How To Use Top In A Sentence

Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.

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It should be a baritone scoring game and the unfortunate should be in early disceptation for a top 3 pick. Xml's Blinklist.com
The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it.
If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment. Real Estate
Would you stop making jokes at my expense?
The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops.
So there is mounting concern at the top of government about how close to meltdown the prison system is. The Sun
And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn. Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
Plans include occasional stops at Central Terminal, which saw its last passenger train in 1979, and special excursions through the region to destinations such as Niagara Falls, Medina, Jamestown and even Cleveland. The Buffalo News: Home
Inhaling sandalwood oil lessens stress and can stop vomiting.
For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
As doctors we are all too aware of the natural causes of death, such as cancer and heart disease, the top killers.
The players were top drawer. The Sun
The time it takes to start or stop a stopwatch is the same amount of time it would take for someone driving under the influence to lose control of their vehicle, about seven tenths of a second. News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
Thirty-eight states are opting for the top-down system.
The attitude of sex offense and the examination of mass media were the topics less to be reported lately.
I didn't move until I heard slow footsteps and peaked over the top of the gold to see Garren warily approaching the dragon, favoring his left leg.
Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers.
Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno. Microsoft Soap - Set Up
Did you notice the Google text ads at the top of the guestlist page? Scripting News for 12/28/2006 « Scripting News Annex
In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
Shakedown analysis is a method which can be used to research the elastoplastic behavior of a structure under variable repeated loads that exceed the structure′s elastic limit load.
Mandela was convinced of security force "connivance", at least in the form of standing back and allowing violence that they could stop. ANC Daily News Briefing
I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
However, this morning the number key containing the dollar sign stopped working, followed by the delete key and the return key.
On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
On the tops of some mountains snow persists throughout the year.
Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
Her chart-topping debut album, ‘Ashanti’, has sold 3.1 million copies.
The guest list reads like a Who's Who of top American businessmen.
It has also been claimed that part or all of the device's memory can be mounted on a host computer's desktop as a removable storage device.
Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
Despite literally minutes browsing statto.com, we can't top that. The Knowledge | Which clubs have refunded fans due to player transfers? | Rob Smyth
Side effects of all topical treatments include allergic and contact dermatitis, depigmentation of surrounding normal skin, and postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.
A short fellow with a refined bearing, Gavaskar consistently got hundreds and double-hundreds against top-class bowling.
The top tier is him and him alone. Times, Sunday Times
That being impossible here, let us return to the topic of theism and the relation of evil to divine purpose.
She felt it pause in her belly and then shoot out from her chest and from the top of her head.
There was a final flourish in the last seconds of stoppage time. Times, Sunday Times
They all escaped after jumping from the top floor of the burning house thanks to their neighbours' help.
The neo-classical house features a main doorway framed with Ionic pillars and topped by a balustraded balcony complete with carved stone coat of arms.
Galicians specialize in trencherman food: suckling pig, grilled skate, pulpy octopus speckled with sea salt and paprika.
As the author repeatedly points out, the pornographic material he seized wasn't simply more explicit than 18-certificate films or top-shelf magazines.
There is a gap of several tens of millions of years between the Middle Permian when the last Metoptomatids lived, and the Middle Triassic when the true limpets appear.
Hematopathology – Providing complete evaluations of lymphoid and hematologic specimens. Anatomic Pathology
Ice the sides with the chocolate icing, then pipe a decorative border of chocolate icing around the top, encircling the coconut topping.
In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits. NYT > Home Page
In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
The filler is on top of the box on a small square plate just in front of the hand brake drum.
The two nuclear-powered vessels limped home as both navies launched top-level inquiries. The Sun
The RV maker last month posted its third-straight quarterly profit, topping Wall Street forecasts, as motor home deliveries rose.
In her new role she will help to develop the midwives' public health role, with increased support for breastfeeding and encouraging mothers-to-be to stop smoking.
Oman: three horizontal bands of white, red, and green of equal width with a broad, vertical, red band on the hoist side; the national emblem (a khanjar dagger in its sheath superimposed on two crossed swords in scabbards) in white is centered at the top of the vertical band The 2001 CIA World Factbook
Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%. Tap Your Inner Buffett
Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
We walked for an hour,then stopped and had a rest.
I put the "eye candy" on top of that and then used a store-bought gel decorator frosting to do the "bloodshot" effect. Archive 2008-11-01
Most prewar kitchens had ceramic tile countertops and backsplashes, and many of the original patterns and colors are now back in production.
If I command him to put the newest posts at the top like every other bleeding blog in the world - are you listening boyo - will he obey?
They should all be stopped at the border by lines of claymore mines.
‘News’ is often more agitprop or tabloid than topical.
Football has been rocked by allegations that up to eight top bosses have been caught up in a bung scandal. The Sun
Make sure you cut holes for your eyes to peer out of or a hole at the top for your your head, but for the sake of moveability, make sure the box only comes down to your knees or waist. Somewhat quick and cheap geek costumes for Halloween
Adele brushes her perfectly manicured fingertips atop the cold, smooth metal of the letter opener.
