(1) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(2) r-i--rop) of a just-studied word (raindrop) is shown to be less readily completed if it is presented bit by bit (r------p, r----r-p, r-i--r-p, r-i--rop) rather than all at once (Experiments 1, 3, 4, and 5).
(3) When assailed by terrors ("when the dog bites, when the bee stings"), one has to call to mind one's favourite things, such as raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, and brown paper packages tied up with string.
(4) Having researched modern forensic techniques and poisons for her crime novels, Ashford immediately realised the symptoms could be ascribed to arsenic poisoning , which can cause "raindrop" pigmentation, where patches of skin go brown or black, and other areas go white.
(5) And then, back down into the flower she went with Pitbull, leaving the pitch to the Amazonian dancers, the raindrops, trees and footballs, who humbly marched off.
(6) We experience life on every scale, from raindrops falling on a river to armies ransacking a town, often within the same, unbroken shot.
(7) A reduction of the fall height of the simulated raindrops resulted in a significant reduction of the number of translocated L3.
(8) It was like the cartoon cloud that follows the beleaguered man and constantly drips raindrops on him when the sun is shining on everyone else.
(10) The same faint, trapped, accumulating scent, the scent of the margin where the private and public worlds meet: raindrops on contract carpet, wet umbrella, damp shoe-leather, metal tang of keys, the salt of metal in palm.
(11) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
(12) Instead, the song provided a jumping-off point for a Twitter poetry snowclone, which consisted of social media users adding a supplementary humorous line to the end of Bad And Boujee’s “raindrop, drop top” couplet.
(13) An expert in “wet deposition” (how rain can clean particles from the air), he thinks he’s got the science sorted, and the main challenge is just to “design the specific spray system that can spray a good raindrop size and [ensure] the most scavenging efficiencies for the air pollution.” But his hastily Photoshopped visuals of garden sprinklers stuck on top of skyscrapers don’t do much to inspire confidence.
(14) The common thread is that the days are hotter, some trees now flower twice a year and the raindrops are getting bigger.
(15) Per cent variation between the products giving Hudson 100%: Mefar Respi-Neb: +18.77, Sandoz +46.19, Vix: -6.14, Acorn: +20.27, Pari Inhalierboy: +61.68, Raindrop: -9.56.
(16) These corn-like punctate keratoses mainly on the palms and soles, multiple Bowen's disease and diffuse bronze pigmentation with raindrop areas of hypopigmentation on the trunk and extremities were manifest almost in the same individuals, and it was concluded that they were characteristic cutaneous symptoms of chronic arsenical poisoning.
(17) Seen through the filter of Instagram, the world is a beautiful place: high-contrast blue skies; sepia-tinted sunsets; exquisite plates of food and raindrops sliding down windows in perfect formation.
(18) Characteristic bronze pigmentation on the trunk and extremities was seen in 6 workers, and 5 of these 6 workers showed tiny normal or depigmented skin (raindrops) throughout the involved areas.
(19) When cow pats were hit by drops of diameters between 2 and 5 mm, it was found that small raindrops were just as effective as large drops in splash dispersal of L3, provided the amount of rain was the same; but individual small drops were less effective in this respect than individual large drops.
(20) Yes, Big Time Timmy Jim danced through the raindrops (Dodgers were 1-9 with runners in scoring position), but he leaves LA with a 0.00 ERA, and that's got to give him some confidence heading into his next start, at home against the Colorado Rockies next week.
Vulture
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exact number of lawsuits involving vulture funds operating in offshore tax havens is unclear, as many of these funds are highly secretive of their holdings.
(2) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(3) Margaret Lyons of the Vulture blog summed up the US response to MacFarlane's turn when she wrote: It's frustrating enough to know that 77% of Academy voters are male.
(4) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
(5) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(6) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(7) People are rare here, outnumbered by the eagles, vultures and cabra (goats).
(8) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(9) The vultures, led by a US billionaire, are mainly hedge fund investors who snapped up Argentinian bonds at rock-bottom prices following the country's $95bn default on its foreign debt in 2001.
(10) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
(11) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.
(12) UK legislation on vulture funds has already had an impact, when Liberia last year reached agreement to repay just over 3% of the face value of a $43m debt.
(13) The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said many countries had been pursued by vulture funds, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and the DRC.
(14) The sequences are compared with those of the Golden Eagle, and with those of the Andean Condor, a New World vulture.
(15) "To those who say we should negotiate with the vultures, I say the vultures are vultures because they don't negotiate," economy minister Axel Kicillof said defiantly.
(16) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
(17) They buy up the debts of countries in chaos and war, speculating on the fact that when investors finally come back into the country – often encouraged by generous debt writedown schemes and International Monetary Fund programmes – the vultures will get their money back with huge interest on top, benefiting from the fledgling trade and new liquidity.
(18) Last year, the boutique Los Angeles fashion label Wildfox dedicated its entire Spring collection to a recreation of Cher, Dionne and Tai’s unmistakable wardrobes, while Vulture tracked down the bulk of the film’s cast (plus Rollin’ With My Homies hitmaker Coolio) for an oral history of the iconic ‘party in the Valley’ scene .
(19) Instead of a temporal fovea as in eagles and hawks, an afoveate temporal area is present in chimango, condor, and vulture.
(20) Cho revealed, in an interview with the website Vulture , that a kiss was originally part of the scene, but was ultimately removed.