(v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
(v.) A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.
(v.) A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
(v.) An excursion from the usual track; range; digression; deviation.
(v.) A flight of fancy, liveliness, wit, or the like; a flashing forth of a quick and active mind.
(v.) Transgression of the limits of soberness or steadiness; act of levity; wild gayety; frolic; escapade.
Example Sentences:
(1) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(2) Leaving aside those who make difficult interviewees because they are difficult people, Sally Wainwright is probably the most difficult interviewee ever.
(3) The recent Channel 4 documentary "You're killing my son" told the story of Neon Roberts, a young boy whose treatment for a brain tumour was halted by his mother Sally, who remained convinced that radiotherapy would cause long-term harm and wanted to try alternative medical treatments.
(4) McAlpine was not named in the programme, but he was incorrectly linked to the claims on the internet, including by the speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, and the actor Alan Davies.
(5) Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said at the time however that e-cigarettes should only be used a means to help smokers quit.
(6) So off he toddled with his bindle-stick to play at running away, taking refuge at Sally's house.
(7) These days large theatres such as the Met in New York still use the recitative, but most productions tend to opt for the original dialogue, while a few, including Sally Potter's production for ENO in 2007, attempt to make do without either.
(8) One consequence of the Cummings memo was that the Labour peer Sally Morgan was not reappointed as chair of Ofsted’s board earlier this year, in an effort to force the pace of internal change.
(9) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
(10) BBC1’s police thriller Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire set in the Calder Valley and written by Sally Wainwright , will return for a third series after its second pulled 7 million viewers.
(11) One of the greatest Hollywood comedies, When Harry Met Sally , is still largely remembered as a "chick flick", when it was directed by Rob Reiner, the man who made Spinal Tap .
(12) Legally, Sally has every right to demand the money back – no one is entitled to keep money wrongly credited to their account.
(13) Sally Copley, Save the Children's head of UK policy, said the government needed a way to count children in extreme poverty.
(14) We must urgently change course to avert this potential crisis.” There has also been considerable advocacy by health officials, like Sally Davies, chief medical officer of the UK.
(15) The 14-member committee – whose only woman is Northampton MP Sally Keeble – stopped short of calling for quotas on female board representation in financial firms or for legal changes to boost the profile of women in the City.
(16) For example, Sue and Dorrie heard the voice mention "David", "pain in the back" and "passed quickly", and they both claim that Sally then repeated this word-for-word on stage, but in a more dramatic fashion.
(17) Sally Chisholm of the NHS Technology Adoption Centre blamed "budget silos", as narrow funding streams often present financial disincentives to changing the way of working.
(18) We need our Stephen Hawkings, but we also need Bob the Builder, firefighter Sally, Ned the nurse, soldier Salim and postal worker Patu.
(19) Sally sent us off on the Tiny Tim Trail, a sloping, twisting, turning snowshoe path that had me panting and out of breath in less than five minutes.
(20) Some might gently suggest it is best left empty, but Sally threw good judgment to the wind and took to internet dating.
Skit
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast reflections on; to asperse.
(n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
(n.) A wanton girl; a light wench.
Example Sentences:
(1) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(2) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(3) We have developed a device tentatively named Multi Skit (Mu), a simple allergen test device, in order to conduct the skin test safely, accurately and conveniently.
(4) He has hosted SNL three times alongside Wiig, co-creating their skits each time.
(5) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
(6) Contrary to the popular image of the undecided voter as being ignorant and unengaged – a recent Saturday Night Live skit captured the stereotype brilliantly – Flack is a political science graduate who is following the race closely.
(7) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(8) She said he was a cross between Fred Astaire and Jack Black, a song-and-dance man who can do all sorts of skits.
(9) New diagnostic tools as penile Doppler ultrasonography, PBI estimation, NPT measurement, invasive SKIT's, neurophysiological methods, selective phalloarteriography, artificial erection and dynamic cavernosography are introduced and are the guide to therapeutic approach.
(10) The bizarre skit features Broughton, in wrestling-promoter braggadoccio mode, telling the camera : “I’m cleverer than you, I’m better looking than you, I’ve got more charisma than all of you could ever dream of, and of course the important thing, I’ve got more money than any of you could possibly imagine.” Broughton told the Hartlepool Mail that he had been quoted “out of context”.
(11) In the skit, Ted mentions to Mark Wahlberg that if "you want to work in this town" you have to be Jewish.
(12) I wanna be in that .” After an internship on one low-budget film, Lievsay was hired to edit United Artists movies, as well as the prerecorded skits for Saturday Night Live.
(13) He later tried to justify his angry reaction, saying: "This is the one person I know, so I can go and let out everything that I feel about every single bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumour in barbershop, everything that people feel is OK to treat celebrities like zoo animals or act like what they're saying is not serious or their life is not serious or their dreams are not serious."
(14) It’s like an SNL skit: ‘Look at me – I’m so relatable.’ Can 'Obamadale' become 'Clintondale'?
(15) In 2006, a skit upset Hezbollah and shortly afterwards, Shia Lebanese attacked Christians in east Beirut in what was thought to be payback.
(16) Eventually they switched to sketches, including a nude balloon dance and a Shakespearean skit that Hardee had written in Ford open prison.
(17) She posts songs, vlogs and comedy skits with her Scottish sidekick, the Unnecessary Otter.
(18) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
(19) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.
(20) There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd .