(1) The 28-year-old was having a drink with a friend outside the Draft House pub at the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street when he heard the sound of a moped crashing.
(2) In a one year prospective investigation, the circumstances and sequelae of 75 moped accidents were registered.
(3) Fatal and severe injury crashes for scooters and mopeds in California for 1985 were compared with those for motorcycles during the same year.
(4) More than once he found himself half-wishing that Emadeddin would fall off his moped and solve everyone's problems.
(5) A gang of six men on three mopeds pulled up outside the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, central London, in the early hours of Thursday morning and three of them smashed their way through the front door and broke into display cabinets.
(6) Scott W fumes: "In these circumstances, playing Mascherano in midfield is like wearing a suit of full-plate armour on a moped.
(7) Two other patients sustained thigh deformities after a moped and a skiing accident, respectively, and were operated on under general anesthesia.
(8) When you carry on moping, and whining like Charlie Brown after listening to the whole Smiths catalog at every single club you've played, it's hard to believe Tristelme was ever destined for true greatness.
(9) The number of those injured in motorcycle accidents tripled; the number of moped accident victims slightly decreased in the period studied.
(10) In a consecutive series of 132 motorcycle and moped riders killed in 1977-1983 in southern Sweden and examined post mortem, almost half of the fatal injuries of the head and neck occurred remote from the point of impact, namely certain intracranial injuries without fractures, ring fractures of the base of the skull, disruption of the junction of the head and neck and injuries of the cervical spine.
(11) Moments later, the moped also crashed into a parked car and the two men fell off.
(12) A further 27 were riding a "powered two-wheeler" (motorbikes, moped, scooters), 19 were in cars, 14 were cyclists and the remainder were in a taxi, bus or coach, or heavy goods vehicle.
(13) If acting had not worked out, Hepburn would never have moped.
(14) Julie, Grayson tells us, was born in Canvey Island in 1953, and was raised in social housing, moving upwards and outwards in more ways than one before her eventual death, run over by a pizza-delivery moped.
(15) It would be no surprise to Roux watchers if he 'leaked' the story of Boli's moped himself.
(16) He was hit 11 times before his assailants escaped on a moped.
(17) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
(18) In this paper we describe a case, where a healthy 35-year-old man developed a lethal myocardial infarction 8 days after a chest trauma caused by a moped.
(19) MOPED establishes the patterns of synthesis of a large number of polypeptides during a crucial period of development.
(20) I was very surprised, but it stopped me moping at home.
Toping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tope
Example Sentences:
(1) Chair of the judges Gus Casely-Hayford praised the story, saying: "Tope Folarin's 'Miracle' is another superb Caine prize winner – a delightful and beautifully-paced narrative, that is exquisitely observed and utterly compelling."
(2) Previous winners include Nigeria’s Tope Folarin in 2013 and Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo in 2011.
(3) In 1987 the tope 1 percent of spenders accounted for 30 percent of health spending, up from 26 percent in 1970 and 29 percent in 1980.
(4) "Our doctors are worried about the danger it poses to their lives and the need to be reassured," said Tope Ojo, Lagos chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association.
(5) Nigerian writer Tope Folarin has scooped the Caine Prize for African Writing for his "utterly compelling" short story Miracle [PDF], set among Nigerian expatriates living in the US.