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Trek


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I called it following the Star Trek Non-Interference Directive.
  • (2) Later this month sees the release in the US of Star Trek Beyond – Yelchin’s most high-profile movie to be released posthumously.
  • (3) We are saying enough is enough.” Hundreds of protesters appeared to have joined the march, carrying banners that said “adalet” or “justice” as they set out on the 280 mile (450km) trek that will take them to Maltepe prison, where Enis Berberoğlu has been incarcerated.
  • (4) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
  • (5) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (6) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
  • (7) Hemsworth cut his chops on Home And Away before quitting in 2007, moving to LA and almost immediately being cast as Kirk's doomed dad in JJ Abrams 's Star Trek.
  • (8) US supreme court justices spar over strictest abortion law in the nation Read more Delta has been sending its patients on this trek for a week – ever since the fifth circuit court of appeals put on hold a lower court ruling that would have allowed the clinic to remain open.
  • (9) In a study of 17 subjects plasma-thyroxine-binding globulin and plasma thyroxine concentrations rose during a high altitude trek.
  • (10) The next day, we were processed, and we could begin our trek through Europe.
  • (11) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
  • (12) Her body has now been brought to Kathmandu from the mountain,” said Phu Tenzi Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks, which organised her expedition.
  • (13) It feels like a good jumping off point for a hike, or a pony trek.
  • (14) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (15) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
  • (16) That meant going on yet another three-bus trek to the official records office in a different part of town.
  • (17) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
  • (18) I was trying to make a movie, not trying to make a Trek movie."
  • (19) His Star Trek reboots are dispiriting: the quirky and beloved sci-fi franchise pureed into stimulating but unremarkable blockbuster entertainment, distinguished mainly by caricatures of iconic characters that are more branding than interpretation.
  • (20) This gaunt, haunting visage (which, in the story, turned out to belong to a deliberately frightening dummy) appeared in Star Trek's end credits almost every week, and was guaranteed to scare the shit out of me whenever it did so.

Wade


Definition:

  • (n.) Woad.
  • (v. i.) To go; to move forward.
  • (v. i.) To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.
  • (v. t.) To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
  • (n.) The act of wading.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
  • (2) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
  • (3) It is a conflict over ownership of the process of revolutionary change, one that has already brought violence back to Egypt's streets – and which Fahmy's project is wading straight into the middle of.
  • (4) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (5) Wade denied that the episode affected his focus during the Finals, but the NBA star regularly speaks about how important fatherhood is to him.
  • (6) Hogan-Howe waded into the row, saying gang members heard simple messages such as that there was a minimum five-year jail sentence for possession of a gun, but had no idea about the equivalent sentence for carrying a knife.
  • (7) The next step after Roe v Wade was the establishment of legislation in 1977 that protected the right of medical personnel who either refused to participate in abortion procedures or those who did participate.
  • (8) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
  • (9) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
  • (10) Yet within seconds of my mother's profile flashing up on the screen, I found myself wading through my parents' most recent social occasions.
  • (11) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
  • (12) Given that the next president could be in a position to replace Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – two of the members of the razor-thin five-vote majority supporting Roe v Wade – Americans who don’t want to return women to the reproductive dark ages should vote accordingly come November.
  • (13) Dwyane Wade added 33 points and 10 assists for the Heat, who at 28-7 are off to their best 35-game start in franchise history.
  • (14) Even before Charles waded into the planning process last spring, there had been a debate in the Qatari camp about whether to approach him so he could not surprise them with objections.
  • (15) But Oliver now seems to have accepted his fate as a satirical news anchor who covers the Trump campaign, wading into the recent phallus-based Trump news in his headlines section on Sunday night.
  • (16) He later tweeted the same message with Wade’s first name spelled correctly, and deleted the original message.
  • (17) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
  • (18) Several privately owned canoe and kayak rental agencies offerguided and independent trips down the Mullica, Batsto, Oswego and Wading rivers.
  • (19) "I've never really talked about it but in some ways it represents one of my points about campaigning journalism – listening to your readers," Wade added.
  • (20) We examined the hypothesis (Ono & Wade, 1985) that occlusion of far stimuli by a near one on the same visual line can operate as a depth cue in stereograms containing different numbers of targets in the two eyes.

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