Word: irregularly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Local ornithologists last night blamed the recent unseasonable weather for the sudden disappearance of the Bow Street Aviary's prize specimen. Treskiornia Aetheopia, the Sacred Ibis. The bird, distinguished by its dull metallic green plumage with irregular white streaks, left its perch stop a well-known society...
...study of the facts soon showed that Joe McCarthy's blockade was as phony as it was irregular. A whole series of recent moves by the governments of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Greece and other countries practically prohibit their ships from trading with Communist China. Just last week, after long negotiations with the U.S., the Greek government decreed that Greek-flag ships will not sail to Communist Chinese ports...
March 2 and 3, necessary measures for treatment were taken, directed toward improvement of the disturbed functions of breathing and circulation of the blood . . . At 2 a.m., March 4, the state of health of J. V. Stalin continued to remain serious . . . Breathing . . . 36 per minute . . . Pulse . . . 120 and completely irregular...
...left side of the brain. His power of speech disappeared in the few moments before he lapsed into unconsciousness. From the moment they reached his side, the doctors knew that his plight was critical. They needed no delicate instruments to note that his breathing was highly irregular, with long pauses between rapid spells. His pulse rate shot up to 120, and this too was irregular. His blood pressure of 220 over 120 was high (though many people live for years with such readings). More disturbing to his doctors were signs that Stalin's heart was beginning to fail...
...they are hardly the totality. Under the present language program, too many courses seek only to enable the student to pass the College's minimum language requirement, chaining students to grammar drill and little else. A college language course even for beginners, should offer a perspective over more than irregular verbs. Unless a language is taught in the context of a foreign culture, its fundamentals are quickly forgotten, regarded solely as means to hurdle a requirement. Yet many College language courses, themselves with only the requirement in view, plod on through the tedium of unadorned syntax...