(n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
(2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
(3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
(4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
(5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
(6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
(7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
(10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
(12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
(13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
(14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
(15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
(16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
(17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
(18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
(19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
(20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."
Sprite
Definition:
(n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.
(n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
(n.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was "by complete accident" that she made her translating debut, after Antony was asked by publisher Klaus Flugge if he knew anyone who could translate a children's book The Little Water-Sprite , by the German writer Otfried Preussler .
(2) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(3) He is above all a subtle player, a relentless little sprite popping up in all areas nudging, prompting, often taking just one touch, and devastatingly swift in his moments of improvisation.
(4) The Slam Dunk Contest, sorry the Sprite Slam Dunk Contest disappointed for the second year in a row.
(5) The levy, which will start in April 2018, will put up the price of drinks such as Red Bull, Capri Sun, Sprite and several versions of cola.
(6) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
(7) It has a lot of built-in behaviors and support for sprite-based games, so it’s very easy for a beginner to pick it up and make something and see results fast, which can be quite motivating.
(8) Sweat secretion from individual pores in circumscribed areas was imaged using a high spatial resolution SPRITE infrared detector system working in the 8-14 microns band.
(9) However, just six sold fizzy drinks such as Coca-Cola and Sprite and just two offered energy drinks such as Lucozade and Red Bull.
(10) She took $20 and walked across the parking lot to buy herself a burger and Sprite.
(11) The lower level will affect brands containing less added sugar, such as Fanta, Sprite and Schweppes tonic.
(12) Lucozade Original contains 33g of sugar in a 380ml bottle, Sprite has 21.8g of sugar in 330ml cans and Dr Pepper 34.1g per 330ml.
(13) Back in the Sun, Chelsea are "lining up a £60m mega deal" for Edinson Cavani and the Brazilian sprite Oscar .
(14) In fact, our daily diet of pre-Jamie Oliver chips and gravy probably did us more damage than the hesitant sips of booze concealed in Sprite bottles.
(15) Anyway, at their hotel there is water, iced tea, Sprite and Coke in one fridge ... but two fridges filled entirely with Bitburger beer.
(16) Amina also gave her a bottle of Sprite on her birthday, and hugged her before she left.
(17) Being at the junction of the Eurasian, North American and African tectonic plates, the Azores are a geological hotspot: when seen from its highest point, each island is a Clanger-land of chimneys and craters where you could believe entire civilisations of sprites and elves live among the fat, dappled cows.
(18) How to get contemporary TV audiences to like a heroine so unlike the spritely Elizabeth Bennet obviously exercised ITV in its adaptation of Mansfield Park in 2007.
(19) "The stools have cushions on them, and you can usually buy a can of Sprite or a coffee from a machine.
(20) Clot dissolution was then tested by adding Adolf's Meat Tenderizer, Viokase, Sprite, Pepsi, Coke, or Mountain Dew.