(1) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(2) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(3) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(4) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(5) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
(6) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(7) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(8) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(9) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
(10) When you ask for the phone numbers or names or addresses they are, strangely, unavailable."
(11) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(12) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
(13) I was an immigrant, although a reluctant one, and I was living in a huge strange country that resembled the America I'd encountered in books and in films so much less than I had expected.
(14) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(15) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(16) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(17) 12.24am BST The Labor leader has seen the decision by the Greens to back in Tony Abbott in reintroducing fuel tax indexation in this budget, but strangely he has not seen their decision to oppose the deficit tax, even though it was announced at the same time.
(18) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(19) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
(20) Strangely enough, we continue to endure retrograde policy approaches that are more likely to further entrench a sense of disempowerment among Aboriginal people, rather than acknowledge and enable individual empowerment.
Strung
Definition:
(imp.) of String
(p. p.) of String
() imp. & p. p. of String.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her own debut album, 12 Stories (released on 22 October), displays the full range of her emotional acuity and wit in dissecting the strung-out, pill-addicted, adulterous heart of small-town America.
(2) 45 min: Cameroon haven't strung more than two passes together all half.
(3) The fight was like a tightly-strung bow, but neither archer was releasing the arrow.
(4) But that’s only because the £50m price tag that the club have strung around his neck is so heavy that he physically cannot move.
(5) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(6) The second study proves a new betablocking agent to have sociotropic effects: in a long-term trial socially high-strung subjects showed an improved interaction behavior (compared to placebo and socially easy-going persons) in their everyday life.
(7) For generations, these winter winds have been a trial for the crofting and fishing communities which are strung along the coastline.
(8) Balloons are strung up around the lawns and youngsters can have guided tours of the seat of power.
(9) Last summer, his team strung a 700-metre-long cable between two cliffs at a geological park in central China and the Prince, seeking a new challenge, decided to cross it backwards and blindfolded.
(10) Partly as a response to that image of strung-out adolescent boys, products aimed more at women and at an older market have tended not to call themselves games at all.
(11) No one can relax when the food is too highly strung.
(12) "Africans who refused to take the Mau Mau oath have had ropes tied around their necks and been strung up from rafters until unconscious.
(13) It’s possible Mary Berry is in fact a trojan behemoth, and viewers might wonder what dark secrets she’s hiding as a highly strung web administrator from Kettering furiously puts the finishing touches to a multi-tiered woodland-themed Genoese sponge.
(14) Equally, in every situation, Mason was the defender of Ophuls, a high-strung, stylistic perfectionist who was having a hard time in Hollywood.
(15) Tulsa remains Clark's most visceral book, an insider's view of a period in the mid-1960s when he was a teenager living what he calls, without irony, "the outlaw life" – shooting up speed, having sex with his strung-out girlfriends and hanging out with his gun-toting junkie friends.
(16) Then, as now, the mood was dominated by a crucial question: how do you a balance a need for jobs with the demand for a good quality of life for residents strung out kilometres away from Sydney’s CBD?
(17) His original masterplan included two championship golf courses, with a five-star hotel, tower blocks of timeshare apartments, luxury villas, equestrian and tennis complexes, a golfing academy, and shopping village strung along a sweeping avenue called Trump Boulevard.
(18) Like a few cushions piled up with a pearl string strung around the bottom.
(19) I was so highly strung and so stressed out and of course I would have answered the door because it might have been the police,” he said.
(20) Abu Jamal [his Islamic nom de guerre] is fighting in Syria, with a bushy beard covering his face and bullets strung across his chest.