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Sizzle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
  • (n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) I savour the smell of the food stalls as I ride down Whitecross Street market at about 11am, inhaling successive wafts of roasting steak, baking flatbreads, frying onions, toasting cumin seeds, sizzling bacon, curries and chillies and pickles and melting cheese.
  • (3) Fat sizzles, flour sifts, and delicious smells waft around.
  • (4) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Of course it may have been that by the time he agreed to be interviewed by middle-of-the-road me he had begun to lose his cultural sizzle.
  • (5) Tom Watson used his media talents to get his weak-tea “Momentum are secret plotting plotters” stuff onto the news cycle for a couple of days, and that turned out to be all sizzle and no steak.
  • (6) The food, Korean, is cheap (starters less than a fiver; mains under £8) and very good: bibimbap, of course, also crisp fried mandu (dumplings) with homemade soy; tangy blanched and pickled veg; sizzling marinated beef; fat pork belly with garlic, kimchi and spicy doenjang sauce.
  • (7) Sorry if I did that.” That hoopla created a sizzling atmosphere in which players needed to stay cool.
  • (8) The Glory is co-owned and run by the Bert and Ernie of drag, Jonny Woo and John Sizzle.
  • (9) Temperatures are set to reach sizzling highs across large parts of the UK again on Wednesday with a high of 30C (86F) expected in the south of England and possibly 28C (82F) in Scotland.
  • (10) The Sun had an exclusive kiss-and-tell story from one of his former girlfriends, who told readers of their passionate affair and focused on a night when “sizzling Seb” had allegedly drunk far too much at the Athletics Writers’ Association’s annual dinner.
  • (11) Melt the rest of the lard in the pan and turn the heat up until the fat is sizzling.
  • (12) After joining West Brom, Foster announced his plan to build his own barbecue hut adjacent to his house, which would serve as a sanctuary in which he could kick back and sizzle flesh.
  • (13) 5 Fill a wok a third full with oil, heat until a breadcrumb sizzles and turns golden within 30 seconds, then fry the dumplings in batches until golden.
  • (14) With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India , officials have banned daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.
  • (15) "Things are sizzling," he said, adding that he was fearful the situation could get out of control if police and other agencies did not step in to reassure the community.
  • (16) Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies - Podcast Read more The two men stood with their arms crossed and heads cocked at the same angle, reviewing a scene in which a sound cue they had designed had gone awry.
  • (17) In September 1984, Sebastian Coe became “sizzling Seb” for two days.
  • (18) The comet at first seemed to have fallen apart as it approached the sun's sizzling surface, but new images showed a streak of light that some said could indicate it wasn't game over just yet.
  • (19) Looking at his website , I don't think Tuesday's seafood risotto, Wednesday's sizzling chicken fajitas or Saturday's mojito fruit salad would quite "weigh up".
  • (20) Bang goes my sizzling one-liner about the long-term risks of Nato's strategy.

Zip


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Bournemouth full of zest and defiance, the game zipped by.
  • (2) Although he didn’t personally witness the waterboarding or zipping, he had on two or three occasions witnessed asylum seekers walking out of a tent wet and coughing up water.
  • (3) You have to create an online account in order to get any information about plans and costs, so I went through the process of creating a username and password, and gave my date of birth and zip code.
  • (4) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
  • (5) He is chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power to California, and this week he revealed more detail on perhaps his most intriguing business idea yet, something some consider one of history's craziest-sounding transportation fancies: the Hyperloop , an 800mph self-powered ground-based system that could zip between LA and San Francisco in half-an-hour.
  • (6) These results suggest a close association or overlap of the DNA binding and nuclear targeting domains of B-ZIP proteins.
  • (7) giant protein made in bacteria or in embryos binds in vitro to the Krüppel regulatory elements CD1 and CD2 and recognizes a sequence resembling the binding sites of other b-ZIP proteins.
  • (8) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
  • (9) A complementary DNA that encoded a member of the basic-helix-loop-helix-zipper (bHLH-Zip) family of proteins was isolated.
  • (10) A monodimensional electrophoretic method for the separation of glycosaminoglycans on Titan III Zip Zone cellulose acetate plate based on their different electrophoretic mobilities in barium acetate and different solubilities in ethanol was applied to the Chemetron electrophoretic equipment.
  • (11) The cys-3 gene encodes a regulatory protein of 236 amino acid residues with a leucine zipper and an upstream basic region (the b-zip region) which together may constitute a DNA-binding domain.
  • (12) Zoster immune plasma (ZIP) was evaluated for treatment of cutaneous disseminated zoster in immunocompromised hosts.
  • (13) A survey of the practice styles and preferences of 1988 ASCRS members with a U.S. zip code was taken in September 1988.
  • (14) To determine whether emergency department complaint frequency varies with patient median household income, as approximated by patient residence zip code.
  • (15) Using the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System, we obtained discharge data for 1,034 patients over age 39, who were hospitalized for stroke from 1983 to 1986, using four zip code areas of the ethnically mixed community of Northern Manhattan.
  • (16) Suddenly, several lanes of cars and buses are zipping past, but Calvo pays no heed – we are on a smooth, green-tarmacked bike lane, separated from motor traffic by both a raised kerb and a waist-high fence.
  • (17) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
  • (18) Hence, in this "b-HLH-zip" class of proteins, the leucine zipper functions in concert with the HLH both to stabilize protein-protein interactions and to establish dimerization specificity.
  • (19) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
  • (20) So onwards and outwards… Get the adrenalin pumping Down the line: Zip World opens to the public in Bethesda, north Wales.