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Springtime


Definition:

  • (n.) The season of spring; springtide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I n the spring of 1945,” says the narrator, over bucolic springtime shots of the German countryside, “the allies advancing into the heart of Germany came to Bergen-Belsen.
  • (2) A decrease in response to inhibition by steroids then occurred in the autumn, months after the springtime reactivation of reproductive function (testicular growth, testosterone and gonadotrophin secretion) in testes-intact adult rams.
  • (3) 92 adult patients with springtime allergy were investigated with skin tests, provocation tests and the RAST.
  • (4) The new fact that we report is an increase of CDH cases during springtime, without parallel increase in births.
  • (5) Ofcom is expected to report back around springtime.
  • (6) #BankingUnion December 9, 2013 Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) #Cyprus fin min Georgiades predicts capital controls mostly lifted by "springtime".
  • (7) An autumnal peak reached its maximum in October rising sharply from the low summer values before falling during the short winter then rising again in springtime.
  • (8) The springtime stratospheric ozone (O3) layer over the Antarctic is thinning by as much as 50 percent, resulting in increased midultraviolet (UVB) radiation reaching the surface of the Southern Ocean.
  • (9) Tim Sparks, a professor at Coventry University, has examined more than 160,000 observations of oaks and found that the more the first dates of flowering vary in springtime the poorer the acorn crop.
  • (10) He became the golden boy of Edwardian England whose life had been cut short “at the moment when it seemed to have reached its springtime”, wrote Winston Churchill in the first obituary .
  • (11) Almost all of the cases occurred during the springtime.
  • (12) I once read a science-fiction story in which astronauts voyaging to a distant star were waxing homesick: "Just to think that it's springtime back on Earth!"
  • (13) Against a vibrant springtime backdrop and hints about "the nesting season", Arrietty's relationship with a sickly human boy unfolds like a courtship.
  • (14) Wuthering Heights forsakes Arnold's beloved housing estates altogether – though even the most forbidding of these would resemble Paris in springtime next to the rain-lashed moors near the Pennine Way where Arnold filmed her adaptation.
  • (15) Meanwhile, the critic Michael Bronski announced: 'The groundhog is the resurrected Christ, the ever-hopeful renewal of life at springtime, at a time of pagan-Christian holidays.
  • (16) The day before we arrive, a troupe of local dancers performs Springtime For Hitler in front of the venue; they’re publicising a forthcoming local production, and seem to go down well with the party faithful.
  • (17) After 9 minutes of activation, the following results were found, with a significance of p < 0.01: There are significant differences between the normal group and those that we consider the active groups, asthma FEV1 < 80%, pollen-sensitive asthma in springtime and acute asthma.
  • (18) Births occur during any month, but springtime appears to be the most common period.
  • (19) In that springtime of Nieto’s death, I had begun to feel that what was tearing my city apart was not only a conflict pitting long-term tenants against affluent newcomers and the landlords, estate agents, house-flippers, and developers seeking to open up room for them by shoving everyone else out.
  • (20) No significant differences exist between the normal group and inactive groups, inactive asthma, pollen-sensitive asthma out of springtime and acute asthma inactive.

Summer


Definition:

  • (v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  • (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
  • (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
  • (v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
  • (v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (2) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
  • (3) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (4) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (6) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
  • (7) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (8) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (9) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (10) Two epidemics of meningoencephalitis caused by echovirus type 7 and coxsackievirus type B 5 in the summer and autumn of 1973 in Umeå in Northern Sweden were compared.
  • (11) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
  • (12) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
  • (13) Summers was not a popular choice among many of the World Bank's developing country members.
  • (14) High degress of multinucleation were observed least frequenctly in the summer both in patients with and without known malignancy.
  • (15) Son was signed from Hamburg for €10m that summer to replace Schürrle.
  • (16) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
  • (17) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
  • (18) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
  • (19) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
  • (20) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.

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