(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.
Wrapped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Wrap
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(4) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(5) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(6) This is such a difficult area for prosecutors to wrap their hands around.
(7) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(8) Thought I'd relax and watch the final quarter of this game having wrapped that up.
(9) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
(10) Epithelioid-cell tumors contained multinucleated cells and areas of cell wrapping more frequently than did spindle-cell tumors.
(11) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
(12) For prophylactics of the commissural process the area of connection of main vessels of the artificial circulation apparatus (ACA) in 56 patients was wrapped up by teflon in order to ease reoperation.
(13) Once considered his nation's political tour de force, Anwar Ibrahim has spent the greater part of the past two decades in jail, wrapped up in court proceedings and enduring what he calls a long-standing smear campaign – from being labelled a chauvinist and Zionist to facing accusations that he is homosexual, guilty of sodomy and anti-Muslim.
(14) They wrapped the heads of these 41 infants with a dry linen cloth.
(15) Resection of malignant lesion and wrapping of aneurysm were carried out in all three patients simultaneously.
(16) Isner wrapped up the first set in 49 minutes and then cruised through the second two untroubled in the hot conditions in front of almost 7,000 fans.
(17) This region of the DNA helix is fully protected, indicating that the RNA polymerase wraps around the DNA between base positions -13 and +20.
(18) We have recently demonstrated that the application of a pedicled intercostal muscle graft or peritracheal membrane adipose tissue wrap on the bronchial anastomosis improved bronchial healing by restoring a vascular flow across the anastomosis within 7 days after left lung allotransplantation.
(19) Over 70 days of age, the combined presence of viral infection and wrapping in excess of 10 togs produced an odds ratio of SUD of 51.5 (95% CI 5.64 to 471.48) compared with wrapping of less than 6 togs.
(20) We have a high number of A&E attendances over this time that are due to issues that could have been avoided had people sought advice at the first sign of illness.” The Stay Well This Winter campaign will use TV, radio and social media to encourage people to wrap up warm and consult a pharmacist as soon as they feel unwell rather than waiting.