(v. t.) To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
(v. t.) To agitate; to worry; to harrow; to harass.
(v. i.) To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) Each is a failure by the state to protect the young people concerned, made all the greater because the same criticisms have occurred time and time again.” Harris said his review found that understaffing was a contributory issue.
(3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(4) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(5) People will see an increased police presence in the city centre," said Harris.
(6) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(7) We believe there are probably additional cases.” Police did not conduct DNA testing at the time on what little physical evidence there was in the cases against Griggs, Johnson and Harris.
(8) The Republican House speaker John Boehner and the Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid both expressed a desire on Wednesday to work together.
(9) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
(10) Harris is officially there to talk up the last eight episodes of How I Met Your Mother, on host network CBS.
(11) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(12) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
(13) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
(14) Operative treatment often will be required in Salter-Harris type III and IV fractures, juvenile Tillaux, and triplane fractures.
(15) Could the film’s producer be the same Harry Saltzman who came to the bureau in 1951 as a newspaper photographer to take a picture of a laboratory?
(16) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(17) Corbyn’s ‘new politics’ is neither hateful nor pure: it’s complicated | John Harris Read more Their dilemma is plain: if they make a stand against what is happening, they stand accused of disloyalty by Corbyn’s supporters; but if they go along with it, they are complicit in Labour’s probable disintegration when voters realise the party has been taken over by people they can never vote for.
(18) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One thing he never does is offer to let people stroke the harris hawk.
Henry
Definition:
(n.) The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second.
Example Sentences:
(1) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(2) He said: “Henri is someone the club has been watching for a while and he has developed into an excellent player at Bordeaux.
(3) And despite the initial scepticism, now completely gone says Henry, DCA's transparency and accountability systems and mechanisms are now "some of the most convincing tools to fundraising, credibility and brand recognition" and is used by face-to-face fundraisers, volunteers and PR to promote the organisation.
(4) Henry IV Phyllida Lloyd follows her all-female production of Julius Caesar with another single-sex take on a conflated version of the two parts of Shakespeare’s greatest history play.
(5) If that's what's happening here, we might soon be in a position to learn if Henry Ford was right.
(6) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
(7) We wish Thierry all the best for his future.” New England Revolution ended the Red Bulls’ playoff run on Saturday , and Henry said he had decided not to return for another season.
(8) David McMillen QC said in court on Thursday: “Northern Ireland stands out as effectively a blot on the map … It’s nothing less than state discrimination of a class of people who have been marginalised for many years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Henry Kane (right) and Chris Flanagan celebrate their civil partnership in Belfast in December 2005.
(9) It's said to be highly artificial – Henry James remarked, on its first publication, that he had never read a novel "so intensely written, so little seen, known, or felt".
(10) If Henry VIII belonged to the rare Kell positive blood group , he would have found difficulty in fathering more than one child with any Kell-negative woman.
(11) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(12) Henry and A.D. Milner (British Medical Journal 1983, 287, 260-261) and 5 were new questions--was presented to 118 specialists of asthma selected among the members of the European Academy of Allergology.
(13) Formerly Communications secretary to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales.
(14) Henry had hinted during a recent interview with French newspaper L’Equipe he could be interested in a future coaching role with the Gunners, and Wenger insisted on Tuesday that Henry’s return is a certainty when asked about a reunion with the former France striker.
(15) Not since Eleanor of Aquitaine became first the queen of France, then queen of England, married to Henry II, has one woman occupied such a position.
(16) As ever in children's books, when things get too complicated, animal characters can provide a useful way out, but even then, attempts to represent same-sex parenting can attract censure - as revealed by Justin Richardson's And Tango Makes Three , illustrated by Henry Cole.
(17) One person staying exactly where he is is Thierry Henry .
(18) Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the legislation is its so-called “Henry VIII powers” that grant the government executive power to amend existing legislation without further recourse to parliament.
(19) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(20) Four years earlier, Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals had evicted the Conservatives (referred to most often then as Unionists) by what seemed a decisive margin.