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Shirley


Definition:

  • (n.) The bullfinch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She lives in Brooklyn, where she is currently an MFA candidate at Pratt Institute, co-host of SHIRLEY and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative.
  • (2) Epstein had heard Anyone Who Had a Heart (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David ) in New York and recommended it to Martin, who later admitted: “I wanted it for Shirley Bassey, but Brian insisted that Cilla could do it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cilla Black singing Anyone Who Had a Heart Black’s singing sometimes caused controversy.
  • (3) Shirley and David Musgrove are both blind but have been treated very differently in their applications for DLA.
  • (4) Adele will be following in the shoes of Shirley Bassey (who sang the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker), Tina Turner ( GoldenEye ) and Madonna (Die Another Day).
  • (5) Among the victims are the Carradale, Broadmore and Normanton brickworks, which have shut recently along with Jesse Shirley, a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm, which had been trading for 191 years.
  • (6) Darren Shirley, retail analyst at Shore Capital We have now lost count of the number of times that we have downgraded our forecasts for Tesco over the last three years.
  • (7) The first edition of the novel to appear under Plath's name, published in 1967, featured a cover designed by Shirley Tucker, with a bold type face and urgent concentric circles.
  • (8) The cells were subjected to uniform hydrodynamic shear stress in a Ferranti Shirley Cone and Plate Viscosimeter.
  • (9) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
  • (10) Police again asked her mother, Rebecca Stadhams, if the blue-eyed golden-locked child, described by her aunt as looking “like a miniature Shirley Temple”, was indeed her daughter and also suggested she had gone walkabout.
  • (11) When I am asked who I consider a role model (another ghastly word), Shirley usually comes to mind.
  • (12) "I leave, with a heavy heart, the party I helped to found with such high hopes with Roy Jenkins, Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams and David Owen at Limehouse in 1981.
  • (13) In response, Gaiman cited writers including Ursula Le Guin, Shirley Jackson, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter, Dorothy Parker and E Nesbit, as well as Enid Blyton.
  • (14) His papers, which are stored in more than 200 slate-grey boxes, describe fascinating connections to a roll call of the great and the good: Shirley Williams, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, Henry Kissinger, Trevor Huddleston, Nelson Mandela , Anthony Crosland, Michael Heseltine, Ted Heath, John Cleese, David Cornwell (John le Carré) and many more.
  • (15) As for the inspiration for behind the film, she is similarly cryptic: "A copy of Story Of The Eye by George Bataille , an advert for ice cream with a little girl wearing a bikini, and Shirley Temple."
  • (16) His diatribes against Jimmy Goldsmith (on the possible size of whose "organ" he once dilated in print), or Shirley Williams, at any rate had no personal basis.
  • (17) Downton Abbey would qualify even though two of its stars – McGovern and her fictional mother Shirley MacLaine – are American.
  • (18) Southcliffe, a Channel 4 drama about the aftermath of a series of shootings in a small town, also picked up supporting actor and actress nods for Rory Kinnear and Shirley Henderson and is in the running in the mini-series category.
  • (19) His mother Shirley Sotloff teaches preschool there.
  • (20) Some years earlier, Dr Stone also began the process that culminated in the fall of Dame Shirley Porter in the Westminster gerrymandering scandal.

Surely


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly.
  • (adv.) Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
  • (3) To be sure, the demonstration of pulmonary aspiration with GRS had little influence on patient selection and response to therapy.
  • (4) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (5) Surely Michael wasn't saying he agreed with what Blair is doing?
  • (6) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
  • (7) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (8) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
  • (9) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (10) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
  • (11) The letters, seen by Guardian Money, state that the French-owned company is conducting a review of customer records to make sure all its information is up to date.
  • (12) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
  • (13) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
  • (14) Their brutality seems to have been fairly even-handed, or if it wasn't, the men surely suffered enough not to be presented as the winners of the atrocity.
  • (15) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (16) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
  • (17) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (18) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
  • (19) Financial experts aren't immediately sure what to make of the report, but one theory is that the figure includes the 'profits' the European Central Bank has made by buying Greek debt at distressed levels since the crisis began: econhedge (@econhedge) suggestion that this is planned EUR31.5b+ECB profits.
  • (20) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.

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