(1) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(2) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
(3) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
(4) Yes, her life making frocks in LA with David and three gorgeous boys must have been torture before.
(5) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
(6) Designed by Future Systems, architects of the Space Age-style press pavilion at Lord's cricket ground in St John's Wood, it has about it, from the outside at least, not just something of a Pop era frock, but something of the sea and even the ocean depths - something, too, of outer space exploration.
(7) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(8) It might not be immediately obvious from her neat wool jacket, black frock and smart perm, but 55-year-old Kim Su-yeong is, she insists, "very good with weapons" – trained in throwing grenades and firing machine guns.
(9) That's the one where Alexi turns up at family businesses, with amazing biceps in a Max Mara frock and says (I'm paraphrasing) "If you lot weren't such a bunch of pass-agg douchebags, you wouldn't need to expand into sex phonelines.
(10) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(11) What appeared was Humphrey Carpenter, resplendent in an outrageous frock and an even more outrageous wig and make-up.
(12) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
(13) From the same source: Zooey Deschanel is wearing an Oscar de la Renta frock.
(14) He became not only the first contemporary artist to deliver the annual Reith Lectures for BBC’s Radio 4 in 2013, but also presented documentaries for Channel 4 with titles such as Why Men Wear Frocks.
(15) There's a wider range of faces, fewer handlebar moustaches, frock coats or pickelhaubes, but otherwise, when the world's governments try to decide how to carve up the atmosphere, they might have been attending the conference of Berlin in 1884.
(16) At 21, he leaves the family nest in Cornwall to take up his barrister pupillage in London and, yearning for love, meets Mary (Rachel McAdams), whose under-par frock and non-glam fringe can't deflect his and our appreciation of what a babe she is.
(17) Not the usual flowered frock but not upstage-y either, her frock today is now anticipated with interest.
(18) His graduate collection – which featured strands of human hair in the linings of frock-coat jackets – was called Jack The Ripper Stalks His Victims.
(19) It was obvious from a young age, he says, because she’d see him in his frocks.
(20) You mean, you couldn’t be seen at the Royal Academy in a nice frock and a stiffy?
Rocked
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Rock
Example Sentences:
(1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(2) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(3) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
(4) Meanwhile, Brighton rock duo Royal Blood top this week's album chart with their self-titled album, scoring the UK's fastest selling British rock debut in three years.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(6) One species (the goldfish) has an extensive fundus circulation while the other (the rock bass) has a minimal one.
(7) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(8) Rocking the hepatocyte-splenocyte cultures changed the elution profile from linear to convex.
(9) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(10) Russell is a former director of Northern Rock while Crosby is the former chief executive of HBOS.
(11) Gunfire and explosions rocked Bangkok following clashes between pro-government "red shirts" and protesters, leading to fears of further violence as Thais head to the polls.
(12) "And if you're pursuing music as the equivalent of your nine-to-five, and you'd quite like to be doing that for years to come, it's in your interest not to rock the boat."
(13) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(14) The involvement of one of South Korea’s most powerful men has rocked the country’s business world, as it signalled that prosecutors were prepared to use the full force of the law against the head of a company whose revenues are equivalent to a fifth of the country’s GDP.
(15) Emotional reactivity of patients with endogenous depression and healthy test subjects towards classic and rock music was compared.
(16) The Volkswagen Group has announced €1bn (£750m) of spending cuts at its core VW division to help pay for a product overhaul following the emissions testing scandal that has rocked Europe’s biggest carmaker.
(17) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
(18) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(19) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
(20) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.