How To Use Lag In A Sentence

The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
Imagine an anthropologist visiting a remote tribal village to study its inhabitants.
At any rate, she rolled up the cuffs of her camouflage cargo pants a few times so she didn't trip if today's class required running.
Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times

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The term "strategic" came up again earlier this year, when Ontario's provincial government set up a committee to debate a proposed merger between London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., operator of Canada's flagship Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Turns Wary Eye to Foreign Bids
I do sometimes wish we could flag posts that are in some way related to post flags, when I'm feeling a bit daffy, which is always. MetaTalk
They were close to a little village which the English called Agincourt, and, though that is not quite its right name, it is what we have called the battle ever since. Young Folks' History of England
In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
Here, however, they are unlikely to survive the frosts although both impatiens and pelagoniums can be kept for next year in a heated greenhouse or brought indoors and used as house plants.
To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
Because wheat emerges so quickly, weeds must be killed before drilling using tillage or contact herbicides.
The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
Under this arrangement, the men of each village were organized into ‘tithings ' and expected to answer for each other's good behaviour.
We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet.
It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
Wildlife Watching Supplies stock a wide range of materials, olive green or camouflage pattern, lightweight, medium and heavy weight, showerproofed polycotton and waterproof nylon.
My husband wants to know what kind of millage it gets. Sunday Sweets: You "Auto" Watch
On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
Grandma always lag behind when we go for a walk.
Lefebvre V, Peeters-Joris C, Vaes G. Modulation by interleukin 1 and tumor necrosis factor alpha of production of collagenase, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases and collagen types in differentiated and dedifferentiated articular chondrocytes. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
Harte fired the ball into the bottom corner before heading for the corner flag to celebrate.
The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance.
British postal workers lag behind their continental counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
Here's a good one - a survey to see if birds are afraid of heights or get jet lag on long flights. The Sun
Initially von Leeb, using troops borrowed from von Bock, was able to mount a concerted attack both on the defensive positions of the southern suburbs and the area north of the main rail line to Moscow, their objective being the historic village now a suburb of Schlüsselburg, right on Lake Ladoga. Deathride
We were tired but we managed to push along to the next village.
The main methods of obtaining that information were blagging or corruption.
The graves were of different sizes and some were covered with flagstones, some of the urns were sent to Dublin for further examination.
The arrival of the charity van set off a minor riot as villagers scrambled for a share of the aid.
Of course what is small will inevitably vary greatly according to the circumstances and to say that a curtilage is a small area is obviously not to provide any precise test of identification.
We salute the flag, honer our military and are for taking care of our elderly, military and avoiding socialism. Obama invites senators from both parties to discuss vacancy
The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
Lawrence Pietroni has created two uniquely alluring charactersRuby and Isaand spins a story that feels mythical or folkloric, that is driven by a mystery, throbs with tension, and ends in conflagration. Ruby's Spoon: Summary and book reviews of Ruby's Spoon by Anna Lawrence Pietroni.
Mr. Hernandez's monochromatic costumes were 1950s-style, with the plain garb of the villagers contrasting with the cosmopolitan clothes of Neruda and his wife, Matilde, and Di Cosimo's natty, attention-getting white suit. When Postman and Poet Meet
Maybe people are less excitable in Bicester Village. Times, Sunday Times
He appeared periodically in the villages with his eight donkeys, or neddies as he called them, with jingling bells on their headstalls and their burdens of two sacks of small coal on each. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
Italian flag pasta – tossed with pesto and fried mangold on top, tossed with butter and parmesan on top, and tossed with tomato sauce and more of the same sauce on top. Bento #287 « Were rabbits
Consequently, we lag all the other industrialized countries in buildout investment, even France!! — Comcast Appeals F.C.C. Sanction - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
He said last night the move would prevent the waters from being looted and pillaged by other EU members, and introduce effective conservation of fish stocks.
A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
At a recent function in the village's memorial hall, the residents presented her with a bouquet of flowers and £910 that had been collected in the community.
In a downward inflation trend, salary expectations lag the decreases in inflation.
