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Definition of ribbon in English: ribbonnoun ˈrɪb(ə)nˈrɪbən 1A long, narrow strip of fabric, used for tying something or for decoration. the tiny pink ribbons in her hair mass noun four lengths of ribbon Example sentencesExamples - Tracy shook her head; her tiny braid, tied with a pink ribbon, swung back and forth.
- I was visiting my neighbor again, and he brought me a tiny black puppy with a pink ribbon around her neck.
- They are studded with stones and plastic gems, also sometimes with ribbons and glittering fabric paints to enhance the look.
- The pink ribbon is the generic symbol for breast cancer awareness throughout the world.
- She constructed additional storage compartments from boxes wrapped in fabrics and ribbons.
- An array of beaded and fabric fringes, colorful ribbons, rickracks and other decorative trims are available, and it's fun to create your own combination of two or more.
- Or you can simply buy a pink ribbon from your local Cancer Research UK charity shop for a suggested donation of £1.
- Here, we padded a wall with batting and fabric, then secured crisscrossing ribbons with fabric tacks.
- Her first effort involved a pair of handkerchiefs, a length of pink ribbon and a thread to stitch them together - made simply to free herself from the grip of the corset.
- Create this stole by stitching together ribbons, trims and fabric scraps temporarily held together with water-soluble stabilizer.
- Wash them in a pillowcase and put them in your dryer for at least 20 minutes, then dress them up with ribbons and holiday fabrics.
- Selfridges is promising a wrapping service using vintage and recycled ribbons, bows and fabrics.
- There were times, she would go to the mountain, and undo the tiny ribbons and loosen the braids, and run her fingers through her hair and let it be one with the wind.
- Anyone with some free time on Friday to sell pink ribbons should contact Marian Smyth or Mary Foster.
- Boyle, who appeared onstage to present an award, caused the biggest stir of the night with her outfit: an outrageous pink tutu accented by ribbons wrapped around her calves.
- Now they'll all have pink ribbons on them thanks to you.
- There were yellow and pink ribbons holding her blue braids together at the ends.
- Baubles can be painted, stencilled, sprayed, wrapped or decorated with fabric, ribbons, glitter, pearls and beads.
- Her hair is divided into two neat braids (with pink ribbons, of course) and there's a tooth missing from the upper row.
- The Fisher's daughter, who has long blonde hair in pink ribbons, comes in and calls for Polly.
- 1.1 A ribbon of a special colour or design awarded as a prize or worn to indicate the holding of an honour, especially a small multicoloured piece of ribbon worn in place of the medal it represents.
his medal ribbons were bright as a rainbow Example sentencesExamples - They hated that, felt it was all wrong to have him stand there in his getup - the four stars, his ribbons and decorations, and his pearl-handled revolvers.
- As you play online, each point you get counts towards medals, ribbons and ranks that can be won.
- Rawlinson's London Times obituary said that he wore his ribbons and decorations ‘worthily,’ having earned all of them.
- With 18 years in the Corps, he's not about to retire, especially after three combat award ribbons and that Silver Star.
- The issue was whether Kerry threw away his medals or merely his medal ribbons during a protest in Washington DC.
- All-Star Reading Day and Championship Day are special days of honor and joy for the children, who receive ribbons, certificates or medals.
- Every competitor is given an award - a gold, silver or bronze medal or a ribbon.
- As yet, the colour and design of the ribbon has not been decided.
- As veterans we leave the military with medals, ribbons and a national debt of gratitude for our service.
- On the bridge a Leading Stoker spotted his WWII Medal ribbons and said: ‘You must have been a CO of a battalion during the war, sir’?
- He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
- What is the significance of the ribbons, insignia and medals?
- He earned four service medals and three ribbons before his honorable discharge in 1994.
- Campbell attached copies of his military records to the lawsuit, showing that he received a Purple Heart and eight other medals, ribbons and decorations for his service in Vietnam.
- My parents divorced when I was younger and I loved how proud my dad was of me whenever I brought home a new ribbon or a medal.
- There was a time when police officers looked smart, were uniform in appearance, had somewhere to display their medal ribbons, and all without detriment to comfort or personal protection.
- He opened it to reveal a collection of small medals and ribbons.
- It is an overwhelming, overflowing kaleidoscope of color, faces, tanned bodies, trophies, medals and ribbons.
- With the proliferation of medals and ribbons for this and that, the time has arrived for the Combat Tanker Badge.
