How To Use Rankine In A Sentence
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Parents, midwives, health visitors, and doctors blame teething for a wide range of symptoms in babies, including diarrhoea, drooling, crankiness, rashes, and strong smelling urine.
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell
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Administrative organization may restrict its discretionary power through self-discipline, but the administrative crankiness to efficiency can not fully prevent the infringement of civil rights.
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Rankine strips her subject of all sentimentality, denaturalizing the notion of familial, ‘unslakable resemblance.’
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Tarek Fatah jumped the shark quite some time ago, but his increasing crankiness is still news.
Archive 2009-10-01
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In my technical opinion, that is a less environmentally damaging way to provide cooling to a Rankine Cycle heat engine (aka steam plant) than using the most common form of cooling towers, which are known as evaporative cooling towers.
Atomic Insights Blog
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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. James Russell Lowell
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W.J. M. Rankine proved (_Applied M.chanics_, p. 370) that the necessary strength of a stiffening girder would be only one-seventh part of that of an independent girder of the same span as the bridge, suited to carry the same moving load (not including the dead weight of the girder which is supported by the chain).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Just last month, a full 14 months since my last period, I had a miserable 3-4 weeks of bloating, breast tenderness, crankiness and a 5 pound weight gain, along with a pleasant little blip in libido, followed by a whopping migraine the likes of which I had not had for months, followed by a week long episode of vaginal bleeding.
Menopause Defined
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The only emotional drama I'll get into with my robot partner is what I've programmed into it. No jealousy, no hormones, no overtired crankiness, no insecurity, no 'tude.
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As a person ages, the signs of depression are much more likely to be dismissed as crankiness or grumpiness.
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As a person ages, the signs of depression are much more likely to be dismissed as crankiness or grumpiness.
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With us there was no lack of mutual respect, except in matters of faith and practice; but he no more tolerated my "crankiness," lunacy -- perhaps imbecility -- in withholding food from the sick than I his paganism in enforcing it.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
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But the A9 was choked with roadworks and elderly Germans in caravans, causing much crankiness and scoffing of chocolate digestives.
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But it is more likely that our crankiness was the result of the supper we had eaten the previous night.
The Story Girl
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Rankine says some experts have estimated that a million black rhinos may have roamed Africa at the turn of the 20th century.
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She had her moments of surpassing crankiness today, but that's normal.
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Tim Stanley has noticed that Dr Paul is repeatedly showing signs of what I possibly not he would call crankiness in his answers. @timothy_stanley Paul's very frisky tonight.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Andy, my crankiness comes from the fact that so many "picture books for older readers" are forced by the nature of the form to take an either cursory or superficial approach to problems "possibly not resolvable in a thirty-two page format," as former HB editor Anita Silvey put it.
"Mad Bitches Against Gay People"
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And yet she couldn't remember one time when he had aimed that crankiness or meanness at her.
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Poets use language sometimes to tell horrible truths or offer recipes for healing – Ms. Giovanni’s wit, courage and just plain crankiness have served her well over the years, and now those same qualities will help her students at Virginia Tech. These are her gifts.
Ms. G in the Pulpit. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Yeah, I think that most people have moments of total crankiness.
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What you call crankiness in old people, so trying to the younger generations, does not arise from natural hatefulness of disposition and a released congenital selfishness, but from atrophying glands, and, no doubt, a subtle rebellion against nature for consigning men to ineptitude when they should be entering upon their best period of usefulness, and philosophical as well as active enjoyment of life.
Black Oxen
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My father was perhaps irritated by the slightly patronizing tone which Turgénieff adopted from the very outset of their acquaintance; and Turgénieff was irritated by my father's "crankiness," which distracted him from "his proper métier, literature.
Reminiscences of Tolstoy
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Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press.
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If you will read through the thread again, you will notice that it was you who raised the issue of "crankiness", not me.
Best. Title. Ever!
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The results show that the mental health problems of undergraduates mainly exist in the respects such as interpersonal relationships, compelling, hostility, crankiness etc.
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He was tending towards crankiness.
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If you cut back, your body shows signs of caffeine withdrawal, like headaches, crankiness and sleepiness.
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The fact that she knows hormones are causing her temporary crankiness doesn't make the feelings any less real, so cut her some slack.
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The Rankine scale has scale increments equal to the FahrenheIt'scale.
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Rankine-cycle engines have been designed that use organic materials (such as freon) instead of water as the working fluid.
Chapter 15
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There is a whole host of other physiological responses" to exercise, such as heart rate, cholesterol levels, blood pressure and insulin metabolism, that are related to genes other than those implicated in the aerobic response, says co-author Tuomo Rankinen, a scientist in the human genomics laboratory at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
Exercise won't boost endurance for 1 in 5
