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Rodeo


Definition:

  • (n.) A round-up. See Round-up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a sign of the low esteem the celebrity wing of Hacked Off is held in cabinet circles the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, referred to Hugh Grant as "the leader of the opposition Lord Grant of Rodeo Drive".
  • (2) Some establishment party figures have blamed the event for prematurely narrowing the field and forcing candidates to compete in what top GOP strategist David Kochel (now slated to be Jeb Bush’s national campaign manager) once called “a goat rodeo”.
  • (3) Go on a Friday or Saturday night to see the rodeo or catch a show at Billy Bob's, the country music club that bills itself as the world's largest honky tonk.
  • (4) Little wonder perhaps that Canadian animal rights campaigners are protesting against the rodeo for animal cruelty and arguing that the royal couple should not attend.
  • (5) Travelling from the Calgary rodeo and stampede in Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will begin their trip to southern California with an exclusive party at the house of Britain's consul general, Dame Barbara Hay.
  • (6) There are lessons in rodeo, including lassoing and the frustrating pursuit of a steer with a ribbon on its tail.
  • (7) Kacey Musgraves tours the UK in October New sweethearts of the rodeo: the female country stars determined to break the mould MIRANDA LAMBERT It's arguable that the seeds for country's current crop of straight-shooting radical female voices were first planted in the unlikely environment of Nashville Star .
  • (8) When I was 18 I volunteered with the fire department in Costa Rica and a few years after that I was a rodeo clown, a person who's always running into danger to rescue the person on the floor after being chased by a 2,000lb bull.
  • (9) Indeed, Jeremy Hunt is so overtly ridiculous that he might be best thought of as a sort of rodeo clown, put there simply there to distract the enraged public.
  • (10) It is not long after midnight, and Los Tigres del Norte are halfway through their set at Rodeo 2,000, a barn-like club near the town of Tyler, Texas.
  • (11) I wish her all the happiness $150m can bring.” (There was the small issue of his alleged affair with a “rodeo cowgirl”, but nobody’s perfect.)
  • (12) Hiding in plain sight, barely in regulation black tie, I arrived at Wembley in a tassled Native American jacket, rodeo shirt, braided bola necktie, and snakeskin boots.
  • (13) Metaphors Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) rides rodeo, drinks beer, parties in his trailer, and has sex with as many women as possible.
  • (14) And up on stage, resplendent in silver Stetsons and zebra-striped rodeo suits, Los Tigres sing about the spectacular demise of Mexican drug smuggler Manuel Atillano.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This is far from director Neill Blomkamp ’s first robot rodeo.
  • (16) He cut up a 10-volume illustrated Larousse encyclopaedia he'd bought in Bath, apparently using 32 pairs of scissors, and his collage technique helps depict such Thomas phrases as "slow clocks" (cue for several whirring time-pieces) or "the boys are dreaming wicked" (two pin-ups and touches of a Wild West rodeo).
  • (17) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the last full day of their week-long tour of Canada in Calgary at the annual stampede and rodeo – which locals like to bill "the greatest outdoor show on earth".
  • (18) Collegiate rodeo athletes (N = 156) in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) Southern Region, were examined for injuries during a 7 month (10 rodeo) season from 1987 to 1988.
  • (19) By then he had gained enough clout to direct JW Coop, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in, as a rodeo rider newly released from prison and trying to adjust to society.
  • (20) Sitting on a bench outside the Astrodome on a hot and humid spring day, with carnival rides from the annual Livestock Show and Rodeo swinging in the background, Neely says the first thing she did after moving to Houston in 1980 was take a $1 tour of the Astrodome.

Show


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).
  • (v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
  • (v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
  • (v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
  • (v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
  • (v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
  • (n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
  • (n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.
  • (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
  • (n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
  • (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
  • (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
  • (n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
  • (3) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
  • (4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (6) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
  • (7) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
  • (8) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (9) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
  • (10) These studies show that metabolic activation is necessary for the expression of the mutagenic activity of aflatoxins B1 and G1 in N. crassa.
  • (11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (12) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (13) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (14) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (15) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (16) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (17) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
  • (18) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (20) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.

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