(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.
Wuther
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(2) 1Wuthering Heights Her wild eyes, flailing limbs and high-pitched vocals instantly made her ripe for parody , but it was the sheer emotional force of Wuthering Heights that made Kate Bush’s debut single a smash.
(3) Wuthering Heights is also about many other things besides that relationship.
(4) But this has always been the fate of Wuthering Heights.
(5) He'd been watching Wuthering Heights and he said 'You're a bit like Heathcliff.
(6) A canny follow-up to Wuthering Heights, it showcased a softer side to her voice and banished any lingering suspicions that this strange woman might be a one-hit oddity.
(7) I have only one question to ask the 2,000 readers who, according to a new poll for UKTV Drama, have just voted Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights the greatest love story of all time.
(8) Moreover, what would happen to small-scale, high-impact films such as Shame , Wuthering Heights , The Deep Blue Sea and We Need to Talk About Kevin ; all low-budget, "difficult" films that required a "cultural" imperative to get off the ground?
(9) Wuthering Heights forsakes Arnold's beloved housing estates altogether – though even the most forbidding of these would resemble Paris in springtime next to the rain-lashed moors near the Pennine Way where Arnold filmed her adaptation.
(10) Wuthering Heights is pretty much my most treasured novel, astonishing with every reading.
(11) Gone was the wide-eyed, shrill-voiced ingenue of Wuthering Heights.
(12) But the two most influential culprits of the modern era are Hollywood and the Bronte industry, which in their separate but related ways have conspired to belittle Wuthering Heights and to reduce Emily Bronte to someone barely connected to the real world.
(13) Her younger sister, Emily Brontë, wrote Wuthering Heights.
(14) STV had not always lost out when it had passed up the chance to screen new ITV drama, Hain said: the seven-year-old Daniela Nardini drama Sirens recently did better in Scotland than Wuthering Heights had across the rest of the UK.
(15) Just 1,236 answered a question on Pride and Prejudice, a mere 285 tackled Far from the Madding Crowd, and only 187 braved Wuthering Heights.
(16) Sober Charlotte (Jane Eyre) Bronte not crazy Emily (Wuthering Heights) Bronte.
(17) His first wake-up call to dance, at the age of 13, was watching a friend act out Bush's Wuthering Heights .
(18) During a 35-year recording career Bush has travelled from the theatrical teen prodigy of Wuthering Heights to 80s pagan-pop goddess to a more wistful chronicler of the power of the elements.
(19) The production wasn't undiluted hardship: there were raucous weekend shindigs, says Arnold, who hired a Kate Bush impersonator to sing Wuthering Heights for the wrap party.
(20) The effect, though, has always been the same - to make Wuthering Heights something less than the book actually is.