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Extravagate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rove.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (2) I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour.
  • (3) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
  • (4) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
  • (5) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
  • (6) The author contrasts the creative urbane Goethe with the unempathic, self-absorbed, and extravagant Goethe.
  • (7) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
  • (8) He also sometimes falls, as in his account of Frederick Valk’s Othello, into extravagant hyperbole.
  • (9) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
  • (10) It will be Australian consumers who’ll pay extra to make sure that Tony Abbott can deliver this paid parental leave scheme which not only do I think is extravagant, I can tell you most of his own members seem to think is extravagant.” Abbott has been forced to defend his scheme multiple times since announcing the policy in 2010 and responded to reports in February the Commission of Audit had found it too expensive.
  • (11) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
  • (12) Mrs Tsvangirai was widely respected in Zimbabwe as the antithesis of President Robert Mugabe's extravagant and free-spending wife, Grace, who showed little concern for the plight of the many hungry and poor in her country.
  • (13) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
  • (14) There is a small, but significant, increase in frequency during hypercapnia in vagotomized, anesthetized animals, indicating involvement of an extravagal mechanism in the response.
  • (15) She told Murdoch's biographer , Michael Wolff, that Murdoch was worried about the extravagance of buying a new yacht.
  • (16) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
  • (17) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
  • (18) It would honour the record of CND and scrap Trident missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers, manned fighters and the extravagant paraphernalia of the arms lobby.
  • (19) Up close, even the supposedly most extravagant new BBC properties are less lavish than you might think.
  • (20) The temporal rearrangements of the respiratory cycle seem to be due to the vagal effects, while the extravagal influences, probably the reflexes from the stretch receptors of intercostal muscles, are responsible for changes of the volume component in the relations characterizing the mechanism of cessation of inspiration.

Rove


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
  • (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
  • (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  • (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
  • (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
  • (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
  • (v. t.) To wander over or through.
  • (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During stereotactic surgery, electrical impedance was measured by means of a roving electrode technique with a sine wave current of 10 kc.
  • (2) Following spontaneous horizontal roving eye movement, both eyes deviated downward slowly from midposition, taking 1 to 2 seconds to reach the nadir.
  • (3) As his career has progressed, he has homed in ever closer on his immediate landscape, while roving further across history, literature and human consciousness – usually right out to the edges.
  • (4) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
  • (5) When roving forward City looked a team coasting in low gear who might punish the visitors at will.
  • (6) In an early taste of the blood-letting to come, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said he and figures such as Karl Rove – George W Bush's former strategist and co-founder of the Super Pac Crossroads – had been wrong in focusing on the economy.
  • (7) Rove is one of the most infamous faces of the GOP so having him speculate publicly about possible brain damage left the crowd “stunned”, reported the New York Post , with Clinton’s team immediately dismissing it and a former White House communications director who worked with Rove calling his comments “off the wall”.
  • (8) Both the prominent conservative strategist Karl Rove and the oil tycoons the Koch brothers have been putting together their own voter databases, but there is understood to be no communication between the lists, thus limiting their potency.
  • (9) The phenomenon of roving eye movement is discussed with regard to the supranuclear structures regulating binocular eye movements.
  • (10) You never ask a question and give your opponent a chance to offer an answer," Rove said.
  • (11) The model is compared to some published data on loudness matching and discrimination and to some new data of our own on the variability of loudness comparisons obtained in a two-interval, roving-level, loudness-discrimination experiment.
  • (12) This high degree of genetic variability comes from the traditional local population that is in the process of being upgraded to standardized breeds such as Saanen, Rove and, mainly, Chamois Alpine (95 percent of upgraded flocks).
  • (13) Three hours after onset of diarrhea, roving eye movements occurred.
  • (14) Like many of the subjects of Louis Theroux's Twilight of the Porn Stars ( Sun, 10pm, BBC2 ), Michaels first met the roving documentarian 15 years ago, when he was shooting the first series of Weird Weekends.
  • (15) His strategist Steve Bannon, the Riefenstahl -inspired new Karl Rove, has boasted of being the man behind the plan.
  • (16) Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has joined a speaker's agency (amusingly, he's advertised just above Karl Rove).
  • (17) Adelson and his wife provided $10m of that last-minute total as well as $23m to American Crossroads, another pro-Romney Super Pac headed by veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove.
  • (18) The frequency discrimination threshold was measured at 15-, 35-, and 55-dB sensation level (SL), under conditions of (1) constant intensity, (2) roving intensity (plus and minus 6-dB burst-to-burst variation in intensity), (3) upward frequency change, and (4) downward frequency change.
  • (19) • Karl Rove's American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have decided to open the vaults for the biggest ad buy yet of this cycle.
  • (20) He had been on the receiving end of a four-year assault from the American right – the alternative universe embodied by Fox News, which tore itself apart on air as pundit Karl Rove refused to accept the cold, hard facts set out by Fox's own number-crunchers – which sought to "other" the US president, to paint him as Barack Hussein Obama, the Kenyan Marxist Muslim bent on destroying America.

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