(n.) A Chinese musical instrument, consisting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.
(n.) A chief ruler; a sovereign; one invested with supreme authority over a nation, country, or tribe, usually by hereditary succession; a monarch; a prince.
(n.) One who, or that which, holds a supreme position or rank; a chief among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.
(n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds.
(n.) The chief piece in the game of chess.
(n.) A crowned man in the game of draughts.
(n.) The title of two historical books in the Old Testament.
(v. i.) To supply with a king; to make a king of; to raise to royalty.
Example Sentences:
(1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) King Salman of Saudi Arabia urged the redoubling of efforts to “eradicate this dangerous scourge and rid the world of its evils”.
(4) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(6) Andrew Bachelor AKA King Bach (@KingBach) Andrew Bachelor.
(7) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
(8) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
(9) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(10) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(11) In a statement, a St James's Palace spokesman said: "The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest.
(12) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(13) King crabs (Family Lithodidae) are among the world's largest arthropods, having a crab-like morphology and a strongly calcified exoskeleton.
(14) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(15) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(16) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(17) The King-Denborough syndrome (KDS) is characterized by dysmorphic features, myopathy, and malignant hyperthermia (MH).
(18) Senators Ron Wyden and Angus King Tweeted their support.
(19) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
(20) Now, the position of King and Rosewell is essentially that, in the absence of the deficit reduction programme, the financial markets would lose confidence in Britain and interest rates on government debt would rise sharply.
Pharo
Definition:
(n.) A pharos; a lighthouse.
(n.) See Faro.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
(2) In his early career, Pharo said, he was sued by paedophile Jimmy Savile.
(3) The Sun journalists – crime editor Mike Sullivan, former managing editor Graham Dudman, executive editor Fergus Shanahan and newsdesk executive Chris Pharo – are not expected to return to their News International jobs until the police investigation concludes.
(4) In his last couple of months as PM he was coming down here often Freya Pharo “It shouldn’t lose any of its magic,” Hackett said, addressing concerns that the pub’s atmosphere would change with its owners.
(5) He wasn’t here as prime minister, he was just here for a drink with his family.” Pharo was interrupted in the middle of her sentence by the phone ringing again.
(6) Pharo said MacKenzie had got Wallis to fire someone he didn’t like, but his boss fired someone else.
(7) Pharo spent the first hour and a half of his testimony painting the picture of the Sun under Brooks’ predecessor Kelvin MacKenzie.
(8) I simply don’t think we’re looking at anything like the full picture,” Pharo said.
(9) Pharo had replied to the email containing the edict, by saying this would “dramatically increase my workload”.
(10) Lauder Professor Emeritus of Public Health, Mary Elizabeth Tennant, Associate Professor Emeritus of Nursing (Public Health), A. Pharo Gagge, Emeritus Fellow, John B.
(11) Pharo said Wallis later “humiliated” him by making him the subject of the paper’s Dear Deidre agony aunt column.
(12) That‘s what grates you isn’t it, that the company’s shopped you?” Pharo replied: “No, what really grates me is that the company has provided a fraction of the evidence in this case and we fitted the bill.” Wright asked him how these missing emails could exculpate him, suggesting they were a “smoke screen” in his trial.
(13) With two charges dropped, Pharo now faces four charges of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office.
(14) Pharo said “what you might get is a protracted process of her stalling on the payments”, before clarifying to the judge that in two to 3% of cases there would be “no payment at all”.
(15) They never figured out why she ended up at Cadsden,” Pharo mused.
(16) In the witness box Pharo said he had no training on the payment of public officials in the Sun over a career that has spanned more than 20 years.
(17) There was really no way of auditing it properly and it had been set up by the company to facilitate getting stories,” Pharo told jurors.
(18) Pharo, who faced three charges, was accused of knowing about both sources and a third source, a Chelsea police officer who was said to have been leaking to another Sun journalist, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
(19) Pharo replied: “That’s not true.” Pharo said this was not so.
(20) Marks also told the jury to find Pharo not guilty of a further charge, count 6, which alleged a conspiracy to pay a serving soldier in the armed forces for a tip about Sandhurst between 12 and 30 April 2006.