How To Use Primed In A Sentence

Your stepson could have been left in a dysregulated state whereby he is primed to be constantly hypervigilant to threat and to respond. Times, Sunday Times
He primed his last grenade and threw it into the group of aliens.
The powder charge and the ball and patch had to be rammed separately down the tight-fitting barrel and the pan primed with powder.
This sequence occurred around halfway through the interview, so the interviewees were primed by then into realizing that more details were expected.
Sail-trimmer, and Pumpman; a primed candle for each battle-lantern; a thumbstall and vent-guard for the 1st and 2d Captains of each gun. Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

These big, freely painted, heavily collaged unprimed canvases together form something of a spiritual marching band, though they mostly seem to follow the beat of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Maybe I had picked up the wrong gadget, and it was a calorie counter, primed to record a Big Mac and fries.
The guns are currently silent, but a number are being primed for action.
The doctor has primed him to be told it may be prostate cancer and it may have spread to his bowel.
When the Cave family gathers for a reunion at their idyllic holiday retreat, everyone has an emotional hand grenade primed and ready to throw.
This road map was specifically formulated to create opportunities for students to continue their exploration of space throughout their educational careers; then once thier educational career is complete, the students are then primed for a career in aerospace industry. Today's Video: Inspire Me! Weightless Flights of Discovery - NASA Watch
In his opinion, a network can't depoliticize the culture with a constant barrage of empty entertainment and then expect a population primed for critical thought.
We know the feeling of eager anticipation in the hour or two before training, of running the workout through in our minds, of knowing before we even enter the gym that we're primed to unleash our best efforts.
White primed hardboard is the usual support on which the initial drawing is sketched with charcoal. Improve Your Landscape Painting
This rapid platelet decrease suggests an anamnestic response (i.e. a rapid immune response to new antigens by an already primed immune system).
The metal should then be primed with a rust-resistant primer. Do-it-yourselfer Q&A
Captain is primed for the Park with a glass of curacoa; and where you see Hobby, of the Highland Buffs, driving up with Dobby, of the The Book of Snobs
The priming effect in temporal order perception is a phenomenon in which a primed stimulus was judged as appearing before an unprimed stimulus.
With Ohio set to lose two congressional seats in redistricting next year and primed to be at the center of the 2012 presidential fight, controlling the governorship is of critical importance. Ohio election results 2010: Portman wins; Kasich beats Strickland for governor's seat
Andre glanced down to his final blaze bringer missile, which was primed and ready to launch.
However, other supports such as acrylic primed canvas or board are also perfectly suitable.
She has created a large structure in bare, unprimed wood.
The daughter of a Broadway dancer mother and a violin maker father, Moennig was primed to perform at an early age.
An army spokeswoman said the searches had found five concealed rifles and about 40 explosive devices, primed for use.
New Orleans failed to make the playoffs despite some great seasons by Archie, but his son seems primed for eventual postseason success.
I would be very surprised if at year's end Caroline didn't take her crystal ball in for a polish - I think our captain is primed for 2003.
In the early '70s I paid $3.80 for a box of twenty.25 - '06 unprimed cases.
Aluminum siding, however, has a baked enamel finish so it can be sanded or scuffed up, then primed with a special etching primer developed just for this purpose.
Primed by Pissarro in color theory, Cezanne viewed the southern landscape through the prismatic lens of a modern color theorist as well.
For Sea Form, Bontecou raked wet printer's ink on a primed plastic surface to depict an ethereal, six-pointed star shape that evokes a feathery nest or squirming creature.
For S-phase to occur, chromatin must be primed to initiate DNA replication at sequences called origins of replication.
The city is primed for a week-long celebration for this year's Sunshine Festival.
The pump's valve is put into the well and then its cylinder primed with water to start the process.
If your pharmacist assembled the unit for you, check to see if it has already been primed by pumping the unit once.
Any number of homemade traps and snares were primed at any one time, carefully crafted in his toolshed with top-quality materials, and placed with due care by spirit level and theodolite in the garden for maximum bloodletting.
The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
During CPB surgery, the CPB pump must be primed with crystalloid solutions to provide an air-free circuit.
I was leaning out with my heavy caliber machine gun primed, waiting for the order to shoot.
The party representative had been well primed with the facts by Party headquarters.
The bomb was primed, ready to explode.
The lady was all of a flutter with faded lutestring, washed gauze, and ribbons three times refreshed; but she was most remarkable for the frisure of her head, which rose, like a pyramid, seven inches above the scalp, and her face was primed and patched from the chin up to the eyes; nay, the gallant himself had spared neither red nor white in improving the nature of his own complexion. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.