Like many other charophytes desmids have no flagella; they were lost at some point in the group's evolution.
At birth the femoral head and the acetabulum are mainly cartilaginous, and a normal adult hip joint depends on their correct development.
Finally met Judith "with the blue shutters": the American to whom the villagers have been trying to introduce me, going as far as to give me directions to her house "avec les volets bleus". Péquenaud - French Word-A-Day
More than 50 cask ales, lagers and ciders will be on available, including Abbot Ale, Cumberland Ale, Titanic Iceberg and Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter.
He had to wait for the first-class passengers to deplane, of course, since even flag officers fly coach. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Some small villages in the northern Andes were left isolated as roads were blocked by slides.
The skin of D. holocanthus is highly elastic because of microfolds in the epidermis and collagen fibers of the dermis.
Where else has a village come together to bring works of literature to life? Times, Sunday Times
It appears that the burgesses as a group were responsible for payment of the Domesday custom and for later tallages and aids.
At Laufen (Oflag VII-C) and later at Eichstätt (Oflag VII-B—close to the limestone quarry where the first archaeopteryx remains had been found), he watched birds that came through the camp wire to breed. A Year on the Wing
The light is opaque, and the beach looks soft and European like a Monet view of the plage.
Tell the operator that Karl Lagerfeld thinks you're 'demode'. I want a t-shirt that says...
This year's induction festivities in Cooperstown delivered a much-needed boost to the local economy, as large groups of Cubs and Red Sox fans spent gobs of money along the village's Main Street.
The rest of the lads on the squad will have to go away to the other qualifiers, so the slagging has started already, that I am going to be on my holidays while they will be working away.
Zhang had been chained to a cowshed in Hunan, southern China, in 2005 after falling out with village officials over a loan to build his house. Zhang Chuanqiu, Chain Skin Victim, Saved By British Media Charity
This consisted of the standard scheme with the addition of yellow and orange stripes to the rear of the fuselage and tailplane.
The deposits had tinctorial properties of collagen using Masson trichrome stain and the van Gieson method for collagen, although the deposits were mostly dissolved using the Masson trichrome procedure.
For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
The clunky village line is the only wrong note in a film composed of beautifully placed ones. Times, Sunday Times
used plagiarized data in his thesis
The plagues of aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, anti-semitism and ethnic tension are still widespread.
The procession moved through the mountain village at a stately pace.
His outlook could hardly have been helped by the cancelling of a perfectly good goal just after the quarter-hour, the linesman flagging for offside.
At harvest time all the villagers lend a hand.
A collection of tattered men o'war and patched sloops is firing directly over the decks of the old admiral's flagship and into the area of HMS Brown.
Admiral Lopez is one of the two flag officers in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of four-star admiral after direct commission from enlisted service.
The Company's flagship product, the Sharps Disposal by Mail System (R), is a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to dispose of medical waste such as hypodermic needles, lancets and any other medical device or objects used to puncture or lacerate the skin (referred to as "sharps"). Undefined
Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
If it should be objected by any that though he did not himself burden them, yet, being crafty, he caught them with guile, that is, he sent those among them who pillaged them, and afterwards he shared with them in the profit: "This was not so," says the apostle; "I did not make a gain of you myself, nor by any of those whom I sent; nor did Titus, nor any others -- We walked by the same spirit and in the same steps. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
I thought we were never going to reach it; and then, almost unexpectedly, we suddenly came upon it - a small but ancient village, rising up on a slight eminence, but concealed from view by big clumps of tall-growing reeds.
The Seattle Times says a business columnist and associate editor has resigned after admitting he plagiarized the work of other journalists.
There is no sign of a supermarket in the villages which dot the land, but home-grown vegetables are pulled directly from the kitchen garden.
After the merciful demise of her husband in 1842 her activities became less camouflaged and in the 1850s she was involving herself in the serf problem.
