(n.) One of the small territorial divisions into which Lincolnshire, England, is divided.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pilot experiment with heifer heat synchronization with chlorsuperlutin-soked intravaginal tampons was conducted with 254 heifers in six herds in the North Moravian region.
(2) When the Lord Mayor visits Portsoken this evening to talk about moral leadership in public life maybe she will recall that its name is an Anglo Saxon word that combines the meaning of "port" or town with that of "soke", a voting district.
Woke
Definition:
() of Wake
(imp. & p. p.) Wake.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(2) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
(3) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
(4) This surely represents a new chapter in the European debt crisis, and it could be headlined The Day The Eurozone Finally Woke Up.
(5) Speaking through an interpreter, she said: We woke up from the screams.
(6) After seeing the film, I woke up thinking, I’m just like Daniel.
(7) Dunham, who was on holiday with her parents in Sweden, woke up to 50,000 emails linking to the discussion on the site, where a lively debate was taking place about the size of her thighs and just how shit she was.
(8) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(9) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
(10) Judith woke to see David standing at the far right-hand corner of the bed, his light turned on.
(11) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
(12) I don't think much of what I'm wearing I had a long day at work yesterday so put whatever was around when I woke up!
(13) It woke people up who might have been sleeping," he said.
(14) Sometimes I woke up screaming at night, covered in sweat.” As a Dalit, she always faced humiliation.
(15) Some woke up long before dawn to travel hundreds of miles to be here in an estimated 2,000 buses and 28 trains.
(16) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
(17) Then, one day, I woke up and heard the sad news that she had died.
(18) I woke up lying on my back in the emergency room, looking up at the faces of the doctors and nurses surrounding me.
(19) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(20) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.