(v. t.) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
(n.) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.
(n.) To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was then a little known singer-songwriter whose career was about to take off, and in a small London studio Mumford recorded the drum track for Marling's breakthrough album, Alas I Cannot Swim .
(2) "He was a great premier in Queensland, he would make an enormous contribution to a federal Labor government," Marles said.
(3) Marles refused to state clearly what Labor’s policy would be.
(4) It is expressed quietly in the case of singer-songwriters Laura Veirs and Laura Marling, and brashly in pop with Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
(5) It is suggested that endogenous prostaglandin (PG) production (marledly reduced during EFA deficiency) may exert a negative feedback effect on collagen metabolism during proliferative inflammation.
(6) When questioned on whether Labor supported these changes, Marles said: “As a matter of principle we’ve never supported retrospective legislation … It is obviously something one seeks to avoid.” The reintroduction of TPVs would be viewed by Morrison and the Coalition as a major political victory.
(7) Labor’s immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said the party was “open to any sensible change to the Citizenship Act that improves our current system” and would carefully examine the detail to ensure ether were no unintended consequences.
(8) Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Abbott’s refusal to deny the practice had left the door wide open to the idea the government was handing wads of taxpayer’s cash to smugglers.
(9) 5.45am BST Shadow immigration minister Richard Marles is back, fishing, again, on an asylum boat.
(10) The Australian government must give a full and accurate account of what has occurred.” Labor’s immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said most Australians would be amazed if the government was creating “a situation where there is an encouragement for people smugglers to encounter Australian navy vessels so they can get an Australian taxpayer-funded cheque”.
(11) The makeup of that group would depend on the United Nations refugee agency, the shadow immigration minister, Richard Marles, said.
(12) But for obvious and good reasons, we don’t talk about operations of that agency.” The shadow immigration minister, Richard Marles, has written to federal auditor general Grant Hehir to ask if public money was used appropriately.
(13) That’s what I said on Tuesday afternoon,” he said in response to a question from Labor’s immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, about the time the minister was notified about the incorrect information.
(14) The other four panellists on Monday’s program are the Queensland Greens senator Larissa Waters, Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles, Trisha Jha from the Centre for Independent Studies and the Australian’s foreign editor, Greg Sheridan.
(15) Since that time, Marles has engaged in an extensive round of consultations in an effort to minimise open conflict at the conference.
(16) The Labor trade minister, Richard Marles, played down the decision, saying it was not remarkable for a conservative party to preference a mainstream party like Labor ahead of the Greens.
(17) Marles said the security concerns for asylum seekers and hardened criminals such as bikie gang members who have had their visas cancelled is a “different kettle of fish”.
(18) They spoke only briefly and he has heard no more.” Marles said if anybody was returned to a position of not being safe “then Australia would have squarely breached our international obligations”.
(19) I’m thankful that the Labor party has seen sense.” A spokeswoman for Marles said that the Greens amendment in the June bill was about the legality of offshore processing and “had nothing to do with mandatory reporting or conditions”.
(20) The government’s policies are forcing brave Australian men and women to risk their lives on the high seas but they are stubbornly refusing to tell the public anything about it.” The opposition immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said the public should be “gravely concerned” about the attempts to stop the flow of information about asylum-seeker operations.
Sandy
Definition:
(superl.) Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
(superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(2) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
(3) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
(4) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(5) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
(6) A man who had been near them reached the hotel terrace first, scrambling up a steep sandy bank.
(7) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
(8) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
(9) This is why we have seen these horrible events [like typhoon Haiyan and hurricane Sandy] in the past few years, with many people affected.
(10) But the president’s big push for stricter gun control laws after the Sandy Hook shooting failed to get those 60 Senate votes necessary, after strong opposition from the NRA and other gun rights groups.
(11) Adult, male rats were gavaged with an aqueous suspension of 14C-toluene in the presence or absence of either an Atsion (sandy soil) or a Keyport soil (clay soil).
(12) Shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre he assigned vice president Joe Biden to lead a task force looking at new legislation.
(13) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(14) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(15) I don’t know if it’s true.” She began to lose hope as she criss-crossed the sandy forest paths.
(16) In the three months since the 14 December shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA has been lobbying vociferously against President Obama's attempt to tighten gun controls.
(17) But the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families are not arguing that the single transaction was handled negligently.
(18) Congress almost acted in April 2013 in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in which Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adults, a moment when voters wanted gun control more than at any point since the Columbine shooting of 1999.
(19) Climate change is making these sorts of storms more common, much as it is making Sandy-like superstorms and unusually intense hurricanes more common.” Those storms were not created by climate change, Mann said.
(20) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.