(1) They had assumed the two explosions were firecrackers, only to be alarmed by the sudden number of policemen mobilising in the streets.
(2) Jérôme Boucer, who was engrossed in the gig nearer the stage, assumed the “pop, pop, pop” sound was part of the show – a firecracker perhaps.
(3) At first the shots sounded like firecrackers, said Agnieszka Kolek, curator of the Passion for Freedom arts festival in London, who was appearing on the panel with Shevchenko.
(4) The commonest cause was splashing of boiling fluids (42% of cases), followed by contact with red-hot firecracker particles (18%) and lit match heads (17%).
(5) Last but not least are the numerous and complex “traditional” mitigation strategies – beating drums, small fires and smoke screens, chasing elephants, firecrackers, intricate trip wires and alarms.
(6) We all live together, and they’ve got completely different qualities.” She says Phoenix is cool and sporty, seven-year-old Angel is a show-off “sassy pants”, and three-year-old Madison is a tough firecracker who has to fight for attention.
(7) He said he then heard what sounded like firecrackers and thought: “Surely they’re not shooting human beings”.
(8) After 23 years in the airforce he recognised the sound of gunfire, while most tourists thought it was firecrackers laid on as part of the entertainment and milled around confused or oblivious as the gunman drew in.
(9) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
(10) "It sounded like a firecracker in a pillowcase," said Peter Smith, a traveller from the Netherlands.
(11) "At first I'd thought they were only firecrackers or something until I heard a police whistle.
(12) Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) The now traditional firecracker YouGov poll.
(13) Driving along the Galle road, a small band of Sinhalese Rajapaksa supporters lit firecrackers, one of the few celebrations of his victory.
(14) We heard a loud pop we thought was a firecracker,” Katie Domingue told the Louisiana Advertiser .
(15) Nonetheless, before we write off this particular pause, it marks a significant victory for this week's dry-sounding but firecrackingly page-turning report by the former Bishop of Oxford: Non-party Campaigning Ahead of Elections.
(16) Youths let off firecrackers and fire extinguishers and pushed over crowd control barriers.
(17) He was overpowered by passengers and crew members, who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers, federal officials said.
(18) The official said Shahzad went back last Saturday and left the Pathfinder loaded with firecrackers, petrol and propane, potentially enough to create a fireball and kill people nearby including tourists and Broadway theatregoers.
(19) I watched as men fired large firecrackers horizontally into the crowd and they police just stood at the side of the square with their hands on their hips”.
(20) We thought it was firecrackers at first, but when the sound of explosions came closer we understood.
Rook
Definition:
(n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.
(v. i.) To squat; to ruck.
(n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
(n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
(n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Veronica investigated her classmates, and that still matters In Mars vs Mars, the 14th episode of season one, Veronica’s classmate Carrie (Leighton Meister) claims she slept with their teacher, Mr Rooks (Adam Scott).
(2) Rooke said dredging was part of the solution, "but not the whole solution".
(3) In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.
(4) · Denis Eric Rooke, industrialist, born April 2 1924; died September 2 2008
(5) David Rooke, director of flood and coastal risk management at the agency, said residents should be "braced for some of the most serious coastal flooding we have probably seen for at least 30 years and in some cases for over 60 years".
(6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(7) Coagulase-positive staphylococci were found in the throats of 46 rooks (69 per cent) and 47 gulls (21 per cent) out of totals of 67 and 229 birds, respectively.
(8) Rooke added: "We are talking about today [Thursday] and tomorrow.
(9) It was a phase in Rooke's experience that he never forgot, though never exulted in nor even willingly discussed.
(10) In a free living rook (Corvus frugilegus) a well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma without keratinization arising from the oesophageal mucosa was found.
(11) Take the well-known example of Rookes v Barnard , decided by the law lords in 1964.
(12) As the rook moves on the chess board, it reaches all 64 squares in the ordering of the codon numbers, which prescribe the codons by a simple formula based on the position and size of the nucleotides in a triplet.
(13) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
(14) Rooke had already been in charge of trial runs across the Atlantic - once in a 23-day battle against continous gales because they had to avoid normal shipping lanes, especially in bad weather.
(15) Now, it is said, it may be hard to find new senior executives at the corporation's successor, Centrica , because Rooke's equivalent, Sam Laidlaw, earned just £2.2m last year (after a £5.7m payout 12 months earlier).
(16) and 21 Rxe6!, a temporary rook offer which gave White a raging attack.
(17) Brought up on the slopes of the Quantocks and Exmoor, hence, perhaps, his love of game, fishing and the odd rook for the pot (his father was a keen field sportsman), he was educated at Wellington school, in Somerset, where a fellow pupil was Jeffrey Archer.
(18) Case study: 'We want to bring him up in a household with working parents' Once the rent, council tax and utility bills have been paid, Kristie Locke, 20, and her partner, David Rooks, 25, are left with £7.70 a day to buy food, clothes and other essentials for themselves and their eight-month-old baby, Leyton.
(19) As Rooke remarked to an interviewer 10 years later, "There isn't any doubt, it was a hell of a battle.
(20) In rooks the residues of chlorinated pesticides and PCB were dependent on the land use of the regions compared (e.g., industrial, agricultural), but no such correlation was found for the HCB residues.