The Olympic village ran like clockwork. The Sun
From where he sat he could see the trembling lights of the village jewelling the rim of the bay like a circlet of stars. Flood Tide
The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
Just as the Olympic flame is about to reach Hong Kong and mainland China, the Guangdong province police have recently uncovered a case in which a cheap-rate factory in Guangdong was filling out orders by overseas Tibet splittist organizations to manufacture the snow-mountain-lion flags of Free Tibet. The Jawa Report
As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
The colour of blue on the flag is ‘argent’ as described in heraldry.
He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
It was wonderful, an Orkney village confronted with a swan, a selkie, and a dragon, and the consequences of allowing (or forcing) them to live among humans, as humans. "And when the waves came crashing down, he closed his eyes and softly kissed her."
The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
A second limey slag is used to remove sulphur and to deoxidise the metal in the furnace.
I dunno," said the plaguesome boy, looking at the address covertly. Janice Day at Poketown
Villagers then filtered out the sediment by pouring the water through tightly woven cloth.
Altogether, the village is idyllic. Daniel Deronda
Another is a rangy assemblage of vicious thorns, called myrrh, a second gift of the Magi. NYT > Home Page
Back in the mists of time, power dressing was a thing for women who had to appear more masculine to be taken seriously, like stealth camouflage. Times, Sunday Times
To improve the ambience of the village, they cleared the wild growth and widened the roads.
We are still plagued by them today. Times, Sunday Times
Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
That last post might have been a completely unintentional plagiarism of a song that I haven't heard for probably eighteen years.
He died at the age of 49 in Kolyma, one of the Labour Camps set up by the Gulag.
Though I must say that when I've encountered such things, I could not help sending a rather pointed letter about plagiarism and its extreme inadvisability. Exactly.
Her rally faltered momentarily when she bunkered her second to lose the 12th to go two down again, but promptly birdied the long fifth with two big hits on to the green and the 14th after an approach shot to within seven feet of the flag.
Watson had grown up on the rocky coast of New Brunswick in a village with the lyrical name Saint Andrews by the Sea. The Whale Warriors
The head of the humerus is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity, by means of a small ligament, and it consists of a rounded epiphysis composed of spongy cartilage, the humerus itself is bent outward and forward, and it is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity by its side, and not in a straight line. Instruments Of Reduction
a plaguey newfangled safety catch
Marine pilots were advised to drop warning messages on the towns or villages concerned, allowing civilians time to get away. Warfare in the Twentieth Century
Firstly the village can be found on the east side of a great headland protruding out of Loch Carron, and therefore enjoys a position that protects it from sea gales.
Please one’s eye and plague one’s heart.
TREILLE, _f. _, ceps de vigne élevés contre un mur _ou_ un treillage. French Conversation and Composition
There were three gunners, both front and rear of the plane and one in a bubble canopy half way down the fuselage.
Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car.
The only concern when he came back was jet lag. Times, Sunday Times
WEIL: I would recommend -- you know, one thing you might experiment with is glucosamine, which is a supplement widely available that may help rebuild cartilage in your knee. CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2004
A calendar picturing semi-naked men, shot in aid of a village school, has caused uproar after proving too hot to handle.
Entering the village was like passing under an invisible triumphal arch, quite splendid.
Hayes, now a professor of film in New England, blossomed under the master's tutelage, producing crisp, witty dialogue, and for a while the two were close.
Her first job was with a haulage company. Times, Sunday Times
Each word in the word recognition tree is flagged to indicate whether or not it is a member of a compound.
Liberal proponents of American Values praise the freedom that opens the floodgates to gay marriage and pornography; conservatives, the liberty unleashing that locust plague called unrestrained capitalism; neo-conservatives the license for lying, murderous Machtpolitik. Founding Fathers vs. Church Fathers
The almost desperate character of the effort to silence or drown out antiwar protests suggests that something more than mindless flag-waving is going on here.
He spends his eight weeks of rehabilitation watching the lives across the courtyard behind his Greenwich Village apartment.
The railway station is some distance from the village.
The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home. Paricutín, The Volcano, Michoacán
Bitterns are virtually invisible as their plumage provides perfect camouflage.