- Winners will be awarded medals and ribbons with the Special Olympics South Africa logo.
Synonyms honour, decoration, star, order, badge, pin, laurel, wreath, palm, colours, insignia, plaque, award, trophy - 1.2ribbons Prizes; honours.
in the Silk Cup trophy class Mullins stayed in the ribbons Example sentencesExamples - In our amateur classes, we were actually in the ribbons, having our names announced for the first time!
2A long, narrow strip. slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways Example sentencesExamples - Using a mandoline or a very sharp knife, finely slice carrots lengthways into ribbons.
- Suddenly an explosion flamed in space, a ribbon of orange fire slashing out of the hull like a whip, lashing out into the blackness of space.
- The leading edge of the ice freezes to the stem's papery bark, and as the ice grows it is lifted upward by the attached bark, forming delicately curved, lacy ribbons.
- An orange ribbon of flame is charring its way across more than 20,000 acres near Los Angeles.
- The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra.
- The fluorescent tagging devices are short glass ribbons just 100 micrometers long and 20 microm wide.
- Quartz commonly forms polycrystalline ribbons; undulatory extinction, dynamic recrystallization and grain-boundary migration are widespread.
- The clever idea here is to make the shell of the chair out of a continuous broad ribbon of material that forms seat, back and sides in one fluid movement.
- Then there was hamachi lightly braised in ginger tea, and yellowtail tataki crusted in pepper and laid in ribbons over slices of peach and soft avocado.
- It was sleeting, and my team spotted a ribbon of smoke in the forest and wheeled off the road to a campfire, around which huddled six Lithuanian cyclists.
- I tucked in, and with a sideways glance through the bare low hedge, pushed on and on and tried to be optimistic about a ten-degree ribbon of pink sky.
- It is a ribbon of material along which magnetic particles are arranged to store data.
- When they are cool enough to handle, peel the peppers and remove the seeds, then cut each pepper into 8 ribbons from the stem end to the bottom.
- A voiceover intones, ‘No more excuses, start to snack smart,’ as the camera shows ribbons of fruit in yogurt.
- The ribbon of land mass, fringed with coconut trees, stretches for more than 12,500 miles around a vast lagoon.
- Northern lights are ribbons of different colored lights that streak across the sky.
- Drive south from San Francisco, along the black ribbon of Route 1 as it hugs the northern coast of California.
- From the perch of my small roof garden I was able to see two long ribbons of black smoke exhaling from wounds in either tower.
- That creates black borders at top and bottom and a narrow ribbon of picture across the middle of your TV screen.
- Beat the eggs with the sugar and lime peel until thick and ribbons form from the beaters when lifted.
- 2.1 A narrow band of impregnated material wound on a spool and forming the inking agent in some typewriters and computer printers.
the notes had been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon Example sentencesExamples - For example, they are used to provide the black color in inks, pigments, rubber tires, stove polish, typewriter ribbons, and phonograph records.
- There was a time, long ago that printers had ribbons and used dot matrix printing to create tiny dots that, when looked at, were readable.
- Forensic examiners were able to reconstruct the text of what had been typed on the ribbon of this typewriter.
- Another laugh came after Moore trailed off, holding the book up so the audience could see that the typeface was fading as Stella's typewriter ribbon runs out of ink.
- The Man's story, for example, is told through a collection of discarded typewriter ribbons that Macushla finds in the basement of his uncle's house.
- Each page through a printer or copier takes another bit of ink off the ribbon, or another copy off of the machine's life expectancy.
- They drove to Grossman's typists and took their copies, and their typewriter ribbons.
- My assignments never looked so good and when I wasn't printing, I'd put the ribbon in the fridge to make it last longer.
- Final reports were prepared on manual typewriters with two-color ribbons so that totals appeared in red.
- David waited tables, sold typewriter ribbons, and even delivered singing telegrams.
- The first tape storage products utilized magnetic particles coated onto a thin ribbon of metal substrate.
- He wrote up a report (on a typewriter, whose ribbon he destroyed afterwards) and sent it to the US embassy in Bonn.
- In 1888, the typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.
Synonyms belt, sash, girdle, strap, tape, ring, hoop, loop, circlet, circle, cord, tie, string, thong, fillet, strip
verb ˈrɪb(ə)nˈrɪbən no object, with adverbial of direction Extend or move in a long, narrow strip like a ribbon. miles of concrete ribboned behind the bus Example sentencesExamples - To escape the whispers, I fled outside where wild flowers ribboned under the fence, or to the old stables.
