(superl.) Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
(superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
(superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
(superl.) Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
(superl.) Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
(v. t.) To make sober.
(v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(2) Read Rachel’s full story Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Owen: ‘I’ve been sober for six years now, and I don’t miss alcohol.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol The NHS has been there time and time again for Chris Owen, who battled alcoholism throughout his 20s.
(3) Anthony Wells, director of YouGov’s political and social research team, said: “While there will be speculation about whether this movement is connected to the tragic death of Jo Cox, we do not think that it is... We are now in the final week of the referendum campaign and the swing back towards the status quo appears to be in full force.” EU referendum voters unconvinced by scare tactics: ‘I just want to do what’s right’ Read more Today, both sides will resume their battle to capture the votes of the undecided and to persuade people to switch sides, though both the Leave and Remain camps say that the manner of their campaigning will be more sober and less combative.
(4) Previous research has found a relationship between increased quantity of alcohol usually consumed per drinking occasion and decreased sober cognitive performance.
(5) "Yet the sobering fact remains that a transition to a low-carbon, inclusive green economy is happening far too slowly and the opportunity for meeting the 44 gigatonne target is narrowing annually," Steiner said.
(6) The haemostatic imbalance normalizes within two or three weeks of soberness while the immune system requires about two months to recover.
(7) Chambers claims she became extremely intoxicated while her ex-boyfriend remained much more sober, and says she has no memory of him having sex with her that night.
(8) Therefore, the presence of pulmonary emboli in association with sagittal sinus thrombosis mandates a sober assessment of the need of anticoagulation therapy in the absence of obvious contraindication.
(9) Mutual intoxication was a feature in 44% of the cases and in 34% both participants were sober.
(10) Impulsive and bonhomous, Saakashvili, meanwhile, is clearly the temperamental opposite of Putin, the sober and clinical former KGB colonel.
(11) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
(12) And yet here I am today, a sober, emancipated, successful and happy woman.
(13) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
(14) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
(15) Alcoholics reported more anger and aggression when drinking than when sober and this effect was greatest among individuals with a history of childhood aggression.
(16) She observed soberly that "the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them … Loss of national rights was identical with loss of human rights … The rights of man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable … whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state."
(17) It's not the most groundbreaking piece of research, but I did find it both instructive and sobering.
(18) In a year that will be punctuated by sober reflection and a series of commemorative occasions, it is tempting to assume a certain inevitability to events, especially when looking at them through the prism of hindsight.
(19) Even in alcoholics who have been sober for a long time, increased cardiac output is very common and these changes are similar to those seen in some patients with labile hypertension.
(20) He was a vegan, sober, nonsexual God-botherer partying in the blood-soaked Meatpacking District with the sex-and-druggers.
Sower
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long-lived fusogenic state induced in spherical-shaped erythrocyte ghosts by electric field pulses (Sowers, A.E.
(2) Classical studies on mutagenesis with prototype mutagens like 2-aminopurine (2-AP) and 5-bromouracil clearly show that mutations can occur by incorporation of deoxynucleotides of tautomeric or ionized (Sowers et al., 1987) bases into newly synthesized DNA (Ronen, 1979; Lasken and Goodman, 1984, Coulondre and Miller, 1977).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sower by Eric Gill, at the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London.
(4) We are a messenger of peace, stability and security in the region and the world.” He said that the only people who were not happy were “Zionists, warmongers, sowers of discord among Islamic nations and extremists in the US” and it that “opened new windows for Irans’ engagement with the world”.
(5) Aliquots of the suspensions (microrganism++ + disinfectant) were transferred at regular intervals (1, 3, 5 and 10 minutes) to the two substrates in liquid and solid state, and the growth of microorganisms was followed at 28 degrees C for 48-72 h in the case of yeasts, and for up to 21 days in the case of sower growing fungi.
(6) The electrophoretic freeze-fracture electron microscopy method (Sowers, A.E.
(7) "But I think it's more like the parable of the sower .
(8) It seems possible that a localised, surface exposure of acidic phospholipids may contribute to the 'long-lived fusogenic state' (Sowers, A.E.
(9) A seed sower will help; you can pick up of these little devices for few quid.
(10) Although most readers, in Britain especially, will know him principally for The Scarlet Letter (which sat unread on my father's shelf of "Classics" until one dark November day I started reading it with goggle-eyed disbelief), and so think of its author as the epitome of New England austerity and demon-driven repression, he was, in fact, the most luxuriant of the seed-bed sowers of American literature.
(11) He followed a course where students had to copy plaster casts,” Van Heugten says, “and ended last of the class.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Van Gogh’s The Sower (after Jean-François Millet), 1890.
(12) On histological sections of testes, inhibition of spermatogenesis (manifested by a sower frequency or even absence of tubules producing mature sperm, reduced frequency of tubular cells and their degenerative changes) was observed in almost all males immunized with the higher dose of the conjugate.
(13) In the early years of the 1930s, the sculptor Eric Gill was commissioned to carve an imageof a sower for the entrance hall of Broadcasting House.
(14) In the end, it goes back to the sculpture of the sower.