(1) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
(2) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
(3) There’s a report of smoke in the forward lavatory [and] a minute later there’s smoke in the avionics bay, which is very worrying; and then two minutes later the flight control computers, one after the other, start to fail,” Learmount told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
(4) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(5) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(6) If neither of these sounds enough of an incentive to ditch your lavatory for one with its own Twitter account, you may be in the minority: a recent survey suggested that 70% of people would be willing to share data from their lavatory if this could lead to healthcare savings.
(7) Clearly, the fact that some mainstream viewers want something doesn't mean they should be given it – or EPGs would offer a network called Lavatory – and it can be argued that the current two-track coverage offers a choice to both viewers who want to be protected and those who want unregulated images.
(8) And I ran to the lavatory, and cried and howled – 'Why?
(9) Perhaps more intrusive is the idea of an Internet of Things-enabled lavatory, which uses sensors inside the bowl to sample your stool and provide health-related insights.
(10) When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes.
(11) My daughter will be at the new germ-free Glasto with 40 volunteer litter pickers, screening a new documentary to raise money for children living on distant rubbish tips , so that they may have clean clothes, schools and lovely hygienic lavatories, which they also long for.
(12) In a three-urinal lavatory, a confederate stood immediately adjacent to a subject, one urinal removed, or was absent.
(13) But most people shrugged and got on with finding bricks to put in the lavatory cistern or measuring the bathwater to the five inches recommended by civil servants in Whitehall.
(14) At least the lavatory is out on the landing, although shared with another resident.
(15) Lewis had been the brains behind the “love your body” advertising campaign for Unilever’s Dove soap brand and ran other successful marketing programmes for the household goods group around the world — including one that forced rival Proctor & Gamble to pull Ariel out of parts of South America because the name became synonymous with lavatory seats.
(16) Those who were too ill to work were thrown overboard, some interviewees reported, while others said they were beaten if they so much as took a lavatory break.
(17) Although 90% of respondents felt that condoms were readily available, sales in supermarkets, newspaper stands, and vending machines in women's lavatories were recommended.
(18) As its name and flat roofs and metal-framed windows suggest, the New Era estate also dates from that time; it was built by a philanthropist to give its working-class tenants the benefit of electricity, baths, indoor lavatories and hot running water.
(19) It was a little reminiscent of that scene in The Godfather when Al Pacino leaves a "mediation" meeting with his father's would-be killers to go to the lavatory in an Italian restaurant in New York chosen for peace talks aimed at averting an all out war.
(20) This is true for 26% of the waiting rooms, 20% of the elevators, 30% of the passages and 46% of the lavatories.
Sink
Definition:
(v. i.) To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
(v. i.) To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
(v. i.) Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
(v. i.) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease.
(v. i.) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
(v. t.) To cause to sink; to put under water; to immerse or submerge in a fluid; as, to sink a ship.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To cause to decline; to depress; to degrade; hence, to ruin irretrievably; to destroy, as by drowping; as, to sink one's reputation.
(v. t.) To make (a depression) by digging, delving, or cutting, etc.; as, to sink a pit or a well; to sink a die.
(v. t.) To bring low; to reduce in quantity; to waste.
(v. t.) To conseal and appropriate.
(v. t.) To keep out of sight; to suppress; to ignore.
(v. t.) To reduce or extinguish by payment; as, to sink the national debt.
(n.) A drain to carry off filthy water; a jakes.
(n.) A shallow box or vessel of wood, stone, iron, or other material, connected with a drain, and used for receiving filthy water, etc., as in a kitchen.
(n.) A hole or low place in land or rock, where waters sink and are lost; -- called also sink hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(3) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
(4) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
(5) Milk poured from higher (5-10cm above the cup) will sink beneath the surface.
(6) The chylomicrons in particular, become separated from the VLDL, the sinking pre-beta-lipoprotein or Lp (a) was identifiable and the type III hyperlipemia was easily diagnosed.
(7) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
(8) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(9) In women, but not in men, there was a rise in the risk of falling from 45 years, peaking in the 55-59 year age group, and sinking to a nadir at ages 70-74.
(10) 81% of all sinks were contaminated with P. aeruginosa strains.
(11) During the early part of the experiments, when the sink condition was maintained, FAH was the most effective for hairless mouse skin, whereas Azone showed the highest effect in the rat skin.
(12) Opening of water taps generated aerosols containing P. aeruginosa sink organisms which contaminated hands during hand washing.
(13) Rats were classified into sinking and non-sinking groups, according to the appearance of sinking behavior over a 2 hr test.
(14) The laminar pattern of current sources and sinks coincident with this component was more complicated after bicuculline, reflecting the summation of current flows associated with disinhibited lamina 4 activity.
(15) But the reality of it began to sink in, and when I met with Kathy Kennedy [the Lucasfilm president and Star Wars executive producer], my gut said this is not something to reject.
(16) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(17) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(18) But it has been overwhelmed by the story of the sinking of the Sewol.
(19) Since biogenic particulate products, especially fecal pellets, are known to sink rapidly and intact to the ocean bottom, the transport of PCB's by such sinking particles could be an important mechanism which contributes to the penetration of PCB's into the deep sea.
(20) The receptor component had a current source in the outer segments (90% depth) and a sink in the ONL (70% depth).