How To Use Spike In A Sentence
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Season of the Inundation: Sweet, black silt mingled with holy myrrh, melilot, hyssop, spikenard, balsam, cedar, and a hint of melting snow from the Abyssinian hills.
Thor's Day
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Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) would make a decision on whether to boost output to calm minister said on Tuesday he sees no push by OPEC members to raise oil output to counter a spike in prices to 18-month highs.
WN.com - Business News
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Other situations affecting power quality are transients or spikes, surges or over-voltages, noise and sags or brownouts.
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Painter and decorator Geoffrey Jenks was so shocked when he failed a roadside breath test, he felt his Cokes must have been spiked, Kennet magistrates in Devizes heard on Tuesday.
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Everything from tobacco sacks and cigarette papers to a spare cinch and a rope, from a change of clothes to a picture of his family or his girl, from old letters and reading material to a marlinespike, was kept in it.
This Calder Range
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A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
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The power has gone out and even when it's on there appear to be beefy dips and surges on the line - so large in fact that one particular voltage spike took out my TV in an impressive cloud of smoke.
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What makes these native arums so attractive are the thick spikes of fruits that follow the large white papery inflorescences.
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He had spoken of being inspired by Sheffield's John and Sheila Sherwood winning medals in the Mexico Olympics, of joining their club and of being given his first pair of spikes by Sheila.
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He thought the highs and lows of the business cycle would be far more extreme and short-lived than in the past, with sharp spikes up and down.
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And, if you're illuminating things away from the house, like your trees, get some outdoor floodlight holders that you can spike right into the ground.
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And they're highly versatile: You can make deviled eggs for appetizers, spike them in eggnog or make quiches, frittatas, omelets or other brunch-type party fare.
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The slender, spikey fish is regarded as having one of the sturdiest and most flexible forms of animal armour.
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Some of the fish had very pointed spikes on their backs and are commonly called suttle-backs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heavy forged gate, with 20 mm square verticals, fullered spiked tops and circles captured by collars.
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Others dropped the rails and made certain they were the requisite spread apart four feet eight and a half inches, spiked them in with their heavy sledgehammers—three blows to a spike—and connected the ends with a fishplate.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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I also saw a large tree and obtained specimens of it, belonging to the natural order BIGNONIACEAE, with terminal spikes of yellow flowers, and rough cordate leaves; and a proteaceous plant with long compound racemes of white flowers, and deeply cut leaves, resembling a tree with true pinnate leaves.
Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
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‘Sorry,’ I winced, as he wandered back into the room, his hair beginning to stick up in bizarre tufty spikes.
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Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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I was struck by a number of interesting points about this spiked-debate so far.
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We stopped there so the farrier could make calked sandals with spikes for the horses to wear on the icy roads of the mountains.
Wildfire
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Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories.
Tintin & Co.
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Steel can be cast into bars, strips, sheets, nails, spikes, wire, rods or pipes as needed by the end user.
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There are parties with spiked eggnog and trees adorned with colors and stars and angels.
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Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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It did not contain any circuitry to limit damaging electrical spikes, so it is quite unsuitable for use with a computer.
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We have several deer mounts ranging in size from spike (first recurve kill) to a large 3 x 4 blacktail.
Buck Mounts: Finding Room For Taxidermy
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Maize, millet, and sorghum push thorugh the soil with spikelike tips which aid emergence.
Chapter 8
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Buds in the axils of the bracts expanded and repeated the pattern; each had a prophyll that remained in the bract axil, a long internode, then a succession of leaves with shorter internodes and a terminal spikelet.
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Although you might see a spike in traffic where a darknet is operating, you won't be able to see inside the encrypted packets.
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The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed.
Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
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On the stiff soil the trees were ironbark, box, apple, gum, and some large acacias, with long lanceolate phyllodia, and large spikes of golden coloured flowers.
Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
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Two kernels per spike were collected for determination of dry weight and moisture content.
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The end result recalls the heady absurdism of Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) spiked with Eastern antagonisms.
Not for the Faint of Heart
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Turn your tail up to me, and I'll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won't stick in the spikes.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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You always need secrets to barter with, the more important the secrets the safer you are, because you never know when you or an underling or overling will make the mistake that leaves you as naked and as helpless as a spiked butterfly.
Noble House
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The click of a persimmon driver striking one of those soft balata balls and the sound of steel spikes clattering across the parking lot were heavenly.
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Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
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the voltage spiked
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“Turn your tail up to me, and I’ll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won’t stick in the spikes.”
