes clear, this is a "found poem" – the literary equivalent of the objet trouvé (did Damien Hirst "make" that sheep he dunked in formaldehyde?
(8) Meanwhile, the Rising Stars game somehow featured less defense than the All-Star Game, Usain Bolt, despite the pregame hype, faltered in the Celebrity All-Star Game after an early dunk and nobody cares, or ever will care, about Shooting Stars or the Skills Challenge, sorry the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, not even the winners.
(9) A fast break dunk by Iguodala with 5:12 left in the third extended the Warriors’ lead to 61-51.
(10) Then Tiago Spillter dunks and the Spurs bench applauds in response.
(11) 1.41am BST Indiana Pacers 12-6 Miami Heat - 7:05 remaining, 1st Quarter And David West makes um two straight dunks and that will quiet the Miami crowd real good, a good time for a Heat timeout which they take.
(12) 3.01am BST Spurs 58-34 Heat, 5:52 remaining, 2nd quarter Chris Bosh makes a dunk, I love Chris Bosh.
(13) • Oh and I suppose the Dunk of the Week should rightfully go to this year's Slam Dunk Contest winner Terrence Ross.
(14) Judging by the slapdash nature of the marking at that set piece, Hughton’s side were missing the customarily commanding presence of the suspended Lewis Dunk at the heart of their defence.
(15) Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos is supremely confident that reviving the sitcom Arrested Development, which was made available globally online last night in a single 15-episode junkie-pleasing hit, will be the latest "slam dunk" in the video streaming service's mission to revolutionise the TV industry.
(16) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(17) In addition to the prerequisite leaping ability, long-term success in "playing above the rim" requires experience, exceptional physical agility, and the mental discipline to anticipate and avoid slam-dunk opportunities with high risk for personal injury.
(18) On the contrary, if Obama doesn't deliver a "slam dunk" on Tuesday, we'll see another round of liberal hand-wringing and conservative victory laps.
(19) Mario Chalmers dunks, Duncan dunks and LeBron finally hits his first shot of the game, with a jumper.
(20) Paul George had the Dunk of the Year Facebook Twitter Pinterest No we're not going to argue about this, Indiana Pacers guard Paul George had the Dunk of the Year.
Soak
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
(v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
(v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
(v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
(v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
(v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
(v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
(v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
(4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
(6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
(7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
(9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
(10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
(11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
(12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
(13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
(14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
(15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
(16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
(17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
(18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
(19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
(20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.