(n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bloody-minded defending was switched to a rapier attack in the blink of an eye.
(2) Rapier added that the money announced in the White House initiative on Monday was not a large amount “in dollars” but was vital in terms of the principle of exploring a new approach to a problem that is “devastating” for those it affects and has blown up relatively recently in some areas.
(3) Until now it has been suggested that he bled to death within a couple of minutes, stabbed only once by a rapier.
(4) As the day went on the column revealed their bewilderment at David Cameron’s resignation, their shock at the Twitterstorm of “keenly worded, rapier-sharp attacks” from remainers, and their son’s suggestion of a therapeutic game of Monopoly.
(5) Rapier said it was the first time law enforcement and public health experts would specifically work together under a federal program to tackle the “new heroin epidemic”.
(6) The ABC report said the soldiers were hunting an insurgent bombmaker codenamed Rapier.
(7) Last weekend’s assault on the social and cultural centre in Hammersmith was carried out with a can of paint, but cut through the west London Polish community like a rapier, until the tip reached Jan Black.
(8) Depay, expected to start instead of the suspended Robin Van Persie but left on the bench in favour of underwhelming Jeremain Lens, added a second at the end from a rapier-like Arjen Robben run and cross.
(9) My consultant's notes refer to the tests simply as "bloods", which sounds nicely cavalier ("Huzzah, sir, pick up your rapier!")
(10) A Rapier short-range air defence system at Blackheath, London, in 2012.
(11) It seeks to use state power as a rapier not a bludgeon.
(12) Rapid rise of heroin use in US tied to prescription opioid abuse, CDC suggests Read more Rapier, who is from a federal law enforcement background, said many police officers had to come around to the idea that many drug addicts need a second or third chance to kick heroin without punishment, and controversial services such as public needle exchanges can work.
(13) The flower-in-buttonhole and smiling anecdote, the rapier mind, the warmth and generosity were his hallmarks.
(14) This is not a regular law enforcement initiative; we don’t just want to put people in jail,” Frank Rapier, the director of the Appalachia regional office of the federal high-intensity drug trafficking area program (HIDTA), told the Guardian.
(15) Everyone is in their own ‘silo’ and there are walls and barriers, which we don’t want in this fight Frank Rapier Experts are scrambling to deal with the rise in overdose deaths sparked by large numbers of people who had become dependent on prescription opioid painkillers then switched to heroin as a result of crackdowns on the flow of illegal or over-prescribed pills and the availability of cheap heroin.
(16) In a characteristic play on his words, Carr has called his current show Rapier Wit.
(17) He was selling some byproducts of Britain’s lucrative shooting industry (byproducts because the main product is “fun”): woodpigeon and 14 woodcock , their rapier-like beaks tucked inside their carcasses.
(18) The cost of insuring loans issued by Greece, Portugal and Ireland soared after Moody's interrupted the wrangling in the EU over how to bail out Greece for a second time with a Rapier missile.
Saber
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sabre
(v. t.) Alt. of Sabre
Example Sentences:
(1) Si quieres saber más sobre como contribuir en las redes sociales, lee esto .
(2) Of the 60 patients with the saber-sheath configuration, 57 (95%) had clinical evidence of COPD compared to only 18% in the control group.
(3) Our two cases are evidence in support of a close relationship between saber injury-like scleroderma and the Parry-Romberg syndrome.
(4) Saber's account sparked fears that he had either been threatened into silence, or paid off.
(5) There’s a hint of panic in this piece that tries to make sense of Michael Flynn’s saber-rattling at the Islamic republic.
(6) Saber's words were also contradicted by some members of his own family.
(7) This agreement will have to be enforced vigorously, relentlessly.” In a statement later on Tuesday, the former secretary of state offered her endorsement: “I support the agreement because it can help us prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.” Clinton’s main rival for the Democratic ticket, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, was far less calibrated, declaring the deal “a victory for diplomacy over saber-rattling [that] could keep the United States from being drawn into another never-ending war in the Middle East”.
(8) Epithelium and mesenchyme of maxillary processes of chick embryos were separated by a variety of protocols, including those employed in a prior study (Saber et al: Anat.
(9) Bishop was one of four candidates bidding for the position but lost out to Saber Chowdhury, a Bangladesh MP and former political prisoner.
(10) Yet in a bizarre twist, Saber later claimed in an interview from a police hospital that the police had in fact saved him from thieving protesters.
(11) Compartmental models were constructed for both the in situ and isolated neurons, using SABER, a general-purpose simulation program.
(12) The pathogenesis may be varied with different types of collapse of the airway, including the saber sheath type and the crescent type.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer Rafael Barros da Silva, 13, pupil at Saber Viver football school, Recife.
(14) Bishop threw her hat in the ring for the presidency in July 2014, but lost out to Bangladeshi candidate Saber Hossain Chowdhury, who was elected for a three-year term on October 16.
(15) The second patient was a girl who presented with localized scleroderma resembling a saber injury, homolateral cerebral atrophy and contralateral hemiparesis.
(16) In announcing an investigation into the beating of Saber, Morsi's office made clear he was still pointing the blame at the political opponents who have encouraged protests.
(17) "Private media is the chief impediment to the conclusion of the Islamist project as it intentionally smears our image," explained Gamal Saber, a supporter of the Salafi preacher Hazem Abu Ismail.
(18) Comparison of fossil-derived DNA sequences to homologous regions in 15 living carnivorous species, including 9 species of Felidae and 6 nonfelids, affirmed the phylogenetic placement of Smilodon within the modern radiation of Felidae distinct from the Miocene paleofelid (Nimravidae) saber-toothed "cat" species.
(19) The spinal alterations in the saber-toothed cat, which previously were believed to be caused primarily by trauma, showed characteristics of three major pathologic processes: trauma, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, and inflammatory disease of a type similar to ankylosing spondylitis.
(20) A case of Saber-sheath type tracheo-bronchomalacia complicating bronchial asthma was treated by external fixation of Marlex mesh, and good results were obtained.