(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance.
(a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous.
(a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.
(a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
(a.) heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fiery energy she radiated on stage and her motormouth, ragga-influenced raps brought her to the attention of So Solid Crew, who invited her to collaborate.
(2) Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charitable organisation seen as a front for LeT, operates openly in the country and its leaders frequently appear on television delivering fiery speeches against India.
(3) The oral lesion is a fiery red, flat or micropapillary-appearing mucosa most frequently involving the gingiva and hard palate.
(4) Remarkably, few of the avid conference organizers, and few of their fiery orators, ever stop to think just what resource flow has actually been constricting.
(5) | Howard W French Read more In the South China Sea, China has, by massive dredging operations, turned submerged reefs with names out of the novels of Joseph Conrad – Mischief Reef, Fiery Cross Reef – into artificial islands, and is completing a 3,000m runway on Fiery Cross.
(6) Inler also has a fiery side and it is a surprise to learn that it has been curbed, rather than forged, in a Neapolitan boxing ring.
(7) Plans to ramp up the US military presence in the area would probably involve flying over and sailing close to artificial islands that were only reefs before the latest building project, and China last week issued multiple warnings to a US plane flying above Fiery Cross reef, where China has built an early-warning radar station and airstrip.
(8) The darting speck of fiery orange had gone, perhaps already on his way to another continent.
(9) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(10) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
(11) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
(12) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
(13) The reaction to Osborne's announcement ranged from lukewarm praise to fiery opposition.
(14) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
(15) When the fiery Carla turns up unexpectedly from his past, Robert must choose between convention and the fraught path of love and freedom.
(16) Under the fiery title, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" , Yale law professor Amy Chua set out a manifesto for motherhood in proudly recounting her iron-fisted reign over her two young daughters, which included the prohibition of sleepovers and the insistence that they attain no grade lower than an A.
(17) (You can turn on the Food Network, the Discovery Channel, CNN or – by now – the History Channel and see a show ranking the world's best sandwiches, all without leaving the continental United States, followed by a nauseating closeup of Guy Fieri's Baconated Hamapeño Chipotle-Chicken Despair Ziggurat.)
(18) Tadic was denied by a solid Koubek save after a neat exchange with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the 52nd minute and the best the visitors could muster was a fiery mid-range effort from Lafata that Fraser Forster got a strong hand behind to force away.
(19) Sporting the traditional robes and cap of the south-west Yoruba people – who have appeared largely in favour of the opposition – Jonathan opened with an unusually fiery speech that addressed a growing Islamist uprising in the north-east and, more pressingly for the south, a slump in oil prices and the value of the national currency.
(20) He had a fiery temperament, which you may not know if you haven't played for him, if you've only watched him on TV.
Meteor
Definition:
(n.) Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
(n.) Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 64-year-old female patient was admitted to our department for fatigue, pain in the right upper abdomen, obstipation, and meteorism.
(2) He promised to unite a divided and fractured France, saying: “I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.” Speaking of his meteoric rise and victory that was not forecast even a year ago, he said: “Everyone said it was impossible.
(3) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
(4) 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.
(5) In the past this column has highlighted the social impact the meteoric rise in buy-to-let has had on “generation rent”, now locked out of the property market.
(6) Right subcostal pain, meteorism, and nausea due to faulty diet showed a slight difference in favour of the laparoscopic method when compared to traditional surgery.
(7) Her meteoric rise as a teenage sensation was slowed immediately after she reached the world No1 ranking in 2006 with what became a long series of shoulder issues.
(8) While his meteoric rise to fame may not be as remarkable as the Mars landing itself, it prompts the question: what is it about Bobak Ferdowsi that turned him into a meme?
(9) Extensive toxicological examinations revealed with high doses all typical symptoms of overdosing an anticholinergic drug, like mydriasis, dryness of the mucosae and meteorism with coprostasis.
(10) Emboldened by its meteoric rise in Greece, the far-right Golden Dawn party is spreading its tentacles abroad, amid fears it is acting on its pledge to "create cells in every corner of the world".
(11) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(12) Some in the fibre yoghurt group experienced meteorism and loose stools.
(13) Based on Domscheit-Berg's own book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, it's being tipped as a celluloid document of Assange's meteoric rise into the public consciousness.
(14) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
(15) The impacts release profound amounts of energy: the meteor that tore into the sky over Chelyabinsk in Russia this year arrived at more than 18 kilometres per second and exploded with 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
(16) Ron Pernick, managing director of Clean Edge and a report author, called the economic giant's "meteoric" surge "very striking."
(17) In addition to mechanical problems with the jejunal catheter abdominal complications arose during enteral alimentation (meteorism, distension), leading to discontinuation in one-third of cases.
(18) However, several aspects of the pathogenesis of the individual symptoms of IBS are well known: 1) chronic constipation is most likely due to fibre-depleted diet, psychological factors, local organic disorders (e.g., anal fissures, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis) and disturbance of the body fluid balance (e.g., high consumption of diuretic compounds such as coffee and tea); 2) pain is related to spasms and motility disturbances causing increased intraluminal pressure; 3) meteorism is not due to an increased amount of intestinal gas, but "air traps" and segmental accumulation of gas seem to occur.
(19) The breakdown of the carbohydrates by the colonic bacterial flora can cause intestinal symptoms, such as meteorism, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
(20) Subjective complaints were improved in both treatment groups except for nausea and meteorism that improved more in the CBS treated patients.