- All seven colors of magic ribboned through the spell-form, which looked superficially like a gate.
- Just when the filigree of family ties here splays open from my blood, ravelling into the mossy veins ribboning along through the dark peat, shadows in another land take form, tugging on my twine of years tangled in that other place.
- Little red cuts ribboned across the top of her feet; several beads of blood gathered and threatened to fall in the aircar.
- Laura Smith's colour-crammed back-projections, with captions ribboning up the side, are now fully-fledged and better-timed.
- The pathway is now used by people who walk, run or cycle along the scenic trails, which ribbon in and around Canmore.
- But dead ahead, far away across the valley where the ground began to rise sharply again in stands of pine, a narrow white swath of cleared ground ribboned through the dark trees, clearly visible.
- Let it ribbon through holiday centerpieces, over mantels or stream it across doorways.
- Freeways ribbon across picture postcard views, and there are more dulcet Kiwi tones on National Radio than I can translate fast enough.
- When the orange mixture starts to ribbon, remove the basin and stand it in cold water to cool slightly.
- The road ribboned down the steepest slopes in switchbacks so convoluted that I continually met Christina almost head-on but with my eyes level with her pedals.
Phrases Ceremonially open a building or road, typically by cutting a ribbon across the entrance. the MP cut a ribbon to mark the completion of the new bypass figurative the firm cut the ribbon on a £30 million joint venture in Beijing Example sentencesExamples - They will start signing autographs and meeting fans from 2.30 pm until 7pm after cutting the ribbon to open the store's new gallery extension.
- Sean Bean, renowned for his ‘100 per cent Blade’ tattoo, will use his sword from the TV series Sharpe to cut the ribbon to officially open the centre.
- With banners flying, the group shouted their objections as Essex County Council officials cut the ribbon to officially open the new road.
- Tomorrow, Jack McConnell, the First Minister, will cut the ribbon that officially opens the station and marks an end to the needless delays.
- Mary officially opened the show by cutting the ribbon with Mickey on one side and the very popular Duncan Stewart on the other, each of whom planted a loving kiss on her cheek!
- West Wiltshire MP Dr Andrew Murrison cut the ribbon to open the £475,000 building, which was jointly funded by the college and the Learning and Skills Council.
- After a blessing by branch chaplain Father John Tyrrell, Mayor Everitt and John Gould cut the ribbon to officially open the building.
- After cutting the ribbon to the entrance to the woodland walk I was presented with a bouquet by the youngest daughters of the last grandchild to be actually born at Townhead.
- The Prince rounded off the tour by cutting a ribbon to officially open the shop when he received a surprise from Kendal royalist Wyn Newman, 77, who presented him with her lovingly-stitched tapestry of Crathie Church, near Balmoral.
- A long-time resident of Cullingworth, Elsie Hollingsworth, and a pupil from Cullingworth Primary School, Jessica Darnbrook, officially opened the trail by cutting a ribbon in a ceremony at the viaduct.
cut (or tear) something to ribbons 1Cut (or tear) something so badly that only ragged strips remain. the counterpane had been cut to ribbons Example sentencesExamples - When it comes time for our vampires to dispatch the unlucky couple they have chosen, they rip off their stylish Ankh pendants and cut their necks to ribbons with a hidden blade.
- Cadi wondered aloud as she and Jeir cut a serpent to ribbons.
- At the height of the battle, three other enemy ships were also pouring death into the ‘Billy Ruffian'. Shot tore away sails, ripped up deck planking, cut hammocks to ribbons and hurled guns from their carriages.
- He, Seven, squirmed under Eight's grip, teeth bared furiously, and dragged the knife through Eight's long coat, tearing the fabric to ribbons.
- The machete stabbed and slashed, cutting his shirt to ribbons.
- Take one item, set it on fire or tear it to ribbons (you'll love it, trust me), then box the rest up and send them to the Goodwill.
- 1.1Damage something severely.
the country has seen its economy torn to ribbons by recession Example sentencesExamples - Apparently it's not enough to sue 12 year-old girls, they have to make make sure your favourite TV shows are cut to ribbons as well.
- The line-up now is rather different from two years ago when O'Driscoll cut them to ribbons with a fantastic hat-trick in Paris.
- So with a rail strike cutting services to ribbons, the impact on York was guaranteed to be devastating.