This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
The container had toppled over when the lorry carrying it got stuck in mud.
A Dry Cappuccino is a double shot of espresso with little or no steamed milk, but frothed milk on top.
Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
At the top end of the glen darts of sunshine poked through the billowing clouds and encouraged us to go for it and, fully rigged up in waterproofs, we were soon splashing our way up into the Lairig Eilde.
There are few food topics that arouse as much emotion as fish and chips. Times, Sunday Times
As the pattering rain gradually came to a stop, a glimmer of light filtered through the window curtain.
I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
Next stop, a doc, pronto. The Sun
Pathology, Inc. specializes in women's health diagnostic testing services, with expertise in gynecologic pathology, genitourinary pathology, gastrointestinal pathology, dermatopathology, hematopathology and cytopathology. Business Wire Travel News
But because Americans are not nearly as fond of dates as they are of coffee, java came out on top due to sheer popularity.
Isadora seldom could pay her own way, but that never stopped her. ISAAC CAMPION
Of course, the kobold’s nonexistence is no reason to stop playing the game … Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
Retrieve the lure rapidly in skips and skitters over the tops of lily pads, along log edges, and above the weeds. Bait and Switch
‘Sewing a squash ball into the back of their pyjamas or nightie might sound like a wind-up but it's effective because it stops people from sleeping on their back,’ he said.
In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on an apparatus for signalling and communicating called a Photophone.
A top bunk was then pulled down from the ceiling, complete with ladder.
After the counter is installed on top of the cabinet, the wood strip is attached to the front edge of the counter using glue and small, air-driven brads.
In fact, I found myself reluctant to skip any topic in the book.
I waited at the top of East Street.
One way is to make it easier for a user to default to your engine - by embedding a toolbar on his desktop, say, or putting a search box into his browser window.
What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it. The Sun
For example, the origin of ivory can be identified by its strontium isotopic composition, which reflects the diet of the elephant.
The car slows to a stop in front of the house and the engine falls silent.
On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.
‘We've been on an economic downtrend for the past three years that needs to be stopped,’ said the head of the BDA employers association.
Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
I am not convinced and that is why I have asked for this topic to be discussed at the town council.
It doesn't stop you from using solid rocket motors or engines designed in archaic units. NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch
AN autopsy on the body of a man found dead in a house has sparked a murder probe. The Sun
Yet because many of the environmental consequences are hidden from view and from our national income accounts, we sit atop ticking ecological time bombs.
We chuckled together as she stood and reached up to the top shelf of a grand bookcase in the corner.
On top of that, they could have a taller Olympic cauldron. Times, Sunday Times
The Meal Maker Belgian waffle baker and sandwich griddle is a big stand-in for à full stovetop.
And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. Scientific American
I was getting really determined that I would hit the ball before we stopped playing.
At roughly the same time, military orders for depleted uranium munitions stopped too.
I won't tire you with a long visit. I just wanted to stop in and see how you were doing.
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
On top of this, contracted moderators check marked student work in every subject from every school, every year.
Edward, TMS inbox: "0312 Isotope is not the word you're looking for - you are thinking of allotrope. BBC News - Home
Indeed, there are times when the pedestrian traffic through the cemetery and around its perimeter is heavy enough to make one think about the need for a stop light inside.
The young man works his way up to the top.
To top it all, hers is bright sunflower yellow. Times, Sunday Times
Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.
The Big chick on top as well as the little chicks and the daisies are all made out of my enhanced mmf. Archive 2009-04-01
The initial lift of the bar targets the lower back and thickens the erectors, the middle part of the lift widens the barn-door lats, and the squeeze and lockout at the top emphasize the upper back.
It's probably a good thing in a CEO," says Freston about veganism. "At least they won't be toppling over like those McDonald's (MCD) CEOs.
Keep the artichoke in a bowl of water with a lemon squeezed into it, (rather grandly called acidulated water), this stops the heart from blackening when it is exposed.
Brad Murphy on Sep 14, 2008 one more thing people, stop affiliating this with steve carrell. kevin james has his own style and this video shows none of it so dont expect this movie to be at all like this trailer. he does his own thing, not imitate steve carrell Unfunny Mall Cop Viral Video with Kevin James « FirstShowing.net
They took it in a very gentlemanly manner and directed me to a top-class agent. Times, Sunday Times
He stopped the seamen and dock workers joining the strike, but he did not take too hard a line.
FLORES: My name is Sergeant Flores, Christopher R. CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2006
This printer is a top of the range model .
‘Things that we look forward to using from them are commoditized services such as desktop support,’ he explains.
As his reputation declined, the sculptor retreated to his studio and stopped exhibiting.
But their recording finds them in less than top form, and Solti sometimes leads them astray.
