(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.
Spank
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
(n.) A blow with the open hand; a slap.
(v. i.) To move with a quick, lively step between a trot and gallop; to move quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eventually he lays it back invitingly to Iniesta, 25 yards out, and he spanks it high and wide.
(2) Compared with the control group, both treatment groups of mothers reported significantly fewer child behavior problems, reduced stress levels, and less use of spanking.
(3) Spanking, in the last case, was the cause of an important luxation of T12-L1, at first with a complete paraplegia, and was associated with the fact that the child was only seen a few days after by a doctor and immediately referred.
(4) Peterson is accused of using a wooden switch to spank his 4-year-old son.
(5) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(6) The tickets are only €10, yet the first prize is a brand spanking new Fiat Panda 4x4 – with all optional extras.
(7) Then, after a single, a full toss is offered to Sangakkara, and he spanks it through cover and stalks off for a sarnie.
(8) More disjointedness like that after kick-off and they'll get their hids spanked.
(9) The venue looked good and made Labour's point, a spanking new hospital standing as visual proof of Labour's investment in public services (a point only slightly undermined by the sight of an audience in coats and woolly hats, apparently because the central heating in the building was not yet working).
(10) He had been accused of abusing eight youngsters at Cambridge Hostel in the town by spanking and touching them.
(11) Fresh belief flowed through Arsenal, even more so two minutes later when Ramsey scored with a spanking volley.
(12) Smith was secretary of the Rochdale Hostel for Boys Association, where he was accused of abusing vulnerable youngsters by spanking and touching them.
(13) To emphasise the point, the Batmobile steals every scene it's in, juggernauting across the Gotham rooftops in a spectacular chase that ends with Wayne earning a spanking from his lovable cockney butler Michael Caine.
(14) DOWN UNDER He has just been given a lucrative new job where progress simply means doing better than David Moyes and last week he led his national team to a momentous spanking of the side reputed to be one of the best in history, but Louis van Gaal is not a happy man.
(15) My mother, out of patience, spanked him, but regretted it later.
(16) "Honey, get into that bath before I spank you," Bond warns.)
(17) And just as Mikey-Michael is reckoning that Eranga has yapped himself out of focus, he hammers down one that's absurdly short and outside leg, so Ali gets right on top of it and spanks a swivel-pull around the corner for four.
(18) However, controlling for positive communication or for a parent-oriented motivation for spanking eliminated the negative effects of spanking, suggesting that the negative effects reflected use of spanking as a replacement for positive communication with the child.
(19) Abusive fathers spanked their children significantly more often than the nonabusive fathers, and abusive mothers had the highest frequency of critical statements directed at their children.
(20) Another opening-day bust came from the arm of the Phillies' Cole Hamels, who marked his entry into the upper echelon of pitching salaries (six years for $144m) by getting spanked by Atlanta down at Turner Field.