I open the dishwasher, a movement which is slightlyforeign to my repertoire because we had a new dishwasher installed a few weeks ago andmy fingers are still primed to release the lever on the old one, rather than simply press into the center as is required by this new model. 2008 September « Becca’s Byline
Because there are only a few primed cells likely to be in any region of tissue at any given time, it takes some time for the inflammatory response to develop and hence the term delayed hypersensitivity response. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Repetition priming effects on temporal order perception are a phenomenon in which a repetition primed stimulus was judged to appear before an unprimed stimulus.
We were well primed for the journey with a big breakfast.
This reduction in total germination percentage was accompanied by a higher rate of fungal growth in primed seeds.
All the door staff were primed to leap into action when the ticket machines recognised the 10-millionth visitor and were waiting for the moment.
Neal Dikeman, co-founder of CarbonFlow, said the company was now "primed to deliver" its first wave of products, and was expected to see strong demand from a burgeoning global carbon market that is "clamouring" for software platforms similar to those used in the financial markets. The most recent articles from V3.co.uk
The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object.
The noise echoed in the caves, and the first four girls loaded and primed their guns before continuing.
The star of I Love You Phillip Morris, The Truman Show, Man on the Moon and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind teams up with the primed-for-prime-time players to lacerate today's headline-splashing people and events. Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011
Dressed in camouflage, gripping his .357 caliber Magnum, Demar was primed to shoot.
Painted on unprimed European paper and bound in true codex form, manuscripts such as the Codex Mendoza sever the image as such from its earlier function as written language.
Lacklustre reviews had primed me for disappointment with this one, and perhaps that's why, as I turned each page, my delight and fascination grew.
After all the promise they displayed on their first album and all that positive publicity, Priestess were primed to take that important next step with their much-ballyhooed follow-up, but much to many people's surprise, all that momentum came to an abrupt halt when their label RCA refused to release the album upon hearing the more aggressive and less commercial direction of the new songs. PopMatters
The party representative had been well primed with the facts by party headquarters.
The monumental heaviness of the helmet is offset by the thin, unprimed canvas on which the image floats. The Times Literary Supplement
Examining the brain-imaging data, Bengtsson found that the students' brains responded differently to the mistakes they made depending on whether they were primed with the word clever or the word stupid. The Optimism Bias by Tali Sharot: extract
These are hectic days for him and the Irish Chamber Orchestra is now primed for a serious assault on the competitive world of concert performances.
They say she keeps a hareem of muscular young bucks, primed with love-potions - Fiancée
The witness had been primed by a lawyer.
He depicts the human condition by flaying his subjects and smearing them over unprimed canvas. Times, Sunday Times
To address the foregoing question, we applied the arbitrary primed polymerase chain reaction technique.
He opened one of the Reiven's cargo units and reloaded and replaced his two pistols, strapped on a bandolier of explosives and loaded and primed a rifle.
The warplanes and helicopter gunships were ready, their crews primed to deliver precision strikes.
Part of the problem is that the movie presents a heroine primed with empty ambition, but makes no comment on it.
Working on unprimed Belgian Linen and her 20 year collection of handmade Japanese papers, she enhances each piece with gold and silver leaf, glass frit, threads, metallic paints, inks and iridescent paints.
The bangalore torpedo may be primed by assembling alength of time blasting fuse and a nonelectric blasting cap in a priming adapter and screwing the assembly into the cap well of a torpedo section (A, fig 2-31). Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester
All metal surfaces will have to be primed.
The witness at the trial had been carefully primed by defence lawyers.
Keown thinks Wenger could be primed for a summer clear-out should his players fail to impress in their remaining games against Blackburn and Fulham.
When we get back the New Belgium kegs get tapped and we start getting primed for the night.
Sometimes paint has bled under the tape - in particular when it was applied to an area of bare, unprimed canvas - and blurred the edge of the line.
It seemed normal practice to make up some previous experience, put in a primed friend's name and number as a reference and, bingo, work rolled in.
Days of heartache and suffering were now primed to pay off in the form of unlimited free food.
He also went with a Steeda wing and then the LX was primed and painted in Chevrolet Electron Blue. You Know You Wanna Cap That Ass | Kung Fu Rodeo
Morton told him, and the old man ruminated a while, as he industriously cleaned, primed, and loaded his gun, while Morton waited, watching a long, plume-like line of smoke along the distant horizon, which he knew was from a Portland steamer. Sara, a Princess
On site was a huge amount of tantalising and succulent primed meat and the barbecued food was also tasty.
A thousand shared looks in a life together, they both knew this one: Lena primped and primed. Three Stages of Amazement
The prospect of war means satellite uplinks, mobile phones, and global positioning systems are primed to bring you live vision of a place where telephones are rare.
In the mid 1700s the Chapel, at Chapel Plaistow, in Box, was home to the infamous John Poulter, who regularly primed his pistols in the kitchen of the nearby Bell pub.
One sinister saurian lies along the grassy banks, as patterned and prim - and primed - as a killer handbag.
