(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(3) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
(4) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(5) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(6) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
(7) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
(8) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(9) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(10) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(11) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
(12) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
(13) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
(14) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(15) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
(16) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
(17) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(18) Edu was tried out there in practice midweek... 2.18am GMT 6 mins Costa Rica get forward for the first time and have a throw deep in US territory.
(19) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
(20) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.
Thrower
Definition:
(n.) One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
(2) Two British throwers up there, it's unheard of, I'm pleased with where the sport's going."
(3) Still, the Croydon thrower is level-headed enough to know not to get carried away.
(4) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
(5) of each thrower, hammer and thrower-hammer system were calculated.
(6) But his achievements in that short period are so staggering as to merit such predictions having already broken a senior British record, a world-age record, won an Under-23 European gold medal and with a throw of 67.63m earned himself a fourth-place ranking amid the world's best discus throwers this season.
(7) Eight highly-skilled hammer throwers were studied using film analysis procedures.
(8) In 1987, when the first intifada erupted, Rabin was the defence minister who threatened to “break the bones” of the young stone-throwers confronting the occupation.
(9) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
(10) In the horizontal direction, the c.m.s of the thrower and of the hammer followed roughly trochoid patterns as a result of the combination of rotation with forward displacement across the throwing circle.
(11) Both early diastolic function, estimated from the velocity of LV relaxation and the LV inflow pattern, and late diastolic function, assessed by Doppler velocimetry, were similar in throwers and controls.
(12) The binding of rat uterine cytosol oestrogen receptor in vitro to oligo(dT)-cellulose is mediated by an activating factor in the cytosol [Thrower, Hall, Lim & Davison (1976) Biochem.
(13) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
(14) This was writ large at the outset, when Rose fired a flame thrower without batting an eyelid while Sheeran was handed a glitter canon and very nearly fell backwards with shock at the force of the “explosion”.
(15) In sportsmen-throwers the matinal exchange of rest in conditions of sport gatherings is found to be fairly high.
(16) An impingement occurring between the deep side of the supraspinatus tendon and the posterosuperior edge of the glenoid cavity was evidenced in a young sports thrower presenting with a partial tear of the deep side of the tendon.
(17) She has played Alien: Isolation, of course ("The flame-thrower is very good," she drawls) and is intrigued by the immersive story-telling possibilities of the medium.
(18) Another supposed coup-plotter was incinerated with a flame-thrower.
(19) In some throwers, gravity and the forward translation of the system produce most of the fluctuation; in others, a marked fluctuation remains after the effects of gravity and of the forward translation of the system have been subtracted out.
(20) His fellow throwers have certainly embraced their new star.