(a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
(2) • Oh, and a lot of this micromanaging was due to the fact that Pera was upset because Joerger and others called off a proposed one-on-one basketball game between the owner and Grizzlies guard Tony Allen .
(3) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
(4) The federal government also indicated it would move ahead to remove protections for grizzlies in the Yellowstone area.
(5) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
(6) Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) attacks resulting in human injury and known to have occurred in the national parks of North America were examined.
(7) Meanwhile, in the NBA on Sunday, the Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore – a St Louis native – played with “RIP Mike Brown” written on one of his shoes during the team’s 97-85 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
(8) His reasoning: not “potential grizzlies”, but the constitution.
(9) Swab specimens were obtained from nasal, rectal, and preputial or vaginal areas of 37 grizzly and 17 black bears, captured during May to June of 1981 to 1983, to determine the types and frequency of predominant aerobic microflora.
(10) Gasol was also expected to have an MRI on Saturday after leaving the Grizzlies' 102-86 loss to San Antonio early in the second quarter.
(11) The Buk missile, codenamed "Grizzly" by Nato, was developed by the USSR in the 1970s to shoot down cruise and other missiles.
(12) Disneynature's next big feature also happens to be about grizzly bears; one suspects Herzog won't be getting the call.
(13) In my state, I don’t believe we have grizzly bears,” he said.
(14) After Game 5, the Grizzlies had a 3-2 series lead over the Thunder and were a victory away from handing Oklahoma City an utterly unexpected and confounding opening round loss.
(15) Comparative anatomic studies of the bony labyrinths of humans and those of a full grown pony, zebra, grizzly bear, seal and domestic cow were performed.
(16) The provisional 2012 USA squad for the Games is : LaMarcus Aldridge (Portland Trail Blazers); Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks); Chauncey Billups (Los Angeles Clippers); Chris Bosh (Miami Heat); Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Tyson Chandler (New York Knicks); Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Rudy Gay (Memphis Grizzlies); Eric Gordon (New Orleans Hornets); Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers); Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic); Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia 76ers); LeBron James (Miami Heat); Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves); Lamar Odom (Dallas Mavericks); Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers); Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder); and Deron Williams (New Jersey Nets).
(17) That leaves three spots available for four very worthwhile teams: the Golden State Warriors (48-29), Dallas Mavericks (48-31), Phoenix Suns (46-31) and Memphis Grizzlies (45-32).
(18) Western Conference LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers); DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); James Harden, Dwight Howard (Houston Rockets); Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs); Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans): Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors).
(19) Fifty to 60% of the larvae in grizzly bear meat were alive after storage for 27 months at -6.5 to -20 C, and 30% to 50% were still alive at 34 months.
(20) While the Nets did actually end up winning a game, Saturday's 97-88 win over the Memphis Grizzlies, head coach Kidd ended up losing his Hall of Fame forward (Paul Pierce), his assistant coach ( Lawrence Frank, who has been "reassigned" ) and $50,000.
Hoary
Definition:
(a.) White or whitish.
(a.) White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
(a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
(a.) Moldy; mossy; musty.
(a.) Of a pale silvery gray.
(a.) Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven species were represented among the specimens found to be rabid; there were 32 big brown bats, three hoary bats, three silver-haired bats, two little brown bats, one eastern pipistrelle, one Keen myotis and one red bat.
(2) One thing they will have to dispense with is the hoary old ritual of each party leader insisting that an unequivocal victory for him is both the essential outcome of an election and the only possible one.
(3) The prime minister's intervention today, in which he disinterred the hoary old chestnut of householders using "reasonable force" to defend their property, signals the beginning of a return of a more traditional Tory law and order agenda.
(4) We may like the fantasy of our food being produced by a chaotic patchwork of tiny farms run by women in dirndls and hoary old men with mutton chops – and a bit of that is good for the diversity of the culture – but when you crunch low-intensity yield against CO2 emissions, it’s not the most sustainable option.
(5) In the end, writing about what you know – that hoary and potentially limiting, even stultifying piece of advice – might be best seen as applying to the type of story you're thinking of writing rather than to the details of what happens within it and perhaps, with that in mind, a better precept might be to write about what you love, rather than what you have a degree of contempt for but will deign to lower yourself to, just to show the rest of us how it's done.
(6) Instead of ideological hoeing at Brook Farm, Hawthorne wanders, both in pen and person, through the old orchard, planted by a clergyman in his old age "when the neighbours laughed at the hoary-headed man for planting trees from which he could have no prospect of gathering fruit...
(7) The really sad thing about the Roberts affair is that we’ve ended up having yet another hoary old row about What Women Want, when hiding underneath it all along was a much more interesting conversation about what people do.
(8) She may well be right about that, but as the opening episode of the programme's 12th series was aired on Sunday night, the hoary adage about no publicity being bad publicity found itself, for the MP at least, being tested as never before.
(9) Following the "Trojan horse" affair, Michael Gove insisted that British schools teach "British values" without specifying what they might be: cue hoary gags about queuing, tea, diffidence and embarrassment.
(10) The tirade included the hoary cliche that when I get registration, she'll consider me worthy of avoiding.
(11) Evidence of this hoary wisdom appeared to come with this week's publication of the British Social Attitudes survey .
(12) The higher prevalences found among the non-colonial species (hoary, red and silver-haired bats) were consistent with similar studies.
(13) Prevalences for the species with sample sizes adequate for statistical analysis were, from high to low: hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus), 11%; red bat (L. borealis), 5%; silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans), 4%; little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), 4%; big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), 3%; Keen's bat (Myotis keenii), 2%; and evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis), 2%.
(14) The first biographical sentence of the NFT's notes contains only one slight error, but this hoary chestnut has already misled several generations of Anglo-American viewers: "Born illegitimately in Copenhagen in 1889 to a poor and abused mother who died painfully two years later, Dreyer endured an arid childhood within a strict Lutheran adoptive family."
(15) World heritage forests are burning ; 1,000-year-old trees and the hoary peat beneath are reduced to char.
(16) Annual prevalence reported in silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) was variable in all three provinces.
(17) ROCK AND ROLL The two discuss their relation with the hoary beast... Morrissey: To me, "rock and roll" aren't really nasty words.
(18) In this speech recommending more "engagements", whether painful or ecstatic for those loosing the hi-tech weapons, we also witnessed that old standby "no-fly zone", which actually means "flying-and-bombing zone", and the hoary old self-satisfied reference to our having "change[d] the regimes" in Afghanistan and Iraq, as though Blair and his chums had merely been shuffling around tiny figurines on the Game of Thrones opening credits map .
(19) Some see in the talk of social mobility a possible revival of hoary old arguments about grammar schools that Cameron thought he’d killed off.
(20) Within individual species, significant differences between age groups were found only for hoary and red bats; in two species, juveniles had higher prevalences.