What's the difference between sark and sarky?

Sark


Definition:

  • (n.) A shirt.
  • (v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The twins argue this investment is creating jobs and protecting Sark's future.
  • (2) Observers were graded on a scale of I to IV according to the Sarks classification, which correlates fundus appearance and visual acuity with the severity of postmortem histological changes in Bruch's membrane.
  • (3) It’s my home.” Another Sark resident, who has made complaints to the police but has asked not to be named, said: “The situation has become unbearable.
  • (4) The British sham directors, many originally from the Channel island of Sark, are based in remote places, including Nevis, Vanuatu, Mauritius, Cyprus and Dubai.
  • (5) He is one of the candidates on a list that the Barclays' island bulletin, Sark News, says would be a disaster for the island if elected.
  • (6) He sees his role as editor of the Sark Newspaper as being in the best traditions of pamphleteers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • (7) Mr Delaney has, additionally, been subjected to attacks on his property, the setting of explosive fireworks outside his home and office, abuse by mail and online graffiti and even the creation of a mock grave.” Dawes wrote: “Mr Delaney is the sole proprietor and editor of the Sark Newspaper.
  • (8) D. radiophilus yielded three size classes of plasmid while D. radiodurans Sark, D. proteolyticus and D. radiopugnans each yielded two.
  • (9) Only one listed address, a cottage on Sark, seems genuinely residential.
  • (10) He seeks to expose the feudal system and the fact that Sark is not a democracy.” The letter continued: “Mr Delaney points out that this is not mere parish politics.
  • (11) Last week Delaney said hotels and other businesses on Sark owned by Sark Island Hotels, a subsidiary of Sark Estate Management, would not open next year or “for any foreseeable period after that” – a blow for the island’s tourist industry.
  • (12) The sarcomeric unit ("sark") is an elastic structure (cf.
  • (13) Sark is a popular holiday island where cars are banned.
  • (14) As neighbours and friends working within the local offshore financial industry in Sark scattered across the globe, the couple moved to the Caribbean.
  • (15) We are subjected to a weekly onslaught of abuse and vitriol by the Sark Newsletter.
  • (16) John Parker, the owner of a British incorporation agency, explained in an email: "Sarah and Edward Petre-Mears have dual residence – Sark and Nevis … The reason for this is that the UK government is trying its hardest to stop the 'Sark Lark', as it is known, and they decided to do something about it before it was forced upon them."
  • (17) At 10am today Lieutenant Colonel Reg Guille opened the door of the island hall on Sark and quietly ushered in the end of more than 400 years of feudal rule.
  • (18) ), making models – including a replica of the Cutty Sark in a bottle – played to his strengths of exactitude and attention to detail.
  • (19) Sark is a remote self-governing tax haven in the Channel Islands , a nine-mile ferry-ride from Guernsey.
  • (20) Getting to Nevis from Sark requires a long, indirect and infrequent flight to the slightly bigger nearby island of St Kitts, followed by an hour's sea-voyage on the Mark Twain, an ageing boat.

Sarky


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
  • (2) Someone at In Style is doubtless now wondering why they were sent a letter full of sarkiness and references to 80s movies.
  • (3) Direct observation and physiologic monitoring show that the Sarkis engage in more frequent and extended periods of heavy labor.
  • (4) B. T. Rocha, C. F. Mello, J. J. F. Sarkis and R. D. Dias, British Journal of Nutrition, 63:273-283, 1990).
  • (5) Intrapopulation differences aside, comparison of Sarkis and non-Sarkis with other samples reveals that both lie within the reported range of variation.
  • (6) The members of the Sarki caste have lower heart rates and systolic blood pressure, relative to other castes, at each of three submaximal workloads and during recovery from bicycle ergometer exercise.
  • (7) The BBC governors' programme complaints committee also ruled that the broadcast was not in breach of internal guidelines, though one governor, Angela Sarkis, broke ranks and said she "profoundly disagreed".
  • (8) The Sarkis in this study fall between Phases 2 and 3, as indicated by the total fertility rate (TFR).
  • (9) 3 sub-groups are studied: high caste (Brahmin and Chetri) urban residents, high caste urban fringe residents, and low caste untouchables (Sarki).
  • (10) By the age of 23, she was 15 stone and starring as tardy, sarky Twinkle in Dinnerladies (“All right, keep your scrotum on,” she would tell canteen manager Tony).
  • (11) 9.15pm GMT Simon Jordan, speaking on Sky Sports News, has just made a sarky quip about the generosity of Christoper Samba returning from Anzhi to selflessly help QPR's relegation fight.

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