The Water Babies
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During a radio interview, Mr Waters said the newspaper spiked his column on the grounds the article was libellous and inaccurate.
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By 2002, she was living with Tim Montgomery, a relationship which began after she had lost her spikes in Oslo and he lent her his.
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Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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Maybe you should re-spike your studs to your silt, because they were wobbly in the first place.
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If you use gels, heavy creams or pomades to slick or spike your hair, adding a drop or two of your favorite essential oil (like lavender, jasmine, rosemary, sage or ylang-ylang) can counter some of the drying effects of such products.
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And just this week, it was announced that supplies are dwindling and prices are expected to spike as weather warms.
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And a sharp spike in interest rates would hurt some homeowners who have just got their foot on the housing ladder.
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Ben is the setter who thinks of the game as chess, Chon is the spiker who goes for the kill.
Savages
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You can make deviled eggs for appetizers, spike them in eggnog or make quiches, frittatas, omelets or other brunch-type party fare.
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From early summer on, stiff yellow stems are topped with purple spikelets.
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The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
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They were taking railroad spikes off a train trestle.
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Be prepared instead for some rather more unusual ways of adorning nature such as spikes for hedges and fences, and decorative chokers and collars for branches or you could even crown the bean poles with a conical finial pot.
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Northern California golf clubs increasingly are joining the plastic-spikes-only bandwagon, but the legal implications are not lost on some.
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The pasta was served in a cream sauce spiked with black pepper.
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And they're highly versatile: You can make deviled eggs for appetizers, spike them in eggnog or make quiches, frittatas, omelets or other brunch-type party fare.
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Many operators have moved beyond the standard coffee-based drinks to include cutting edge drinks like chai latte and reborn traditionals like hot toddies, spiked cider and mulled wines.
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Toronto-based broker Brockhouse Cooper reckons a spike in oil prices to $130 a barrel would lower U.S. industrial-production growth from roughly 5% annually to about 4%.
Dollar's Haven Allure Slips on the Oil Patch
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Walk across your floor in poorly maintained shoes with heeltaps, spike heels or with any sharp object protruding from your shoe.
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He likens it to a marriage, spiked with petulant tiffs, where affection has cooled into mutual respect and where the partners are increasingly living apart together.
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I'm sometimes asked if I'd be frightened of walking through a jungle and being spiked by a thorn.
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His hair was a chocolate brown colour with a few blonde streaks through it, spiked up slightly.
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Below, the stream tumbles noisily into a large pit broken by an enormous spike of rock.
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The busty waitress serving them winked flirtatiously at Spike, bending in just the right way to show off her trim waist and ample bosom.
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It also had a tail adorned by a pincer with spikes on the inside of the mandibles.
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The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The female flowers can be distinguished by long, silky hairs at the bases of the flower spikelets.
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Look out for Lepidium, a short herb with lacy spikes of pale pink flowers and rows of tiny oval seedpods.
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Someone once told me that peroxide punky stripes on spiked hair was cool.
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As she quietly awaited the next move, she slipped her hands over her shoulders, unhasping her magnificent chain, with the poison-infused spikes.
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We shall see how the drumsticks pan out and there is still the pink and white astilbe behind the muhly just beginning to send up spikes.
Simply (Purple) Sensational « Fairegarden
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Owen points to a spike in the amount of methane detected by the instruments, after the probe had landed.
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And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
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He raised the pole above his head, drove the spike into a log at his feet, shinnied up the pole, and to a chorus of cheers, bowed as he stood upon the far side, triumphant.
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There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping.
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Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
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Lantern clocks originally ran on woven ropes, which were threaded over spikes on ratchet wheels.
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We want to give a wider audience easier access to more of the sort of ideas spiked has been producing since it became the first custom-built online current affairs publication in the UK.
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They were trained by handspikes with the aid of side-tackle and their recoil was limited by a stout rope, called the breeching, the ends of which were secured to the sides of the ship.
Marvels of Modern Science
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The bright red stool that sat closest to the register and the threateningly sharp check spike was the least used.
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She got badly spiked when one of the runners trod on her heel.
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A diversity of masculine subjectivities is mobilized around and through Spike as he comes to terms with challenges to his power.
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Spikelets less compressed, linear or linear-oblong; lateral nerves less prominent; not fascicled, long pedicellate and divaricate when ripe.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The people of the territories are denied the power to form State governments unless they consent to fasten upon them the slave-hopple, the iron wristlet, and the neck-spike.
Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)
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Leymus chinensis flowers are hermaphroditic and arranged in compound spikes.
