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Dunk


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Souse


Definition:

  • (n.) A corrupt form of Sou.
  • (n.) Pickle made with salt.
  • (n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
  • (n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  • (n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  • (v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.
  • (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
  • (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
  • (v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
  • (v. t.) To pounce upon.
  • (n.) The act of sousing, or swooping.
  • (adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The catalyst was a series of confrontations between immigrant youth and the police in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois .
  • (2) The two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, in October 2005.
  • (3) Vulnerable people such as the elderly and hospital patients are increasingly likely to consume food produced by new systems such as 'cook-chill' and 'cuisson sous vide'.
  • (4) Along the main water courses in the sparsely populated areas of the Sous-Préfecture of Tcholliré, the vectors of onchocerciasis were mainly Simulium damnosum s. str.
  • (5) Ever since the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005, all matches with North African teams had become potential triggers for trouble in Paris.
  • (6) In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
  • (7) Their deaths by electrocution triggered riots on the boys' run-down estates in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, which soon spread across France.
  • (8) Nutritionists and food scientists have concerns about the food safety of sous vide products and the possible increase in food borne illnesses.
  • (9) The "Iles sous le Vent" are well staffed and well equipped, but other islands are under privileged.
  • (10) Of the sausage samples examined, 38% of the fresh pork sausage, 9% of the smoked pork sausage, and 1 sample (souse) of 16 samples of miscellaneous sausage products were contaminated.
  • (11) Yesterday the right-wing mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Gérard Gaudron, led a silent march of 600 residents between the destroyed fire station and the burnt-out pensioners' day centre in Mille-Mille.
  • (12) The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois).
  • (13) It comes after an investigation by Channel 4 News estimated last month that more than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may not actually exist, ranging from vacancies for sous chefs to dry-cleaners.
  • (14) "Most of the kids in this neighbourhood are the fourth generation of their family in France," said Mohamed Mechmeche, 44, a youth worker in Clichy-sous-Bois who after the riots founded the community pressure group Aclefeu.
  • (15) Even if they did, the warnings did not deter Bouna Traore, 15, and Ziad Benna, 17, from going into the electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
  • (16) Activists and youth workers in Clichy-sous-Bois had said that if the case did not go to trial it would be a message that poor families on run-down estates did not deserve justice in France.
  • (17) While unemployment, poor housing, daily discrimination and racism have run local people into the ground in the poorest parts of Clichy-sous-Bois, it is the daily conflict with police that remains a tinderbox.
  • (18) It was here in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005 that the deaths of two boys who had been running from police were the catalyst for the worst riots in modern French history.
  • (19) That same night, 15 cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, a classic French banlieue of rundown postwar high-rises that are home to 30,000 people, overwhelmingly second and third-generation immigrants whose parents arrived in France as cheap migrant labour from north Africa.
  • (20) Photograph: Annabel Moeller Heston Shops selling blowtorches, sous-vides and gold leaf should be ready for a last-minute rush as Britain’s peculiar-fusion chef Heston Blumenthal makes his debut as a Radio 2 DJ and gives festive cooking tips.