What's the difference between groupies and people?

Groupies


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the celebrity groupie category, Rihanna’s tweets for her “German boyz” were upstaged by Angela Merkel’s sweaty embrace of the national team.
  • (2) I had always been a big Romola Garai fan, now I was a diehard groupie, as were my friends, everyone tweeting about how much they loved this woman with the downstairs wound, whether they knew who she was or not.
  • (3) But the goal is not to be the winner of the primary, the goal is to be the winner – to be president of the United States.” From groupie to foot soldier Trump has not been alone in drawing stadium-size crowds to political campaign events across the US this year.
  • (4) "He is an important player," said Jose Mourinho, showing the expertise and personality that makes all the English press fawn at his feet like groupies, only with less dignity.
  • (5) Unity, the Hitler groupie, wrote from Germany: "Swyne [a Debo nickname] seems to be having a wonderful time … who will the romance be with?"
  • (6) It’s like a real-life computer game, with the extra dramatic dimension that if you crash you can’t just reboot,” he said, as a smattering of drone groupies pressed up against the barriers to eavesdrop on their hero.
  • (7) But such is the global interest, the French police have closed off access to the mountain peak in the village to keep out the expected influx of international journalists, even if the feared mass arrival of hippies, new agers and Armageddon groupies has failed to materialise.
  • (8) 2015 Collaborates on the contrarily titled I’ll Never Write My Memoirs (a promise she made in the 1981 song Art Groupie), saying if she didn’t write it “someone else would”.
  • (9) If Stewart dresses both actors for the ceremony, she will be in a position to challenge the supremacy of Rachel Zoe, LA's foremost celebrity stylist, who is currently enjoying a fashion moment as a new Saint Laurent collection lends gold-plated Parisian endorsement to her signature 70s-groupie-luxe style of skinny tailoring and floppy hats.
  • (10) "* * Note: this pick-up line will only work with hardcore Forsythe groupies.
  • (11) Among the disappointed, though still living, Rapture groupies were Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent all his life savings of $140,000 spreading the word of the world's end, and Jeff Hopkins, who erected a doomsday sign on top of his car and has spent the past few months driving from Long Island to New York city to publicise it.
  • (12) The Republican outsider candidate doesn’t just have supporters, though; he has groupies.
  • (13) The removal of more than 4,000 Kindle ebooks, including IPG bestsellers Pamela Des Barres' groupie memoir I'm with the Band , child discipline title 1-2-3 Magic by Thomas Phelan and murder mystery Snow Blind by Lori Armstrong from Amazon.com follows the IPG's refusal to agree to new terms from online retail giant, according to its president Mark Suchomel.
  • (14) But we also see Thomas vomiting violently before going on stage for the first ever reading of Under Milk Wood in New York, a failed attempt at fellatio with a young groupie at a party, and his beautiful but bitterly unfulfilled wife Caitlin (Essie Davis) banging his head on the floor in a rage at their home in the Boathouse at Laugharne .
  • (15) This is the ultimate selfishness from someone who we are told by his groupies is some kind of saint.
  • (16) It's not merely his record as a football manager comprehensively elevating the sporting and commercial legend of Manchester United , but how he has achieved this by enhancing the distinction and confidence of the city even as the club itself has a dubious, monolithic quality, non-local players, and groupie fans scattered everywhere.
  • (17) After Savile's crimes were revealed, it became apparent that people did know about some of his proclivities, but brushed them aside, sometimes citing "groupie culture" as having been acceptable in the past.
  • (18) She became a fictional object on whom journalists projected classic stereotypes: the beautiful woman who was "gagging for it", as the News of the World put it; "shameless", a "maneater", a "football groupie" in the words of the other papers; the "gold digger" who was "money hungry", seducing men for their wallets.
  • (19) Just nine months after the 150th anniversary of her wedding (there was a mock ceremony, with a shop manager as Mr Nicholls and the villagers as the villagers) the Brontë groupies are excitedly preparing the "celebrations" for the 150th anniversary of her death.
  • (20) The title was taken from a lyric from a song, Art Groupie , which Jones wrote after a fight with her then lover, French artist Jean-Paul Goude (the father of her only child, son Paulo), with whom she collaborated on some of her most famous images (including her face shattered into elongated pieces, her eyes blazing alien-yellow , her leg tilted back at an impossible angle).

People


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  • (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
  • (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  • (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (13) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.

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