(n.) A metallic vessel, with a wide mouth, often without a cover, used for heating and boiling water or other liguids.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) :-D "Apparently there were 11-12 year olds still being held in the kettle when they finally let Kathy (15) out.
(3) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(4) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.
(5) The water aerosol inhalation therapy was prescribed for respiratory tract infection and carried out at home using either an electric kettle or a saucepan.
(6) And that’s just how Theresa May likes it | Martin Kettle Read more Russia was the guarantor of a 2013 deal under which Syria would remove all chemical weapons.
(7) Dismore questioned the tactic of containing schoolchildren within a "kettle", an area enclosed by police, and said Stephenson should resist using language that could inflame unrest.
(8) I have to be careful handling things like boiling kettles."
(9) The Met denied it had intended to kettle protesters, despite evidence of metal barriers and rows of officers waiting along Whitehall.
(10) "Today's nationalist focus is all about defending the sense – and to some extent the reality – that Scotland is the last bastion of the 1945 welfare state nation," my colleague Martin Kettle says in the Guardian today.
(11) 7.56pm: This just in from Matthew Taylor: Matthew Taylor Photograph: Guardian Apparently, students in Whitehall told they could be kettled until midnight.
(12) The poll was taken up in the Guardian by Martin Kettle on Thursday.
(13) The most popular items bought online were TV and audio equipment, laptops and games items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners.
(14) 3.36pm: Tom Chambers has sent this photo, taken by Simon Richardson, of the police van that was stranded in the middle of the kettle of protesters in central London.
(15) They have not increased our security at home – rather the opposite – and they have caused destabilisation and devastation abroad.” The problem with Labour’s manifesto isn’t the ideas, it’s the credibility | Martin Kettle Read more The former cabinet minister Peter Hain, who served in the Foreign Office with Cook, said he backed the foreign policy rethink in the draft manifesto, especially policies on arms sales.
(16) The simultaneous sound of kettles boiling and computers booting herald the start of the day.
(17) She never fills the kettle with any more than she needs, long ago turned down the washing machine cycle from 60C to 30C, and the whole family have switched from baths to showers, so using less water.
(18) Speaking at New Scotland Yard today, where protesters were expected to attempt to "kettle" police later, he said the inquiry could take months to complete.
(19) The Delabole windfarm marked its 25th anniversary in December, having produced enough power to boil 3.4bn kettles since the blades began spinning.
(20) On a wooden table, a metal kettle stood surrounded by rags and pamphlets.
Sinkhole
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The new trend, of course, is for bedsits to be rebranded as studio flats, but there are still these genuine 60s sinkholes dotted about, idly refusing to update, reminding us of a time when to move into this box of self-sufficiency was a truly liberating opportunity, especially for women.
(2) The beautiful ride leaves you happy you didn't fall into any sinkhole, happy the lion no one told you about was busy on a gazelle and you didn't get caught on the way back by a friendly act of spontaneous local taxation on the road back.
(3) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
(4) Dramatic sinkholes , such as the recent one in Japan , are not always caused by underground mining – but Paris’s subterranean history certainly makes it more vulnerable to such events.
(5) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(6) The saga has also turned into a domestic political sinkhole.
(7) An intriguing hint is floated in Downloaded that Napster was not only a sinkhole for investors' cash; it only ever generated proper revenue by selling T-shirts.
(8) His verdict on Microsoft's Bing search engine was clearer: it was "a sinkhole", he said.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sinkholes and landslides follow flooding in France and Germany.
(10) Paul Flynn MP tweeted: “Treasury confirm likely Brexit yawning financial sinkhole ahead in which UK economy could fall in a tailspin of slump.” George Osborne, the former chancellor who oversaw the preparation of the April figures, made the case for the UK to maintain the “closest possible economic relationship” with its former EU partners after Brexit.
(11) A 20-yr-old trained sports diver developed severe chest pain shortly after decompressing from a 40 m repetitive freshwater sinkhole dive, and died 6 h later.
(12) A large sinkhole opens up under the tracks at Forest Hill causing cancellation of all trains from London Bridge.
(13) While the last cataclysm dates back to 1961, when 22 people died in the collapse of a whole neighbourhood on Paris’s outskirts, the IGC still makes more than 70 interventions each year on incidents such as collapsing houses, or roads disappearing into sinkholes.
(14) Oerting told The Guardian the entire GOZ's operations infrastructure had been sinkholed, meaning the malware should “not reappear for … considerable time”.
(15) Random events such as breakdowns, flooding and sinkholes have also struck the luckless Southern , and with resources stretched to the limit and staff goodwill broken down, the knock-on effects of such incidents can be more extreme.
(16) Today’s board of reasons for delays are overrunning engineering works, amended timetable, sinkhole, and issues at Lewisham.
(17) Greater Manchester police have been given extra funding from the Home Office to police Sunday’s event, which is expected to bring the city – already gridlocked due to tram works, a sinkhole on the Mancunian Way flyover and many conference-related road closures – to a standstill.
(18) Behind the scenes, the law enforcement groups have been taking over points of control in GOZ's peer-to-peer network: an action known as "sinkholing" in the security world.
(19) Would our Congress be less of a sinkhole and more of a patchwork?
(20) Slow to get us out of the sinkhole of Afghanistan, at least Obama hasn’t involved the country in yet another all‑out war, whatever you may think of inaction in the sinkhole of Syria – and sometimes what’s most important is what a president didn’t do.