(1) I ate mohinga, a catfish soup with rice vermicelli, lemongrass, chilli and lime, for breakfast in the market the next day for about 15p, swerved past the stinking vats of ngapi, a potent fish paste, and bought bein moun, pancakes smeared with jaggery syrup, for my ferry ride.
(2) Moun, a 27-year-old undocumented labourer who has spent the past seven years working in the construction and seafood industries in and around Bangkok, said he decided to flee after his friends warned him he was in danger.
Mown
Definition:
() of Mow
(p. p. & a.) Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) In two grazing experiments carried out in 1982 and 1983 the prophylactic effect on gastro-intestinal helminthiasis of a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after turnout was studied in animals which were turned out early on contaminated pasture and in calves which were turned out late on mown pasture.
(3) After thorough cleaning and decontamination of fecings and cages and burning of the mown grass during the period from August 1971 to April 1972, the park was repopulated with deer free from tuberculosis.
(4) Quickly the lights went on and different witnesses described the clear ripple effect of the crowd – “like a gust of wind through wheat” – as people were mown down by gunfire and rows of people dropped to the ground.
(5) And then the car just carried on up the bridge and I just looked around and was really in shock.” Radosław Sikorski, a former Polish foreign minister, saw at least five people lying on the ground after being “mown down” by a car.
(6) West Wittering, West Sussex The approach to these sands is through gorgeous, open Sussex countrysid and there are acres of neatly mown grass where visitors can park before heading for the beach – all 54 acres of it.
(7) Doing the same job, his grandmother had been mown down by automatic gunfire and his father blown to pieces by a suicide bomber in separate incidents with separate causes, seven years apart.
(8) (It took another three years for the United States to catch up, when an unfortunate pensioner was mown down by a horseless taxicab in New York .)
(9) A study was undertaken to ascertain the prophylactic effect on gastrointestinal helminthiasis of (1) a single ivermectin treatment of calves 3 weeks after a late turnout on mown pasture and (2) two ivermectin treatments of calves 3 and 8 weeks after an early turnout.
(10) Any who pause to suggest some plans might be good for patients will be mown down in the stampede.
(11) Late turnout on mown pasture without anthelmintic treatment was not enough to prevent heavy infections.
(12) In an appendix catches of four spore types by the Hirst and Burkard (field model) spore traps operating over mown grass were compared.
(13) Yet the four clips released by CBS did not back up O’Reilly’s repeated claims in recent years that Argentinian forces had mown down protesters with live ammunition, and that O’Reilly himself had seen several demonstrators being shot and killed.
(14) They don't have to grow crops or keep animals on the land to get their money, but they do have to keep it mown.
(15) Productivity of the strain when inoculating the medium with the aerial-dry inoculum was studied as compared to the inoculation by the inoculum taken from the mown agar.
(16) There were shouts of “Murderers!” and “Resign!” as Valls and two other ministers left the seafront, where a huge crowd gathered to remember the 84 people mown down by the truck driver, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
(17) The single ivermectin treatment after a late turnout on mown pasture appeared to be an effective control measure for infections of Cooperia and, in particular, Ostertagia.
(18) Those who live in crowded flats, surrounded by concrete, mown grass and other people’s property, cannot escape their captivity without breaking the law.
(19) Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian Perhaps I was seeing things through Inoki’s eyes or maybe it was simply spring, with the waft of freshly mown grass and cherry blossom on the breeze, but I began to marvel at the grace of CMK’s broad boulevards.
(20) Then, in 2008, diggers were savaged by police dogs, mown down by helicopter machine guns or buried alive.