(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Her mother-in-law said at the time: "Grandpa would never have bought a car, but a field."
(3) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(4) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(5) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(6) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(7) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(8) Michael Douglas is the red carpet grandpa and it is lovely.
(9) Crazy grandpa is Frank (Frank Langella), a sometime jewel thief now losing his memory.
(10) I bought the ox cheeks and veg there, along with some red wine from a grandpa.
(11) The Munsters, a 1960s CBS series in black and white, focused on a family of comical horror movie parodies including Herman, who looked like Frankenstein's monster, and Grandpa, a Dracula lookalike.
(12) One key factor is that trips to the cinema in India are a family experience: if a film can appeal to Mum, Dad, Granny, Grandpa, teens and the little'uns then it's logical to assume the box office takings will benefit.
(13) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
(14) But this is a real muscle-up to grandpa’s way,” said Cheek.
(15) Then her adoptive parents Hans and Rosa ( Geoffrey Rush , all twinkly grandpa, and Emily Watson , super-grouchy but with a heart of gold) take in and hide the Jewish son of the man who saved Hans's life in the Great War.
(16) She was like: 'Why would they not take care of crazy grandpa?
(17) For decades, the sun-soaked south of France was the heartland of “Grandpa” Le Pen, who built up an electoral base here in the early 1990s.
(18) Grandpa Bill isn't wacky, he's just a decent, well-grounded man."
(19) In truth, I don’t really understand it because I don’t feel if people were sitting down to interview Bradley Cooper they’d be like ‘let’s talk about [his flops] Aloha and Burnt’, or if they were sitting down with Robert De Niro, ‘let’s talk about Dirty Grandpa’ – and that feels sort of different with me.
(20) Starting out as a boy apprentice in the Glasgow optical engineering firm Barr and Stroud, Grandpa eventually became managing director.
Pop
Definition:
(n.) A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.
(n.) An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc.
(n.) The European redwing.
(v. i.) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound; as, the muskets popped away on all sides.
(v. i.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart; -- with in, out, upon, off, etc.
(v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire; as, this corn pops well.
(v. t.) To thrust or push suddenly; to offer suddenly; to bring suddenly and unexpectedly to notice; as, to pop one's head in at the door.
(v. t.) To cause to pop; to cause to burst open by heat, as grains of Indian corn; as, to pop corn or chestnuts.
(adv.) Like a pop; suddenly; unexpectedly.
Example Sentences:
(1) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(2) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(3) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
(4) Just months later, Grade popped up fronting a private-equity backed bid for Pinewood from the Rank Group.
(5) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(6) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(7) The new generation of political leaders were the children of Elvis and the Beatles: they looked up to their older pop idols.
(8) I can’t,” says sufi pop singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, comparing himself unfavourably to his uncle, the late Pakistani superstar Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan .
(9) Can you pop round to discuss implications with me thanks andy,” it read.
(10) The minor differences between the sequences of POP's VH and V kappa genes and sequences used by other autoantibodies, may be responsible for this antibody's crossreactivity with myelin and, as a result, the autoimmune neuropathy.
(11) Aaron Ramsey, who scored the opening goal and set up Bale for the third, was outstanding, Joe Allen delivered another imperious performance in centre midfield and then there was that wonderful moment when Neil Taylor, of all people, popped up with the second goal.
(12) We all knew from the beginning that Little Mix would be in with a shout for the final rounds, because they were young and possessed of more than a modicum of talent and so no one … old … no matter how talented, would pop their bubble.
(13) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
(14) It is a fun place to stay, with pop-art-inspired design, a hairdresser, a photo booth and film nights.
(15) A popping phenomenon was observed between the coracoacromial ligament and the greater tuberosity of the humerus, which was covered by the rotator cuff, and the coracoacromial ligament was resected with a rongeur under endoscopic visualization in all shoulders.
(16) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
(17) Everyone has been part of it, regardless of whether you’re a dirty metalhead or a flamboyant pop fan.” • This article was amended on 1 June 2017.
(18) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(19) "If everyone on Newsnight knew it was true that Savile was a paedophile, it should not have run a tribute to someone who was molesting girls in wheelchairs before they went on to Top of the Pops .
(20) Inside one shop, a guard from the street happens to have popped in for a cup of tea a moment earlier, but it's not a coincidence.