(v. t.) To enerta/n in a regal or sumptuous manner; to enrtertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh; as, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.
(v. i.) To feast; t/ fare sumtuously.
(v. t.) A sumptuous repast; a banquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
(2) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(3) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
(4) Once humans have gained "total mastery over morphological genetics", post-60,000 years from now, we'll be tweaking our children's DNA so that they're born with straight noses, regal lines and perfect facial symmetry.
(5) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
(6) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(7) An event like the Golden Globes puts movie stars in a regal position.
(8) "He regaled me with some anecdotes of BBC inefficiency.
(9) When his deal to buy Leeds was confirmed, he invited journalists to his lawyers’ office in London, regaling the assembled crowd with outlandish tales of pot-washing in 1970s England and sincerely inviting a reporter to play with his rock band in Sardinia.
(10) The top five cinema chains – Regal Entertainment, AMC Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike Cinemas and Cineplex Entertainment – have all dropped plans to screen the film, according to the Hollywood Reporter .
(11) But reason will be no barrier to more of the sort of visionless and destructive dogma the Australian prime minister regaled the loggers with in Parliament House this week.
(12) He said he was continuing to try to ease tense relations with large cinema chains, such as AMC and Regal Entertainment, which had refused to screen The Interview after the hackers made threats of violence .
(13) An hour later, Obama and Trump will be joined by Vice-President Joe Biden, his successor Mike Pence and their spouses for a cup of coffee or tea in the White House’s regal Blue Room.
(14) As the wine flowed Humphrey, who had lived all his life in Oxford and knew all the skeletons in all the cupboards of the city, regaled us with increasingly scandalous stories of town and gown in his wonderfully clear, enthusiastic - and carrying - voice.
(15) At times Clinton projected an almost regal bearing.
(16) At a rally with her husband in Spartanburg, South Carolina, last weekend, she regaled the crowd with nothing more revelatory than the promise that her husband “will be the best president”.
(17) Throughout the convention, relatives and business associates lined up to regale the audience with tales of the nominee’s financial acumen.
(18) In the formal photograph, King Hamad was a diplomatic distance away from the Queen, though that was because the seating appeared to be arranged on length of regal service.
(19) No one could’ve been more suitable for this role than he, who bubbled away his evenings in Simpson’s in the Strand or the Cafe Royal, who spent royally when he had money and borrowed regally when he didn’t, and whose contacts with the working class – with the exception of servants – were at once amatory and pecuniary.
(20) December 24, 2016 William Regal (@RealKingRegal) Sad to hear of the passing of Rick Parfitt of Status Quo.Wether you liked them or not,if you are British you knew them.They had a great run.
Resale
Definition:
(n.) A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale.
Example Sentences:
(1) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(2) Murabaha works by the bank supplying goods for resale to the customer at a price that includes a margin above the costs, and allows them to repay in installments.
(3) Many resale practices are legitimate, but others may constitute illegal drug diversion.
(4) Thinkbroadband editor Andrew Ferguson said: "Developers are starting to see a broadband impact on rental and resale prices.
(5) It also noted that resale restrictions were ignored by secondary sites.
(6) Uruguay's president, José Mujica, had asked that no details be released until the regulations were finally published on Friday or Monday, but an official in the drug control office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 10g weekly limit was intended to thwart illegal resales.
(7) Michel Platini, the Uefa president who is alleged to have accepted a £1.3m “disloyal payment” from Blatter , and Jérôme Valcke, the Fifa secretary general embroiled in allegations around the resale of World Cup tickets , received the same sanction.
(8) 29 October The UK transport secretary says VW must consider offering compensation to motorists whose VW vehicle has lost some of its resale value.
(9) No doubt looking at other digital media brands, from iTunes to Netflix, to the PC gaming service Steam, Microsoft envisaged a future where games would go entirely digital; where consumers would be free from paying $60 for a physical disc and then losing money on its depreciated resale.
(10) A quarter of the drug sales were for listings worth more than $1,000 (£768), the team found, suggesting that these shipments may have been bought for resale.
(11) Updated at 11.23am GMT 11.18am GMT Cable rejects the analogy that the government has effectively sold a house too cheaply, using two advisors who pocketed two lots of commission and then made money on the resale price.
(12) The rate of ultraviolet-induced dimer excision was slightly reduced, relative to that found in Pol+ strains, in the PolAl strains; greatly reduced in the PolA107 strains; and found not to occur in the resAl strain.
(13) The face value of tickets for the first round is £54 to £105, but for less attractive matches, particularly in the north of Brazil, they are on resale sites at £10 upwards.
(14) But that’s just a wish – without a resale royalty that’s plugged back into the market or government coffers, it’s all dead money propping up a system that values a very limited range of art.
(15) The legal implications of and restrictions on hospital resales of pharmaceuticals are analyzed to help hospital managers distinguish between legitimate drug redistribution and illegal drug diversion and, thus, enable them to conform to the law in their own resale practices.
(16) It is now far more difficult to remove a CD player or radio from a car, and resale values have plummeted.
(17) Matt DeLorenzo, from Kelley Blue Book, said that it will take a while for the issue to sort itself out, both in terms of resale value and what the EPA will expect for emissions testing.
(18) Another trial the VW diesel crowd faces is in the coming weeks and months is what will become of their cars’ resale values.
(19) The requirements of the Robinson-Patman Act regarding resales are discussed, and the application of those requirements is explained.
(20) But the oligarchs do help keep the resale market buoyant.