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Slay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are small-state Conservatives who believe the commercial world should provide.” Bryant, whose campaign against phone hacking won an award and who has a cartoon of himself as Luke Skywalker slaying the Sith lords Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks on his office wall, said the rumoured return of Brooks to News UK, if it happened, would be a “massive two fingers to the British public”.
  • (2) The film's most chilling image, revealed later on in flashback, is of the tiny Li'l Dice returning to the motel alone and gleefully slaying everyone inside.
  • (3) Perhaps it is the proximity of comedy and aggression (comics like to "slay" or "kill" their audiences, after all) that makes it strangely appropriate to see Sandler showing a more serious and volatile side.
  • (4) vale (@r4ulsonfeels) IM GOING TO SELL MY SOUL TO SATAN FOR GILLIAN AS THE FIRST FEMALE BOND HAPPEN May 21, 2016 charlotte✨ (@bensonscully) @GillianA OK BUT ALSO IDRIS ELBA CAN BE JAMES BOND AND YOU CAN BE JANE BOND AND YOU CAN SLAY EVERYONE May 21, 2016 Kelley Sublett (@Kel_Sub) @felishacarolle And now that someone has put the idea out there...GIVE ME A FEMALE BOND STAT!
  • (5) "Those [from the UK] on the temporary employment register are there for a reason, usually negative," wrote Chris Slay, director of another firm, Skills Provision, in a newsletter to clients .
  • (6) Cain slayed Abel for being more favoured by God than he.
  • (7) This gives the state easy demons to portray and then slay.
  • (8) And now there is a national development plan to slay the three-headed dragon of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
  • (9) The only real difference between Adam and Eve's kids and Marion and Ralph's over-achieving sons is that while the first murderer (Cain) slew Abel because, according to Genesis, the latter was favoured by God, David might have to slay Ed for being favoured by Labour party members.
  • (10) But traders were also cheered that Shinzo Abe promised no let-up in in his drive to stimulate economic growth and slay inflation: In a video message released after his cabiet approved his economic plans, Abe declared: The growth strategy decided today will be the starting point.
  • (11) But the symbolic slaying was a draw, by the hand of tiny New Zealand, of whom nothing was expected.
  • (12) His big-game-slaying holiday was estimated to cost €10,000 (£8,000) a day, with a Syrian businessman close to the Saudi royal family rumoured to be picking up the tab.
  • (13) Rather than explore dungeons slaying and looting, the game put you in charge of the dungeon, digging out new rooms and populating them with monsters and traps.
  • (14) While the passersby and pedestrians you slay out of mission will occasionally drop money, it would be hard to argue that the game rewards you for indiscriminate slaughter.
  • (15) There has been very little research done on family slayings in the RSA.
  • (16) Memorial was forced to close its Grozny office after the 2009 slaying of activist and board member Natalya Estemirova , who was personally investigating “hundreds” of highly sensitive cases of kidnapping and murder.
  • (17) The peculiar thing about the opera is that the back story – war, slayings, the murder of the Irish princess Isolde's betrothed by the Cornish knight Tristan, her determination to kill the latter, her failure to do so, the way she healed Tristan's wounds and kept his identity secret – is more interesting than the story itself, which revolves around the pair not quite being able to make love despite drinking a love potion (substituted by Isolde's lady-in-waiting Brangäne for the poison with which Isolde intended to kill both Tristan and herself as they journeyed to Cornwall, where she was to marry boring old King Marke).
  • (18) The anniversary of the shootings and how it will impact the victims' families has weighed heavily on Gerald Massengill, who led a governor-appointed panel that investigated the slayings.
  • (19) Ebel is also a suspect in the slaying of a Colorado pizza deliveryman who disappeared from work and whose body was found Sunday evening.
  • (20) Beyoncé’s use of “slay” is an additional embrace of the language of the black queer community and, in its repetition, it’s an incantation that can slay haters, slay patriarchy, to slay white supremacy.

Sleigh


Definition:

  • (a.) Sly.
  • (n.) A vehicle moved on runners, and used for transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
  • (2) Perhaps pop stars are simply too arch or self-conscious to write from the heart about their dreams of a white Christmas; with everybody having fun and Santa bringing that sleigh all along the Milky Way.
  • (3) In 2006, Woodhouse began filming Cameron for WebCameron but it stopped at the election; Parsons was the photographer who captured Cameron on a sleigh in Norway in 2006.
  • (4) Bob Sleigh, the leader of Solihull council, said: “The establishment of a combined authority gives us a unique opportunity to drive forward a series of objectives in support of economic growth and progressive public service reform.
  • (5) Oliver also suggests that Sedan have been led out at two recent Coupe de France finals by boars, while "FC Cologne has always employed a (real) goat as a mascot, I kid you not," chuckles Robert Sleigh.
  • (6) The Major Lazer producer had previously worked on Beyoncé's Run the World (Girls) single, and allegedly brought the singer and Sleigh Bells together in the studio .
  • (7) In a patient properly treated for a previous cavitary tuberculosis, we had the surprise, after hemoptyses, to find a sleigh-bell shaped picture suggesting an intra-cavitary aspergilloma with a very special mycosis with Allescheria Boydii.
  • (8) For screening purposes Griess'test modified by Sleigh was used.
  • (9) The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will open formally on Thursday, though late last month the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells, potholes filled the access roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings.
  • (10) According to Reuters, the couple rode in an old-fashioned sleigh drawn by three white horses.
  • (11) The only thing better than this news would be Santa driving an Aston Martin sleigh.” Spectre, which is due to open in UK cinemas on 23 October and in the US on 6 November next year, arrives with the spy saga at an all-time high in terms of critical cachet and box office clout.
  • (12) They trekked for a week across the frozen ocean in temperatures of -30C, each pulling heavy sleighs weighing 80kg behind them.
  • (13) So David Cameron went to Norway, drove a dog sleigh and posed for a picture.
  • (14) This case shows that the so-called "sleigh-bell" image is not pathognomic of aspergilloma and that this disease is far from being exceptional in Africa.
  • (15) One particularly triumphalist message doing the rounds across Belfast and beyond has a festive feel to it: "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, the union flag has gone missing, the Huns smashed up the town as the crown rag came down, walking in a Fenian wonderland."
  • (16) New excursions being offered on all ships include a “mountain hike with husky” in Kirkenes (£80) to a reindeer sleighing trip with overnight stay in a Sami tent near Tromsø (£308).
  • (17) Six months before Santa shakes a sleigh bell, the toy store Hamleys is predicting which presents he will be loading up with this year.
  • (18) A seven-night Lakeside Auroras trip to Torassieppi with sleigh ride, ice fishing, snowshoe hike and husky safari costs £1,490pp, including dome supplement.
  • (19) We developed a highly sensitive procedure for assaying chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) enzyme activity in extracts of eukaryotic cells transfected with the CAT gene expression vector, by modification of the partition extraction procedure described by Sleigh [Anal.

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