(1) Nationalisation of a travel agency sounds far-fetched, but has a historical precedent.
(2) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(3) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(4) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(5) Like the rest of Katine, the medical staff have to fetch their water in jerry cans from a nearby borehole.
(6) Royal Mail has put its former south London mail centre at Nine Elms up for sale, which analysts estimate could fetch up to £662m.
(7) For example, a council home in south London could easily fetch £500,000 on an open market valuation.
(8) It is an optimistic but not completely far-fetched vision.
(9) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
(10) The letter will go on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £8,000.
(11) It is no longer far-fetched to consider a former host of the reality TV show The Apprentice occupying the White House.
(12) Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness – or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.
(13) Maybe: as long as “Panchito” continues to push the messages that are strike a chord with US Latino Catholics, it is not far-fetched to say that this 21 st century pope could go down as the most transformative leader the Church and its faithful in the Americas have ever seen.
(14) For a start, the idea that George Osborne would increase the tax threshold simply to play footsie with Nick Clegg is far-fetched.
(15) Analysis of data revealed that 70% of students wash and fetch water in the streams and ponds for domestic purposes.
(16) The story of a secret tunnel between Rich's office and the Glashof restaurant may be far fetched, but Lang says that during the day he refused to leave his office without a cordon of Mossad-trained bodyguards, and during the evening on the ride back to Baar he insisted on a tail car to accompany his Mercedes.
(17) Artistic comparisons with Joseph Brodsky are far-fetched .
(18) One reporter watched astonished as the president went off to fetch biscuits.
(19) Surely there must be some hilarious anecdotes from those days when he was fetching beef sandwiches for Brian Johnston?
(20) By 2005 he was the highest paid painter in India with his work easily fetching $1m (£538,000).
Retching
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Retch
Example Sentences:
(1) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
(2) No dose produced retching, vomiting, diarrhea or other behavioral signs of toxicity.
(3) Nausea was assessed by a patient-completed visual analogue scale and episodes of retching recorded by the patient and an independent observer.
(4) Straining and retching behaviors exhibited by the nerves innervating other thoracic accessory inspiratory muscles (the intercartilagineus, rectus thoracis, scalenus) varied from dog to dog.
(5) In contrast, none of the inspiratory units from the external intercostal nerves exhibited such intense discharges with straining and retching.
(6) Incidence and severity of emesis (none, nausea, retching or vomiting) was assessed during the first 24 hours after operation.
(7) Vomiting, induced by stimulation of the lower thoracic vagi, consisted of a series of synchronous bursts of diaphragmatic and abdominal activity (retching) followed by a prolonged abdominal discharge after the cessation of diaphragmatic activity (expulsion).
(8) Fictive vomiting was defined as a series of large bursts of synchronous activity in the phrenic and abdominal (expiratory) nerves (retching) followed by a burst in which the abdominal activity was prolonged (expulsion).
(9) Nous sommes tous Français (We are all French).” By contrast, Hollande said that Trump’s excesses “make you want to retch” .
(10) Internal intercostal (expiratory) muscles contract out of phase with these muscles during retching and are inactive during expulsion.
(11) When James lay down to sleep, he retched from the smell then ran out the door with his pillow to throw it away, everyone laughing.
(12) 3 Doses of apomorphine that caused a decrease in blood pressure on intravenous injection, had no effect on blood pressure or caused retching accompanied by an increase in blood pressure on intravertebral or intracisternal administration.
(13) All patients were monitored for emetic episodes (vomiting or retching), adverse events, and laboratory safety parameters.
(14) These results suggest that 5-HT3 receptor antagonists are capable of ameliorating radiation-induced retching and vomiting and that, while an important site of their action could be the abdominal vagi, other areas are probably also involved.
(15) We determined (1) gastric emptying rates; (2) the presence and frequency of retching and vomiting; and (3) the effect of zacopride on the performance of a visual discrimination task in nonirradiated subjects.
(16) This was accompanied by a prolonged period of mydriasis and preceded by a short interval of restlessness, licking, retching and emesis.
(17) The discharge patterns during retching were classified into seven types in accordance with the discharge phase in the retching cycle and the discharge frequency.
(18) And if that means staying silent as your subject salivates his way through a truly disgusting account of a threesome, as the male crew laugh along, then you try to hide your desire to retch.
(19) • Pistorius' retching and crying was not feigned , Vorster said: he could not fake pallor .
(20) Therefore, the effects of bilateral abdominal vagotomy and antagonism of 5-HT3 receptors have been investigated on retching and vomiting induced by radiation.