(n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.
(n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
(2) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
(3) Photographers will miss the sight of him regularly hoisting small children clutching posies over barriers so they can get closer to her.
(4) The three patients with posi-ive skin test had been living for a long time in the eastern part of the U.S.A. where histoplasma capsulatum occurs endemically.
(5) And although we have our magnificent Raymond Briggs, Posy Simmonds, Steve Bell and Chris Riddell, nowhere are comic-strip books so widespread as in France.
(6) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, who turned 90 last summer, laid the first of more than a dozen wreaths and then, in a touching gesture, placed a posy of brightly-coloured anemones – a flower which carpets the area in late winter – on the grave of Sharon's late wife Lily.
Rosy
Definition:
(superl.) Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(2) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(3) People need to be seen by a doctor if cancer is to be caught early”, said Dr Rosie Loftus, joint chief medical officer at Macmillan Cancer Support.
(4) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
(5) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(6) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
(7) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.
(8) Yet life in reality looks less rosy than these cliches suggest.
(9) Mandaric told the court he had met Rosie several times and saw nothing unusual in naming a bank account after a dog.
(10) He described Anderson as “highly intelligent,” “irrational,” and “calculated” in the violence he carried out against his former partner, Rosie Batty and their son.
(11) A variety of sources, some of whom have been attributed as being ‘aides’ to Jeremy or those ‘close’ to the leader, have apparently stood up speculation that Hilary Benn, Rosie Winterton, Maria Eagle and me (amongst others) are all for the chop for not voting against extending military action from Iraq into Syria during the recent free vote in the Commons.
(12) Twenty-three of the 43 sequenced mutations change the predicted rosy gene polypeptide sequence; the remainder would interrupt protein translation (17), or disrupt mRNA processing (3).
(13) However, Prof Rosie Woodroffe, the UK's leading badger expert, told the Guardian such a drastic change in the badger population would be "very, very unusual".
(14) Jeremy Corbyn was challenged about his position on Brexit and questioned over his sacking of Rosie Winterton as chief whip , as he faced his party’s MPs for the first time since his re-election as leader.
(15) When Anderson killed Luke, there were four warrants out for his arrest and he was facing 11 criminal charges, mostly related to family violence against his ex-partner and Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty .
(16) Intragenic recombination events were monitored between two physically separated rosy mutant alleles ry301 and ry2 utilizing DNA restriction site polymorphisms as genetic markers.
(17) The meeting was called by Iain McNicol, the party secretary, and attended by chief whip Rosie Winterton.
(18) Corbyn has been testing the water among colleagues about their willingness to serve under him over the past few days, and made his first appointment: Rosie Winterton is staying on as chief whip.
(19) These two parameters were equally affected in two cases with myelofi-rosis, 3 patients with acquired refractory anaemia, one with chronic lymphoid leukaemia, one with erythroleukaemia, one with hairy cell leukaemia, one with systemic mastocytosis and almost complete myeloperoxidase dificiency, one with sickle cell disease, two with liver diseases and two with chronic myeloid leukaemia.
(20) • £350, breakfast extra, +30 22970 91610, rosyslittlevillage.com Where to eat Parnassos Rosy’s does pretty good food, but visitors should also head up to Metochi, the village in the hills just above it.