(1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(2) All round Europe there have been political earthquakes in a volatile anti-politics age: the surprise is that Britain’s scratchy, irascible electorate hasn’t expressed its underlying anger that ordinary people paid the price for the bankers’ crash.
(3) Joseph Morpurgo's solo hour starts with scratchy old American TV footage.
(4) But as expected, the scratchy blankets are covered in hairs, the food is poor and the bathroom horrible (we queue to clean our teeth at the one working tap while a man washes his feet at it).
(5) And they took me into a theatre, and I saw this scratchy, black and white duke with no sound and a terrible track and all this camera noise of a movie that lasted three and a half hours at that time or something, and everybody was speaking a different language.
(6) Hard and scratchy foods also are consumed frequently.
(7) By setting aside the past, this was the day Miliband took full command of his party, a shadow cabinet behind him no longer scratchy with a few doubters.
(8) Dryness was reported more frequently than the symptoms scratchy and watery (p less than 0.001).
(9) Three months later, Stern was holding a conference call with reporters on a scratchy phone line from Havana.
(10) In a scratchy first half it took 25 minutes for Argentina to create a chance, Higuaín heading over from Messi’s whipped free-kick, but it was the Swiss who had the better opening two minutes later, Granit Xhaka shooting low but straight at Sergio Romero from a Shaqiri cutback.
(11) In his scratchy address, the then-head of News Corp in Europe and Asia laid into the BBCarguing: "The scope of its activities and ambitions is chilling."
(12) One aspect of England's scratchy record in World Cup penalty shoot-outs since they won the trophy in 1966 perhaps doesn't require a knowledge of high-level mathematics.
(13) What has been happening in West Everton this morning – this scritchy-scratchy Vivaldi – is more than just a music workshop.
(14) Serosis, sweating, scratchy clothes, allergy, infection, scratching, allergic contact dermatitis, anxiety, and coexisting disease are potential flare factors.
(15) Mourinho spoke about the importance of practising the transitions from attack to defence and defence to attack, and introduced to public consciousness the concept of “resting on the ball”, passing it around at the back to give players time to recuperate, but his football was scratchy and, frankly, a little dull.
(16) He even says "I'm killing indie rap" at one point, and it's true: with his mellow flow and lyrics about his tough street life over scratchy and hissy beats from Doom, Dilla and DJ Premier – which were themselves based on ancient crate-dusty soul and jazz vinyl samples – Nehru is the anti-Earl Sweatshirt .
(17) Updated at 3.34pm BST 3.19pm BST 68th over: England 157-6 (Ali 51, Prior 8) Prasad returns, and engages Ali's bat more than Eranga, but he's right on top of things, playing the ball almost from in the crease; though this has been a slow innings, it's not been a scratchy one; he's played very few false shots.
(18) Milton's announcement about the consultation came towards the end of a scratchy debate in which Dorries said Cameron had initially encouraged her.
(19) I think we were just scratchy and hackles up and defensive.
(20) The child with no complaints other than discharge probably has a conjunctivitis, while the child with photophobia and a scratchy sensation should make one search for either a foreign body or a corneal problem.
Spotty
Definition:
(a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) The label was present in a spotty fashion or over a so-called uropod.
(2) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.
(3) 1) small elevation, 2) spotty barium fleck, 3) ill defined barium fleck and 4) barium fleck with halo were suggested the possibility of inflammatory bowel diseases.
(4) Among 58 patients with the syndrome, spotty facial pigmentation was present in 36 (62%), and 29 (50%) of these also had pigmented spots on their lips.
(5) On incremental CT, dense, spotty peripheral enhancement was present in 23 of the 30 (77%) hemangiomas.
(6) Later spotty or smudgy extravasation may be seen in necrotic tumor areas, and increased vascular anastomoses appear between the nutritive and functional pulmonary circulations.
(7) A group of patients with cardiac myxoma who have a heritable syndrome involving skin myxomas, endocrine tumors, and lentiginosis--the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity--has been described previously.
(8) Observations of patients with plasma cell osteomyelitis and chronic destructive sympathetic arthritis indicate a special set of findings due to plasma cell osteomyelitis: metadiaphyseal ossifying periostitis, extreme demineralisation of the adjacent epiphysis with spotty focal sclerosis of the spongiosa and a chronic arthritis.
(9) In T1-weighted magnetic resonance images, a spotty hyperintense tumor of the sellar region was shown.
(10) An enzyme immunoassay (EIA) test system has been developed for the detection of tick spotty fever (TSF) group Rickettsia.
(11) The renal angiographic findings in our two patients with scleroderma and recent onset of hypertension included minor changes in the distal interlobar and arcuate arteries and a nephrogram displaying diffuse, spotty lucencies.
(12) Axillary node negative cancers with no or only spotty tumor necrosis (92% of all pN0 cases) were associated with a 96% 5-year survival rate corrected for intercurrent causes.
(13) Eleven showed varying degrees of radiographically detectable calcification having a spotty, linear, or amorphous pattern affecting either a short segment or the whole appendix.
(14) Case 1 was a 43-year-old woman with multiple cutaneous myxomas, mammary myxomas and spotty mucocutaneous pigmentation.
(15) Spotty calcification of the arteries of the lower extremity, which histologically is found in the intima, is also seen a little more often in diabetics with gangrene.
(16) We found this neoplasm in four women (ages 27 through 61 years) who had the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, endocrine overactivity, and schwannomas, an autosomal dominant familial syndrome.
(17) The metastases spread mainly by the lymphatic system (especially in diffuse, spotty or pseudo-elephantiasic forms and in regional forms), however numerous lymph node filters found through out the lymphatic system limit the progression of neoplasic cells.
(18) Though population, disease and mortality statistics of modern China are spotty and sometimes questionable, common consensus among the researchers is that since 1949 the public health situation in China has improved tremendously.
(19) Ramification at the pulp of the thumb is of a radiating rather than segmental type, and its control can be considered as spotty or intermittent.
(20) In basal hypertrophic cartilage areas, a co-distribution of collagens II and X was found with very little and "spotty" collagen III.