(a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case against Reedy was dropped when her rapist – Wilbur Brown – was caught by another force and confessed.
(2) He said Mutko replied quickly saying the Russian authorities would co-operate but, as Reedie put it, “it won’t be easy”.
(3) And Wada is now looking into the latest claims, which Reedie described as “a real cause for concern”.
(4) More than a year after attacking Reedy, the man struck again, but this time he was caught and confessed to the earlier crime.
(5) Reedie said the official was able to test the athlete but only after being told by security officials that 30 days’ notice would be required in future, which “makes a mockery of the idea of no-notice testing”.
(6) When the charges against her were dropped, Reedy sued the police and has now won a marathon legal battle and a $1.5m (£1m) settlement against the detective who turned her from victim into accused.
(7) As Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis is excellent: he has the president's famous height, and his reedy, hushed manner of speaking.
(8) Reedy was swabbed for forensic evidence, but the material was never tested.
(9) Reedy's flared X of four bridges, which appears rotated 60 degrees at successive levels on the thick filament, depends on the orientation of the actin filaments in the whole lattice as well as on the range of movement in each cross-bridge.
(10) Reedy was 19 when the man entered the petrol station near Pittsburgh where she was working to pay her way through college and pulled a gun.
(11) Many seasoned anti-doping veterans worry that Wada has been “captured” by the IOC, a shift they claim is embodied by Sir Craig Reedie’s appointment as president.
(12) Reedie argued that Wada has been doing its bit to increase funding – establishing a new $12m fund to research new testing methods and receiving an encouraging response to a recent plea to fund more investigations in the mould of Pound’s – but that other stakeholders must now do the same.
(13) The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Sir Craig Reedie, has called for sponsorship revenue from cheating athletes to be diverted to the fight against doping and for a levy on TV rights deals as part of a huge increase in the organisation’s resources.
(14) Craig Reedie, the president of Wada [the World Anti-Doping Agency] came out the other day and said there would never be sanctions against countries which systematically dope .
(15) Reedie, an International Olympic Committee vice-president, also endorsed another idea that has been intermittently proposed by Wada executives but has gained traction in recent months as the scale of the global challenge has again become clear.
(16) Mutko told Russian news agencies that he has asked the Wada president, Craig Reedie, to provide a “road map” that the country could follow.
(17) Doping revelations of top athletes will be greeted with dismay but no surprise Read more Responding to a documentary highlighting the claims broadcast by ARD , the president of Wada, Sir Craig Reedie, said: “Wada is very disturbed by these new allegations that have been raised by ARD, which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide.” He said that given the nature of the allegations, they would be handed over immediately to the organisation’s independent commission for further investigation.
(18) Reedy was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
(19) In an article for theguardian.com , Reedie said that, while Wada could be proud of how far it had come since its formation in 1999, it was time for a step change.
(20) That is reckless beyond description.” Pound, who is in London to speak at the Tackling Doping in Sport conference alongside the current Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie, said drugs such as meldonium were not supposed to be taken for long periods.
Tinny
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Everything he sang about is still true today," said Oluwole, a taxi driver waiting for petrol as a tape played Fela on a tinny loop.
(2) ‘W e voted for you to go home.” Those were the words flung at 34-year-old Tinni Guha Roy, a former member of the GB rowing team, on a London train in the aftermath of Britain’s EU referendum.
(3) Then he broke down, his voice audibly cracking across the tinniness of the loudspeaker.
(4) Tinny iPhone powered, accompanied renditions of Flower of Scotland and the Proclaimers on a loop (my request for the Krankies' Fandabidozi for some themed relief went ignored).
(5) No more does British public transport throb to the strains of LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It , played on the tinny mobiles of hooded young men.
(6) Mick Jones from the Clash was Grant's cousin, and we'd blast his tapes from the tinny stereo, singing along to the words while debating the sentiment.
(7) But it simply underlined how incredibly tinny they were as candidates.
(8) In my opinion, it has a dry, tinny, bitter aftertaste.
(9) Labor always rejected concerns by the fishing industry that it was "locking up oceans", saying less than 2% of commercial fisheries' catches would be affected by the new protected areas and recreational fishers would not be affected at all because the parks were hundreds of kilometres offshore and therefore well out of reach of a fisherman in a tinnie.
(10) On the shore you’ll see a few people drinking tinnies and fishing with their mates, and you think ‘who’s happier here?’” Perhaps because of this, relations between crew and guests are unusual, if not unheard of.
(11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
(12) The famously good Congolese music is everywhere, from the throbbing clubs of the Matonge district to the tinny transistor radios of people in the street.
(13) The bullets sounded tinny and distant, like in an old arcade game.
(14) "The thrill," said one, whose first download was by Smashing Pumpkins, "even when I listened to the music through my mum's tinny computer speakers."
(15) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
(16) The first, very serious score was replaced by tinny, faux-heroic music, which made the film funny again.
(17) Under the tinny roof of Songkhla’s commercial port, on Thailand’s south-east coast, the imperial-blue cargo boat that brought Myint Thein back to shore is unloading its catch, barrel by barrel.
(18) John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies, fist-fight and hunt kangaroos for sport.
(19) The execution of the film, too, is a world away from the DayGlo tinniness of most 1980s family films.
(20) The novel is also a vehicle for much insiderish fun: drive-by shootings at the editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley (who becomes a type of car, “slick, tinny, and noisy”); Private Eye editor Ian Hislop (who, given that he went to court to reveal a super-injunction Marr had used to hide his affair with another political journalist, gets nicer treatment than one might expect), is “earnestly and very solemnly working his way through a huge cream cake”.