(n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(2) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(3) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(4) Closer Genocider sounds like Suicide in a Silver Machine and pivots on a simulated two-chord loop or locked groove that goes on seemingly forever, or at least until that stained glass window-lined grotto of unconventional thought starts appearing in your mind's eye.
(5) Don't expect sandy beaches, do expect iridescent turquoise seas (especially in the Blue Grotto sea cave), fresh seafood, and a laid-back, unhurried lifestyle that would seduce even the nerviest banker into blissful lethargy.
(6) Top tip: The 13-mile Eagle Creek trail isn’t for the faint of heart as it sometimes skirts the edge of sheer cliffs, but the rewards are well worth the scares: at Punchbowl Falls, water spills 30 metres down into a blue-green grotto, and at Tunnel Falls the trail passes through a tunnel behind a spectacular sheet of falling water.
(7) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
(8) Gary McNair: War on Christmas Anyone who has ever felt like saying “Bah, humbug!” to the John Lewis ad will find a kindred spirit in Gary McNair, playing a Santa working in a down-at-heel Christmas grotto who decides to investigate what Christmas means if you are poor.
(9) You expect to stumble into an artist's grotto, cluttered with the debris of a creative genius at work.
(10) The mechansim of action of climatotherapy in the grotto and the indication of treatment are discussed.
(11) Father Christmas in his grotto at Harrods department store, Knightsbridge, London.
(12) His optimism is shared in Dunhuang, a city of ancient Buddhist grottoes and ultramodern solar farms where China's first 10MW demonstration photovoltaic plant waits to be connected to the state grid.
(13) You can tell that Julian Cope might be a fan, that reviewers are going to be drawing comparisons with Ash Ra Tempel, and that they would make people come away from their concerts saying things like: "My head is throbbing like a stained glass window-lined grotto of unconventional thought and atavistic proto-religious impulses ."
(14) O’Francese (+39 329 006 6424) on the main beach is the only bar and it also rents whitewashed grottos that were once fishermen’s dwellings (doubles from €120 half-board).
(15) After a day sunbathing, stroll along the picturesque ancient Roman harbour made of colourful fishermen dwellings and prehistoric grottos turned into studios, and where evening drinks are served on rooftops.
(16) In the "Beke" grotto of Jósvafö 222 patients with an obstructive syndrome (respiratory blast value below 70) wer examined for the therapeutic results of therapy, with treatment made for five hours a day and for an overall period of three weeks.
(17) It’s a labyrinth of orange-purple sea grottos, talcum powder-like beaches, white granite rocks and pirates caves where scuba divers still search for hidden treasures.
(18) For something a little more sedate, the Walpole Bay is hosting two seaside-themed vintage film nights ( 16 September and 14 October) arranged by the Friends of the Shell Grotto, including Magical Margate (circa 1919) and The Belle of Kent (1958).
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of Ponza’s many beautiful grottoes.
(20) Way to go Getting there Benmo (0845 250 8119, benmo.com ) offers a 10-day package that includes the Sunday market in Kashgar, Turfan oasis and Buddhist Grottoes at Dunhuang, Xian and Beijing departing from Heathrow 25 February, 2010 from £1695pp, including all flights, with tailor-made tours available on earlier dates.
Retreat
Definition:
(n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
(n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
(n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
(n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
(n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
(n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
(n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
(v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(3) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(4) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
(5) Although she was tempted to retreat from life, she realised she would have to force herself to live in as an imaginative way as possible.
(6) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(8) Rebels moved unchallenged along a road littered with evidence of the air campaign and the speed of their enemies' retreat.
(9) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(10) A thin (20-gauge) cryoprobe can be used to retreat retinal breaks without disturbing a previous scleral buckle.
(11) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(12) Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom.
(13) Kiev's forces entered the city on Saturday after pro-Russia rebels retreated overnight.
(14) He told the conference: "As you succeed in getting more and more business, the incumbent's tactic is to retreat slowly.
(15) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
(16) In a controlled clinical trial in Hong Kong, 575 Chinese adults with smear-positive isoniazid-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis, who had previously been treated with first-line chemotherapy, were allocated at random to regimens of rifampicin plus ethambutol daily (ER7), twice-weekly (ER2), once-weekly (ER1), or daily for 2 months and then once-weekly (ER7ER1), or to a standard retreatment regimen of daily ethionamide plus pyrazinamide plus cycloserine (EtZC).
(17) The maintenance of the antiemetic efficacy of ondansetron was further studied in 28 patients (13 A, 15 B) in respectively 36 and 48 retreatment courses.
(18) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(19) But he has since retreated from that view and told his confirmation hearing that the Senate's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme had disturbed him.
(20) Retreatment with pamidronate again resulted in normocalcaemia.