(n.) Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Example Sentences:
(1) After formation of a cell lawn and addition of cytostatics of the arbitrarily selected medicaments vinblastin, bleomycin, cis-DDP, actinomycin D the reaction of the cells on the drugs was judged light-microscopically and electrophysiologically by measuring the transmembrane potential 24 hours after the application of medicaments.
(2) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(3) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(4) One day in 2010 we were out on the lawn when suddenly it was as if a tower block was obscuring our view.
(5) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(6) You will come out on the North Lawn with Speke Hall on your right – a beautiful view whatever the season.
(7) Persons at high risk for infection, such as outdoor workers, campers and hikers, suburbanites with lawns to cut, and pregnant women exposed to potentially infected Ixodes ticks, are clamouring for some means of protection beyond simple behaviour modification and tick avoidance which are known not always to work.
(8) They flew back late Tuesday night ahead of a formal welcome on Wednesday morning with a 19-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House, the grandest reception for any world leader in Washington this year.
(9) A giant inflatable doll with the face of Shaker Aamer , the last British resident held at Guantánamo who returned to the UK last October after 14 years’ incarceration, was displayed not far from the White House fence and front lawn.
(10) Other hobbies included watching husbands die, remarrying on the Southfork ranch lawn, and being played by a different actor for a season.
(11) Exactly 20 years have passed since the Oslo accords were signed on the White House lawn.
(12) Then she married, had two more children, moved to Hawaii and lead a regular life working in real estate, punctuated by paparazzi camping out on her lawn whenever Polanski made a move.
(13) An alternative method is to replicate patches of different mutant strains (100 per plate) onto Hfr lawns; in this case more than 1,000 different mutants can be mapped in a single experiment in a few days.
(14) Vibrio cholerae cells, infected with the sex factor P, produce discrete, plaque-like clearings when plated on lawns of P(-) cells.
(15) Virginia congressman Gerry Connolly briefly pushed back at Republican suggestions that secret service agents always ought to use lethal force in such situations, saying “the idea we have a shoot out on the White House lawn ought to be a last resort not a first resort”.
(16) Outside, through the window, the sun is shining and a lawn mower slowly traces lines on the training pitch named after Tito Vilanova.
(17) My whole lawn was nothing but Clinton yard signs” during the election, she said.
(18) Spirochete prevalence in ticks did not differ among lawn types or at different distances from the woods.
(19) He would bring back a gondolier's rowlock from Venice; he would haul hollowed logs or curious roots out of the river to lie on the lawn; he would explain the workings of the Japanese deer-scarer or he would arrange single branches of leaves or flowers, Japanese style, the better to admire the colour of the stems, the shape of the leaves, the streaks in the bark.
(20) Serious injuries secondary to lawn darts have not been reported.
Sawn
Definition:
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Example Sentences:
(1) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(2) Radiological findings on sawn sections and macroscopical and histological analysis of the retropatellar surface give evidence of osteoarthritic alterations and inflammation.
(3) The long bone ends of foals with infectious disease were sawn into sagittal slabs, washed and inspected.
(4) His wife, still recovering from the car "accident", tried to fight Seddon when he produced the sawn-off shotgun.
(5) The bone samples were embedded in methylmetacrylate and sawn in 400 microns thick sections with an arbitrary rotation but a fixed vertical axis.
(6) His hair, once memorably described as "a bit of an event", soars upwards in a sort of sawn-off pompadour.
(7) The African elephant, whose left tusk was sawn off, was a gift from a Portuguese king to Louis XIV in 1668.
(8) Afterwards, these jaws were sawn, and the real values were measured.
(9) When Scotsman Harry Stanley was killed by police in the same year after leaving a London pub carrying a table leg and being mistaken for an Irishman with a sawn-off shotgun he was demonised as a feckless drunk.
(10) You have done so by the barbaric act of shooting them at point-blank range with a sawn-off shotgun."
(11) As far as Bingham was concerned, wrote le Carré in the introduction, he was "a literary defector who had dragged the good name of the service through the mud", who had "supped at King Arthur's table, then sawn its legs off", and it was "no good my protesting I was engaged in a literary conceit".
(12) Therapeutically the procedure described by LADD is the best torsion prophylaxis; the ascending colon is sawn to the descending colon.
(13) In sixteen cases the claw was amputated under the coronet and in the remaining sixteen cases the claw was sawn off above the coronet, through the second phalanx.
(14) After polymerization the embedded filter was sawn into small blocks and the cell layer was sectioned tangentially on an ultramicrotome.
(15) No effect on low level of gamma-globulins and lymphatic displasia was found as sawn in an intestinal biopsy performed after three months of treatment.
(16) Some wore quilted affairs like sawn-off dressing gowns.
(17) Sixteen hours after he first drew a sawn-off shotgun from a bag and ordered the cafe closed, police stormed the building to end the standoff, Monis killed cafe manager Tori Johnson , and Monis and barrister Katrina Dawson were left dead following the gunfight.
(18) Since December we have been heating our home with a wood-burning stove using reclaimed materials - and if the bits are too large to go in, they have to be sawn in half.
(19) You obtained a sawn-off shotgun from criminal associates.
(20) The three men then drove all four victims, including the baby, to a remote area, where Lockett shot Neiman with a sawn-off shotgun after she refused to say she would not report them to police.