(1) He set about interviewing the crossing-sweepers, Punch and Judy entertainers, sandwich-sellers, rag-gatherers, rat-killers, doll's-eye makers, thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and all the other pieces of human flotsam and jetsam that had washed up in the capital.
(2) For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain.
(3) Everybody knows that we shall not be detaining the Saudi paymasters of terror for 42 days; just as happened under internment, we shall be scraping up the flotsam and jetsam of communities.
(4) Even the agency admits, though, that there is much more work to do before everyone agrees with the judges at the International River Foundation , especially on the Thames's many urban and suburban tributaries – some of which still flow spasmodically through concrete pipes or over shopping trolleys and other modern jetsam.
(5) Beachcombers began to pick their way through the flotsam and jetsam thrown on to the shore.
(6) When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.
(7) It’s one thing to spill your guts in your own book, but another to do so among the Z-list flotsam and jetsam in the CBB house.
Lagan
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Ligan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Southern blot analysis indicated that both lagans appeared twice within the cow haploid genome, with the second copies lying outside the cow beta-globin locus.
(2) The Lagan Valley MP said: “We really do not want to see the institutions placed under threat, but I think that if Sinn Féin block the welfare reform bill that has massive consequences for the politics of Northern Ireland.
(3) One lagan was found 3' to the fetal globin gene, while the second lay between the adult globin gene and a globin pseudogene.
(4) The DUP MP for Lagan Valley, Jeffrey Donaldson, said on Thursday his party was preparing a motion to suspend Sinn Féin in government over claims republicans had broken promises that the PIRA had disbanded as a paramilitary force.
(5) Stage one: Belfast, 21.7km team time trial The place that launched one of the world's biggest ships is the starting point for the world's second biggest bike race next Friday at 5.45pm, with a team time trial starting in the Titanic Quarter before heading out along the Newtownards Road, climbing the one-mile hill to Stormont, before coming back along the Stranmillis Embankment by the River Lagan and ending at City Hall in Donegall Place.
(6) But the DUP negotiator and Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said he hoped a deal could be secured by Monday night.
(7) The lagan 3' to the cow fetal globin gene contains the recognition site for a sequence specific DNA binding factor.
(8) Coire Lagan Photograph: Alamy Distance 5 ½ miles Start Glenbrittle, grid ref: NG408206 Further information and maps Coire Lagan is the perfect introduction to the Cuillin – Skye's alpine-like mountain range of jagged peaks.
(9) On the serum of 3790 patients (2131 women and 1659 male), aged from 3 days to 84 years, the RAC has been performed at the same time with the Mc Lagan's Kunkel's and Takata's reactions.
(10) It is a far cry from even a decade ago, when the eastern bank of the Lagan was an industrial graveyard with rusting cranes, empty warehouses and acres of desolate open spaces.
(11) The Lagan Valley MP said: "We have made it clear all along that these letters were unacceptable and called on the secretary of state to rescind them.
(12) The DUP MP for Lagan Valley, Jeffrey Donaldson, confirmed on Sunday that Bell has been suspended from the party over his allegations.
(13) One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia.” The largest gay rights group in the region, the Rainbow Project, confirmed on Wednesday that they will be demonstrating outside the awards ceremony, which this year is being staged at Belfast’s SSE Arena on the banks of the river Lagan.
(14) The MP for Lagan Valley told parliament that if extra money was only directed to legacy inquests into killings carried out by the security forces during the Troubles, and none was allocated to the police’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET), then the DUP would oppose it.
(15) Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism.
(16) Questions were raised over the policing of Saturday's march, particularly regarding the decision to route the loyalists back into east Belfast via the Albert bridge over the river Lagan.
(17) Kenneth Tynan was not the first person to use the F-word on television : that was either Brendan Behan on Panorama in 1956 (although no one could understand him because he was drunk) or the man who painted the railings on Stranmillis Embankment alongside the river Lagan in Belfast, who in 1959 told Ulster TV's teatime magazine programme, Roundabout , that his job was "fucking boring".
(18) Step by step 1 From the car park, follow the Lagan riverbank path upstream.
(19) Across the river Lagan, PSNI riot police backed by up English, Welsh and Scottish colleagues also had to quell rioting in east Belfast after trouble broke out when loyalists there returned from the main Orange demonstration.
(20) Each was a composite, consisting of closely linked Alu-type repeats with a short stretch of genomic non-repetitive sequence, called a lagan, sandwiched between.