(n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
(n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(2) But those involved must consider the risks of their last-chance saloon strategy: 1.
(3) Echoing the former Conservative cabinet minister David Mellor's criticism of the press in the 1980s, he said the report had placed the PCC in the "last chance saloon".
(4) Perth felt like the last-chance saloon for galvanising rhetoric, and Sturgeon has six short months before the general election to prove that her party is a truly progressive alternative to Labour.
(5) Another of this past weekend’s entrants, Jake Quickenden, told Dermot O’Leary that he was in the “last chance saloon”, and that “if I get a no again it’s game over”.
(6) Jake Jackson West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire • While I take Chuka Umunna's point that Nigel Farage too often gives the impression that the saloon bar of a pub is his office, it is a pity that he feels the need to distance Labour from the idea of posing with pints.
(7) Just on the stretch of coast road from Kamaishi to Otsuchi city, there is a four-door saloon wedged in the third-floor window of a primary school, a 25-metre catamaran perched on a building half its size and a 6,000-tonne container ship, the Asian Symphony, rammed through a concrete sea wall and now blocking one lane of the road.
(8) Hodgson had arrived in a Vauxhall Insignia and, to even louder groans, he was asked whether the squad amounted to a sports car or a family saloon.
(9) "There's a decent-sized main cabin, nine guests cabins, a few saloons, a dining room – it's not outrageous," Lürssen said of the yacht.
(10) This government has difficulty in managing a non-story about the chancellor upgrading his ticket on a train, or the stupidity of the former chief whip (who is no toff) behaving like a saloon-bar bore.
(11) At the England squad announcement, which took place at the Luton headquarters of their sponsors Vauxhall, Roy Hodgson was asked if his team was more like a humdrum family saloon or a sports car.
(12) That success prompted JLR to open its first factory in China last year in a £1bn joint venture with state-owned carmaker Chery to capitalise on the burgeoning appetite for its range of 4x4s, luxury saloons and sports cars.
(13) They looked in horror on the new saloons of the expanding cities, with their card games and fist fights, their bad boys and good-time girls.
(14) It makes for a great, if surreal day out, what with tourists texting in the saloon and the music of Ennio Morricone drifting over the car park.
(15) As the former EU commissioner for climate action, Connie Hedegaard, has emphasised , negotiators will be sipping their champagne in the last-chance saloon for UN-led action.
(16) The next version of the luxury Phaeton saloon car will be electric and VW will develop a standardised electric toolkit to fit all passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
(17) Now, you walk past it on the way to Celtic Park on a match day, barely noticing it but knowing that it exists in the city's folklore as a last-chance saloon.
(18) Newark, the Tories will hope, is Ukip's Stalingrad, the decisive moment when the purple tide is driven back and Nigel Farage's demoralised "People's Army" scatter to weep into their real ale in the nearest saloon bar.
(19) Other new concept cars on show included Renault's electric saloon, the Fluence Zero, a hybrid RCZ by Peugeot and Audi's e-Tron, a high-performance electric sports car.
(20) The presiding judge at the press standards inquiry intervened repeatedly towards the end of Barber's 90 minutes of evidence on Tuesday morning, at one point disagreeing with Barber's proposition that the press was "in the last chance saloon, drinking our last pint".
Yacht
Definition:
(n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
(v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.
Example Sentences:
(1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
(2) Cellino was initially disqualified in December when the League ruled a first-grade conviction for tax evasion on a yacht in Sardinia was a “dishonest offence” and that he was therefore in breach of the organisation’s owners’ and directors’ test.
(3) However, no deal has been forthcoming and the billionaire tycoon was photographed on his new yacht throughout the summer.
(4) We are not looking to own boats and yachts and stuff like that.
(5) The League ruled that because the tax offence involving the yacht Nelie had been confirmed by the Italian judge to have been a dishonest act, Cellino failed its owners and directors test.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
(8) The model, the beach, the yacht, what more is there to say?
(9) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
(10) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
(11) "Two women were hooded, they had their eyes taped," she said, describing how the yacht was quickly overwhelmed.
(12) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
(13) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(14) The plan for the yacht is the brainchild of Rear Admiral David Bawtree, a former naval base commander in Portsmouth.
(15) But the primary cause, particularly near the yachting courses, is the waste that flows into the bay from surrounding communities, many of which emerged during periods of unregulated urban growth.
(16) You have this tension between the privacy that yachts and the sea afford against this desire to see and be seen,” she says.
(17) Downing Street has moved swiftly to torpedo a proposal from the education secretary, Michael Gove , that the public should donate a £60m royal yacht to the Queen as part of this year's diamond jubilee celebrations.
(18) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
(19) Not a single ship in the Unites States is equipped to handle wind turbines: Forget about whales and yacht routes.
(20) Officially, Deng is entitled to whatever she agreed to in the prenuptial agreement signed in 1999 when they married on a luxury yacht to the sounds of Charlotte Church's angelic voice.