(v. t.) To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked by counsel assisting the inquest Jeremy Gormly SC whether it was the case that it was not going to be available to any of the three snipers to take a shot unless the glass was breached, he replied: “I believe that to be correct.” Sydney siege: plan to release hostage thwarted by mass breakout, inquest told Read more The officer, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has also rejected suggestions that the sniper at the Westpac building could have taken a shot at Monis at about 7.38pm, when the gunman was observed through a window at the Lindt cafe.
(2) Overseen by New South Wales coroner Michael Barnes, the inquest is being guided by Jeremy Gormly SC, counsel assisting the coroner, who has revealed there are many audio and video recordings from inside the cafe to shed more light on what happened.
(3) Rothman shows more gorm: sometimes chaos is just chaos.
(4) Sydney siege: how a day and night of terror unfolded at the Lindt cafe Read more Asked by counsel assisting the coroner, Jeremy Gormly SC, what he believed Monis was referring to, Morton-Hoffman said: “I believe Monis might have said to me that he wants, he has these two bombs on him but he doesn’t want to blow them up and he needs the police to disarm them ... take them out of the building so that we don’t die.” It was confirmed after the siege ended there were no bombs.
(5) When pressed by counsel assisting the inquest, Jeremy Gormly SC, why the emergency action trigger had not been reached despite a shot being fired, the tactical commander said no hostage had been harmed at that stage.
Sticky
Definition:
(superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(2) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
(3) Most of the drugs tested were designed to target the accumulation of sticky plaques, called beta-amyloids.
(4) Among junior high school students the results suggested that consciousness about and interest in such factors as gingival bleeding, bad breath and sticky feeling in the mouth caused better dental health behavior.
(5) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
(6) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
(7) The onions are easy to store and to handle, and the root tip cells constitute a convenient system for macroscopic (growth, EC50 values) as well as for microscopic parameters (c-mitosis, stickiness, chromosome breaks).
(8) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
(9) I like your advice about having a sticky note on the phone, saying: "Lunches are better for me."
(10) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
(11) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
(12) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
(13) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(14) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(15) Now he has tipped the prime minister and the chancellor into the sticky stuff.
(16) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
(17) This "sticky" interpersonal style may be particularly common in TLE patients with a left sided temporal lobe seizure focus.
(18) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(19) Macroscopic examination of the 97 explanted prostheses provided information on their integrity (38.1% of prostheses ruptured), gel differentiation (24.7%), sticky surfaces (26.8%), surface deposits (33%), memory folds (54.6%), and Dacron fixation patches (20.6%).
(20) It has been shown that sulfinpyrazone is able to interfere with the dynamic interaction between sticky Walker-256-carcinosarcoma cells and the vascular endothelium.