(a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(2) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
(3) Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie for the Guardian O n the evening of 21 March 2014, Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”, according to his LinkedIn profile, who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment), took his young Siberian husky for a walk on Bernal Hill.
(4) Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat campaign manager, accused Cameron of using the Greens to duck TV debates, adding: “Not since the photos of Cameron driving huskies have green issues been so cynically harnessed to Tory interest.” The broadcasters have proposed three one-hour TV debates, the first involving the Ukip, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative leaders, the second Lib Dem, Labour and Tory.
(5) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
(6) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
(7) Congenital paralysis of the laryngeal musculature has been seen in the Bouvier des Flandres and the Siberian Husky.
(8) Eggs of a tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium sp (probably D dendriticum), were detected in feces of a healthy, 5-month-old, Siberian Husky.
(9) The head of the charity that helped to arrange David Cameron's memorable husky photoshoot in the Arctic , launching the Conservatives' rebranding as the nice-not-nasty party, has warned that the PM's lack of leadership on environment issues risks "retoxifying" their image.
(10) Piers Morgan appraisal … Chelsea Handler "Let me ask him, doesn't he feel faintly embarrassed that in five short years he has gone from hug a husky to gas a badger?"
(11) A 6-week-old Siberian Husky pup had an unusual group of congenital heart anomalies that included a right-to-left patent ductus arteriosus, a small left ventricular chamber and ascending aorta, and a dysplastic mitral valve that may have been stenotic.
(12) He has told colleagues: "I'm not going to do huskies."
(13) An astrocytoma of the cervical spinal cord was diagnosed in a 3-year-old Siberian Husky.
(14) "[Cameron] wanted this to be based on substance, not just a nice picture of huskies: he was interested and engaged with the scientists," said Nussbaum, who joined WWF a year later in 2007.
(15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
(16) Additionally, sodium efflux in isotonic choline chloride was significantly (P less than 0.01) lower in erythrocytes isolated from Siberian Huskies.
(17) After a 30-minute technical session, sledders who are reasonably fit and at least 12 years old get to pilot their own team of eager huskies.
(18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
(19) Miliband claimed Cameron in the past had backed the green energy taxes, arguing Cameron should feel faintly embarrassed he had gone from "hug a husky to gas a badger" in the past five years.
(20) In five years Cameron has gone from "hug a husky to gas a badger".
Wolf
Definition:
(a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
(a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
(a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
(a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
(a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
(a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
(a.) A willying machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(2) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
(3) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
(4) Two second generation lithotripters suitable for treatments without invasive forms of the anesthesia, the modified Dornier HM 3- and the Wolf Piezolith 2,200 were compared in terms of efficacy for ureteric calculi.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(7) One female wolf had a single sinoatrial block within 1 min of receiving tolazoline HCl.
(8) McVeigh may have thought of himself as a lone wolf, but he was not one.
(9) A multicenter trial is presented involving the Siemens Lithostar, Dornier HM4, Wolf Piezolith 2300, Direx Tripter X-1 and Breakstone lithotriptor to compare the therapeutic efficacy of second generation machines.
(10) The 4(p14-pter) region was found to be the most likely crucial segment for the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
(11) In resurfacing the nose the author has used Wolfe grafts when the cartilages are not involved or a tubed flap from the arm if this is not so.
(12) One wolf had been killed and another attacked by wolves.
(13) · Daniel Wolf directed Inside the Orange Revolution, to be shown on BBC4 on Sunday at 10pm.
(14) Important experimental considerations in setting up a spot photobleaching instrument are discussed in detail in Chapter 10 by Wolf (this volume) and elsewhere (Petersen et al., 1986a).
(15) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(16) They paid a reward for killing a wolf worth a month’s salary.
(17) "They are essentially abandoning wolf recovery before the job is done," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Centre for Biological Diversity.
(18) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
(19) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
(20) "There is a saying in our language that goes 'the wolf can change its fur but doesn't change its character' so that can apply to the newly elected president," Vukcevic said.