(n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
(2) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
(3) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(4) Oh, wait... @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 Miles Bjornstam (@xeyednpainless) Appropriately enough for the day before Halloween, Stephen Drew has come back from the dead.
(5) October Everyone loves Halloween, and the PR team spots a perfect opportunity for Ed to mix this fun occasion with traditional politics: he'll do an old-school door-to-door canvas of local neighbourhoods, dressed as Freddie Krueger.
(6) Alex Wood, 22, claimed that he was simply reaching out for a friend’s mobile phone during a Halloween party where he was dressed as a pirate [see footnote].
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest At a Halloween party this year with her husband Stephen Belafonte and her three daughters (from left), Madison, Angel and Phoenix.
(8) Halloween should be an opportunity for people to show off their creativity, not their side boob.
(9) A few weeks ago she turned up at Jonathan Ross ’s fancy dress Halloween party as Scary Spice.
(10) Radiographic screening of Halloween candy is not effective.
(11) • For details of Fence's forthcoming Halloween Festival (in Glasgow on 31 October) and other dates, including New Year's Eve, see fencerecords.com .
(12) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.
(13) I know Halloween is SO last week, but if you can just hang on a tiny bit longer, we'll get the Strictly results show out of the way and move on.
(14) In the first study, 363 Halloween trick-or-treaters were instructed to only take one candy.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Halloween-tinged genre titles The Last Witch Hunter and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension also failed to inspire audiences.
(16) Halloween’s ghoulish festivities have turned into a dangerous culture that brands mentally ill people as “psychos or schizos or freaks”, a government minister warns.
(17) "Binders full of women," his badly chosen phrase, became the meme of the night and will likely haunt him past Halloween.
(18) Toca Boo (£1.99) Toca Boo may have been released for Halloween, but its appeal will last all year round.
(19) It claims the top publisher for global Google Play games downloads in November was Chinese firm Tiny Piece – maker of kid-apps like Baby Pet Vet Doctor, Pets Nail Salon and Halloween Spa – ahead of Gameloft, EA, King, Rovio, Disney and others.
(20) In the Halloween solar storms in 2003, the crew on the International Space Station was forced to take shelter in a shielded compartment until the radiation risk had passed.
Voodoo
Definition:
(n.) See Voodooism.
(n.) One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
(a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
(2) The winners of all three Edinburgh comedy awards (best show, best newcomer, panel prize) performed at non-big four venues (the Stand, the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe and Bob's Bookshop).
(3) She talks passionately about dancing in Haiti: "When Win and I were staying in this place that had windows but no real doors and some drummers started playing, and more drummers came and more drummers came, and they were playing these roots, voodoo rhythms, and we just danced til 5am, and when we were too hot, we just ran and jumped in the ocean."
(4) The present paper reviews recent attempts at analyzing some of the most lethal Voodoo poisons which appear to induce catalepsy.
(5) Also, this would have probably required some sort of voodoo, as Smith and Jennings are the same type of maddening player that should never be on the court together.
(6) Voodoo illness is one of several culture-bound syndromes that nurses need to be familiar with, for an inability to understand voodoo illness may result in the client's death (voodoo death).
(7) At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans in October 2012, 21-year-old Clayton Otwell was offered a single drop of 25I-NBOMe up his nose as a gift from a grateful stranger whose phone he had found.
(8) Phrenology, best described as a pseudo or even voodoo science "of the mind", had created its own prolific market for the body parts – especially heads – of Australian and other indigenous people since the late 18th century.
(9) Korine is currently putting the finishing touches to a little project that involves him performing a Haitian "voodoo tap-dance" that sends people into a trance.
(10) Haitian Voodoo priests control two major practices which might be of interest to toxicologists: healing and poisoning.
(11) He describes the psychological mechanisms of voodoo as practiced in West Africa to provide insight into similar practices in the United States.
(12) Voodoo is a folk religion that emerged from the interaction of West African ethnotheologies with European Christian rituals.
(13) When they heard primitive British electro tracks such as A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray, they decided to make their own music, creating a bleepy track called Dextrous using a bedroom-based sampler.
(14) He dismissed as "voodoo economics" the idea that cutting taxes for wealthy people would generate more revenue.
(15) He said there was now a “much more rigorous approach to growth; no more seat of the pants, voodoo management.
(16) His low-tax mantra will appeal to Republicans who think Trump’s economic plan is voodoo, to use an old Geroge HW Bush word.
(17) The clone encodes the gene for Arabidopsis alternative oxidase, whose deduced amino acid sequence was found to have 71% identity with that of the enzyme from the voodoo lily, Sauromatum guttatum.
(18) If White City were Altman's LA, one might imagine Christine Langan getting her voodoo dolls out over the recent high-profile Oscar success of FilmFour , whose Slumdog Millionaire took eight Oscars in February.
(19) That he was wholly wrong should, perhaps, give the armies of the offended pause, even if other cartoons – like the filth in Der Stürmer – have misused the voodoo.
(20) She regards the coalition's £500m bailout for A&E units in England as "voodoo med-economics" and wants equivalent investment where, in her view, it is needed more – in general practice.