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Fey


Definition:

  • (a.) Fated; doomed.
  • (n.) Faith.
  • (v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
  • (2) The US comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will replace Ricky Gervais as next year's Golden Globe hosts – bringing perhaps a gentler touch to proceedings on the occasion of the awards' 70th anniversary.
  • (3) And the comedy Sisters, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, also did reasonably well as R-rated adult-skewed counter-programming, opening with $13.4m in third.
  • (4) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
  • (5) But Fey and Poehler would never condone this kind of unseemly contest between them, with people (ie, me) deciding which one they prefer, so I'll stop this nonsense now.
  • (6) An ode to better days: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.30am BST Amy Poehler confirms that she and Tina Fey will discuss whether they want to host the Golden Globes tonight.
  • (7) Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have been brilliant hosts for the Golden Globes – and that event itself has started in recent years itself to look sharper, smarter, more intimate: a cool revue-type show, compared to the deadly serious Oscars in a cavernous theatre.
  • (8) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
  • (9) Tina Fey’s unflattering impersonations on Saturday Night Live were an instant hit.
  • (10) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
  • (11) Here’s one of the latest videos of Fey and Poehler talking about what we can expect tonight.
  • (12) A slow start from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, but then it picks up quickly.
  • (13) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
  • (14) Actress Tina Fey arrives with Audi at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles.
  • (15) Five years ago, with Mean Girls, Tina Fey looked as though she might be shaping up to fill that role, and of course last year she scored a double-whammy with Sarah Palin and 30 Rock.
  • (16) The noncompetitive Sandwich-ELISA (polystyrene balls) with labelled antibody for staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A, B, C, and D according to Fey et al.
  • (17) Alignment of the CNBr-cleavage fragments was made easier by comparison with the cDNA sequence of mouse pro-C3 [Wetsel, Lundwall, Davidson, Gibson, Tack & Fey (1984) J. Biol.
  • (18) These are things that might make me as happy as news that the wonderful Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are to take over from the increasingly dreary Ricky Gervais as hosts of the Golden Globes – but not by much.
  • (19) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
  • (20) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.

Touched


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Touch

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (2) He was very touched that President Nicolas Sarkozy came out to the airport to meet us, even after Madiba retired.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
  • (5) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (6) In 120 consecutive patients who had colonic roentgenologic examination and no depressive sign, two had coccygeal and muscular pain at rectal touch.
  • (7) The Tories were seen as out of touch and for the few.
  • (8) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
  • (9) A growing educated middle class is losing touch with apartheid history and seeking alternatives.
  • (10) Single cells in pairs or clusters of touching cells in each exposure group were examined with FRAP.
  • (11) Conroy, out at the ovarian cancer event we’ve already touched on, was unrepentent as he was chased down the corridor by reporters.
  • (12) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
  • (13) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
  • (14) 1-1 2.15am GMT 48 mins Giles Barnes is down again, turning his ankle under a challenge (but not actually touched by the tackle).
  • (15) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
  • (16) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
  • (17) We analyzed the trophoblast subpopulations which appear on touch smears of chorionic villi morphologically and immunohistochemically, using the uterine contents of 37 cases of induced abortion.
  • (18) Bill Clinton (@billclinton) Just touched down in Africa with @ChelseaClinton .
  • (19) Right now I think the discussion is not honest and practical, it is hysterical and political.” In contrast to the IOC, which did not contact McLaren, he said the International Paralympic Committee had been in close touch as it decides on whether to ban the Russian team.
  • (20) Rat pups from 12 litters were handled daily, once every three days, or never touched between postnatal Days 5 and 20.

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