(n.) Anciently, an Arab; later, a Mussulman; in the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
(2) In AD831 the Saracens took control of Palermo and transformed the original seventh century cathedral into a large mosque called Gami, until the Norman conquest of the city returned the building to Christian worship.
(3) The government claimed 11 out of the 21 fatalities died from gunshot wounds, the Indonesian Communion of Churches put the death toll at 23 The Indonesian government has not given up using force in east Timor either: On 23rd March 1997 7 Timorese youths were killed and 42 wounded by security forces at the Mahkota Hotel in Dili, East Timor, as they tried to meet UN special ambassador Jamsheed Marker In the first 8 months of 1998 there were 37 confirmed extra-judicial killings in East Timor On 20th January 1999 Colonel Halim admitted Saracen and Saladin armoured vehicles were being used in East Timor In January 1999 paramilitaries trained by the Indonesian army carried out killings in the village of Galitas in the Covalima district of East Timor.
(4) Stanley, 23, part of one of rugby union’s most famous families who has represented England at under-16 and under-18 level and has played for Saracens, revealed he contemplated suicide because he was scared telling the truth would ruin his rugby career.
(5) Less startlingly but more intriguingly to rugby fans, in June Seattle-Old Puget Sound Beach, a leading US rugby club, changed its name to Seattle Saracens .
(6) In leafy Southwell, dominated by the minster, which dates back to the 13th century, Ukip has won over the owner of the Saracens Head hotel, where Charles I spent his last free night in 1646.
(7) Also quite funny was what Boris Johnson said in response to Trump’s claims about urban no-go areas – “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” – and the Twitter TrumpFacts hashtag, which spoofed Britain’s supposed radicalisation with, for example, a picture of a Saracens Head pub sign captioned: “Even England’s famous pubs are controlled by Islamic radicals.” That’s the strongest way of responding to him: to point at the shitting man and laugh.
(8) I know we’ve never been richer in a global sense but I don’t think that the people of Possilpark feel much of that.” Just across Saracen Road is a building that illustrates this part of Possilpark’s story.
(9) With bright pink plate-glass windows and high walls clad in cream panels and battleship-grey zinc, Possilpark heath centre imposes itself on Saracen Street.
(10) You are so worried about what people will think and I thought I couldn’t be a macho rugby player the way I was, and there was nothing else I wanted to do with my life.” Stanley joined Saracens in 2010 and spent four years at the north London club before joining the sevens circuit in 2014, playing in five tournaments in with England.
(11) On Wednesday two London-based Saracens, the England and Lions fly-half Owen Farrell and the Springbok scrum-half Neil de Kock, were in the city to develop the relationship .
(12) I have an English grandmother, somewhere or another an Italian great-great-grandmother; and you can see from my Slavic cheekbones that my mother comes from West Prussia ... My name is derived from the Arab pirates called Saracens in the Middle Ages.
(13) So England got Andrew – a far less abrasive option than either of the former national coaches – and Jones moved on, first of all back to Saracens, then on to Japan, for three years coaching the club side Suntory Sungoliath and since 2012 the national side, with whom he is currently based in Bristol preparing for their opening pool game, against South Africa in Brighton.
(14) The government's answer was to introduce new and harsher laws, to mobilise its armed forces, and to send saracens, armed vehicles, and soldiers into the townships in a massive show of force designed to intimidate the people.
(15) An alpha-L-rhamnosidase from the seeds of Fagopyrum esculentum (saracen corn) has previously been identified, and the effect of the enzyme on rhamnoisic bonds has been studied with various flavonoid glycosides.
Saracenic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Saracenical
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
(2) In AD831 the Saracens took control of Palermo and transformed the original seventh century cathedral into a large mosque called Gami, until the Norman conquest of the city returned the building to Christian worship.
(3) The government claimed 11 out of the 21 fatalities died from gunshot wounds, the Indonesian Communion of Churches put the death toll at 23 The Indonesian government has not given up using force in east Timor either: On 23rd March 1997 7 Timorese youths were killed and 42 wounded by security forces at the Mahkota Hotel in Dili, East Timor, as they tried to meet UN special ambassador Jamsheed Marker In the first 8 months of 1998 there were 37 confirmed extra-judicial killings in East Timor On 20th January 1999 Colonel Halim admitted Saracen and Saladin armoured vehicles were being used in East Timor In January 1999 paramilitaries trained by the Indonesian army carried out killings in the village of Galitas in the Covalima district of East Timor.
(4) Stanley, 23, part of one of rugby union’s most famous families who has represented England at under-16 and under-18 level and has played for Saracens, revealed he contemplated suicide because he was scared telling the truth would ruin his rugby career.
(5) Less startlingly but more intriguingly to rugby fans, in June Seattle-Old Puget Sound Beach, a leading US rugby club, changed its name to Seattle Saracens .
(6) In leafy Southwell, dominated by the minster, which dates back to the 13th century, Ukip has won over the owner of the Saracens Head hotel, where Charles I spent his last free night in 1646.
(7) Also quite funny was what Boris Johnson said in response to Trump’s claims about urban no-go areas – “The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump” – and the Twitter TrumpFacts hashtag, which spoofed Britain’s supposed radicalisation with, for example, a picture of a Saracens Head pub sign captioned: “Even England’s famous pubs are controlled by Islamic radicals.” That’s the strongest way of responding to him: to point at the shitting man and laugh.
(8) I know we’ve never been richer in a global sense but I don’t think that the people of Possilpark feel much of that.” Just across Saracen Road is a building that illustrates this part of Possilpark’s story.
(9) With bright pink plate-glass windows and high walls clad in cream panels and battleship-grey zinc, Possilpark heath centre imposes itself on Saracen Street.
(10) You are so worried about what people will think and I thought I couldn’t be a macho rugby player the way I was, and there was nothing else I wanted to do with my life.” Stanley joined Saracens in 2010 and spent four years at the north London club before joining the sevens circuit in 2014, playing in five tournaments in with England.
(11) On Wednesday two London-based Saracens, the England and Lions fly-half Owen Farrell and the Springbok scrum-half Neil de Kock, were in the city to develop the relationship .
(12) I have an English grandmother, somewhere or another an Italian great-great-grandmother; and you can see from my Slavic cheekbones that my mother comes from West Prussia ... My name is derived from the Arab pirates called Saracens in the Middle Ages.
(13) So England got Andrew – a far less abrasive option than either of the former national coaches – and Jones moved on, first of all back to Saracens, then on to Japan, for three years coaching the club side Suntory Sungoliath and since 2012 the national side, with whom he is currently based in Bristol preparing for their opening pool game, against South Africa in Brighton.
(14) The government's answer was to introduce new and harsher laws, to mobilise its armed forces, and to send saracens, armed vehicles, and soldiers into the townships in a massive show of force designed to intimidate the people.
(15) An alpha-L-rhamnosidase from the seeds of Fagopyrum esculentum (saracen corn) has previously been identified, and the effect of the enzyme on rhamnoisic bonds has been studied with various flavonoid glycosides.