Bailey

[ US /ˈbeɪɫi/ ]
[ UK /bˈe‍ɪli/ ]
NOUN
  1. English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
  2. United States singer (1918-1990)

How To Use Bailey In A Sentence

  • I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court. A Royal Engagement
  • A few unnecessary flights of melisma aside, the Best R&B Performance class works too; it includes songs by Marsha Ambrosius, Ledisi, Kelly Price & Stokely, Corinne Bailey Rae and Charlie Wilson. The Grammys Again Defy Common Sense
  • This shows that there must have been a doorway which opened at right angles to the line of the bailey wall.
  • But perhaps it was there on the terrace of the Villa America, tossing back Bailey cocktails, that Hemingway acquired his taste for tart, unsugared drinks. He Was a Cocktail Artist
  • The computer itself could only be activated by an access code known solely to Bailey.
  • Crystalline hyenas ran rampant through the bailey and feasted on the fallen. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Around 1972, Bailey added another loudspeaker and another volume pedal to his guitar, enabling him to throw sounds around stereophonically in addition to what he was already doing.
  • Several distinctive ungulate herbivores are endemic to this hotspot, including the takin (Budorcas taxicolor, VU), an unusual 300-kilogram goat antelope, the red or Bailey's goral (Nemorhaedus baileyi, VU), which is endemic to the Gaoligong Shan, and the Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii). Biological diversity in the mountains of Southwest China
  • Bailey saved ground as the field bunched into the turn and then urged the son of Hernando clear on the outside wearing down four rivals to get up by a neck.
  • And is the full panoply of a criminal court such as the Old Bailey the right place to do it? Times, Sunday Times
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