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Phoebe


Definition:

  • (n.) The pewee, or pewit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hadn't put it on and my wife Phoebe had spent the night away with friends.
  • (2) • roughguides.com Phoebe Smith, editor, Wanderlust travel magazine This year it's time to check out the Baltics – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
  • (3) Style blogger Susie Lau, AKA Susie Bubble , cites Phoebe Philo's work at Céline, which has turned even the uglier end of sportswear into luxury.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phoebe Greenwood returns to Gaza to meet the Palestinian journalists who covered the 2014 war and are now reporting on – and living through – its aftermath Citing the reliance of Gaza’s 1.8 million inhabitants on coastal aquifers as their main source of freshwater, it adds that 95% of this water is not safe to drink.
  • (5) Phoebe Ramsay, a volunteer helping co-ordinate the food and basic needs of the thousands stranded at the border, said: “The waiting is having a deleterious effect on mental health.
  • (6) In the third in a series of leader interviews before the general election, the Green party leader talks to Phoebe Greenwood about how the threat of climate change and the state of the British economy are interlinked problems, and clears up a few questions about the party’s policies.
  • (7) While the Odyssey room was thought "cool", it was also a little "boysy" for Phoebe, who loved the stuffed toys and dolls on offer the best.
  • (8) For extra kudos, hold court with the argument that the avant-bland looks on the catwalk are the natural extension of how Phoebe Philo, current queen of catwalk cool, has made the tradition of giving artistic and retro references to a collection look old hat by her habit of shrugging nonchalantly and insisting the clothes she designs are just, y'know, stuff she wants to wear.
  • (9) His daughter Phoebe, ,(aged two and three quarters), who was eating her tea, put down her knife and fork and began to chant: "Save our beavers."
  • (10) Review by Phoebe McFadden, 8½ With a boggle-eyed toy chihuahua wedged firmly under her arm, Phoebe McFadden and her mother Clodagh, took the Guardian on a tour of the new Toy Kingdom.
  • (11) Basically, the games industry has been studying how everyone watches television these days, and, apparently, that involves sort of semi-viewing stuff like X Factor and Made in Chelsea while tweeting friends or, I don't know, looking up Phoebe-Lettice Thompson on the web.
  • (12) Anders Sølvsten Thomsen, Phoebe Arnold and Kimi O'Neill also join from Pop as fashion editors; along with Joseph Mercier and Michelle Simkins as junior editors.
  • (13) • doolin-house.ru Phoebe Taplin Irish Pub, Namche Bazar, Nepal Probably the highest Irish pub in the world, definitely the planet’s least accessible Irish pub, and almost certainly the only Irish pub with yak on the menu; reaching the Irish Pub in the Sherpa town of Namche Bazaar is quite the adventure.
  • (14) Phoebe, by email Actually, Phoebe, it turns out this is not how Farage plans to woo the working class at all.
  • (15) • Phoebe Smith is the author of Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper (Summersdale, £8.99).
  • (16) -- Watch the Guardian's full interview with Hillary Clinton: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton sat down with Phoebe Greenwood and answered questions from some journalists (and celebrities) .
  • (17) My daughter Phoebe will be absolutely devastated like we all are.” Brewster had put down a deposit on a house with Winslow the day before the attack.
  • (18) "What have I achieved in my time in government?," the legacy-obsessed Blair asks of a hyper-critical Cherie, played by Phoebe Nicholls.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With most major parties committed to degrees of austerity, Phoebe Greenwood asks whether anyone has learned the lesson of the past five years The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are all committed to deficit reduction after the election, but Krugman says the UK seems “stuck on obsessions that have been mainly laughed out of the discourse elsewhere”.
  • (20) So ardent was the clamour for hugs and double kisses around Phoebe Philo after her Céline show at Paris fashion week on Sunday lunchtime that, by the time the designer came to speak to reporters, she had pulled off the camel sweater worn to take her catwalk bow.

Phoebus


Definition:

  • (n.) Apollo; the sun god.
  • (n.) The sun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the position of a "Provisional Prosector" of Charité became vacant, after withdrawal of Philipp Phoebus, autumn 1832, the officials of the Hospital Affairs Curatory decided to continue the provisional arrangement, and five candidates applied for the office.
  • (2) Paul Hunt of Phoebus Software, which supplies solutions to mortgage providers, said: "The BBA figures show the mortgage market is still nervous about the UK's economic future.
  • (3) Various venues, London, 15-24 November, londonjazzfestival.org.uk Bright Phoebus Revisited The late Lal and Mike Waterson's album Bright Phoebus was a classic of 70s folk.
  • (4) Phoebus made an unsuccessful attempt to define and thus secure the Prosector's position by means of a self-drafted policy paper.
  • (5) On May 8, 1831, Dr. Philipp Phoebus was appointed the first Prosector of the Charité of Berlin.

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