(a.) Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
(a.) Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.
(a.) Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.
(n.) That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(2) Today's identification of four types and various sub-types of 5-HT receptors has revealed the extraordinary eclecticism of this transmitter which within migraine's clinical expression underscores that migraine sufferers are characterized by a marked sensitivity to all the drugs capable of acutely or chronically interacting with serotonin metabolism and binding with many serotonin receptor types and sub-types.
(3) Second, at a time when efforts to improve the safety of commercial factor VIII have led to extraordinary increases in cost, factor VIII from plasma exchange donation promises to be relatively inexpensive.
(4) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(5) In the space of 90 extraordinary minutes it seemed as if a nation’s reinvention had been all but completed.
(6) The prime minister said that while he was prepared to organise the extraordinary Treasury briefing, he was not prepared to release the government’s independent advice for the public or parliament to justify the rise.
(7) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(8) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(9) "A pound spent in Croydon is of far more value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde," Johnson told the Huffington Post in an extraordinary interview this weekend.
(10) We wish to thank once again all the Chinese people and people around the world who have supported Beijing 2022 in this extraordinary bid journey.” Earlier, the president Xi threw his weight behind China’s bid, promising the “strongest support” for the Beijing Games in a one-minute video address to the IOC delegates.
(11) States are meant to swim alone on this … We’re already doing extraordinary things to deal with the burgeoning demands on our hospitals.” Turnbull reiterated an earlier call for the states and territories to look at increasing some of their own revenue measures to make up for funding shortfalls.
(12) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(13) However, I want to see how both fighters handle what will be an extraordinary fight week before I make my own.
(14) The commissioner, Dyson Heydon, described the payment to the Hasluck election campaign as “extraordinary” in his final report, saying there was “a direct temporal connection between a meeting on workplace issues” and the “request for a contribution to the campaign”.
(15) B-cell tumors have been extraordinary sources of information about antibodies, their genes, and the cells that express them.
(16) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
(17) In his UN general assembly address Tuesday, US president Obama referred to the "extraordinary potential" of the Iranian people "in commerce and culture; in science and education."
(18) In a biopsy from the mother's ovary a trisomic cell line was found, thus giving some, but not a complete explanation for this extraordinary family.
(19) The extraordinary trauma experienced by Resistance veterans from World War II (WW II) and other veterans may be associated with an increased incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and somatic morbidity, including cardiovascular disease (CVD).
(20) The virus of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease differs from conventional viruses in its extraordinary resistance to commonly used physical and chemical methods of decontamination.
Thundering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thunder
(a.) Emitting thunder.
(a.) Very great; -- often adverbially.
(n.) Thunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Thunder now have a 2-0 series lead but can't afford to let their guard down considering they're about to face a wounded and fired up Kobe Bryant at home.
(2) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
(3) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(4) Last year, Feinstein thundered against the NSA monitoring Merkel, even as the senator remained a staunch supporter of most other NSA surveillance, to include its domestic operations.
(5) The Clippers rallied at the end of the period, outscoring the Thunder 8-0 to take a 90-86 lead.
(6) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
(7) The Thunder, who seemed in perfect position to take a commanding 3-1 series lead until the game's final minutes instead find themselves tied 2-2 with an incredibly talented Clippers team that has luck, momentum and even public sentiment on its side.
(8) Washington always throws its weight around with willing sidekicks like Australia, but the convention is to do it in private, not thunder unpredictably in public about what you might or might not do, and issue contradictory statements about bilateral agreements agreed between leaders.
(9) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(10) Their massed voices roll like thunder across the open-sided, scaffold-roofed stadium.
(11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
(12) 2.28am GMT 15 mins Saborio seeks to redeem himself with a spot of helpful cheating, completely failing to take his distance at a Galaxy free-kick and somehow getting away with it - blocking the set piece near half-way and launching an RSL counter that concludes with Kyle Beckerman thundering a shot towards goal from the edge of the box.
(13) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
(14) The Warriors and Thunder gave us the best game of the year There's usually no better way to ensure a game won't be memorable than to hype it up as a potential playoff preview.
(15) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
(16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
(17) We have seen a complete failure on the part of the Turnbull government to properly negotiate resettlement arrangements with PNG and to negotiate resettlement arrangements with third country options,” he thundered.
(18) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
(19) A thunderous mix of vuvuzelas and roars from the crowd greeted the former South African president as he was driven across the pitch in a golf cart with his wife Graça Machel.
(20) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.