(1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
(2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
(3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
(4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
(5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
(6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
(7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
(8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
(9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
(10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
(11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
(12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
(13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
(14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
(15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
(16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
(17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
(18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
(19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
(20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.
Lamia
Definition:
(n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lamia Shakkour reacted angrily to reports she was stepping down in protest at attacks on civilians by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, saying the announcement was "misinformation" and "identity theft".
(2) There’s no disrespect to gays.” Meanwhile: best crackdown Greece: PAS Lamia’s Sierra Leone player John Kamara – suspended by his club on health grounds after his trip to Ebola-free Cameroon – facing sanctions for wearing a protest T-shirt reading: “We are West Africans, We are not a virus.” The FA charged him for breaching its anti-racism code, and plans to rule this week.
(3) It is important to be fair to both parties and the heritage itself.” During this year's meeting Syria’s ambassador to Unesco, Lamia Chakkour, acknowledged damage done to Aleppo, but argued against placing all six sites on the danger list.
(4) In the Lamia Plain, Greece, 12 years after the cessation of DDT spraying, Anopheles sacharovi is still present in very high densities and appears to have the same biting habits and host preferences as previously.
(5) The subfornical organ, the organon vasculosum lamia terminalis, the subcommissural organ, the area postrema all contained significant quantities of both releasing factors.