(n.) A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
(n.) A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind.
(n.) Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry.
(n.) The violent spasms of a dying whale.
(v. t.) To put in a state of agitation; to excite or alarm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(2) In the Isa world, the past few weeks have seen a flurry of new launches , some offering table-topping rates .
(3) The Washington Post report is the latest in a flurry of unattributed articles suggesting that the Justice Department is unlikely to take up formal charges against Assange.
(4) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
(5) More than a billion people are eligible to vote in a sudden flurry of national elections in some of the world's largest – and newest democracies.
(6) The White House is on the verge of a dramatic political victory in Congress after a flurry of last-minute endorsements for its Iran nuclear deal put Democrats within sight of enough votes to spare Barack Obama from needing to veto a motion of disapproval from Congress.
(7) There seems little doubt that if Ofcom had decided there were no issues with the Sky buyout, we would not be seeing this flurry of activity from News Corporation now.
(8) The recall has also triggered a federal investigation, congressional hearings and a flurry of lawsuits from family members of people killed in cars with faulty switches.
(9) The intervention sparked a flurry of activity, including a late-night meeting that left Republicans feeling optimistic … but without a concrete plan.
(10) Pulis had wanted to do all his business early and has cut a frustrated figure with reinforcements far from forthcoming, but there should be a flurry of deals completed today: Wayne Hennessey has undertaken a medical and should complete a £3m move from Wolverhampton Wanderers; Celtic have accepted a bid of around £800,000 for Joe Ledley , who is out of contract in the summer and also undertaking medical tests; Ivan Ramis spent Thursday at Palace's Copers Cope training ground and may arrive from Wigan Athletic, his move hinging upon the extent of cruciate knee ligament damage from earlier in his career; the Blackburn centre-back Scott Dann is in Beckenham to talk terms over a proposed switch from Ewood Park.
(11) Correspondence between Johnson's private secretary, Roisha Hughes, his cultural adviser, Munira Mirza, and Tom Middleton, a City Hall officer, sent in September reveals there was a flurry of exchanges while the mayor waited to hear whether Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, would back his recommendation to appoint Wadley, a former editor of the London Evening Standard , to the job.
(12) Every turn for the worse taken by this government invites another flurry of "You told people to vote for Nick Clegg, now look what he's done".
(13) The election has turned out to be an unexpectedly tight race and there have been reports of dirty tricks from all sides; the major campaign teams are keeping a close eye on their rivals and have all filed a flurry of complaints with poll watchdog the Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC).
(14) There have been a flurry of searches and social media interactions on the fate of Meles by Ethiopians – including a popular #WhereIsMeles hashtag on twitter, but his absence from government is of concern to donors, who pump almost $4bn (£2.6bn) of aid into Ethiopia every year.
(15) Highlight: Kekuta Manneh's hat-trick was amazing, and helped us win the Cascadia Cup, but for sheer excitement and adrenaline nothing equalled the three-goal flurry (including Camilo's Goal of the Year) in our 2-2 draw with Portland.
(16) If his only chance was to land a Sunday punch, it looked as if he were waiting until Sunday, although he was pleased with a little flurry at the end of the round, which he might have shaded.
(17) The flurry of charges were announced in a statement released by the governing body on Monday evening which confirmed the referee, Mike Dean, had not witnessed Costa putting his hands in Laurent Koscielny’s face and, more significantly, the forward’s flailing left arm making contact with his marker.
(18) 5.57pm GMT Summary Here’s a summary of where things stand: • In a flurry of dramatic votes after the announcement of a deal to end clashes in Kiev, the Ukrainian parliament moved to dismiss the interior minister, restore the constitution of 2004 and release opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko from prison.
(19) This was the afternoon everything finally clicked, when Spurs’ supply-line was irresistible and the rivals’ goalkeeper so obliging that the flurry of errors almost served to devalue the England striker’s contribution.
(20) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.
Sudden
Definition:
(a.) Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.
(a.) Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
(a.) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
(adv.) Suddenly; unexpectedly.
(n.) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(2) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(3) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(4) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(5) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(6) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(7) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(8) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(9) In addition, recent studies have not confirmed previous observations that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia increases ventricular ectopy or contributes to sudden death.
(10) Because of these different direct and indirect actions, a sudden cessation of sinus node activity or sudden AV block may result in the diseased heart in a prolonged and even fatal cardiac standstill, especially if the tolerance to ischemia of other organs (notably the brain) is decreased.
(11) The high ED50 immediately after vagotomy is ascribed to the sudden fall in the subthreshold release of acetylcholine previously supplied by the intact vagus.
(12) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
(13) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
(14) Furthermore, myocarditis, pathological changes of the conduction system, and other rare conditions can lead to sudden cardiac death.
(15) Five of the children presented an "aplastic crisis," for example, a sudden decrease in hemoglobin concentration associated with absence of reticulocytes in the peripheral blood, and four were admitted with unremitting severe pain because of a "vaso-occlusive crisis."
(16) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(17) The animal showed progressive hindlimb paresis of sudden onset.
(18) In almost 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in ACMP foci of acute myocardial ischemia are found, that can lead to ventricular fibrillation with lethal outcome.
(19) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(20) Our data show that the incidence of sudden death over 51 months is relatively low in patients with single vessel disease.