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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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The racemes consist of many male spikelets with one (rarely two) female spikelets at the base; the rachis is stout above, and the part within the bract enclosing the female spikelet is slender.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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These mains spikes sometime consist of surges of thousands of volts, albeit for very brief periods.
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Drinking caffeinated beverages can temporarily cause a spike in your blood pressure.
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A piece of wood showed among the rubble on the desk, the blunt end of a marlinespike.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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The frantic and furious beating took on the dimension and character of a collective crew of railroaders pounding spikes in unison on a stretch of track.
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The spikenard is a lowly herb, the emblem of humility.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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There was no way to simulate a spike of that magnitude.
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I polished my axe and the spike on the shield, put on my armor and went out of the tent.
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Roses are beginning to bloom, delphiniums are tall and lupins dot the beds with their spikes of bright colour.
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The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Roses are beginning to bloom, delphiniums are tall and lupins dot the beds with their spikes of bright colour.
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The proposed bi-directional converter has no high voltage spike problem and start-up problem, which are inherent in current-fed and voltage-fed hybrid type bi-directional converters.
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Differences in morphology, growth habit, adult plant height, spike size, and development of spikes at nodes were observed.
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You plummet to the bottom screaming and are impaled on the spikes.
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I found a spike and bolt only and nowhere to belay a lead in rope.
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The only award they both deserve is a length of hempen rope and tall tree - are there still spikes on the Palace of Westminster where traitors' heads can be displayed?
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PLEBEIA; an acerose LEUCOPOGON; a species of violet, with small, densely-spiked flowers (was covered with wild bees in search of its honey).
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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His jet-black hair was slightly longer than most guys kept their hair; his bangs fell forward in spikes at his forehead.
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A lot of the problems that we saw the VIX spike on are still waiting in the wings," said Layla Peruzzi , Jefferies & Co. vice president for equity derivatives sales, noting rising commodity prices in addition to worries about European debt, Japan and unrest in oil-producing regions.
Options Players Gird for Higher Oil Prices and Inflation
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The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.
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If one actually sees a real cilice, you'll recognize that the "sharp spikes" are actually smooth points that remind the wearer of their presence, but could never break the skin.
Archive 2006-06-01
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Outside of the G4/Spike safety zones, men got gushier.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
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Armed robberies have spiked dramatically over the past year.
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At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
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The basins repeatedly filled with water, spiked with fluorescent pigment, which glowed a toxic green under the black Light, then emptied, in a slow, inexorable rhythm.
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I gelled my hair so it would keep its messily spiked style and grabbed a beaded hemp necklace that one of my friends had made for me off the bathroom counter.
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A secondary goal is to assess how well the vaccine stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies and cellular immunity, in this case, focusing on the SARS spike protein.
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The team would see a spike in attendance, and depending on how bad he is, could actually get worse without looking like they're tanking to get the top draft pick.
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Late Friday, the military rulers issued a stern warning that they will crack down on what they called "deviant groups," which they blamed for a spike in crime and violence.
Mubarak's wife in hospital after arrest
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His foot and leg injury cause him to limp as he sprints toward Spike and spears him to the ground.
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South Korea is seeing a spike in the price of pork belly, with 10000 won (RMB52) per kg, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
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Extra strong paint formulas, and wooden fences supported by metal spikes extended the life of exterior fittings in tough New England weather.
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Most of the spikes were still not hammered down properly.
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His head had a halo of curls at the bottom and both his ears were pierced with spike earrings.
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We zoom in for a brief moment to show the array of spike traps the police have laid in place to disable the car.
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Her first major role was in Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and she followed this with a part in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever".
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You know that West Virginia coalmine that's the star of Spike TV's new reality series "Coal," from the same guy who brings you Discovery's "Deadliest Catch"?
Feds cite mining company with safety violations while Spike TV crew films reality show
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This teenager held a buff build and tall lean body with brown hair was spiked and wire frame glasses rested on his nose.
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The _spikelets_ are biseriate, loosely imbricate, ovate, acute, pubescent or villous (sometimes quite glabrous), sessile or shortly pedicelled; the pedicels have one or two (rarely more) long hairs.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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But solar power is always discussed, I guess because of the energy crisis that we always seem to be in--aka manipulated prices at the pump--and the real cost spikes of oil.
Mike Ragogna: Lighting Up and Lifting Off The Ground : Conversations With Shawn Mullins and Chely Wright
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There are also a series of intensely sweet, almost saccharine desserts, like peanut ice parfait (spiked with cane liquor) and an extra-creamy flan made from vanilla beans.
