(1) In the meantime, if the keenly priced Moto E performs similarly to the Moto G, being snappy and lasting a solid day on a single charge, it could sell very well, especially in the run-up to Christmas.
(2) Enjoy it, since 2009 will be the Year of the Compact Fluorescent Lamp, which isn't as snappy.
(3) During the war years, his snappy, escapist films brought joy to audiences on the home front, while he was the only Hope (puns on his surname have always been de rigueur ) for thousands of troops overseas whom he entertained on his various tours from 1941.
(4) Quickened the pace in midfield with some snappy passing and clever movement.
(5) The Egyptians called it Shedet (it was the Greeks who, wise to the city’s USP, gave it its snappy name), and it was possibly the most ancient city in ancient Egypt.
(6) In a snappy suit, and with a new razor-sharp hairdo, Osborne looks ready for business.
(7) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
(8) Be Free and Chatpot are delightful rhythm games on delicate sax motifs, distant hoots and synthesised vocals, set against Seb Rochford’s clappy drum grooves or soft clatters; the snappy rimshots and lazy tenor-shruggings of They’re All Ks and Qs Lucien are irresistible all the way to their finale.” What they said: “I wanted for there to be a strong rhythmic drive that propels it, and then sometimes for there to be the feeling of pure space.” – Tom Herbert.
(9) Snappy Snaps prints ordered online and collected in-store appear to be more expensive in London than elsewhere.
(10) Based on the features of M1 and OS according to auscultation and phonocardiography, the patients were categorized as group I, 18 patients with loud and snappy M1 and OS; group II, 12 patients with snappy M1 but small and dull OS; and group III, seven patients with small and dull M1 and OS.
(11) Snappy Snaps can charge 75p for a single print, though the price will drop if you order more.
(12) Ridley Scott was definitely in charge - and he was quite snappy with some of the questioners.
(13) Yellen, who isn't giving terribly snappy answers, has generally been backing the Fed's approach under Bernanke.
(14) The first question of the first show last month, presented by George Lamb, set the tone: "Which singer crashed his car into Snappy Snaps while high on cannabis?"
(15) It is complex and requires a complex set of solutions, not the kind that make neat and snappy headlines.
(16) It all seemed part of a grand vision, one with some intellectual underpinning from the "red Tory" thinktank ResPublica and a snappy title – the Big Society.
(17) "I keep chapters short and snappy because I like that.
(18) The tone was snappy, with the former White House chief of staff trying to highlight what Emanuel says is García’s lack of experience, especially in managing the finances of the nation’s third most populous city.
(19) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
(20) 76 mins: England try to mount a snappy counter-attack, but once again it's brought to and end by Hummels, who intercepts a well-intentioned Johnson ball just before Walcott could collect.
Whipping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whip
() a & n. from Whip, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
(3) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(4) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(5) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(6) Lovely play by Gervinho, muscling his way far too easily past Carvalho inside the box and then finding the ball whipped away at the last by Alves.
(7) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(8) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(9) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
(10) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(11) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(12) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(13) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(14) She added: “Jeremy then went on for the next two months refusing my insistence that he speak to Thangam, indeed refusing to speak to either of us, whether directly or through the shadow cabinet, the whips, or his own office.
(15) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(16) Intracutaneous sterile water injections have been reported to relieve acute labor pain and cervical pain in whip-lash patients.
(17) The strongly pro-EU and vocal Alistair Burt was whipped back into the Foreign Office where he had been before, while Steve Baker of the ultra-hardline anti-EU faction was made a minister in Davis’s department.
(18) The justice minister Dominic Raab said the Labour leader had promised a “kinder politics” but was now “whipping up a mob mentality”.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.