(n.) A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schweizer may have made mistakes about aspects of Bill Clinton’s fees on the speaker circuit, but one of his main contentions – that the former president’s rates skyrocketed after his wife became secretary of state – is correct.
(2) It finally collapsed in 1991, following the outbreak of the first Gulf war, which sent fuel prices skyrocketing and depressed the global economy.
(3) Even as Germany winced its way through three years of crisis, bailouts and skyrocketing national debt, openly anti-euro sentiments have remained off-limits for all mainstream parties.
(4) We can't just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we'll run out of money.
(5) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(6) And that is during one of the craziest election cycles in American political history, when they should be skyrocketing.
(7) A shortage of basic goods and skyrocketing food prices are fuelling discontent in Egypt , where a currency crisis has hit imports.
(8) By the end, a record-high 57.5% of Argentinians were in poverty, and the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 20.8%.
(9) Given the skyrocketing costs of health care in the United States, some experts propose official health care rationing as a solution to the crisis.
(10) Innovations in drug delivery systems and skyrocketing health care costs have fostered the growth of home health care which has blossomed into a $2.8 billion industry.
(11) Their class sizes aren’t skyrocketing – with sometimes more than 40 kids per classroom – without adequate furniture, or textbooks, or space.
(12) What is truly insidious, however, is that while white people’s adoption of a minority trend sees its status skyrocket, the very opposite happens when black women hop aboard a fad.
(13) Reducing the central nervous system compensation abilities, alcohol promoted the malignant development of species of cerebral tumors causing skyrocketing rapid course.
(14) Kentucky’s median worker makes 88 cents on the dollar compared to the average US worker, facing “a decade of lost wages” as wealthy Kentuckians watch their incomes skyrocket.
(15) While implant utilization has skyrocketed in the last few years integration of implants in the maxilla is a persistent problem and even the branemark implant enjoys a lower success rate in this bone.
(16) Demand has just skyrocketed in the past few months,” McCullough says, adding that in a Majestic Wine store in Guildford his firm’s gin accounted for one third of all spirits sales recently.
(17) Unemployment has skyrocketed, with one in two young people out of work.
(18) Ending in the Meatpacking District, there’s no denying the walkway’s beauty and popularity with tourists (or the fact that it has sent local property values skyrocketing).
(19) Sales of antidepressants have skyrocketed everywhere and are now so high in my own country, Denmark, that – if the prescriptions were equally distributed – every citizen could be in treatment for six years of their life.
(20) The real challenge is how do we grow and prosper in order to foster more game-changing innovations and give us the resources we need to solve problems like this one.” Texas senator Ted Cruz added: “The president’s lawless and radical attempt to destabilise the nation’s energy system is flatly unconstitutional and – unless it is invalidated by Congress, struck down by the courts, or rescinded by the next administration – will cause Americans’ electricity costs to skyrocket at a time when we can least afford it.” The president first pledged to tackle climate change in his 2009 inauguration address , a commitment he reiterated four years later, but despite more modest achievements on fuel efficiency standards and renewable energy investment, a comprehensive legislation was blocked in the Senate.
Surge
Definition:
(n.) A spring; a fountain.
(n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
(n.) The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
(n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
(v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
(v. i.) To slip along a windlass.
(n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
Example Sentences:
(1) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(2) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(3) When the antagonist was administered on the day of the LH surge, serum concentrations of bioactive LH were still elevated on the following day, but then fell to low levels.
(4) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(5) In estrogen-primed ovariectomized rats, intraventricular injections of baclofen, a selective GABAB receptor agonist, either delayed, eliminated or disrupted the steroid-induced LH surge, depending on the time and the dose of the agonist injected.
(6) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(7) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(8) High blood pressure is itself an independent risk factor for vascular disease, in proportion to its height, for all ages and sexes, whether systolic or diastolic, labile or fixed, and the threat is further aggravated by surges in blood pressure throughout the person's daily activities.
(9) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(10) Since the debate the number of Ukip members has surged past 35,000.
(11) There was however a surge of plasma oxytocin detected during labor and puerperium, a pattern somewhat similar to that seen in normal pregnancy.
(12) Exposure to short daylengths arrests the oestrous cycle, provokes daily gonadotrophin surges and reduces the ability of exogenous oestradiol to trigger behavioural receptivity in golden hamsters.
(13) [Surg Gynecol Obstet 1986; 163:555-560]; the estrogen and progesterone receptor levels were evaluated by immunoenzymatic assay.
(14) The Liberal surge in February 1974 and the rise of the SDP in the early 1980s showed that protest politics was translating into something more ambitious.
(15) The day of the serum LH surge was taken as a reference point in evaluating the reliability and sensitivity in predicting ovulation of the other tests studied.
(16) On the basis of these and previous results it is concluded that the availability of NE in the MPO is an important factor in determining the hight of the preovulatory LH surge.
(17) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
(18) The relative contributions of dopamine (DA) and prolactin-releasing factor (PRF) in generating the preovulatory prolactin (PRL) surge were investigated.
(19) Most panics surged out of a pre-existing plateau of tonic anxiety which lasted most of the day.
(20) injected at 13.45 h. Transection which interrupted the connection of septum (SEPT), diagonal band of Broca (DBB) and bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BST) with the preoptic-suprachiasmatic area interfered with ovulation and surge of release of all 3 hormones.