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Above Nick, just over his forehead, there was a crescent shaped piece of metal with thousands of tiny spikes.
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The bit about not only sugary things tasting good shows Pomelo capering through asparagus-spiked hills.
A Tiny Ambassador to Entrancing Worlds
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He's a bulldog competitor, but the key to his success is confidence in a spike curveball.
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Nothing is more conducive to inducing mains spikes than heavy duty switch gear.
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A caltrop is a military device consisting of four metal spikes arranged so that, whichever way it falls, at least one spike points upwards.
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Iron spikes have been welded to the railings around the embassy.
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the punch is spiked!
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And it was inconceivable that she would have gone - the Charlotte Meiner I knew would have clobbered you over the head with a marline spike.
When Eight Bells Toll
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The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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I just return the other night with a spike buck that is now hanging in my garage it is not the biggest dear I have ever shot but it will join the half a moose in my freezer and on Sunday evening coming home from ice fishing and having some venision stew and bannock I will feel very successful.
How do you measure Success - something "In the Freezer" or "On the Wall"?
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The names usually refer to the tall flowering spike which in medieval times was dipped in tallow and set aflame as a torch in the evening.
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Traffic spiked quickly and contained a mix of retweets and original posts, mostly sexual jokes of varying quality.
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The gun-carriage is rolled forward into firing position by handspikes or block and tackle.
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Tom Arthurs' Centipede are fidgety writhers, striking angular shapes with tricky grooves and utilising the spiked fork of their leader's trumpet and Laubrock's soprano saxophone.
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Anyone standing behind an over-arm spearman will be faced with a butt-spike going in and out at every thrust, and unpredictably sideways whenever an enemy knocks the spearhead.
The Spear « Isegoria
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The mechanical advantage of a winch is the radius of the axle to the radius of the handspikes.
Energy Bulletin -
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For this to work, however, the spike would have to propagate along the t-stem axon and into the cell soma.
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His friends spiked his drink, thinking they're funny.
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Her gaze raked over the place and stopped suddenly over a man with platinum blonde hair, spiked up.
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As various design concepts were presented, the topmast and ring-of-spikes motif remained intact.
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The name bulrush is more correctly applied to _Scirpus lacustris_, a member of a different family (Cyperaceae), a common plant in wet places, with tall spongy, usually leafless stems, bearing a tuft of many-flowered spikelets.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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When only promotions are used, a brand experiences a short-term spike in sales, followed by a steady decline until sales return to relative equilibrium and normal purchase cycles resume.
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Snapping out of her trance, she stood up quickly and found herself staring at some stranger with spiked brownish hair and an extremely large puffy jacket.
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People's willingness to hold money can change suddenly for a "psychological and spontaneous reason" , causing a spike in the velocity of money.
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As the day wears on and temperatures spike, perspiration and oil create a sticky film, taking ‘dewy’ to an unflattering extreme.
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Jady turned towards the tall muse, seeing him in loose fitting slacks, bright red hair cut in short spikes.
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Their musical development is practically nonexistent - the group's spacey, synth-spiked brand of hypercharged guitar rock has remained basically unchanged for years.
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Spikelets are small, 1-flowered, binate, one sessile and the other pedicelled, the sessile spikelet is bisexual and the pedicelled is female and rarely bisexual; sessile spikelets are deciduous with the contiguous joint of the rachis and the pedicel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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She dried and styled her hair in waves, then put on her spike choker and heart earrings to finish the outfit.
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The _sessile spikelet_ consists of four glumes and contains a complete flower and the callus is short and bearded with long hairs.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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I nearly died when I was 13 after I got impaled on a metal spike.
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The _inflorescence_ is a raceme of spikes, varying from 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches, with the spikes mostly densely arranged, though occasionally distant and not close-set, on a long; slender, puberulous or scaberulous peduncle; _rachis_ is flexuous, flattened, grooved and scaberulous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up.
Insiders' guide to Greece
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And they spiked the story by their top investigative reporter, so they didn't get sued because they simply killed the story before birth.
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To encourage reusability of the JUGIT, the only part that needs to be cleaned between pouches is the spike attachment.
15 posts from June 2008
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I was on the first row - spiker, smasher.
Times, Sunday Times
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A white drawing on black paper depicts from various angles a school of the menacing fairy-tale creatures, variously ornamented with stripes, scallops and spikes.
