(n.) A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.
(n.) A familiar name of the European wren.
(n.) A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used in factories.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(2) Baroness Jenny Tonge, president of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), said the Cairo agreement was akin to a "Copernicus revolution".
(3) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(4) Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys [Official Music Video] Oh boy!
(5) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
(6) Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music.
(7) Jenny Jones calls for IPCC to investigate alleged destruction of her police files Read more On Wednesday the IPCC also announced that it was examining claims that the same intelligence unit had improperly destroyed files it held on the Green party peer, Jenny Jones .
(8) So I wrote this everyday story about Jenny living with her father - and stepfather.
(9) According to Jenny, he argued that she should not waste her life on the run, constantly looking over her shoulder, and that she deserved better – a rewarding career and a family.
(10) Jenny Banks, climate and energy policy officer at WWF-UK, called on the British government to halt shale gas exploration.
(11) "A dear friend, and Sweden's foremost foreign correspondent, was gunned down in Kabul today," said Swedish columnist Jenny Nordberg.
(12) The US diet phenomenon Jenny Craig was bought by Swiss multinational Nestlé, which also sells chocolate and ice-cream.
(13) Experimental work has established that a sexual process can occur in African trypanosomes (Jenni, Marti, Schweizer, Betschart, Le Page, Wells, Tait, Paindavoine, Pays & Steinert, 1986; Paindavoine, Zampetti-Bosseler, Pays, Schweizer, Guyaux, Jenni & Steinert, 1986; Tait, personal communication).
(14) Jenny Peachey is a policy officer for Carnegie UK Trust • Want your say?
(15) The BBC has cast the 26-year-old stage actress Jessica Raine in the lead role of Jenny in the new six-part series.
(16) Team GB Britain’s Jenny Jones starts with a score of 73.00 in her first run.
(17) The Sochi Games have proved a big hit for BBC2 , beating ITV in the ratings for two days running over the weekend, but viewers were unhappy about the coverage of Jenny Jones's Olympic bronze medal success in the snowboarding slopestyle final on Sunday.
(18) Jennie Gray was sentenced to 42 months in jail for child cruelty and for her part in the cover-up, while Butler was also handed a five-year sentence for child cruelty over a series of untreated injuries in the weeks and months before her death.
(19) Jenny Agutter, actor I was reluctant to accept the role of Roberta because I'd played her two years earlier in a BBC series, and had since left school.
(20) Several years ago Wellingborough and surrounding towns resisted the local development agency's bid to rebrand it North Londonshire but local estate agent Jenny Pendered said she made the most of its good transport links when marketing properties.
Penny
Definition:
(a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
(n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
(n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
(n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
(n.) See Denarius.
(a.) Worth or costing one penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
(3) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(4) The penny that has not yet dropped with most of us is that we have arrived at a make-or-break moment: if we are to have any real chance of avoiding dangerous warming, the scientists now agree, global emissions must peak within the next five to 10 years and then begin to fall.
(5) Instead, we are investing massively in our UK network, (more than £1bnthis year alone) and creating hundreds of new UK jobs as every penny of our UK profit is invested back into our UK business.
(6) Thus did the president's brother become the third biggest shareholder in the country's biggest bank without spending a penny of his own money.
(7) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(8) "In ocean races in sailing a handicap prize is awarded as well as a line honours prize to recognise sailing skill rather than simply the newest and most expensive boat," writes Benjamin Penny.
(9) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
(10) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(11) The 10,000-sq ft gatehouse has a 12-seat cinema and staff quarters, and sits opposite the home of the current commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
(12) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(13) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
(14) Labor’s Senate leader, Penny Wong, argued it was up to the Senate to act because of the failure of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to act.
(15) Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, said there was a "moral imperative" to tackle world poverty which is "firmly in Britain's national interest as he pledged to spend "every penny" of overseas aid effectively (2.13pm).
(16) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
(17) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
(18) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
(19) Although I sent several reminders, I never saw a penny or heard from him again.
(20) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.