(a.) Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Peaty wins Great Britain’s first gold of Rio 2016 Andy Murray skipped through his opening round with a straight-sets (6-3, 6-2) win over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki .
(2) It concluded a busy first day in the pool for British swimmers, with Adam Peaty breaking his own world record in the heats of the 100m breaststroke.
(3) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(4) When I close my eyes and think of home, it’s the peaty smell of the monsoon, the harsh light of the equatorial sun, the clashing sounds of the capital city, Dhaka, that come to mind.
(5) The world record is nothing without Olympic gold.” Peaty and Murdoch were the only swimmers to get automatic qualification times for the World Championships.
(6) No one is saying Peaty is anything other than a magnificent advert for British swimming as he blitzes the rest of the breaststroking world.
(7) Together that’s made a pretty exciting team.” It has certainly started well and looks set to get even better, just as Peaty’s barber suggested it would: “I was pretty nervous about Olympic qualification until I was chatting to my barber one day and he said: ‘You’re a world record holder.
(8) Adam Peaty took a sledgehammer to the 100m breaststroke world record at the British championships on Friday night as he became the first man to break 58 seconds .
(9) But Adam Peaty is a different story – here, making his Olympic bow, he broke his own 100m breaststroke world record in the heats and must now be considered the overwhelming favourite to win gold in Sunday’s final.
(10) It did feel faster than the first 50 and I soon tied up but that is where more training is going to help me go faster.” Peaty, however, is nothing if not grounded and looked ahead to the World Championships, and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next year.
(11) And environmentalists are worried that the expansion of cornfields will dry out peaty soils, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, and be harmful for biological diversity.
(12) Guy freely admits Saturday’s final did not go as planned but is still hoping to channel his inner Peaty.
(13) Peaty is already a world, Commonwealth and European champion and could be on course to leave all kinds of former greats – Moorhouse, Duncan Goodhew, David Wilkie – in his wake.
(14) As Spice concedes the most fancied swimmers do not always win gold, even if Peaty does now look odds on to do so.
(15) The peaty material is mostly matted with decomposed plant fibres.
(16) On Friday, his mother and grandmother were among supporters in the stands to see Peaty claim his second title of the week.
(17) Life time of Listeria monocytogenes (strain PS 10401, serovar 4b) was studied in three sorts of soil: a chalky soil, poor in organic matters (pH 8.3) a peaty soil rich in organic matters (pH 5.5) a mixture of a chalky and peaty soil (pH 7.9).
(18) It is Marshall who helps quieten the voices of self-doubt that sometimes loom and it is her faith in Peaty that helps the swimmer believe in himself.
(19) Joseph Peaty, who was diagnosed with HIV after being among those given contaminated transfusions, said the review could lead to higher payments for people with hepatitis C. The 44-year-old said he was "disappointed, but not surprised" that the full compensation demand had been rejected.
(20) So speedy was Peaty that Ross Murdoch, who trailed in his wake, set a new Scottish record of 59.13sec to become the second fastest man in the world this year and book his place in the team.
Petty
Definition:
(superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
(2) I realize it’s petty, but it’s like the Michael Bolton thing from Office Space.
(3) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(4) Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
(5) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
(7) She won’t apologize for whatever makes the New York Times treat her with middle-school levels of petty scorn .
(8) The president should have directed the Justice Department to stop taking stupid points and petty appeals.” One reason the Justice Department pursued the habeas cases so hard was its client: the Pentagon.
(9) As the locus of many migrants' investments, the village of Los Pinos has experienced a modest growth in the number of full-time jobs paying somewhat above the minimum urban wage and in a variety of petty entrepreneurial activities depending heavily on the patronage of migrant households, themselves heavily subsidized by remittances.
(10) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(11) Some are retired, others straddle the uncertain worlds of petty trading, agriculture and seasonal migrant labour.
(12) Not long ago, the mecca of American tourism was populated by sex workers, transvestites, drug addicts and petty criminals, rather than middle-class tourists.
(13) All the petty differences that divide us seem to melt away.
(14) Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor, Frederic Van Leeuw, told Belgian public broadcaster RTBF.
(15) Another said: "The problem with PMQs isn't so much that it's shouty but that the so-called pinnacle of political debate in this country is two men trading petty insults and making nasty jokes about the other while the rest of parliament boos and cheers behind them.
(16) They included a former monk, two young men with learning disabilities, a handful of petty criminals and a teacher at a private school in Paris who was "disappeared" by another republican group, the INLA.
(17) The study was conducted in the three contiguous counties of Johnson, Lafayette and Pettis in west central Missouri.
(18) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(19) It also found that some children were put into care without lawful basis, including for petty theft and for being rude.
(20) Parents are required to bring up children responsibly, while living in a form of servitude to licensed employers and petty line managers, often themselves at risk of returning to zero-hours.