Will R. Huysman on the Catholic Patristics starts off his new blog with a series of patristic catenae on a series of topics. Hyperekperissou
A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
Pour into 1 quart casserole dish, top with cheese and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until brown and bubbly.
Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
The petticoat is very easy to make, too ... just cut the fabric to the right length (front & back piece), stitch sides, add lace at the bottom, sew a casing at the top for elastic & then add elastic & stitch opening closed! Year Around Feminine Fashions
The topics in those categories that were less widely dispersed throughout the curriculum included stereochemistry, drug design, drug nomenclature, natural products and biotechnology.
Even after hours of non-stop dancing into the wee hours, most people find that they are rejuvenated and full of energy.
Place the leg in the pot (roasting dish) and perch the rosemary on top.
Selling alcohol at truck stops is an unnecessary temptation for drivers.
Just as people shouldn't drop litter, they shouldn't deface the city with graffiti, and ways need to be found of persuading them to stop doing it.
The top four teams in the standings have home advantage. Times, Sunday Times
And about 50 meters into the canyon at this narrow section, I encountered a place where I was standing on top of a chalkstone with about a ten-foot elevation drop. CNN Transcript May 8, 2003
The lead found in captive condors and released condors with low levels in their blood had isotope ratios similar to lead found in dead livestock and wildlife that had not been killed by hunters.
Once inside they unscrewed four projectors hung from the ceiling and took four laptop computers and a digital camera, worth a total of £5,050, before leaving by the main entrance.
Gippsland's Horse of the Year was announced recently which went to a top-notch racing horse in the region.
Remember, the brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want someting. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people.
An autopsy today found the cause of Hammerdorfer's death was cardiomegaly and biventricular hypertrophy, which refers to an enlarged heart and enlarged ventricles. ABC News: Top Stories
Browne's time in the 60m sprint equalled his best performance this year, which has him ranked in the top 10 nationally.
Web browsing by university students on laptops was monitored during 15 lectures. The Sun
When she reached down to unbuckle her tool belt, she stopped: the gun. FOLLY
And some other statto is going to have to tell me when the last time we were top was. Arseblog
After winning the TAFC title moments earlier, Austin's dragster, which he purchased from the estate of the late Gary Ormsby, broke at the start of the burnout in the Top Fuel final.
But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
She could walk without ever slipping on railroad tracks, across the tops offences, on swaying tree branches.
In the final match, Lara scored yet another hundred but this was so frantic and frenzied that it could not stop the Australians from winning the match and squaring the series.
Topographic and geological maps are the next stop to identify likely areas based on physical features such as sinkholes, known outcrops of cave forming rocks, and known cave locations.
Additionally, those people who smoke cannabis are also risking all the attendant problems from the use of tobacco on top of the cannabis and this needs to be thought about too.
I'd have been content to wait out the weather in my tent, but Ron consulted his topo map and we headed off, marching along a streambed into foggy nothingness, south toward the foothills.
The firm shut for business last month after it was stopped from claiming legal aid cash. The Sun
For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
Sandwich together with the bun tops and serve. Times, Sunday Times
For the use of men they have the "merkin," [FN#410] a heart-shaped article of thin skin stuffed with cotton and slit with an artificial vagina: two tapes at the top and one below lash it to the back of a chair. Arabian nights. English
I waved as I put-putted past each packed bus stop.
From being an overlooked, conservative fail-safe, it's shot up near the top of the list of summer desirables.
At most weddings the bride wears a veil but at this wedding the bride was wearing a beautiful top hat.
The essential and indispensable element of the nucleus is called nuclein (or caryoplasm); that of the cell body is called plastin (or cytoplasm). The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground.
The reason is that the autopista has a toll. Times, Sunday Times
Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
The adjustable straps on the top make the fit really secure, too. The Sun
I imagined the Tasmanian tiger stopping here en route from one primeval forest valley to another.
The activity centres around the big top in Stockton High Street offering free all day entertainment with live broadcasts and personal appearances.
I've been thinking recently about onomatopoeia: the sound words we use to describe actions.
It was warm and sunny, and we followed fields and footpaths, finally stopping in a wood. Times, Sunday Times
When water levels subside and water stops flowing from the Main Pool, the carp disperse.
However, the lights do cost money and the cost of erection and insurance tops • 1,000.
I'm not sure if it's tacky to wear burnout tops.
In another case, a hotel guest was freed from the top of bunk beds. The Sun
I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down Killing the Buddha
Why, you try cutting them out, stop eating them, avoiding temptation.
This column will doubtless attract accusations of self-indulgence, although you might equally contest that having demanded that my photograph appear at the top of the page and that my name appear in capitals and bold type, that particular ship has sailed. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Your Anon commenter is a TROLL, they are people who basically google a topic, find blogs and start trouble. Homemaking Without Worry
Stopped at the Waikino Tavern and had a coldie - as always when I'm passing.
A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
In her studio in the loft at the top of the house, half-completed oil paintings sit alongside crayon masterpieces by her daughter.
Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers. Times, Sunday Times

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