(n.) A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground.
(n.) The sole of a plow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phyllis Gardner, a Slade school art student and suffragette with flaming red hair, fell in love with Brooke while sitting opposite him on the Great Northern train to Cambridge.
(2) Lawrence Slade, the chief executive of Energy UK, which represents the big six providers and has been regarded as a defender of fossil fuels, said the shift was urgent in order not to be left behind.
(3) She moved to London in the 50s and trained as a painter at the Slade.
(4) The winning feature about being represented by Martha Costello is the fact that she's followed about by her ridiculously aesthetically pleasing "pupil" Nick Slade (Tom Hughes).
(5) This exhibition about the glam rock era contains several huge photographs of me with the rest of Slade.
(6) The book is dedicated to her son, Slade, who died 18 months ago and in the face of whose death she found herself wordless.
(7) Three of the staff who had already given evidence had been working there when this happened, and hadn’t mentioned it.” A document disclosed at the inquest showed an action plan had been written following an incident at Slade House in 2004, stating “the baths should be removed because they were therapeutic and too deep – hence not fit for purpose”.
(8) Could the reason be lan's unconscious rapport with the audience in the tradition of Slade, Smiths and, er, Sham 69 – one of those you-could-be-up-here-too types of groups that are so typically British?
(9) The consultant who admitted him said, in his view, Connor was dead by the time the rescue people got there – but Southern Health didn’t even have the guts to say it was urgent.” At the inquest, it emerged that the tone of the 999 call made from Slade House was so vague, the operator initially said they would book Connor in for a four-hour ambulance response.
(10) Augustus was going to the Slade School of Fine Art - and because he went, she went too.
(11) Amid concern about the lights going out, 60 local authorities argued last week that coal-fired power stations should be kept open, but Slade surprisingly disagrees, saying we need lower-carbon solutions.
(12) In the first study 40 pregnant women, at approximately 4 month's duration, were found to overestimate their bodily dimensions, albeit to a lesser extent than the previously tested group of anorexia nervosa patients (Slade & Russell, 1973a).
(13) In September 2013, six weeks after Connor died, the Care Quality Commission visited Slade House , and failed it on all 10 counts it inspected: there was no battery in the defibrillator, no oxygen in the oxygen tank, no therapeutic interactions, there were traces of faeces in the furniture, medicines were out of date – and on it went.
(14) asks Peter Slade The answer to this one is nearly as simple as David Beckham.
(15) Lawrence Slade, the chief executive of the trade body Energy UK, accused the Conservatives of “giving up on competition”.
(16) "Savers' money was in high demand during 2009, leading many banks and building societies to offer rates as much as 10 times the base rate," said Michelle Slade, spokeswoman at Moneyfacts.co.uk.
(17) "All the partners and staff are immensely grateful to Jon for his outstanding contribution to Alchemy," Slade said. "
(18) It was a non-event in the first half, there wasn’t much in it,” Slade said.
(19) Friend, Patric L. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.), and Hutton D. Slade.
(20) He pulled himself together as a wryly observant Larry Slade in one of the landmark productions of the past 20 years: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh at the Almeida in 1998, transferring to the Old Vic, and to Broadway, with Kevin Spacey as the salesman Hickey revisiting the last chance saloon where Pigott-Smith propped up the bar with Rupert Graves , Mark Strong and Clarke Peters in Davies’ great production.
Slave
Definition:
(n.) See Slav.
(n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
(n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
(n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
(n.) An abject person; a wretch.
(v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
(v. t.) To enslave.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(2) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(3) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(4) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(5) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
(6) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(7) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(8) She was repeatedly raped, beaten and “treated like a slave” throughout her teenage years.
(9) As well as World War Z, Plan B has also produced 12 Years A Slave , the much-lauded slave drama released in the UK on January 10.
(10) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
(11) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(12) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
(13) From the steel mines where child slaves gather surgical steel, all the way up to senior doctors working 36 hours on no sleep, the most healthy people in the NHS are actually the patients.
(14) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
(15) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(16) Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.
(17) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
(18) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
(19) "She said she is going to be sold as a slave this afternoon, for $10," Kaliph said, his tears dropping into the brown dust.
(20) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.