(n.) The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(2) What to say to the children who went to a pop concert and left to find their waiting parents blown apart by the hate and callous indifference in the foyer?
(3) Alan arrived on his own and we greeted each other in the foyer.
(4) Far from the initial foyer, the spreading seems mostly done through airways.
(5) After the election, Gove took this all down and put this 19th-century pupil writing desk in the foyer.
(6) He looks like a disgusted George Clooney, or a man arguing about brogues in a hotel foyer in a Tom Ford film.
(7) In the foyer, the gunman looked directly at a man working behind the bar who ducked and shielded a woman working with him from shots, he told Kolek afterwards.
(8) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(9) The imposing foyer, which links them, is an exhibition space.
(10) The union has stressed the need for peaceful protest to its 33,000 members; last night saw the vice-chancellor Michael Arthur, chair of the Russell Group and a big player in national university politics, hold one of his regular Q&A sessions in the union foyer.
(11) When the council took the decision – with its landlord East Thames Housing – that 30 families were ready to move from the Focus E15 Foyer in Stratford, we should have engaged with them from the start, planned how we would support their next steps and worked with them individually.
(12) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(13) The restriction of smoking to a foyer area outside the office complex resulted in a slow but eventual reduction in nicotine concentrations in the office complex.
(14) Foyers are a French idea developed in the UK in the 1990s by the housing charity Shelter and drinks giant Diageo.
(15) Arctic Monkeys were one of the first to play Ibiza Rocks in 2007, and their debut album seems to be on constant repeat in the foyer, which feels appropriate given the residents checking each other out around the pool, thinking something along the lines of: "I bet you look good on the dancefloor..." There is a small supermarket next door, over half of which is given over to alcohol.
(16) Busy foyers, unexpected music, lights going up and down and applause can all be unsettling.
(17) Once Galloway and Wilson have left the stage, the former takes up residence in the foyer, where he signs copies of two books that shine a light on his singular politics: his Fidel Castro Handbook, and his account of the sectarian ugliness experienced by the Celtic manager, Neil Lennon .
(18) Drew had tried his absolute best to have this reading come through, inasmuch as he had emailed details of Toby and how he died to Sally's website and had left notes (so-called "love letters") in a box in the foyer just before the show.
(19) The rest, in residential care homes, foyers or other arrangements, are often the most vulnerable, but simultaneously the least likely to be told of their rights, or offered care and support on saving care.
(20) I'm standing in the foyer, and I can hear a huge crowd laughing.
Porch
Definition:
(n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia.
(n.) A portico; a covered walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(2) The two test forms were split halves of the Porch Index of Communicative Ability.
(3) She has a monkey that sits on her shoulder and a horse that lives in her porch.
(4) Tony Terrell Robinson was born into poverty and spent the last moments of his life bleeding from a gunshot wound, surrounded by no one but local police officers on the porch of his shared apartment.
(5) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(6) A few minutes later, a witness says she saw officer Kenny and another officer dragging the limp, bloody body of the biracial 19-year-old out on to the porch.
(7) In a small, rural Appalachian settlement, the pattern of retirement to the porch illustrates how claims by old men for social attention and care are anchored in the interests of others and are vested with significance for the entire community.
(8) I like their morals … but I suspect that he doesn’t have the fire in his belly [to win the election].” Standing to Clarke’s right on the porch of the picturesque Grand Hotel, consultant Greg Behling said: “What the press tells us is that he’s geared for the long haul.
(9) I found myself on a country road featuring half a dozen cottages, with porches and greenhouses.
(10) She slept on her parents’ porch, or on the bathroom floor, because those were the only places she could breathe.
(11) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(12) With a revascularisation time of 19 sec as a "cut off" for ulnar abnormality the PORCH test, unlike the Allen's test, was perfectly predictive of an abnormal ulnar collateral circulation and had no false positives.
(13) They have a lot of staff.” The help also travel in style, joining their employers on private jets or helicopters into East Hampton airport, where the parking lot is packed with Porches and Rolls-Royces with blacked out windows.
(14) Photograph: Steven Morris Across the road from the Cove House Inn, at Brandy Cottage, Shaun Souster was mopping out his porch after seawater poured in.
(15) The 67-year-old film-maker might have once translated the works of Heidegger, but he'll sit on the porch of an evening, beer in hand.
(16) Photograph: Mark Makela for the Guardian ‘The media just hates him’ Facciponti, the Nazareth resident flying a Trump flag, sat down for a chat on her porch swing.
(17) You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat… When she stepped on to the porch there was nothing urgent or harsh in her manner.
(18) They would sit in the Durrs’ living room, or on their porch, and Stevenson would do as he was told and just listen to the three women, then in their 80s, “laughing, telling stories and bearing witness about what could be done”.
(19) Her son, Deno, was murdered three years ago sitting on a porch in Chicago.
(20) Perhaps inevitably, their comments gives the film an air of hagiography bordering on idolatry, or even theology – at one point Hana Ali speaks of her mother, Porche, “seeing God in his eyes”.