(1) Absolutely, I think it’s quite fascinating, since I’ve been looking at it, to see that amongst the fluff there are serious things.
(2) Distribution of membrane in mature milks was: fat globules, 80%; skim milk, 20% (including fluff, 5%); and cells, less than 1%.
(3) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(4) What they proved, in unambiguous data, was that the photo-op image of Team GB as a changing nation of many hues was not PR fluff but demographic reality.
(5) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
(6) They could afford to fluff their lines with Bournemouth’s own glimpses of goal sporadic, and invariably limited to chaotic ricochets in the penalty area, but those are the chances that may need to be taken in the matches against Liverpool, Manchester United and Stoke City after the international break.
(7) When he did not sing the national anthem during a Battle of Britain commemoration service – prompting the outrage of the rightwing press – they saw it as the same diversionary fluff that surrounded whether he might, as a privy councillor, bow before the Queen.
(8) Many mammals fluff up their fur when threatened, to look bigger and so more dangerous.
(9) No, what really thwarts ambition is when a promising child fluffs up exams because her family can’t afford anything more than a cramped flat where there is nowhere quiet to study.
(10) The story goes that when Freeman took the garment to be dry-cleaned, it came back looking like a shapeless ball of fluff, but he continued to wear it regardless.
(11) He set up a website, Cats To Go , which includes an image of a kitten with devil's horns under the heading: "That little ball of fluff you own is a natural born killer".
(12) What Wired UK aims to do "is not fluff or bullshit: it's data".
(13) In injury-time, the Argentinian ran unchallenged from halfway with no defenders in sight only to fluff his chip.
(14) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
(15) Obama fluffs around the topic but does own up: "I am ultimately responsible for what’s taking place there."
(16) It ran a Small Charity Week in June where three small charities – Down's Heart Group, Haworth Cat Rescue and Fat Fluffs Rabbit Rescue won £1,000 grants each.
(17) It’s not just fluff.” At the other end of the country, a few days later, in the original and first BrewDog bar, on Gallowgate in Aberdeen, barman Dave Bruce, 32, said he had spent 18 months trying to get a job there.
(18) With a decent covering of fur, this would fluff up the coat, getting more air into it, making it a better insulator.
(19) The results clearly showed that the diapers with absorbent polymer provide a better skin environment than those with fluff only with respect to lower skin wetness and pH control (instrumental measurements).
(20) Of course, in politics as in sport, there is no goal so open that someone can’t fluff it and miss.
Miscue
Definition:
(n.) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miscuing produced dishabituation with both a high- and low-shock S2.
(2) RT was higher following such miscues than following the usual 1- or 2- target cuing relationships (Experiment 3); the miscuing effect persisted over variations in the target's concealment (Experiments 4 and 5), but did not occur when the target was presented alone (Experiment 4).
(3) His right-foot effort was miscued but the ball bounced conveniently for Evans, running in at the far post, to beat Mannone from close range.
(4) What a complete mess - a miscued shot, scuffed clearance, and uncontrolled toe-punt as he fell - but a decisive mess all the same."
(5) The striker miscued but Lallana steered home the loose ball from a yard and was kept onside by Musacchio on the by-line.
(6) The results indicated increased electrodermal responding when S2 was miscued by S3 and subsequent dishabituation when S2 again followed S1 on the next trial.
(7) Allen failed to pick out Christian Benteke when free inside the box, Randolph saved twice from Teixeira and the former Aston Villa forward completely miscued when Stewart’s shot dropped into his path in front of goal.
(8) A continuous measure of S2 expectancy revealed that expectancy of S2 in the presence of S1 declined as a result of miscuing.
(9) Just as I was miscuing my last record, the pair of them appeared in the wings, and sparked up a cigarette each.
(10) Has been fantastic for us.” Chelsea get back on track as Willian and Diego Costa seal routine win at Hull Read more If Moyes must have been disappointed with Koné, he can only have been relieved to see James McClean – heavily booed by his less-than-adoring former public – miscue a cross that had promised to offer the unmarked Salomón Rondón a simple tap-in on the verge of half-time.
(11) The Frenchman is too slow and eventually miscues, firing over under extreme pressure from Chris Smalling.
(12) Their performance was compared to nine matched controls using a cued reaction time (RT) task which measured the RT benefit of valid directional cueing and the RT cost of miscueing.
(13) She sees things others don’t.” England’s coach once again had Bardsley to thank for acrobatically repelling Diana Ospina’s cross-shot but must have cursed when Lianne Sanderson miscued an extremely inviting chance conjured by Nobbs’s low centre.
(14) White noise probe stimuli of 500-ms duration were presented 300 ms following the onset of S2 on miscued trials and on re-presentation trials.
(15) He miscued his "clearance", however and came perilously close to rifling the ball into the roof of his own net.
(16) Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton paid dearly for his miscues – two interceptions and a fumble – to hand Cincinnati their first home defeat of the season.
(17) If the Seahawks offense continues to struggle with penalties and miscues,, their first seed will mean nothing.
(18) Information garnered through free recall, main idea, content continuation, and signaled stopping statements suggests that the receiver-assisted pamphlet was more easily understood and the perception of personal relevance was improved, although content recognition and oral miscue analyses indicated that some of the wording in the receiver-assisted version tended to be more difficult.
(19) Hoilett also showed some nice touches to create an opportunity inside the box only to miscue his shot.
(20) Though there was nothing wrong with the visitors' measured approach work, Edin Dzeko's final touch was not quite the one he wanted, yet his miscue allowed the ball to roll free for the Argentinian to stab home.