(1) She's learned from the Born This Way debacle Lady Gaga's head crudely plonked on the front of a motorbike was not what the world needed, and yet that's exactly what we got with 2011's Born This Way cover – an image so appallingly 80s-hair-metal and wildly out of step with the rest of the campaign's artwork that even her fans assumed it was some elaborate hoax sent to test them.
(2) Centro Cerámica Triana Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Housed in an old ceramics factory built on the site of a 16th-century one, inevitably plonked on a Roman one, this museum (€2pp, Calle Antillano Campos 14) could do more to trumpet the industry that spawned Triana, created the look and feel of Seville, and inspired Lisbon’s artisans to have a go at the whole tile thing.
(3) Hughes had sent on Mame Diouf for Shaqiri, a move that had the Swiss punching a seat and plonking himself down in a major huff.
(4) And what a header, plonked straight into the bottom-right corner of goal.
(5) This plonking reply called forth mock applause from the Labour benches as they pretended to praise Clegg's analytical genius.
(6) Imagine a music fan from the start of the decade is transported to its end, and plonked in front of the Christmas Top of the Pops: how confused would they be?
(7) It looks absurdly incongruous: the standard-issue Westfield mixture of Lego-brick architecture and illuminated brand names plonked amid the city’s grand, 19th-century buildings, with apparently little effort to harmonise the new architecture with its surroundings.
(8) This is a peculiar stadium, plonked on a red clay, São Paulo hillside with views of the city fringes through its great cantilevered corners.
(9) Wartime Farm's sincerity and enthusiasm will make you want to pick up Abigail, carry her to Television Centre and plonk her on the desk of BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow stapled to a note that says MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING PLEASE BECAUSE IT'S NOT AWFUL.
(10) Without saying a word about the end of love's young dream, Bieber had inartfully plonked the idea of Gomez's infidelity out into the ether.
(11) So he has made the terrace his office, plonked his laptop down, covered a table with scraps of paper, and sits there all day smoking roll-ups and drinking coffee.
(12) An obscene joke about two highly acclaimed actors – a wildly-bearded Matthew Rhys and an unstoppably plummy Matthew Goode – who’d exploited their star power to get smashed on plonk inside a beautiful Umbrian villa, while getting paid for it.
(13) Frazier reaches for a black hat, plonks it on his head, and looks up at the photographer.
(14) They camp outside the Atlético box and despite the pressure from the home side, they are patient and eventually plonk the ball in the box and at the foot of Balotelli.
(15) As a poll showed just 12% of Americans supported the fruits of McConnell’s labour, McConnell worked away on a revised bill, which he plonked in front of his colleagues on 13 July.
(16) When people come round, even now, it won't be plonk.
(17) Friends plonk their mobiles in front of them on pub or restaurant tables, meaning the actual human being sitting opposite has to compete for their attention.
(18) Sandbach says he has found Moet & Chandon on sale in Tesco at a lower price than he is offered by Moet as a wholesaler, while Cheeseman says wine quality has improved massively since the cheap plonk of the early 1970s, and that a lot of sub-£5 wines represent incredible value.
(19) In the 84th minute, Sherwood beckoned a Tottenham fan down from the seats behind him, handed him his club gilet and plonked him into his seat on the bench next to the assistant manager, Les Ferdinand.
(20) Plonked in London's Westfield shopping centre on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the Kiss Chosen One audition stand looks like a cross between a Portakabin, a shoebox, and purple spacecraft beamed to earth from Planet Guetta.
Poster
Definition:
(n.) A large bill or placard intended to be posted in public places.
(n.) One who posts bills; a billposter.
(n.) One who posts, or travels expeditiously; a courier.
(n.) A post horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(2) A picture, so they say, paints a thousand words, or in this case a poster does.
(3) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(4) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(5) A 1977 Apple II computer sits in the background, near a poster that reads "Think" – presumably a nod to Apple's "Think different" advertising campaign of the late 1990s.
(6) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
(7) As a precociously talented young artist, his interests didn't lie with landscape or the countryside – "though I did collect frog spawn and things like that" – but more with the advertising, posters and signwriting he saw around town.
(8) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
(9) The genesis of much of Rousey’s criticism about the woman who ran over Gina Carano, MMA’s first poster girl, stems from this.
(10) It has not been possible in this review to cover all the submitted posters nor indeed all the points discussed during the workshop session.
(11) He will sell his country's transition from international pariah to poster boy for democratic change, trade and investment.
(12) Major Richard Streatfeild, 40, who the Ministry of Defence used as a "poster boy" for the war, was a commanding officer in the insurgent stronghold of Sangin during some of the fiercest fighting.
(13) We discovered that patients want health education in the form of both videos and leaflets, but not posters.
(14) Treating voters like idiots doesn't often work – so the posters with a picture of a sick baby, saying, "She needs a new cardiac facility not an alternative voting system", or of the soldier, reading, "He needs bulletproof vests, not an alternative voting system", must surely be an insult too far to the public's intelligence.
(15) The state of allergy to penicillins was found in the posterity of the female hamsters with both the positive and negative skin reactions on immunization during the 2nd half of the pregnancy.
(16) I gave the finger to the Tea Party during the Park51 protest, and spraying the poster was my way of doing the same to Pamela Geller.
(17) Then yesterday Osborne made everything worse by unveiling a completely contradictory poster (he does know that abolishing the "jobs tax" will increase the debt, right?)
(18) In Tahrir, the urban heart of the revolution where so many protesters met their end, thousands answered that call, many tearing down Shafik posters on the way.
(19) People in Westminster didn’t see the real picture because there were not as many 48-sheet posters as usual,” says Muirhead.
(20) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.