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ligan

NOUN
  1. goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered

How To Use ligan In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • I'm not allowed to refer to things by convenient abbreviations such as dichloromethane, DCM, nor am I allowed to refer to things as the malonato ligand, or the diaminocyclohexyl group. Lecturer Notes
  • Football hooligans ran riot through the town.
  • Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Pictures of missing children lay at a soldiers foot during a retrieval operation in Iligan, southern Philippines Friday. Asia in Pictures
  • The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
  • For instance, the apparent lack of sensitivity of GLRs to amino acids could reflect the orientation of the proteins within the heterologous host membrane, rather than insensitivity to ligands.
  • Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice: Ulysses
  • Two years ago, he admitted the police had been caught out by a spate of petty hooliganism, but this year he said police leave had been cancelled and extra officers would be on duty until Bonfire Night and beyond.
  • Kidd makes much of a Miltonic allusion that he perceives in "woful" as spoken by Buck Mulligan. 'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange
  • It's where I am reminded that I no longer have to sit next to a goggle-eyed 4th grader with a milk mustache while opening my Gilligan's Island lunchbox and staring with disbelief at yet another soggy braunschweiger sandwich.
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