What's the difference between snookered and soused?
Snookered
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(2) Quite the opposite arrived, the Czechs claiming two early goals to leave Scotland needing snookers.
(3) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(4) Among the remaining patrons are the actor Sean Bean, snooker player Ding Junhui and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Nick Matthew.
(5) I spent all weekend in Sheffield at the snooker, then was covering the Giro d'Italia for most of today, so am probably the most poorly informed person imaginable to keep you abreast of what's going on.
(6) Also, what is all this talk favoured by the modern day snooker commentariat of 'great matchplay', or 'it's not high quality snooker on display, but definitely fantastic matchplay.'
(7) Widely regarded as the finest player of his generation not to have a world title to his name, the three-time Masters champion Selby has been hailed as a snooker hardman by O'Sullivan.
(8) HS2 will pass over local fields on a viaduct, and skirt a new-ish housing development called Sandwath Drive, built around a snooker-table green and a childrens' play area.
(9) Few sporting examinations compare to the lonely and constant pressure of professional snooker, let alone World Championship final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield snooker.
(10) Updated at 4.24pm BST 4.19pm BST Snooker books: Infinite Jester from Leicester, by David Foster Wallace.
(11) 68 min: Silva carefully works a shooting opportunity, like a snooker player lining up a shot, but then wonks a shot miles over from the edge of the area.
(12) Selby snookers him behind yellow and brown, and he stays in his seat.
(13) BBC2 is currently known as the home of snooker and darts, as well as some football.
(14) Wogan subscribed, along with rock band Genesis and Steve Davis, then the king of snooker.
(15) "Now Mark Selby, it's plain to see Is a proper snooker star He's got the lot, nothing he can't pot And he's going to go far.
(16) We met at the Hawaii Club, a cheerful-looking place in modern Sana'a, decorated with an imaginative mural of a camel playing snooker on the wall.
(17) As his break reaches 52, O'Sullivan looks set to need snookers.
(18) Over on BBC2, coverage of the UK snooker championship drew 1.5 million viewers and a 6% share between 7pm and 9.30pm.
(19) So are you one of these players who's on the poker table whenever he's not at the snooker table?
(20) BBC2's World Snooker coverage averaged 700,000 viewers between 2.30pm and 5.30pm on BBC2; while the EastEnders omnibus pulled in 1.1 million between 3.05pm and 5pm on BBC1.
Soused
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Souse
Example Sentences:
(1) The catalyst was a series of confrontations between immigrant youth and the police in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois .
(2) The two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, in October 2005.
(3) Vulnerable people such as the elderly and hospital patients are increasingly likely to consume food produced by new systems such as 'cook-chill' and 'cuisson sous vide'.
(4) Along the main water courses in the sparsely populated areas of the Sous-Préfecture of Tcholliré, the vectors of onchocerciasis were mainly Simulium damnosum s. str.
(5) Ever since the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005, all matches with North African teams had become potential triggers for trouble in Paris.
(6) In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
(7) Their deaths by electrocution triggered riots on the boys' run-down estates in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, which soon spread across France.
(8) Nutritionists and food scientists have concerns about the food safety of sous vide products and the possible increase in food borne illnesses.
(9) The "Iles sous le Vent" are well staffed and well equipped, but other islands are under privileged.
(10) Of the sausage samples examined, 38% of the fresh pork sausage, 9% of the smoked pork sausage, and 1 sample (souse) of 16 samples of miscellaneous sausage products were contaminated.
(11) Yesterday the right-wing mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Gérard Gaudron, led a silent march of 600 residents between the destroyed fire station and the burnt-out pensioners' day centre in Mille-Mille.
(12) The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois).
(13) It comes after an investigation by Channel 4 News estimated last month that more than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may not actually exist, ranging from vacancies for sous chefs to dry-cleaners.
(14) "Most of the kids in this neighbourhood are the fourth generation of their family in France," said Mohamed Mechmeche, 44, a youth worker in Clichy-sous-Bois who after the riots founded the community pressure group Aclefeu.
(15) Even if they did, the warnings did not deter Bouna Traore, 15, and Ziad Benna, 17, from going into the electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
(16) Activists and youth workers in Clichy-sous-Bois had said that if the case did not go to trial it would be a message that poor families on run-down estates did not deserve justice in France.
(17) While unemployment, poor housing, daily discrimination and racism have run local people into the ground in the poorest parts of Clichy-sous-Bois, it is the daily conflict with police that remains a tinderbox.
(18) It was here in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005 that the deaths of two boys who had been running from police were the catalyst for the worst riots in modern French history.
(19) That same night, 15 cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, a classic French banlieue of rundown postwar high-rises that are home to 30,000 people, overwhelmingly second and third-generation immigrants whose parents arrived in France as cheap migrant labour from north Africa.
(20) Photograph: Annabel Moeller Heston Shops selling blowtorches, sous-vides and gold leaf should be ready for a last-minute rush as Britain’s peculiar-fusion chef Heston Blumenthal makes his debut as a Radio 2 DJ and gives festive cooking tips.