As a general example, clicking on the member's name that was primed to pop up with a Google search for the phrase "raising debt ceiling" would cost taxpayers approximately $4.70 per click. And a Happy Festivus From Congress Too
In his barrage of strategies in which folk music could be used to inspire a united fighting force, Lomax paused to take a jealous swipe at a hit record that had won over a nation primed for patriotic fervor: "I need not overstress my opinion that 'God Bless America' and Kate Smith are both extremely dull and mediocre," he wrote. The Catcher of Songs
Mr. Pinchin could understand French, though he spoke it but indifferently; but he, being fairly Primed, and in one of his Obstinate Moods, musters up his best parleyvoo, and tells the Ancient with the Golden Key (and I saw that he had another one hung round his neck by a parcel chain, and conjectured him to be a High Chamberlain at least) to go to the Devil. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
Today Starline manufactures more than 60 unprimed cartridges cases from the 380 Area to the 50 Alaskan, then offers them at factory direct prices.
Signs of Burnette were everywhere, from the paint-splattered easel with the rustic ‘World's Fastest Artist ‘plaque to the piles of unprimed masonite waiting for the master's rapid touch.’
Shiro waited his turn patiently, but he was fully primed and when his name was finally called he went to the microphone with confidence.
Another jemadar prowled, revolver in one hand, primed grenade in the other, and kukri clenched between his teeth.
Mr. Russo had guided his young son's hand as Dominic gingerly dipped the wide brush into the bucket of white paint and then slowly wiped it over the unprimed wood.
Components available this way include rifle and pistol bullets and unprimed shell cases.
So, it seems, the Earth's primordial soup was primed with the monomers for making the polymeric components of primitive life.
Now, high-tech foundations turn skin into a perfectly primed canvas, without a heavy-makeup look or feel.
All painted walls should be primed with a good quality pigmented acrylic wallcovering primer.
Their squadrons were ready, and all weapons and shield systems were primed and ready.
Starting now, we're riding more, eating less and maxed out on energy bars - a combo that leaves us primed for some pretty bad bonks.
I would love to know who primed the interviewer with the questions.
We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
As a reporter(Sentencedict), you must be well primed with facts before you start to write your article.
Harlem, however, was primed at the turn of the 20th century with the advent of steamboats, cars and electric trains.
At five minutes to twelve the soft tuning was again heard in the back quarters; and when at length the clock had whizzed forth the last stroke, Dick appeared ready primed, and the instruments were boldly handled; old William very readily taking the bass-viol from its accustomed nail, and touching the strings as irreligiously as could be desired. Under the Greenwood Tree
By now he's quite refreshed by his meal and primed by a good deal of political conversation, and this question momentarily stumps him.
Their incendiary performance culminated in the title track and primed the audience for the havoc yet to be wreaked.
If the vaccinated person ever encounters the actual SARS virus, his or her immune system will be primed to neutralize it.
The party representative had been well primed with the facts by Party headquarters.
McGee, who had clearly been primed, did not move and Julia took her cue from him.
Last week's tests confirmed the capability of the new missile; the missiles will be primed for firing and the warheads armed for detonation.
. Sometimes, people can see different things in a movie when they're primed and ready to watch for them.
Only 2% of our patients were primed with sex steroids, and priming would have increased growth hormone secretion in many of the others.
The press corps was primed to leap to the defense of the fired officials.
Create the experience and build the anticipation over time, satiate the crowd, and then come back when the market is primed again. Joe Favorito: UFC Deserves Its Fight in New York Now
It is a case-actuated system similar to one used by Hornady where a funnel inside the powder die is pushed up by contact with the primed case.
Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts. Desert Dust
We were well primed for the journey with a large breakfast.
The party representative had been well primed with the facts by party headquarters.
Top tip: fill gaps between primed woodwork and walls with a mastic gun.
The windowsills and doorways were sanded and varnished, and three new beaverboard panels were installed in the ceiling upstairs and primed and painted.
Travis primed his rifle by tearing back on the lever, others followed as they neared the surface of the planet.
The remaining two-thirds of the trials were unprimed, in which there was no relation between the distractor letters of the prime-trial and the target letters of the probe-trial.
Lorna, who works in the town square's newsagent, believes the town has been primed for a celebrity shindig since the 1960s.
Shrines fallen into desuetude were primed with sequestered objects and reprimed with new castings.
In other words, the body is primed for rapid and explosive muscle growth.
All the other females in the population are splitting their reproductive effort between males and females even though it is only the females, primed by a few sperm, who go on to contribute offspring to the next generation.
All the world loves a dramatic comeback story, and this pop icon is primed to prove she's still got what it takes to make the kids yelp and shriek with glee.
They have primed the explosive device.
The witness at the trial had been carefully primed by defence lawyers.
Activated T-cells have the Fas molecule - the receptor for FasL - on their surfaces and are primed to attack disease-causing organisms.
