(1) The streets of Libreville, the central African country’s seaside capital, were eerily quiet on Friday evening.
(2) It is an eerily apposite image from the year the outbreak of the Spanish civil war inaugurated a new age of slaughter.
(3) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(4) Parts of the city already feel like a war zone: its ritziest hotel is eerily deserted though many rooms are being used as offices by international agencies drawn by the deepening crisis – blue helmets and flak jackets piled up on Persian carpets in an ornate reception room, white UN vehicles parked behind the blast barriers outside.
(5) Earlier this week in Janesville, where post-industrial melancholy is evident in a closed car plant and eerily quiet downtown, House speaker Paul Ryan crushed a Trump-style challenger in a congressional primary.
(6) Watching the Conservative leader now, Gould's stern paragraphs about the importance of television appearances and "symbolic policies", and how political parties should change to fit society, seem almost eerily applicable.
(7) Outside rush hour, the subway is eerily silent: thanks to a strong underground signal, everyone's staring at their smartphones, texting, playing games, or reading.
(8) The water crisis in Flint is a sobering reminder of America’s long history of disregard when it comes to the welfare of black bodies – I am not the first to note how eerily reminiscent it is of the Tuskegee Experiment in the 1970s, when hundreds of black men with syphilis were not told they had the disease so that US Public Health Services could study its progression.
(9) Fox's voice is small at first; she seems eerily distant, her face turned away.
(10) Andy Serkis As Gollum nee Smeagol, King Kong, and Caesar the chimpanzee who would rule us all, Andy Serkis has established himself as an actor so eerily good at imitation and invention that critics have called for award categories to expand just to reward his performances .
(11) A few farmers and children were walking the green fields, but Shadel Bazar was eerily quiet.
(12) There has and continues to be astonishing progress towards and beyond this target, which was achieved in 2010, five years ahead of its deadline – a fact that went eerily uncelebrated.
(13) Google's Street View imagery takes users on a 360-degree virtual tour of Namie's eerily quiet streets, its earthquake-damaged buildings and the overturned cars and fishing boats resting where they were deposited by the tsunami.
(14) I get to tell my story and not keep it bottled up.” She continued, “Other brave survivors’ eerily familiar stories have inspired me to share my story that rape isn’t always a stranger in the bushes.” Here is the 21-year-old woman’s full statement to the court: “His life is ruined.” Oh yeah, and it’s not like my life isn’t ruined or anything.
(15) Afterwards, Col Needham, the IMDb chief, said that, eerily, he had been having a conversation on this very subject with Shirley MacLaine, who had asked what would happen if a mistake was made.
(16) It’s incredible that no teacher ever caught us huddled up on the benches near the softball field exchanging papers or realized all of our work was eerily similar.
(17) In the five months since David Cameron and Nick Clegg went public with their relationship, we have discovered the men have more in common than just their ages, expensive educations and eerily smooth complexions.
(18) Maria Bamford With her high-pitched voice and eerily precise impressions, the intensity of Maria Bamford’s comedy isn’t always apparent at first glance.
(19) Anthony Atamanuik’s portrayal of Trump – breathtakingly brutal and eerily accurate – was hilarious at first, but over time, even he seemed to get sick of the baseless bravado and pumpkin-colored skin.
(20) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
Verily
Definition:
(adv.) In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian Otis, Verily’s chief technology officer, said: “This is an ambitious collaboration allowing GSK and Verily to combine forces and have a huge impact on an emerging field.
(2) GSK, Britain’s biggest drug company, said it would form a joint venture with Verily Life Sciences, a division of Alphabet , to work on research into bioelectronic medicines.
(3) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
(4) I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud set a new world record for mass recitation in 2004, when 250,000 school children across the UK read his poem inspired by the daffodils.
(5) Metastases of secreting tumors are verily more rare, nevertheless they are indubitably a major indication for embolisation, since good results are achieved concerning inopportune secretions and repeat embolisations possible are a super advantage.
(6) GSK and Verily, renamed from Google Life Sciences in December, said their collaboration would combine GSK’s drug development and understanding of disease biology with Verily’s expertise in miniature electronics, data and software for clinical purposes.
(7) Verily is one of Alphabet’s most important long-term ventures.
(8) Galvani will be based at GSK’s global research and development centre at Stevenage, Hertfordshire, just north of London, and will have a second research hub at Verily’s base in San Francisco.
(9) Ye satanic windmills are verily heathen science bequeathed by snollygosters that fail to honour the old ways and displeaseth the coal gods,” it said.
(10) Hopefully in 10 years there will be a treatment option where your doctor will say ‘Why don’t you go for bioelectronic?’, and a surgeon will do a little procedure and it will help the organ to do what it should be doing.” Moncef Slaoui, GSK’s chairman of global vaccines, will chair the new company’s board, which will also include Verily’s chief executive, Andrew Conrad, and Famm.
(11) Under Verily’s plans, patients would swallow a pill filled with magnetic nanoparticles measuring less than one-thousandth the width of a red blood cell.
(12) He said working with Verily would speed up this process and that he hoped to conduct the first tests on humans within three years.
(13) Verily has already developed a health-tracking wristband – similar to the Fitbit range of exercise devices – that can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature.
(14) Oh sheik Osama we are jealous of you to be of those who the promise is true The promise is truth which is binding if only we knew Verily Allah has purchased the lives of the believers that theirs shall be paradise.
(15) Photograph: Laurence Cendrowicz Verily, my lady, with thy Timotei-sponsored earnestness and thy 15th-century Milfwear, thou dost bring the lulz.
(16) Verily, “For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath” ( Mark 4:25 ).
(17) GSK will own 55% of Galvani Bioelectronics, and Verily will hold 45%.
(18) Google’s parent also owns Verily Life Sciences , which works on futuristic projects that marry technology with medicine.
(19) Smart contact lenses One of Verily’s big-ticket projects is the development of a smart contact lens designed to help people with diabetes.
(20) Verily has been working on technology inspired by the tricorder for two years, although progress has been halting at best .