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Tore


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Tear
  • () imp. of Tear.
  • (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
  • (n.) Same as Torus.
  • (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
  • (n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
  • (2) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
  • (3) The Daily Beast asked the Trump campaign about a story from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, in which Trump allegedly tore out clumps of then-wife Ivana Trump’s hair before allegedly sexually assaulting her in a way that, according to Hurt, she characterized to friends as “rape,” later clarifying that she felt “violated” but not in “a literal or criminal sense.” It’s depressing to consider how little difference this might make in the GOP race.
  • (4) A furious Aitor Karanka tore into his Middlesbrough players and aimed a swipe at Boro supporters after squandering the opportunity to go top of the Championship table at Blackburn.
  • (5) But the following morning Abdullah declared himself the winner in an emotional speech to a crowd of supporters who tore down a portrait of Karzai and replaced it with a photograph of Abdullah.
  • (6) Abdullah reined in his base but the shift in the tenor of the fans was unmistakeable, especially after some of them tore down a portrait of Karzai.
  • (7) But then a black hole tore our world very close to us.
  • (8) Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero ‘in tears’ after injury on Argentina duty Read more Agüero tore a muscle in his left thigh half an hour into the team’s opening South American qualifier for the 2018 World Cup in Russia at the River Plate stadium on Thursday.
  • (9) Upon his return, in August last year, he tore a hamstring during the warm-up before a league game against the same opponents.
  • (10) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
  • (11) You feel like you are family.” The club confirmed Tore will not link up with the squad, who are on a pre-season tour of the United States, but will begin his build-up to the new season at their Chadwell Heath training base.
  • (12) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
  • (13) Allen, who replaced Andrew Lansley as Tory MP for Cambridgeshire South in May, was heard in silence as she tore into the government over its tax credit plans.
  • (14) Won’t you take responsibility for that?” In tears, the athlete replied: “I don’t have to look at a picture, I was there.” As the prosecutor tore holes in the defence version of events, Pistorius told the judge: “My memory isn’t very good at the moment.
  • (15) No disrespect to our opponents but we never look past ourselves.” Wilmots was able to confirm that Vertonghen tore two of his three ankle ligaments in an accident at the end of training, and will probably be replaced by Jordan Lukaku.
  • (16) Another victim was Tore Eikeland, 21, president of the AUF, whom the Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has described as "one of the most promising politicians of the next generation".
  • (17) On the Greek island of Chios, hundreds of people tore down a razor wire fence that had kept them imprisoned in a camp and fled.
  • (18) All muscles tore at the distal musculotendinous junction, and there was no difference in the length increase at tear between muscles in each group.
  • (19) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
  • (20) Rose tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during the 2012 playoffs.

Tug


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
  • (v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
  • (v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
  • (v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
  • (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
  • (n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
  • (n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
  • (n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is patrolled for around six months of the year by a 35-year-old ocean-going tug which takes two days to cross the protected area.
  • (2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
  • (3) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
  • (4) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
  • (5) John Muir, a giant of the conservation movement, summed up the importance of bees to the human race when he said: “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” We harm them at our peril.
  • (6) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
  • (7) Three minutes later a dithering David Edgar allowed Callum Wilson to bully him out of possession before blatantly tugging his shirt.
  • (8) "The difference between me and the prime minister is …" – and here he went very strange, as if the tug of war in his synapses had caused permanent damage – "… when I lean across and say 'I love you, darling' I really mean it!"
  • (9) Under noncatalytic conditions, the fluorescence emission of TUG at 436 nm increased monotonically with Gal-Tase concentration, with a half-maximal response at approximately 4 microM.
  • (10) Whole nerve recordings from the posterior articular nerve revealed substantial activity from afferents in response to tugging on the ACL, although we could not differentiate receptors in the ACL from those in other periarticular tissues.
  • (11) Beneath this, there is the obnoxious notion that people owe their employer loyalty, gratitude and even love; tug your forelock and go "the extra mile" for an employer who may show you no loyalty and dump you as soon as you become old, pregnant or sick.
  • (12) The heartstrings were tugged still further before kick-off.
  • (13) It was a function of his immense enthusiasm and curiosity, but it was also, in its way, a literary playing out of the first principle of ecology: that everything is connected to everything else, or as John Muir put it, that "when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world".
  • (14) He criticized the Obama administration, and said he would stay a staunch moderate despite the tug-of-war of Republican primaries.
  • (15) Howard could be a wild man – as we know from his later work – and you feel recklessness and revolution as a wind tugging at him.
  • (16) Ukraine's only safe solution is for the lethal tug of war between east and west to end.
  • (17) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
  • (18) The former tug boat driver was working for a software firm in Houston when he was drafted into the operation.
  • (19) The capital exerts a huge cultural and political tug on Afghanistan .
  • (20) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.

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