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Sarong


Definition:

  • (n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Fouad removed the white piece of cloth, we were outside a small compound surrounded by heavily armed men, some in local sarongs, others in shalwar kameez.
  • (2) We were always paying bribes,” Hussein said, wearing the traditional Burmese longi , a type of sarong.
  • (3) Dressed in white shirts over their green sarongs, dozens of young men poured down the concrete step of the army barracks and across the compound.
  • (4) He would later claim that he lost the job because his only sarong was accidentally torn and he could not afford to replace it.
  • (5) And wearing a sarong, as footballers generally don’t.
  • (6) Just 30 years ago, Samarinda was a sleepy village surrounded by deep equatorial forest and known mostly for its traditionally woven sarongs.
  • (7) Booths have been erected in schools and monasteries and long queues of people hoping to avoid the heat arrived early and patiently waited, many wearing traditional “longyi” sarongs and some holding children.
  • (8) Her roster of artists includes Htein Lin , a former political prisoner who in six years behind bars created 200 works on white cotton longyis , the Burmese sarongs that were prison uniform.
  • (9) A few cargo ships gingerly waited in the harbour, the markets were crowded and in the dusk hours the wet sands of the Arabian sea glittered with the reflections of women in black abayas and fathers in sarongs paddling with their children.
  • (10) He graduated from high school in 1939, working briefly in a village bank, and would later claim he lost the job because his only sarong was accidentally torn and he could not afford to replace it.
  • (11) With his sarong, his floppy hair and his pop star girlfriend, the boy Beckham had always been as much an enemy of "English" football as its hero .
  • (12) Some units wore khaki trousers and white T-shirts while others had just a few military garments, casting a jacket over a sarong.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ellen Phiri, 23, maternity bag contents: torch, black plastic sheet, razor blade, string, 200 Malawian kwacha note and three large sarongs.
  • (14) Forget the sarong and the experiments with pink nail varnish.
  • (15) Tall with a concave chest and pencil-thin moustache, he wore a threadbare sarong with a new, elegant heavy-wool jacket in the midday heat.
  • (16) The main physical threat is from developers who want to change the unique facades of the old town houses, but earnest and determined Tharanga is also charged with making sure the fort doesn’t become an open museum that only rich tourists can afford to stay and shop in – there are already six boutique hotels, a growing number of upmarket shops selling $40 sarongs and luxury beauty products and restaurants offering cocktails and sushi.
  • (17) But there is one thing that even now no man feels comfortable doing … one boundary that, even in his sarong-and-nail-varnish-wearing pomp, David Beckham never dared to over-step … one convention that no shock-rocker has ever had the courage to defy.
  • (18) Hundreds of men, young and old, tribesmen in short sarongs and others of African decent stood in rows.
  • (19) A boy in a yellow sarong runs into the water, towards fishing boats bobbing serenely in the Indian Ocean.

Strong


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
  • (superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
  • (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
  • (superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
  • (superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
  • (superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
  • (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
  • (superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
  • (superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
  • (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
  • (superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
  • (superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
  • (superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
  • (superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
  • (superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
  • (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
  • (superl.) Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
  • (superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
  • (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
  • (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (2) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
  • (3) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (4) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (5) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
  • (6) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
  • (7) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
  • (8) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (9) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
  • (10) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (12) Although the productions of deoxycortisol and androstenedione from 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone were strongly inhibited by progesterone, androstenedione formation from progesterone was not inhibited by a high concentration of progesterone.
  • (13) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
  • (14) The activity is strongly inhibited by SH-blocking reagents (e.g.
  • (15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (16) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (17) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
  • (18) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (19) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
  • (20) Incubation of membrane with DL-Hcys alone (5 X 10(-5) M), the combination of both Ad (5 X 10(-5)) and DL-Hcys (5 X 10(-5)), or S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) (1 X 10(-6)) strongly decreased the methyl ester formation.

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