(v. t.) To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Stratolauncher won’t be fully operational for several years, and it may take decades before anyone designs a system that can propel man-made objects through space fast enough to reach a star over a human being’s lifespan, if it happens at all.
(2) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(3) Carpeting of the type commonly used in hospitals imposed a burden upon normal and patient wheelchair users propelling a wheelchair as reflected in increased energy cost per unit of distance traveled.
(4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(5) Some of the main protesters who have propelled the organization movement forward, particularly Deray McKesson , Netta Elzie and Stephen Houldsworth , have expressed no interest in backing down tonight.
(6) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(7) The video filmed by a witness , which propelled the case into the global spotlight, showed Scott was running away with his back turned when Slager, then an officer with the North Charleston police department, opened fire.
(8) Right now most are in for small repairs, propellers that sort of thing.
(9) The Texas senator Ted Cruz says the rise of Donald Trump makes him “very optimistic” the next occupant of the White House will be a conservative – perhaps himself – propelled there by the “volcanic rage” of voters.
(10) Beating and coordination of these short cilia were compared with those of cilia propelling water.
(11) His pioneering efforts helped propel Barbados to a leader in solar water heater use in the western hemisphere.
(12) Second, if two self-propelled objects are related in a special way--a relation called the BDR sequence--the infant perceives not only intentional movement but also one object as having the goal of affecting the other object.
(13) Wednesday’s attack during dawn prayers is the first attack on Maiduguri since 28 December, when Boko Haram killed at least 50 people in an operation involving rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers.
(14) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
(15) Allergic contact eczema from the use of deodorant sprays is sometimes caused by sensitization to the propellants.
(16) Interestingly, the thymine.adenine pair favours negative buckling for propellers mostly observed in DNA crystals while positive buckling is preferred by the cytosine.guanine pair.
(17) Republican guards used anti-aircraft guns, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades against the opposition camp and intensified the shelling of the streets surrounding the square.
(18) Bill Shorten pushes integrity inquiry but says political corruption isn't widespread Read more If politics is about people, and about connections, Shorten’s challenge for 2017 is not only validating the concerns of voters angry enough to propel Donald Trump to the White House, to Brexit and to vote for Pauline Hanson – but to persuade them to make a durable connection with him.
(19) He begins describing the crumbling wall of mud that enveloped him, the image of his young daughter propelling him to fight to the surface and take his first breath of air.
(20) Lloyd scored three times in just 16 minutes to propel the Americans to a 5-2 win and their first World Cup in 16 years, their third overall.
Stay
Definition:
(n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship.
(v. i.) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support.
(v. i.) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
(v. i.) To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully.
(v. i.) To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold.
(v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.
(v. i.) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
(v. i.) To cause to cease; to put an end to.
(v. i.) To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler.
(v. i.) To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind.
(v. i.) To remain; to continue in a place; to abide fixed for a space of time; to stop; to stand still.
(v. i.) To continue in a state.
(v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
(v. i.) To dwell; to tarry; to linger.
(v. i.) To rest; to depend; to rely; to stand; to insist.
(v. i.) To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed.
(v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well.
(v. i.) To change tack; as a ship.
(n.) That which serves as a prop; a support.
(n.) A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
(n.) Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city.
(n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.
(n.) Hindrance; let; check.
(n.) Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
(n.) Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
(2) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(3) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(4) We are better off in.” Out campaigners have claimed that the NHS could be badly hit by a decision to stay in the EU.
(5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(6) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.
(7) "If older people do not stay informed about the changes and take action, there is a danger that they will end up paying more unnecessarily."
(8) In Phase 2 (two minutes after injection) all parameters return to their control values ; except CVP which stays elevated.
(9) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(10) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(11) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(12) Approximately 16,000 people were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 2012 but were not given the treatment they needed to stay alive and prevent the spread of the disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
(13) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(14) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
(15) Patients identified sources of stress associated with their ICU stay, yet most (76%) rated their ICU experience positively.
(16) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(17) Long-stay psychiatric in-patients in South Glamorgan were reviewed using the MRC Needs for Care assessment.
(18) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(19) The majority of them were able to perceive a connection between their worsened skin condition and the acute psychosocial constellation during their brief stay at home.
(20) They’re staying home,” Cruz declared in his speech.