What's the difference between gilded and tole?

Gilded


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Gild

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (2) This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
  • (3) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
  • (4) His line on white privilege is ace: “There ain’t a white man in this room that would change places with me,” he says on his DVD Bigger & Blacker , then adds gleefully, “And I’m rich!” He makes lots of films, too, but as is often the way with comedians, those are, shall we say, less gilded affairs.
  • (5) The Front National, founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, has never been this close to installing its leader inside the gilded rooms of the Élysée Palace.
  • (6) Gilded molybdenum-wire remains in the sclera and episclera without any reaction of the tissue.
  • (7) The last gilded chance for Oscar came to his head: but, like his team, he could not deliver.
  • (8) The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard,” said Fellowes, who wants to start focusing his attention on his long-awaited US drama The Gilded Age for NBC .
  • (9) Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah rushed to telephone Hosni Mubarak to express his support, after welcoming Tunisia's exiled leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to a gilded exile in Jeddah.
  • (10) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
  • (11) They choose to pay less because of a business model that sees the workforce as a cost to be driven down in the pursuit of ever higher profit, often linked to bloated bonuses and share options for a gilded few at the top – and subsidised with billions in publicly funded tax credits.
  • (12) The BBC's bosses are not alone in roaming the gilded halls of the public sector.
  • (13) But as he sat in the gilded hall, where Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev had all received the prize in recent decades, Clegg decided he was witnessing a special moment.
  • (14) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
  • (15) But they were not tired-and-emotional, and for such mannerly foreigners to have been given a practical definition of that local idiom would have been gilding the lily.
  • (16) It obliged them to keep the majority poor while the rich enjoyed a gilded age.
  • (17) Some claim her as an unlikely feminist escaping the gilded cage of France's first lady.
  • (18) Karen Koren, artistic director of Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon, says that the two companies made comedy the new rock and roll.
  • (19) On a platform level with the octagonal cage in which the fighters would assault each other, was a row of gilded sofas, scattered with red cushions, which still lacked occupants.
  • (20) The house-guests were sufficiently gilded to feel at ease in its Palladian splendour – but even to these worldly young things, their friends' dad must have cut a daunting figure.

Tole


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple attempts at contacting Toles, who now lives in Wisconsin, were unsuccessful.
  • (2) He wasn’t the most credible witness: Toles promptly stated on the stand that he lied in order to get better housing placement in jail.
  • (3) The tolE mutation causes tolerance to colicins E2 and E3 as well as other effects on the phenotype of Escherichia coli K-12.
  • (4) A possible tole of UV-damaged phage DNA in propagation of infection and in maturation of phage particles is discussed.
  • (5) Toles related that Harris’s admissions upset him because what Harris did was wrong,” the police recorded the snitch explaining.
  • (6) Despite Harris’s vociferous protestations that he would never say such a thing to a total stranger, and his public defender Andrea Lyon’s objections, Toles testified at Harris’s trial.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both Lee Harris’s friend and a former colleague remember this letter as being from David Toles, a jailhouse snitch who said he overheard Harris admitting to a murder and whom an appellate judge called an ‘admitted liar’.
  • (8) So did a former co-worker, John Innis, who remembered the letter and vouched for Toles’ authorship of it to the Guardian.
  • (9) David Toles, who was 26 and locked up for burglary and auto theft at the time, said he overheard Harris in a Cook County jail dayroom confess to the murder shortly after he introduced himself to Harris, so they could play blackjack.
  • (10) The map position is shown by the gene order trp-purB-tolE-tolD-galKETO.
  • (11) Asked if it was difficult to remember his lies, Toles stated to the court: “Well, not really, if it is for your own benefit.” Conspicuously, after his testimony, Toles pleaded guilty on a burglary charge that and received a three-year sentence.

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