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Flew


Definition:

  • () imp. of Fly.
  • (imp.) of Fly

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (2) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
  • (3) Two weeks after the July 7 suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 London commuters and injured more then 750, Shahid, a young Londoner who had just completed his fourth year at medical school, flew to Pakistan .
  • (4) Twenty-one subjects flew aboard a KC-135 aircraft operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which performed parabolic maneuvers resulting in periods of 0-g, 1-g, and 1.8-g. Each subject flew once with a tablet containing scopolamine and once with a placebo in a random order, crossover design.
  • (5) The day after last Monday's trial, he flew to Switzerland from East Midlands airport to try to dissuade the government there from building a new coal plant.
  • (6) The German authorities confirmed that Abedi flew to the western German city of Düsseldorf, four days before the Manchester attack.
  • (7) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
  • (8) The French president, François Hollande, flew into the Central African Republic on Tuesday evening following an announcement earlier confirming the deaths of two French soldiers in clashes with militia forces they had ordered to disarm – the first losses in the French campaign in its former colony.
  • (9) When I flew to Salisbury shortly afterwards, the man in the next seat was clutching a thick polythene bag full of small metal objects.
  • (10) Pilots would have feared return fire if they flew close to check who was in the vehicles, the guide said.
  • (11) Had one of three efforts from open play that all flew inches wide also found the corner, it would have crowned one of this Premier League season’s better individual performances.
  • (12) The shirt commemorates a piece of Orwellian newspeak that flew from the lips of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
  • (13) He flew into Britain on Monday on an Easyjet flight from Madrid accompanied by two detectives from City of London Police.
  • (14) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (15) To be clear: nearly 100 Roma flew back to Bucharest on 19 August, 1040 since January 2009.
  • (16) If that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes that you don’t always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that’s the way I do it and that’s the best way I can explain it.” Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.
  • (17) Dramatic film of the incident in May was captured as the plane flew over London.
  • (18) The government has so far arrested 34 people over the jailbreak, including a man suspected of being a pilot who flew Guzmán away from the site after his escape.
  • (19) It flew over the statehouse dome from 1962 until 2000, when it was moved to its current location at a civil war memorial on the building grounds.
  • (20) Kerry flew into the Afghan capital in an attempt to salvage the faltering political and technical agreements that he had brokered between Ghani and his presidential rival, Abdullah Abdullah .

Flue


Definition:

  • (n.) An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage
  • (n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
  • (n.) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heated air from one place to another.
  • (n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.
  • (n.) Light down, such as rises from cotton, fur, etc.; very fine lint or hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The major components of an alkaloid-free, flue-cured, tobacco essential oil sample are isolated and identified.
  • (2) The elevated levels in the winter can be related to the use of NO2-producing heating appliances especially the gas- or oilstove without a flue.
  • (3) An analytical method is developed to quantitatively determine glucosamine, galactosamine, and mannosamine in dried-and-ground burley and flue-cured tobaccos.
  • (4) The predominant adverse effects were fatigue, flue-like illness and leukopenia.
  • (5) In about half the world's households, such fuels are used for cooking daily, usually without a flue or chimney and with poor ventilation.
  • (6) More experimental techniques to scrub CO2 from flue gas without the two-step process include using seawater to absorb the gas and then returning the mixture back to the ocean for long-term storage.
  • (7) Dark tobacco smoking was the strongest risk factor, with an RR 2.5 times higher than that showed by light (flue-cured) tobacco smokers and 35 times that of non-smokers.
  • (8) Three to four weeks following exposure to HIV there is a phase of rapid viral replication, high levels of plasma viremia, and development of a "flue like" illness.
  • (9) There was no statistically significant difference in specific mouse skin carcinogenicity between smoke condensate from plain, flue-cured tobacco cigarettes with a normal tar to nicotine ratio and condensate from filter-tip cigarettes made from selected flue-cured tobaccos with a reduced tar to nicotine ratio.
  • (10) Demand for the dark tobaccos which dominate EC production has fallen, while demand for light flue cured tobacco like Virginia has risen.
  • (11) Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung was observed in rats, when copper ore, flue dust, and arsenic trioxide were instilled into the lung together with benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P. The incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung in rats exposed to Kinkaseki, flue dust, and As2O3 in addition to B[a]P was higher than that in rats given B[a]P alone.
  • (12) Losses of methomyl during flue-curing averaged 96% over locations, rates of application, and times of harvest, compared to an average loss of 98% due to weathering in the field for 5 days.
  • (13) This difficulty becomes especially conspicuous when the carcinogenicity is to be determined after the inhalation of, for example, diesel engine exhaust, coal oven flue gas, or cadmium compounds.
  • (14) We handed over our credit card details and three days later a £422 Hunter Hawk (4 kilowatt) model arrived on a pallet (since burned) plus the associated flue.
  • (15) In contrast to the Diesel exhaust exposure group, the lungs of the rats exposed to coal oven flue gas mixed with pyrolyzed pitch had much less severe inflammatory changes, but developed 20 squamous cell tumours (apprx.
  • (16) Flue gas temperatures, measured from the sampling point at the base of the exhaust stack, varied over the range 186-305 degrees C, and bacteria were recovered from this position in numbers up to 400 cfu m-3 (mean 56 cfu m-3).
  • (17) Fatty acids obtained by saponification of a hexane-soluble fraction of flue-cured tobacco were converted to their methyl esters.
  • (18) It seems likely that the chimney sweep's inhalation of soot particles and locally irritating flue gases may have contributed to the increased occurrence of chest symptoms in this occupational group.
  • (19) Disappearance of monocrotophos from flue-cured tobacco was studied at three locations (Kinston, Clayton, and Reidsville, North Carolina) in 1973.
  • (20) To exclude the carcinogenicity of trace radioactive elements in the mine powder and flue dust and clarify those inorganic chemical elements related to carcinogenesis of lung cancer, 15 non-radioactive inorganic chemical elements (CM1) responsible for mutagenesis, tumorigenesis and promotion of cancer from mine powder and flue dust were mixed for Ames test and carcinoma-inducing-experiment in animals.

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