(1) 2.12am BST Pirates 3 - Reds 0, top of 4th Shin-Soo Choo is hit by a Liriano pitch, and that happens a lot - he led all of baseball in that esteemed category by being plunked 26 times.
(2) And plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened.
(3) Not boxing’s browbeaten but devoted fans, at least 300,000 of whom are sure to plunk down $75 for a fight no less one-sided than Death Star v Alderaan.
(4) It appeared, oddly, as though he was doing mostly nothing that afternoon, just clicking in slow, methodical plunks.
(5) A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.
(6) Read more As a cigarette packet designer, John Digianni, explains in an interview on the tobacco industry website Tobacco Today : “A cigarette package is part of a smoker’s clothing, and when he saunters into a bar and plunks it down, he makes a statement about himself.
(7) Even worse, shortstop Hanley Ramirez, so important to the LA lineup, still has rib issues after being plunked by Joe Kelly in Game One and missing Game Two - he'll be in the lineup but can he be effective?
Punk
Definition:
(n.) Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.
(n.) A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.
(n.) An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.
(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(2) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(3) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(4) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(5) The following week I bought the EP, expecting more of the same anarchic techno-punk.
(6) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
(7) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
(8) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(9) Daft Punk will make their first televised performance since 2008 , playing with artists including Stevie Wonder and Get Lucky collaborators Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
(10) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
(11) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(12) Then a punk rock club called the Echo hooked up with us.
(13) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
(14) Nile says: “The robots had an amazing vision!” Nile Rodgers accepts Daft Punk's International Group Award.
(15) A storm of criticism broke in Russia following the harsh two-year prison sentences given to three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot for protesting against the government in a Moscow cathedral.
(16) One of the most punk-rock things they ever did was dressing Chevy Chase up for his Ford impression: They didn’t do a damn thing.
(17) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
(18) Track listing: What Goes Boom Greens and Blues Indie Cindy Bagboy Magdalena 318 Silver Snail Blue Eyed Hexe Ring the Bell Another Toe in the Ocean Andro Queen Snakes Jaime Bravo Track listing for Live in the USA (feat Lenchantin on bass): Bone Machine Hey Ana Magdalena 318 Snakes Indie Cindy I’ve Been Tired Head On The Sad Punk Distance Equals Rate Times Time Something Against You Isla de Encanta Planet of Sound Reading this on mobile?
(19) It was famous for being a big party house for local punks,” Clement says.
(20) Punks, poets, painters, dropouts, drug fiends, drag queens - all have been welcome at the Chelsea hotel.