(n. pl.) A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(2) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
(3) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(5) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(6) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(7) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
(8) Although there have been studies of both Dutch colonial policy in the Indies and the development of anthropology in the Netherlands, there has been no systematic examination of the historical relations between them.
(9) Made by Neal Street Productions, the indie Harris founded almost a decade ago with her childhood friend Sam Mendes and former Donmar Warehouse executive producer Caro Newling, the films have attracted widespread praise for their ambition and quality .
(10) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
(11) Updated at 11.00am BST 10.46am BST This chart, from the Indie's Ben Chu, makes the same point: Ben Chu (@BenChu_) Manufacturing output up for third consecutive month in Feb.
(12) The data obtained suggested that the 'Indis' translocation has homo(eo)logy to the Lr19 translocation and homoeology to 7DL of common wheat.
(13) On tour, meanwhile, the band have supported some true indie gentry: Thurston Moore, the Breeders, Stephen Malkmus.
(14) He is keen to deny two rumours - that the Indy may follow the lead of some US titles and go online only, or that it could go free.
(15) When notoriously snooty indie website Pitchfork reviewed True Romance, it gave it an 8.3, which is significant of the coolster demographic she reaches across the Atlantic.
(16) Obligatory indie section is obligatory Yeah, but there was some good stuff in Microsoft's blipvert run-through of indie titles – all coming to the console courtesy of the ID@Xbox programme, which seeks to help smaller studios make and distribute games on the platform.
(17) Smaller, independent players are like indie record labels, fleet of foot [compared] to the major companies and essential for discovering new talent."
(18) Probably not, but it seemed like an admission from Van Gaal that his defence felt inadequate, and his half-time removal of Bruno Martins Indi furthered the impression.
(19) Industry site Digital Music News published YouTube's contract sent to indie labels.
(20) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
Undies
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Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, efforts to keep Microsoft at the cutting edge of the digital age have not always inspired the undying love of Microsoft shareholders.
(2) Both dyed and undyed sutures were consistently better than surgical gut with respect to pliability, strength, ease of passage, ease of tying, fraying, knot security, and overall handling.
(3) Wild Words of Sport (@WWofSport) @Simon_Burnton Nadal, with his caveman grunting, his undie-picking, is a visceral beast.
(4) No, I’m really not pleased to see you The Thunderwear holster … all the comfort of having a gun in your undies.
(5) For Max Hastings, as for Gove, the looming threat of a German Europe justified Britain's cause in the first world war and gives undying lustre to our boys' sacrifice in the trenches.
(6) In Bowman's layer and the adjacent stroma, there was often an abrupt transition from fluorescent to new, undyed connective tissue.
(7) The ones who turn up at your conferences, sit on your councils and vote undying resistance to anything the Department of Health – under any government, Labour or coalition – proposes.
(8) I don't believe I've ever owned a pair of red undies, let alone worn any.
(9) Pink undies drying in the cell of a teenager in a dirty prison, feminine and delicate like those of my teenage nieces.
(10) This study evaluates the biocompatibility of dyed and undyed transparent PMMA lens haptics.
(11) His decisive break with Christianity and subsequent undying fealty to the Islamic empire clearly then occurred at the White House Easter prayer breakfast, where he welcomed the esteemed guests as his " brothers and sisters in Christ ".
(12) Even Gerard Butler, who at one point seemed primed to take over from Bruce Willis as Hollywood's go-to tough guy, has found it easier to make a name for himself outside the action genre, in the undyingly star-focused world of romantic comedy.
(13) At the risk of a deluge of emails, I'd even contend that the Quo's undying popularity shines penetrating light on our national character.
(14) I’m an activist, not an alpha male, and I place myself under the orders of the majority.” Members of his close-knit team of 60 people, who have mostly worked out of cramped offices with curling carpets and broken doorbells, often profess undying loyalty.
(15) Orwell, to his undying credit, realised that the enemy was totalitarianism in its totality.
(16) The classic thing: the last refuge of the undying romantic.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Perry’s World Leaders Attend The Marriage Of Alan Measles And Claire Perry, 2009.
(17) Swiss textile giant Schoeller has developed a fabric that administers drugs to the surface of your skin over time, and thinks the best place to put it is in your undies – as those are the garments you’re least likely to forget to put on.
(18) Friends are, in fact only too eager to point out Drake’s undying enthusiasm for most things, principally music, during his two years at Cambridge, his own musical progress being most spirited.
(19) It was found that non-target cells (red rhodamine fluorescence) segregated from the undyed target cells, forming discrete areas containing the two cell types.
(20) They come to worship at the Goddess of Fire temple, where a flame of natural gas flickers undyingly next to a stream of water.