The tradesmen like lohar, tarkhan (carpenter), nai (barber) and darzi (tailor) traditionally working in the villages since centuries - mostly paid in the form of grain at the end of each rabi and kharif seasons - are no more pursuing their vocations. Light Within
The green flagellates known as ‘the volvocine algae’ constitute a happy exception to this general rule.
‘If a village was not pro Viet Cong before we came, it sure was after we left,’ one GI observed.
The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
You will see many changes in the village.
The conclusion flag corneal transplant may effectively treat, the shallow layer fungus keratohelcosis.
The main constituent phases of these rocks are plagioclase, hornblende, pyroxene, quartz and K-feldspar, and accessory phases include magnetite, sphene, zircon and apatite.
But, whatever harm Macscruby thinks our flag might do to his beef jerky, McDonald's had no misgivings on its effect on the Big Mac.
Although sequence similarities among some of the rod and hook proteins were noted in early analyses 24, the degree of paralogy for the ancestral set of flagellar genes, and its implications for the origins of the bacterial flagellum, have gone unrecognized. Update on PNAS flagellum paper - The Panda's Thumb
Objective To evaluate the effects of meglumine diatrizoate mucilage ( MDC ) used as contrast medium in bronchography.
As for the continuity goofs (of which there are many) - they probably would have been more obvious if the stupidity of the story hadn't camouflaged them so effectively.
The village spirits are considered benign, helping people to have good and happy lives so long as proper rituals are observed.
O'Sullivan never had the distinction of guiding a senior team to glory in the top division but his athletic tutelage of any team that crossed his path was legendary.
They were actually hemmed in by cattle grids at each end of the village, he pointed out - and there were disinfectant mats at each entrance to prevent the spread of infection.
Most villagers have cleaned out their bomb shelters and made sure to stock canned food and medical supplies. Times, Sunday Times
The fortress at the entrance to the village was reduced by a sudden attack.
William Ragsdale, playing the Sheriff oof, playing sheriffs... well, life is short of a small bayou town hagged by what seem to be Biblical plagues. Oh, you're so COOL, Brewster!
They're complete masters of camouflage and deception.
Once wide awake, even enterprising, they slowly become dilatory, leaden, slow, laggard, and lumpish.
Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
The minister identified plague, ebola, smallpox, anthrax, tularaemia and botulism as the main biological threats.
It said the flood walls and embankments being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
Is "silage" a positive adjective when describing a beer's aroma? Madison Beer Review Presents Beer Talk Today
Now he's in real trouble. He's accused of plagiarism.
For example, pilsner is one of the most popular lagers, while porter and stout are examples of ales.
Act Three ends powerfully, with the village in flames, good Soviet citizens hanging by their necks, and keening women, including one who is given a ‘mad scene’ of sorts.
It is carefully calibrated to maximize milk production while minimizing cost and might consist of haylage or silage—chopped, preserved fodder—ground with protein boosters like soy or the malted grain left over from brewing. The Dirty Life
This gathering is the largest periodic assemblage of human beings on the planet.
We've grown very attached to this village and wouldn't want to move.
Britain's only indigenous hare, the animals grow a white coat in winter to improve their camouflage in the snow. Times, Sunday Times
Such is a part of tire strange medley that is before and around me; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising from the tops of these hundred "coal-pits," can be seen in distance, the green and boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous to the piquet which encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds, on which their "dead live", as they term it. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
He had circled around to come to the village by the south, on the pretence of making it appear that he was headed for Kaye.
The flagship ladieswear brand increased turnover by 8 percent, while menswear grew sales by 12 percent, Identity up 18 percent and Daniel Hechter posted a 12 percent increase. IOL: News
In Aberdeen, the licensing board has proposed minimum drink prices in pubs of £1.75 for a pint of beer, cider, premium lager or cocktail.
It is the Internet's largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags).
His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
Most of us blag our way into things all the time - jobs, clubs, etc.
Should the English hoist their flag here, a new factory must be erected; the most eligible situation for which would be where the mosk now stands, or the mosk itself might be converted into one, and another rebuilt elsewhere; but to this the sultan has insuperable objections. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
He said he had drunk around 13 vodkas and ten pints of lager during the day.
