(1) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
(2) The Vatican spokesman said two of the 12 whose feet were washed were Muslim inmates.
(3) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(4) Often they were 3-0 up by then, but that is unlikely to be the case in the World Cup , and in 30 degrees we could be out on our feet after 20 minutes.
(5) The area occupied by parenchymal cells, in sections comprising the entire half of the surface of the carotid body, is significantly greater in people born and living at 14,350 feet than in those at sea level.
(6) Deformities of the foot were common, and twelve feet had been operated on for correction.
(7) Nonmetallic foreign bodies were embedded in cadaver feet.
(8) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
(9) Callosities under at least one metatarsophalangeal joint were noted in fifty (69 per cent) of the feet that had a physical examination.
(10) Although the majority of pigs had lesions in feet, or had dyschondroplastic changes typical of osteochondrosis in many growth cartilages, particularly physes, there were no significant differences in frequency of pigs with lesions between groups.
(11) A matter of minutes after his appointment was announced on Thursday, the newly minted minister for Portsmouth was on his feet answering questions in the Commons.
(12) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(13) Cabin altitudes ranged from sea level to 8,915 feet (2717 m).
(14) The authors have presented a forensic anthropology case that established positive identification by comparison of antemortem and postmortem x-rays of the legs and feet.
(15) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(16) He was looking down at his feet - and she realised he felt the shame, too.
(17) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(18) Fifteen feet had a good and two had a poor correction of the deformity of the hind part of the foot, the result being directly related to the intraoperative correction of the equinus deformity.
(19) The findings showed that flat feet are usual in infants, common in children, and within the normal range of the observations made in adult feet.
(20) A case is presented where the bones of both hands and both feet exhibited bone metastases.
Fleet
Definition:
(n. & a.) To sail; to float.
(n. & a.) To fly swiftly; to pass over quickly; to hasten; to flit as a light substance.
(n. & a.) To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.
(v. t.) To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf.
(v. t.) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy.
(v. t.) To draw apart the blocks of; -- said of a tackle.
(v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
(v. i.) Swift in motion; moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble.
(v. i.) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
(v. i.) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
(v. i.) A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.
(v. i.) A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
(v. i.) To take the cream from; to skim.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(3) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
(4) As aircraft capable of sustaining high "G" maneuvers enter the U.S. Navy Fleet, the reported incidence of cervical injury to aircrew seems to have increased.
(5) A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes ( with good reason ) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.
(6) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(7) A warship from Russia’s Pacific fleet also accompanied former Russian president Medvedev’s visit to San Francisco in 2010.” Officials from the Russian embassy in Canberra declined to confirm the details when contacted by Guardian Australia on Wednesday.
(8) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(9) But although under the ayatollahs there have been fleeting moments of optimism, there have also been long periods of repression.
(10) And it is certainly before you factor in the service's upgrade (worth around £9bn, and paid for by the public), and the fleet of Pendolino trains (again, largely subsidised by the government).
(11) I couldn’t even imagine it because I have done it so many times.” The incident received only fleeting national coverage, occurring less than a month before the presidential election.
(12) "We have rhetorical pressure, which we are using, and we have the Seventh Fleet, which nobody wants to use, and in between our options are more constrained," he said.
(13) When he talks about his work and his motivation, he exudes an intensity, as if his time with you is also fleeting.
(14) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(15) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
(16) But the task remains to move the country's remaining fossil fuel-dependent sectors to clean technology: Iceland's fishing fleet, cars and buses, which run on oil and petrol, ironically make the country one of the highest per head greenhouse gas emitters in Europe .
(17) 1,4-Dideoxy-1,4-imino-D-mannitol (DIM) was synthesized chemically from benzyl-alpha-D-mannopyranoside [Fleet et al (1984) J. Chem.
(18) The agency hopes it can later extend the work to urban rivers outside London, but is pessimistic that parts of the Fleet might one day be released to public view.
(19) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(20) "The council's fleet of company cars have upper limits on the CO2 they produce," says Thorp.