(v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
(n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
(3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
(4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
(6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
(7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
(8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
(9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
(10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
(11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
(12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
(13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
(14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
(15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
(16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
(17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
(18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
(19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
(20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.
Strut
Definition:
(v. t.) To swell; to bulge out.
(v. t.) To walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity.
(n.) The act of strutting; a pompous step or walk.
(n.) In general, any piece of a frame which resists thrust or pressure in the direction of its own length. See Brace, and Illust. of Frame, and Roof.
(n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
(v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3.
(a.) Protuberant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(2) Thereafter, 27S species adsorbed avidly to it and collapsed into characteristic configurations containing four globular domains, each linked to the others by three approximately 33-nm struts.
(3) The autogeneic fibula dove-tailed strut graft is favored over an iliac crest bone graft because with multilevel decompression in the cervical spine, it provided structural stability and a high union rate.
(4) Percent lumen reduction was 19% in group A, 26% in group B, and 24% in group C. Marked smooth muscle cell hyperplasia was seen by light and transmission electron microscopy at stent struts.
(5) One patient, who was asymptomatic, was discovered to have a prosthesis with two fractured struts.
(6) Varying degrees of thrombus formation were observed in the minor outflow region, including the depression in the aortic face of the disc and the metal strut bridging this area.
(7) This is the stuff women are thinking about all the time, even as we brazenly strut through grocery store parking lots at eight in the morning, wearing overalls, with our hair in ponytails.
(8) During lateral walking, movements of the M-C joint provide most of the propulsive force, whereas during forward and backward walking this joint function more as a strut (fig.
(9) Comminuted body fractures are best treated with an anterior strut graft.
(10) Excluding complications specific to the fibular transfer procedure, the complications in the Group-I patients (six recurrent postoperative infections, one fracture of the graft, and one non-union of a fibular strut graft) were approximately as frequent as those in the Group-II patients (one failure of fusion and two fractures of the graft).
(11) A comminuted burst ("teardrop") fracture produced by axial loading of the vertebral bodies should be stabilized by an anterior cortical strut graft for early mobilization and realignment of the spinal column to prevent progressive deformity.
(12) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(13) (b) Strut arrays, representing nine sites where the basal body attaches to the membrane, appear to serve a mechanical function.
(14) The cage-like implant has ridges or teeth to resist pullout or retropulsion, struts to support weight bearing, and a hollow center for packing of autologous bone graft.
(15) A biomechanical study was performed comparing the stiffness and stability of the three-level combination spinal rod-plate and transpedicular screw (CSRP-TPS) fixation system with those of three anterior stabilization constructs that spanned three vertebral levels: iliac strut grafting, polymethylmethacrylate and anterior Harrington rod instrumentation (technique of Siegal et al.
(16) Strut fracture in a De Bakey aortic valve is reported.
(17) Elastic moduli of the composite myocyte-sheath complex and the strut matrix are estimated from existing passive biaxial loading data from sheets of canine myocardium.
(18) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
(19) Using type III struts, we have obtained stabilization of the flail chest in all cases even in patients with severe anterior paradoxical movement.
(20) Seeing him strut his stuff, actually quite human, you were conscious that here was a straight man of mixed heritage who wore women’s underwear while channelling Jimi Hendrix.