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Sang


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sing.
  • () of Sing

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Suede sang about life on the margins, in council homes.
  • (2) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
  • (3) A throng gathered before it and sang the civil rights "Freedom Song."
  • (4) "I feel good about the park's resumption, but I also have a heavy heart," said Sung Hyun-sang, president of apparel manufacturer Mansun Corporation, which has lost about 7bn won because of the shutdown.
  • (5) Angela Merkel , who turns 60 on Thursday, thanked a German reporter who sang the traditional birthday song at a news conference in Brussels, and revealed that other leaders had given her flowers.
  • (6) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
  • (7) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
  • (8) "Governor let me in, I wanna be your friend, there'll be no partisan divisions," the Boss sang.
  • (9) "I'm Ms Dy-na-mi-TEE-ee," she sang on the chorus, putting an emphasis on the penultimate syllable.
  • (10) Lee sang, tap-danced and did comic turns before settling on the drums.
  • (11) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
  • (12) He was pictured standing silently with his hands clasped and holding his order of service as others around him sang God Save the Queen, and was later forced to confirm that he would sing the anthem at future events.
  • (13) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
  • (14) Away from the violence and the weirdness, Korea supports a healthy contingent of award-winning auteurs, like Hong Sang-soo , Im Sang-soo or Lee Chang-dong.
  • (15) "Dive in a minute, he's going to dive in a minute," the visiting fans sang at Didier Drogba in the opening minutes but he never did.
  • (16) The public demand that chaebol , especially Samsung, should not be an exception and that everyone should be equal before laws has become stronger,” said Kim Sang-jo, executive director of Solidarity for Economic Reform, a private business watchdog.
  • (17) I used to be indifferent, but when I stood on the square, hand on my heart, and sang the national anthem, I'll never forget it.
  • (18) Gamble and Huff's career spans the history of rock and soul – Gamble sang with a group called the Romeos in the 60s, while Huff's early days reach back further, having played piano on sessions for the rock'n'roll songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller, and for Phil Spector.
  • (19) Jermain Defoe strikes in 89th minute for Sunderland to draw with Liverpool Read more Before the mass departure the Kop loudly sang, “Enough is enough, you greedy bastards, enough is enough” – which was roundly applauded by all four sides of Anfield, including the Sunderland supporters – before launching into ’You’ll Never Walk Alone’, usually reserved for the last few moments of a game.
  • (20) The culture medium was prepared by mixing in a 1:1 ratio Cross and Sang's M3(BF) medium, supplemented with 10% heat inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS), with the supernatant of a primary embryonic cell culture made in the M3(BF) medium and supplementing this mixture with insulin.

Sank


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sink.
  • () of Sink

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Land near the city of Corcoran sank 13in in just eight months.
  • (2) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” The defeat at the KC Stadium – a fifth in a row in the league – meant Villa sank into the bottom three for the first time this season, having briefly topped the table in August after winning three of their opening four matches.
  • (3) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
  • (4) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
  • (5) When the nest temperature was raised to thermoneutral, the direction of pup flow reversed and an immobile animal sank to the depths of the huddle.
  • (6) As the reality of Putin's decision that he would return to the Kremlin next year sank in, one joke was doing the rounds: "In response to the charge that there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got plastic surgery."
  • (7) He said: 'Let's raise the red flag over the town hall', and my heart sank because I knew that it would be taken as a marker.
  • (8) Demand also sank in other major continental markets, falling 14.5% in France, 13.9% in Spain and 4.9% in Italy.
  • (9) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
  • (10) An intravenous bolus injection of 1 mg of naloxone was administered immediately before starting a routine hemodialysis session and was repeated when the patients' systolic arterial pressure sank below 90 mm Hg.
  • (11) Nielsen indicated that shoppers spent 1.6% less at the UK’s leading supermarkets in the four weeks to 13 September, while the volume of items bought sank 1.9%.
  • (12) I thought we had finally put it all behind us, but when the authorities told us recently it was likely to happen again, that was when our hearts sank.
  • (13) The bodies of 111 people have been found since the boat sank half a mile from Italian territory on Thursday.
  • (14) It was French opposition that finally sank the bid to seal a temporary nuclear accord, after three days of intense bargaining, in the early hours of Sunday morning, but Netanyahu was quick to claim credit.
  • (15) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
  • (16) Many people you talk to will label Twitter Music as a flop: its iPhone app flew high briefly in the App Store, then sank swiftly.
  • (17) The presence of these radionuclides at great depth could not be explained by Stokesian settling of small fallout particles and it was hypothesized that zooplankton grazing in the surface layers packaged these particle-reactive radionuclides into large, relatively dense faecal pellets which rapidly sank to depth.
  • (18) North Korea prefers sneak attacks, like the torpedo in March 2010 that sank the South Korean navy ship Cheonan : 46 died.
  • (19) As revenues sank 28.5% to €82.6m, it made an operating loss of €3.8m, down from a €4.7m profit last year.
  • (20) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.