The focus on early 20th century history might have played no small part in that, and the fact that he's an opera afficionado might have primed him for the trick of telling the same story in different time periods. What is Literary Fiction?
In the pink room, again, there are allusions to bare canvas, rather than unprimed canvas as such. The Times Literary Supplement
We have been primed for it from the very beginning with fairy tales, princes and princesses falling in love at first sight and, mysteriously, living happily ever after.
The repaired deck was then primed with a two-component epoxy primer, followed with a basecoat of single-component, highly elastic urethane.
If the rudder and daggerboard are made of plywood and glassed they will need to be primed and painted.
He had a shower and primed himself for action.
Each of us arrives in this world with a genetic endowment primed for learning.
I also primed more of the Old Glory 1805 Russians in bicorn that are depicted in yesterday's post. Archive 2008-06-01
To define the mechanisms for the autoactivation of primed Cds1 and the regulation of this process, we carried out genetic and biochemical studies to identify phosphorylatable residues required for checkpoint activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
Wooden doors need regular maintenance; they can be sanded down, primed and finished with a hardwearing exterior paint. Times, Sunday Times
Striding beside him, his loyal and rugged men - Red, Zee, and Lake among them - look equally square-jawed, primed and begrimed from their time in the field.
The group is primed and ready to go for a large acquisition but it is a question of finding the right one at the right price, and they will not pay too much.
I'll take the field, but I think if everyone on every team is healthy all season, the Heat are primed for a monster season.
And his will be a hard act to follow: the footlights are bright with public attention, the script well known, and the chorus voices primed for their cue.
Hurley nodded and disappeared below deck, reappeared a good time later with eighteen muskets, all primed and loaded, they just needed the ships to get within shooting distance.
They're angry and resentful about the situation and primed for an angry response.
They stampeded her on the Calle Rivera and unceremoniously held up Mr. North's impressive car before the hotel, while Jim Baggott, in an ancient silk hat and bibulously primed for the occasion, read an ungrammatical but fervent valediction. The Fifth Ace
I was primed to sit on my couch with a finger pointing at the TV, a hand over my mouth, and a look of both horror and euphoria on my face.
These have the advantage of being fast drying and may be used on a wide variety of unprimed or acrylic-primed supports.
His use of bleach to paint directly onto unprimed canvas was a conceptual double whammy - not only did the works have a convincing and beautiful singularity, the subject was reinforced by the connotations of the materials.
Winchester's unprimed handgun and rifle shell cases also are being offered in the new packaging, 50 and 100 per bag, depending on the cartridge.
The witness had been primed by a lawyer.
Will the pundits and talking heads be primed for those moments?
The day after telling the probe of an unprimed bomb left in plastic bags at her Buncrana house, Mrs McMahon recalled the day the bomb went off in Strabane and she was told ‘it is one of ours’.
We were well primed for the journey with a large breakfast.
primed for a fight
Within minutes he found a cache which included AK47 assault rifles, a pistol, six primed grenades, grenade fuses, ammunition, cash, drugs and literature.
The catheter was primed to the tip with a zero chloride solution containing isoproterenol.
The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative, almost Arte Povera reading of the work as art object.
The British soldiers, Brown Bess muskets primed and loaded, slid down the ropes onto the shaky boats, cramming about thirty light infantrymen to each of the tiny transports.
Aluminum siding, however, has a baked enamel finish so it can be sanded or scuffed up, then primed with a special etching primer developed just for this purpose.
Some of us have the consolation of knowing that lawyers who studied journalism where ethics and social justice are part of the curriculum may be primed to serve the public interest.
The last batch of 7mm Dakota cartridges I loaded using new, unprimed brass averaged .012’ to .015’ runout on the case necks.
Kathy was primed with the information and rang.
The warplanes and helicopter gunships were ready, their crews primed to deliver precision strikes.
The bomb was primed, ready to explode.
The more you're primed to look at those factors, the more they affect you.
So these people will be primed with the DNA vaccine and then boosted with the fowl pox vaccine, and that is what we hope the secret is.
Once an air rifle is primed, the shooter takes care to ensure that the sights are not disturbed.
Condensation on the unprimed back side or wicking under the lap from the face of bevel siding are common causes of this.
He had a shower and primed himself for action.
So many of my students come to law school primed by Grisham novels - and the movies based on them - as their introduction to the practice of law.
And naturally I can't just hie over there right this minute, despite the fact that my digicam is primed and ready to go. Archive 2003-02-01
She mentally primed the rocket batteries when she got within range as well as the conventional missile launchers.
That is, low-power parents engaged in more verbal derogation of children than did high-power parents after being primed to think in terms of competition.
The perspective shifts could be caused by the altered magnification that took place when refocusing lenses or by the ad hoc methods of projecting different still-life images onto a primed canvas.

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