(n.) A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
(n.) A broad, open dish; a chalice; -- only used of the Holy Grail.
(n.) Small particles of earth; gravel.
(n.) One of the small feathers of a hawk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(2) There's apparently a 30-seat cinema in Paris that's played The Holy Grail for three decades.
(3) Has Net-a-Porter found the holy grail of 21st-century fashion?
(4) Instead, the ARTPOP app has begun to sound like an interactive advertisement, similar to the app for Jay Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail.
(5) In June, Jay-Z struck a deal with Samsung to give away 1m early copies of his Magna Carta Holy Grail album to fans who downloaded an Android app.
(6) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(7) At 7.44pm ET Brian Fallon, former press secretary to Hillary Clinton, tweeted breathlessly: “The holy grail.” Ninety-eight minutes and a somewhat anticlimactic Rachel Maddow Show later, Fallon tweeted again: “Dems should return focus to Trumpcare tomorrow & the millions it will leave uninsured, not get distracted by two pages from ’05 tax return.” Trump had to pay millions due to tax law he aims to abolish, leaked return shows Read more It was neither the holy grail, nor the smoking gun, nor the long-awaited release of all Trump’s tax returns with all their potential Russian secrets.
(8) The homeobox gene en, homologous to the gene en-grailed of Drosophila, is expressed in the metencephalic-mesencephalic segment of the vertebrate neural tube.
(9) The Commission E Monograph, a German document regarded as the holy grail of herbalism by orthodox doctors, makes all kinds of pronouncements about the herb's "contraindications" - the circumstances in which it should not be prescribed.
(10) The Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, said the document, which sets out the rule of law, was “mystical in some way, almost like the search for the Holy Grail”.
(11) Magna Carta Holy Grail received nods in almost every rap category, outpacing LPs by Kendrick Lamar and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
(12) That "pocket of calm" is every Olympian's holy grail.
(13) But Stephen Greenhalgh, Johnson’s deputy mayor for policing, believes devolution would deliver a better service and allow a greater focus on the holy grail of the justice system: reducing repeat offending.
(14) The government has come up with the holy grail – a tax hike that is popular with the electorate (just as it did with the 1997 windfall tax on utilities).
(15) Michael Palin, actor Having done The Holy Grail and Life of Brian , we found ourselves with a much bigger budget for The Meaning of Life.
(16) It was astonishing evidence of Salmond and the SNP having found a route to the Holy Grail of international politics: the support of young people.
(17) The disenchanted working class is the holy grail for vote-catchers, although no one actually seems to like its members.
(18) What Duncan Smith offers appears to be the holy grail of social policy: simplifying the labyrinthine benefits system so that it guarantees welfare payments to a certain level of earnings, and then sees anyone who gets into work lose their entitlements at a fixed rate.
(19) While the crusaders litter the countryside with steaming piles of barbecued heretics, there's some modern Durr Vinci Code whiffle involving hooded business types and clandestine sacrifices conducted in the name of "ze inheritors of ze Grail".
(20) The TPP is an effort to use the holy grail of free trade to impose conditions and override domestic laws in a way that would be almost impossible if the proposed measures had to go through the normal legislative process.
Hawk
Definition:
(n.) One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and notch of the bill, and in having shorter and less pointed wings. Many are of large size and grade into the eagles. Some, as the goshawk, were formerly trained like falcons. In a more general sense the word is not infrequently applied, also, to true falcons, as the sparrow hawk, pigeon hawk, duck hawk, and prairie hawk.
(v. i.) To catch, or attempt to catch, birds by means of hawks trained for the purpose, and let loose on the prey; to practice falconry.
(v. i.) To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies.
(v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.
(v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm.
(n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise.
(v. t.) To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
(n.) A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) McQueen later worked for Gieves & Hawkes and the theatre costumiers Angels , before being employed, aged 20, by Koji Tatsuno , a Japanese designer with links to London.
(3) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
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(5) Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1963 and given two years to live.
(6) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(7) He says that two dozen Delta Force commandos, Black Hawk helicopters, drones and fighter jets were involved in the rescue, adding “but we weren’t there”.
(8) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.
(9) This year, on the first day, I bumped into a fellow market regular who was hawking a DVD title (no longer a badge of shame).
(10) Last summer, during the clamour for Britain to intervene militarily in Syria, he was one of the loudest hawks.
(11) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(12) A rash of bumper pay deals would support the argument of the hawks, who believe interest rates should be raised to clamp down on inflation.
(13) Rap group Migos were stopped from riding their IO Hawks through a shopping centre when they launched their own clothing line, and Khalifa has used a similar device ( the PhunkeeDuck ) while shopping.
(14) Cyber is portrayed as something you have to be Stephen Hawking to understand “When I go to cyber seminars the vast majority of people who attend are men,” she says.
(15) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(16) US hawks, such as senator Lindsey Graham, had suggested a boycott in retaliation for allowing Snowden to remain in the country.
(17) There are recorded messages from Stephen Hawking, who hopes to be among the first passengers, and the young human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
(18) As Howard Hawks's Monkey Business showed, you could even set a screwball comedy in a vivisection lab.
(19) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(20) US farmers are in the middle of the worst drought they've faced in half a century , and pressure is growing from Democrats, farm lobbies, and deficit hawks for Congress to enact the new law.