(n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Metformin 0.5 g trice daily or placebo were given for 4 weeks.
(2) This dorsal approach, easy to perform, ensures in a trice the "resting position" of the thumb and the articular congruity.
(3) meter disposable dialyzers and a dialysis strategy of 3 hours every other day or 4 hours trice weekly have been presented.
(4) In Groups B, C, D, G, H and I, the wound was painted trice weekly with a 0.5% solution of Trp-P-2 in DMSO for 8 weeks.
(5) This is the kind of creative accounting that could end the deficit in a trice.)
(6) Soaring inflation could and would destroy that link in a trice.
(7) In Groups A and F, the wound was painted trice weekly with DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) for 8 weeks.
(8) He was treated with bicarbonated hemodialysis trice weekly.
(9) I lope into Café Rui and in a trice they've laid me a place and grilled me some fat small sardines, and found a handful of small squid, which they fry in good oil with cloves of golden garlic.
(10) Bank regulation has been kicked into 2019 – political neverland: in a trice the entire NHS is put up for tender to "any qualified provider" , but banks get seven years to "prepare" while they lobby against already weak reforms.
(11) Don't look for consistency, either: MacMillan could veer between genius, excess and claptrap in a trice – and deciding which is which still divides opinion to this day.
(12) To determine the effect of a recombinant alpha interferon 2b (Intron-A) and possible benefit of prednisolone pretreatment in chronic non-A, non-B hepatitis, 75 Chinese patients with clinico-histologically proven chronic hepatitis were randomly allocated to one of the following regimens: (A) 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 6 months; (B) dose titration according to ALT-AST values; (C) prednisolone withdrawal followed by regimen A; (D) control group: no treatment for 6 months but followed by alternating treatment with 3 million units of Intron-A trice weekly for 2 weeks followed by 2 weeks no treatment for 6 months.
(13) And Jill Abramson , executive editor of the New York Times , was out in a trice, too – sacked, brushed away, her name erased from the paper's masthead with a ruthlessness Kim Jong-Il might have envied.
Tripe
Definition:
(n.) The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
(n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) "You've just reminded me I have to go to the tripe shop tomorrow," one correspondent tells him.
(2) But Fergus's parents came into the restaurant and reported back that they enjoyed the tripe and onions – which reminds me of the smell of elephant's cage.
(3) Trim the tripe and pass the vinegar … Nothing, of course, diminishes the fact that BuzzFeed is an internet phenomenon – and an increasingly ominous media contender whenever publishers gather.
(4) A comparison was made of the multiplication of bacteria in specimens of tripe processed in different ways.
(5) Tripe Catalan I am no fonder of boiled knitting than the next man, but I assure you that this is rather different from normal tripe.
(6) Boris Johnson tweeted on Saturday night that reports of a challenge were “tripe”.
(7) Serves 1, takes 2¼ hours tenpence worth of tripe (maybe ¼lb) 2 onions salt, pepper handfuls of herbs 2 tomatoes 1 dessertspoon tomato paste Prepare a pot of water with the seasonings and one of the onions in it; into this, averting your eyes, empty the piece of damp blanket you will have received from the butcher.
(8) He calls the Keynesian idea that you can raise economic activity by increasing the budget deficit "tripe".
(9) "That is absolute tripe," say Bredon Conservatives, sitting on the lawn.
(10) The talking of tripe with the tufty-headed fellows from the estate agent.
(11) The first show concentrated on the growth of the tripe industry during the first world war, and the actor Philip Jackson claimed a place in the Guinness Book of Records, as it was then known, for playing 22 characters, including a prison warder, King George V, a sausage dealer, the Salford Ripper and Baron von Richthoven.
(12) In cancer patients with tripe palms alone, the most common underlying neoplasm was pulmonary carcinoma (53% of cases), whereas patients with both tripe palms and acanthosis nigricans frequently had gastric (35% of cases) or pulmonary (11% of cases) carcinomas.
(13) At 21, I was asking the woman who ran the tripe stall in Leeds Market about the cheapest place to buy tablecloths.
(14) There are times – archetypal digital times – when too much hype and PR tripe gets in the way.
(15) Harris said the bishop's comments were "ill-informed tripe".
(16) The majority (94%) of published cases of tripe palms occurred in patients with cancer; only five patients showed no evidence of an associated malignancy.
(17) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(18) Much of the exported pork will be offal, tripe, trotters, ears and other parts of the so- called "fifth quarter" – the parts Brits tend to turn their nose up at, but the Chinese savour.
(19) His anti-Muslim tripe was not an isolated incident of bigotry.
(20) We describe two patients with triple palms and pulmonary tumors, and review the 77 patients with idiopathic- and malignancy-associated tripe palms reported in the world literature.