(n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
(3) Principal ponies had a history of heaves, a disease characterized by recurrent airway obstruction.
(4) According to the CDC, a third of primary care doctors and nurses heave never even heard about PrEP.
(5) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(6) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(7) Identification of the physiologic importance of these mediators in the heaves syndrome or other potential equine allergic syndromes may contribute both to the basic understanding of the pathogenesis of allergy, as well as suggest possible avenues for control.
(8) When they reached the car, Amburn was heaved into the boot and driven all the way back to Roland's house by the Chiemsee lake, near the Austrian border, where he was kept locked in a makeshift basement cell for four days.
(9) I arrived at 3.45pm local time (3pm UK), nearly five hours before kick-off, and the press room was already heaving - few are prepared to take any risks with the Johannesburg traffic, especially after an official bus took four hours to get from Sandton to Soccer City on the opening day.
(10) Roth is hardly short of awards, but it's bad luck that he should have chosen to put away his pen just as a new British literary prize heaves into view.
(11) Two key opposition cities, Deraa in the south, where the uprising began, and Homs near the Lebanese border, which has become the centre of the nine-month revolt, were heaving with demonstrators chanting anti-regime slogans and waving a national flag last flown before the Assad clan swept to power in Syria more than 40 years ago.
(12) On top of the succession, that child would be the first direct female link to not only the heaving emotional tsunami that was Diana, but also the cloying sense of public ownership of Diana.
(13) Gawain grips the axe and heaves it heavenwards, plants his left foot firmly on the floor in front, then swings it swiftly towards the bare skin.
(14) There had been parallels with Munich to all this, the Londoners parachuted into enemy territory with the vast majority hostile within a heaving crowd, though there was to be no magical finale.
(15) His little tummy just heaved and heaved until he stopped.
(16) Their rejigged back line, sometimes suspect, heaved and succeeded in retaining the clean sheet.
(17) With Clegg and Cameron threatening to colonise Blair-style a huge share of the political spectrum, can anyone come up with something more convincing than either one last New Labour heave or the usual leftist pieties?
(18) Little wonder Robert Dowler broke down as they were read aloud, his shoulders heaving as he sobbed in the witness box.
(19) Plus bleacher seats for a cheering section.” For every David Byrne or Taylor Swift critiquing the new pay model, there are acts such as Detroit’s Death who are experiencing a career renaissance, thanks to music obsessives who trawl through back catalogues and share them in a noisy, heaving, digital jungle.
(20) So there I am, literally heaving with desire for him and suddenly his head is between my thighs.
Thrill
Definition:
(n.) A warbling; a trill.
(v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
(v. t.) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
(v. t.) Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
(v. t.) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
(v. i.) To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.
(v. i.) To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
(n.) A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.
(n.) A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wilkinson said he was "thrilled" to be linking up with Macmillan.
(2) The Dane was powerless, however, when Sturridge returned the favour and Mané doubled Liverpool’s lead in thrilling fashion.
(3) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
(4) Postlethwaite describes working with Armstrong as "thrilling".
(5) ACTUALLY, IT GOT RATHER MORE THAN THAT World Darts, Sky Sports 1, 7pm – The PDC World Darts final, won by Adrian Lewis in a thrilling 7-5 win over Gary Anderson , averaged 884,000 viewers – and peaked with 1.27 million.
(6) And this isn’t a thrill confined to some mythical vanished golden age.
(7) There is a reason for this and it is not merely the deeply ingrained tribal loyalty of a boy who still remembers the thrill of his first visit to the Stretford End or the tingle of excitement when offered a job as a paperboy by a former United star (in those days retired footballers had to work for a living).
(8) They’re peculiarly British but the appeal of the humour and the ever-present message that good people always win is absolutely global.” “These films are a part of British culture and to be carrying on the legacy of [original Carry On writers] Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell is a thrill and a responsibility,” said Dawson.
(9) In the course of a few hours, France went from thrill to chill.
(10) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
(11) Fleming never forgets that a thriller has to thrill; that, whatever else it does, it must entertain.
(12) The audience just want the thrill of seeing celebrity in the flesh.
(13) A principal factor analysis of the 41 X 41 item-intercorrelation matrix yielded three factors which were labeled (1) Deviant Thrill-Seeking, (2) Remorseful Intrapunitiveness and (3) Blackouts.
(14) I was thrilled nonetheless, and by Christmas 1993 I was online for the first time.
(15) Branagh, who received his fifth Oscar nomination (all, incidentally, have been in different categories) declared himself "absolutely thrilled", adding: "It was such an enjoyable experience to make, and this is a very pleasant outcome."
(16) More Music's creative director and founder Pete Moser said: "We are thrilled to have been successful in our NPO bid and what it means, which is to give us a greater ability to provide 'great art and culture for everyone', in line with the Arts Council's overall strategy.
(17) After a successful convention they came back thrilled by the speeches and daunted by the prospects .
(18) But it is hardly Ensler's fault if women still get a thrill out of hearing the word vagina; her plays are transforming armchair post-feminists into activists, and radicalising women more effectively than a whole generation of feminist theory.
(19) A thrilling contest ended with Ali suffering his first defeat , on points, after being dropped by a left hook in the 15th round.
(20) On Wednesday, he embraced his habitual position for Portugal of carrying the load single-handedly when others shrink, ensuring his jittery team did the necessary by scraping a thrilling draw against Bernd Storck’s lively Hungary.