(n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
(n.) A sick person.
(v. i.) To sigh.
(n.) A sigh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sikes also explained that he had continued to depress the brakes until "finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car".
(2) The driver, 61 year-old James Sikes, called Highway Patrol officers on his mobile phone after the 2008 Prius suddenly began to accelerate of its own accord while he was driving down the Interstate 8 freeway outside San Diego.
(3) Earlier models, such as Sikes's, were not included in this recall.
(4) "I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny … and it just stuck there," Sikes told a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office following the incident.
(5) The Antibody Binding Test, a new technique for the evaluation of inactivated Rabies vaccines, developed by Arko, Wiktor and Sikes, was compared with the NIH- and Habel Test.
(6) Slaty Sike is a catchment that copes well under normal weather conditions but when the area is hit by bigger storms experiences a rapid flow of water down the steep hillsides, washing debris and stones into Haltwhistle Burn.
(7) Sikes said the accelerator pedal was stuck, and that the car would not stop even though he was pressing the brake with all his force.
(8) Sikes told reporters that he had taken his car to a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for a service, and was told his car was not on the recall list.
(9) Located at Slaty Sike, a tributary of Haltwhistle Burn, the scheme stems from research being carried out by Newcastle University into natural flood management (NFM) - natural engineering which works with the landscape to slow, store and filter water after heavy rainfall.
(10) Once the car slowed to 50mph Sikes was able to turn off the engine.
(11) The highway patrol team drove alongside the Prius, and instructed Sikes to engage the hand brake while simultaneously holding down the foot brake.
Syke
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Sike.
Example Sentences:
(1) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(2) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(3) More recently, the Muslim world has had artificial lines drawn all over it, most notably by Mr Sykes and Mr Picot during the first world war.
(4) Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), Sykes monkeys (C. mitis) and baboons (Papio cynocephalus) all supported low grade infections for periods ranging between four and eight months and subsequently showed evidence of self-cure.
(5) All these cell lines had T-cell markers and Tac antigen, and the cell lines from the African green monkey and Sykes' monkeys were Leu2a+ while those from other species were Leu3a+.
(6) "Paul Sykes has a long record of defending British democracy, "he said.
(7) Fourteen strains of Enterobacteriaceae producing Richmond & Sykes Class I beta-lactamase were studied.
(8) It should not be a shock he’s not going to be a deficit hawk.” Trump has no intention of shrinking the federal government, Sykes added, and his praise of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, would have been unthinkable to cold warrior Reagan.
(9) The autopsy, says Alvin Sykes, president of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign, will be "Emmett's first and last chance to speak for himself ...
(10) Using the Kelsey-Sykes capacity-test, it was found that a sterile yeast suspension used to simulate 'dirty' conditions, gave an increased effect of Chloramine T against the fungi Candida albicans, Aspergillus fumigatus, Geotrichum candidum and Penicillium sp.
(11) Kinetic studies suggested that it belonged to Richmond and Sykes beta-lactamase class 1c.
(12) It also was not hydrolyzed by cephalosporinases of Richmond-Sykes type Ia or Id.
(13) Giles Fraser makes one small but significant error in his piece on the Sykes-Picot agreement ( Loose canon , 8 April).
(14) One of Britain's wealthiest men, Paul Sykes, has pledged to do "whatever it takes" to ensure Nigel Farage's UK Independence party triumphs in next year's elections to the European parliament.
(15) "It is truly an honour to be here," Wanda Sykes said when she stood up at the prestigious correspondents' dinner for the first black president.
(16) There is nothing else there.” Donald Trump and the Rise of Alt-Reality Media Publication: Politico magazine Author: Charlie Sykes Skyes is a conservative talk radio host in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
(17) The effects of antibiotics on host flora are described, and the implications of bacterial resistance for selection of a prophylactic agent, particularly with respect to induction of the Richmond-Sykes type I beta-lactamase enzyme, are discussed.
(18) A ComRes poll commissioned by Ukip's main financial backer, Paul Sykes, suggested that 86% of the 4.3 million people who gave the party its first national victory in the European elections, would vote for it again in the general election.
(19) Sykes was a strong supporter and backer of the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s but broke with the party in 1991 over John Major's stance on the Maastricht Treaty.
(20) A lentivirus, designated SIVsyk, was isolated from five of six seropositive asymptomatic Sykes' monkeys, but in four cases isolation was possible only after depletion of CD8+ lymphocytes and cocultivation of the CD4(+)-enriched cell population with peripheral blood mononuclear cells from seronegative Sykes' monkeys.