Actively cultivating relationships, she freely roamed the village streets, visiting from house to house.
Financial problems have been plaguing their new business partners.
The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted.
But Gallagher, a noted poet, was delighted with the way Altman "metamorphosed" the stories. The Player Returns
Snow had been seen to fall also at Teneriffe, in a place lying above Esperanza de la Laguna, very near the town of that name, in the gardens of which the artocarpus flourishes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
The following year the ‘Marseillaise’ was adopted as the national anthem, and the 14 July as a national fête, to join the tricolor as the national flag.
(PLAYG) A highly contagious disease, such as bubonic plague, that spreads quickly throughout a population and causes widespread sickness and death. Plague
When spring tillage buries the weeds, it also buries any crop residue.
Suddenly, some big cannons come rolling past, painted in camouflage colours. Times, Sunday Times
Three-decker novel about the contrasting, intersecting lives of a Chinese boy and girl, born in the same mainland village and brought to America by force of circumstances. Obama Talks. People Listen. Markets Tank.
Weipe agricultural union chairman Frans Nel said drought was wiping out the financial resources of farmers who lost millions of rand in winter production because of black frost and a plague of mice. ANC Daily News Briefing
The data set included sequences of genes from mammals, birds, amphibians, coelacanths, lungfishes, ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fishes.
It is particularly by the mucilage, which is found in greater or less quantity in all vegetables, that the purity of oil is affected. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
The tiny village of Clonegal nestles in a picturesque valley, deep in the lush, rolling countryside where counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow meet.
The judge called the decision "a flagrant violation of international law".
That will make it easier for businesses such as haulage companies which might have suffered losses as a result of this to bring claims. The Sun
When we glance over the history of flagellation and realize that, though whipping as a punishment has been very widespread and common, there have been periods and lands showing no clear knowledge of any sexual association of whipping, it becomes clear that whipping is not necessarily an algolagnic manifestation. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women
It just sounds good and has the power of transforming a village idiot into a prima agnomina.] 5. 10 INDISPENSABLE BROADCAST JOURNALIST'S WORDS/PHRASES
The huddle of poor dwellings, too small to be named a village, clings plastered like martens' nests against rocks, high above a green river.
Syndromic paucity of interlobular bile ducts (Alagille syndrome or arteriohepatic dysplasia): review of 80 cases. Alagille Syndrome Related Reading
More events are planned, as villagers celebrate their unique and historic home.
It will also be used for the provision of small public water and sewerage schemes in smaller towns and villages.
Their skills increased as they trained and soon Raymond's people matched warriors of the other village.
He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions.
Their labels and names represent both villages and families, with generations of winemaking traditions.
If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom). 1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
They scratch the soil from beneath the flags, which then sink, and the consequent stench from the drains is abominable, jeopardising the health of the tenants. Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives
Unless that's the jet lag kicking in. Times, Sunday Times
Critics say the bill threatens some of the most ecologically unique areas of the Tongass forest, namely karst limestone habitat, as well as two subspecies: the Queen Charlotte goshawk and the Alexander Archipelago wolf. Mongabay.com News
Back roads around Tollerton were almost impassable because of standing water and the only clear way in and out of the village was on the road to and from the A19.
The camouflage Humvees were on every corner topped by national guardsmen.
This metal tower is used to relay television signals to distant villages.
With Erin following at a discreet distance, Stone pedalled into the village, keeping to the back streets. CORMORANT
He dressed in green camouflage which did the job at the time.
Selsey is a village on the south coast, eight miles from Chichester. Times, Sunday Times
In the 14th and 15th centuries textile manufacture became the dominant industry, especially of cloths called worsteds after a local village.
The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica. Península Valdés, Argentina
There are collagenous fiber in integument especially integument and the hymenopterous integument discovered by the H . E .
A forest of party flags and posters hung over Ankara as campaign buses rumbled about broadcasting music and speeches. Times, Sunday Times
ARS scientists, working with NRCS and universities, have done the research that has encouraged farmers to largely put away the moldboard plow and switch to conservation tillage on about 40 percent of U.S. planted acres.

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