(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
(n.) A perfect recitation.
(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
(n.) The act of running with the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(2) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
(3) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
(4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(5) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(6) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
(7) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(8) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
(9) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
(10) Nightmarish visions of suicide bombers and dead children, a rushed conversion to Catholicism, and a mental breakdown over the war on Iraq.
(11) It is essential that charities integrate new trustees well from day one – and the process must not be rushed.
(12) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
(13) I’m not satisfied until I collect everything' … EFL Cup Europa League International Champions Cup Community Shield Which competition was Ian Rush talking about when he said: 'This is why cup finals are so special, because anyone can beat anyone.
(14) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(15) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(16) Lawyers acting for a severely disabled prisoner who was rushed from jail to a life-support machine in hospital, are asking the high court to rule he should not be sent back to a prison that cannot meet his medical needs.
(17) He advises first-time buyers not to rush in: "Try and save as much as you can: having a bigger deposit will not only mean you can get a mortgage, but also secure you a better rate."
(18) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
(20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
Ruth
Definition:
(v.) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
(v.) That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, has abandoned plans to call for lower Scottish tax rates after learning that George Osborne is considering far deeper spending cuts.
(2) A significant breakthrough has been achieved by Ruth Nussensweig and her colleagues using the techniques of molecular biology.
(3) US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted that her traditional State of the Union nap may have been induced by a glass or two of wine.
(4) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
(5) Ruth Rankine, deputy chief inspector of general practice at the Care Quality Commission, said: “If we find on our inspections that staffing levels are leading to patients receiving unsafe care and treatment, including delays in response times, then we have a range of enforcement powers we can use to ensure that appropriate action is taken.
(6) 6.49pm: Ruth Francis, head of press at Nature Publishing Group, also gives the thumbs-up to Scientific American's reporting of the findings .
(7) Labour suffered disastrous losses in Scotland, where it slipped to third place behind Ruth Davidson’s Scottish Conservatives.
(8) It currently has one woman sitting on it – Sotomayor joins Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(9) Given that the next president could be in a position to replace Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – two of the members of the razor-thin five-vote majority supporting Roe v Wade – Americans who don’t want to return women to the reproductive dark ages should vote accordingly come November.
(10) Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
(11) Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, disclosed that she stayed at the far more budget-minded Travelodge for her party's annual conference in Manchester.
(12) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
(13) John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths' Ruth Martin outside the Salford Lads Club, Salford.
(14) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
(15) She is, therefore, basically the Ruth Evershed (from Spooks) of the ancient world.
(16) Chief policy adviser to Greenpeace, Ruth Davis, said: "What this report reminds us is that sudden shifts in global climate will affect our world and our daily lives in chaotic and unusual ways.
(17) Ruth Carnall, former chief executive of NHS London.
(18) The Scottish Conservatives leader, Ruth Davidson, has raised eyebrows by posting a picture of the actor Gillian Anderson in lingerie on social media.
(19) 8.24pm BST "The mood is downright miserable" – defense department education activity employee The Guardian's Ruth Spencer ( @ruths ) is in touch with federal workers affected by the shutdown.
(20) Fifteen years ago she was an emerging talent, as were Harriet Hunt and Ruth Sheldon, who both won world girls championships against strong opposition.