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Pine nut-spiked dolmades, the stuffed grape leaves, a walnutty red-pepper relish called ezme and a fine version of tabouli all are worth ordering.
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Her unruly teeth have been tamed into a neat, pearly, Californian smile, the parakeet spiked hair is now a glossy black mane.
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This stunning, bold, verdant, grapey, white currant and herb-spiked white gets my vote.
Times, Sunday Times
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We hiked up steep switchbacks between ancient samaan and banyan trees and clambered down gullies where razor grass spikes up high along the trail and mango and cashew trees form a fruitful canopy.
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Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them.
Clover
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He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike.
Southern Arabia
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The blocks were set well back from the road, surrounded by large lawned gardens behind black spiked railings and heavy iron gates.
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He didn't know that the drinks were previously spiked.
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oh go on wayne, you are not. you've somnambulated through life from one talking point to the next with nary a stray spike in the e.e.g. to indicate consciousness.
... whereupon he smote reality a mighty blow.
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For dessert, they picked at little beignets spiked with amaretto (okay), wheels of vanilla-yogurt semifreddo (good), and honey-tinged mascarpone tarts capped with twirls of candied orange peel (very good).
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stagged" off just below the knees, heavy German socks, and shoes nailed with sharp spikes at least three-quarters of an inch in length.
The Rules of the Game
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This season's styles range from sandals with barely a lift and lower heels, to teetering spikes that can do some serious damage.
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Spike wrote: ‘We present a very colourful act in rhumba costume and our numbers comprise sambas, beguines, rhumbas etc.’
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Newsweek spiked the story a few years ago when they had it.
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The 7-inch, dark blue spikes of this veronica bob atop a plant that grows low enough that you can actually place it at the front of the border.
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He'd spiked his hair, probably according to his own taste.
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D-San Jose, will have better luck banning "alcopop" in California than funding programs aimed at cleaning up some of the wreckage induced by alcohol, caffeine-spiked or not.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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He said all the drinks at the event had been free and believes their beers may have been spiked because of his total blank about the evening.
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If one were to have a voltage spike, the consequences could be disastrous.
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A good UPS should also offer line conditioning, which means it should also be able to compensate for extended drops in voltage and filter spikes and surges.
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He looked about sixteen or seventeen, and his black hair was spiked up.
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She took two long steps and seized the marlinespike, yanking it off the desk in a shower of rubbish and clanging oddments.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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The _spikelets_ are large about 1/4 inch long cuneate and bifarious.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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What the terms do not evoke is the roistering figure of Pancho Villa, who would be as out of place among a group of spike-helmeted Prussian militarists, as Jesse Jackson at an Aryan Nations rally.
Pancho Villa as a German Agent...
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The article was spiked for fear of legal action against the newspaper.
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Spike lee is a racist idiot who makes boring terrible movies with the exception of he got game. judd apatow should be upset that spike lees name was even mentioned in the same breath as his. spike lee is about as good of a director as micheal bay and he looks like a slightly less retarded version of beetlejuice on the howard stern show
Quote: Don’t Put Spike Lee Next to Judd Apatow | /Film
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Sadly, you can't see my sparkly deely-bobbers (actually, I suspect I'm wearing stripy tiger-ears in that photo) or my purple fishnet stockings or my big gold lame frou-frou skirt worn in homage to the goddess Belinda Carlisle or my darling spike-heeled yellow patent leather Mary Janes or my waist-cinching wide-elastic belt or my red lace push-up cleavage-inducing nipples-revealing bra, but take it from me – they were there; they were there with bells on.
Bluemeany Diary Entry
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Again, I part company with the writer, because I know you can't spike paper without a paper spike, and if you are so drunk you can't tell you are pronging your daughters, getting it up is going to need God's help.
Tell Me A Story
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It had been Captain Vestrit's conceit to keep a marlinespike on the corner of his desk.
The Mad Ship
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She of the spiked heels and pink-tammed poodle: her divineness, Miss Snark!
Archive 2006-04-02
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Spikelets are obovoid or lanceolate, 1 - to 2-flowered, persistent on their stalks, one to three in an involucel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The mountain is rife with couloirs, spikes, boulders, cornices, and knobs, and a majority of its leaps are manageable by most advanced skiers.
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Spikes solitary; spikelets 1-flowered; first glume of the sessile spikelet pectinate 21.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher.
The Piazza Tales
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Phalaenopsis is commonly known as the moth orchid, producing arching spikes of ten or more flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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You two are the stupid punks who spiked her drink in the first place!