- Six sets of brilliance had taken him through the final two rounds as he cut Andy Roddick and then Mark Philippoussis to ribbons.
- Both batsmen have the ability to tear any attack to ribbons and a quick 60 or 70 from them will set Border on the road to a good total.
- For the first time she seemed to notice that her hands were cut to ribbons.
- It was fine with people, as far as we knew, but it nearly tore another dog to ribbons and the staff had to deal with that.
- Yes, his squad of highly skilled artists can weave beautiful patterns and cut a poor defence to ribbons, but we knew that anyway.
- If he waited for reinforcements, then his ship would be cut to ribbons by the time help arrived.
- On the physical side my hands are cut to ribbons, I have never cut and scratched myself at work like I have in the past few weeks, this also included a major electric shock which left a burn on my right wrist (now faded).
Synonyms injure, hurt, damage, harm, maim, mutilate, disable, incapacitate, scar
Derivatives adjective After we left, the newlyweds would slip off to an historic San Antonio hotel, carrying a ribboned picnic basket of champagne and pate and Brie and baguettes. Example sentencesExamples - It is topped with candied hazelnuts and whole roast almonds, and is beautifully presented in a ribboned package, so it looks very festive, too.
- Maggie dashed off and quickly returned with a ribboned box.
- He yanked it aside, and thrust the snowball onto her white neck, above the ribboned collar of her flannel nightshirt.
- In another, a woman forces herself to throw a ribboned bundle of letters into a fire.
Origin Early 16th century: variant of riband. The French spelling ruban was also frequent in the 16th–18th centuries. Definition of ribbon in US English: ribbonnounˈrɪbənˈribən 1A long, narrow strip of fabric, used for tying something or for decoration. the tiny pink ribbons in her hair cut four lengths of ribbon Example sentencesExamples - Baubles can be painted, stencilled, sprayed, wrapped or decorated with fabric, ribbons, glitter, pearls and beads.
- Her hair is divided into two neat braids (with pink ribbons, of course) and there's a tooth missing from the upper row.
- I was visiting my neighbor again, and he brought me a tiny black puppy with a pink ribbon around her neck.
- An array of beaded and fabric fringes, colorful ribbons, rickracks and other decorative trims are available, and it's fun to create your own combination of two or more.
- Selfridges is promising a wrapping service using vintage and recycled ribbons, bows and fabrics.
- Wash them in a pillowcase and put them in your dryer for at least 20 minutes, then dress them up with ribbons and holiday fabrics.
- Or you can simply buy a pink ribbon from your local Cancer Research UK charity shop for a suggested donation of £1.
- There were times, she would go to the mountain, and undo the tiny ribbons and loosen the braids, and run her fingers through her hair and let it be one with the wind.
- Create this stole by stitching together ribbons, trims and fabric scraps temporarily held together with water-soluble stabilizer.
- The pink ribbon is the generic symbol for breast cancer awareness throughout the world.
- Here, we padded a wall with batting and fabric, then secured crisscrossing ribbons with fabric tacks.
- Tracy shook her head; her tiny braid, tied with a pink ribbon, swung back and forth.
- They are studded with stones and plastic gems, also sometimes with ribbons and glittering fabric paints to enhance the look.
- There were yellow and pink ribbons holding her blue braids together at the ends.
- Boyle, who appeared onstage to present an award, caused the biggest stir of the night with her outfit: an outrageous pink tutu accented by ribbons wrapped around her calves.
- She constructed additional storage compartments from boxes wrapped in fabrics and ribbons.
- Now they'll all have pink ribbons on them thanks to you.
- The Fisher's daughter, who has long blonde hair in pink ribbons, comes in and calls for Polly.
- Her first effort involved a pair of handkerchiefs, a length of pink ribbon and a thread to stitch them together - made simply to free herself from the grip of the corset.
- Anyone with some free time on Friday to sell pink ribbons should contact Marian Smyth or Mary Foster.
- 1.1 A strip of fabric of a special color or design awarded as a prize or worn to indicate the holding of an honor, especially a small multicolored piece of ribbon worn in place of the medal it represents.
old horse show ribbons and rosettes Example sentencesExamples - He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
- There was a time when police officers looked smart, were uniform in appearance, had somewhere to display their medal ribbons, and all without detriment to comfort or personal protection.
- What is the significance of the ribbons, insignia and medals?
- It is an overwhelming, overflowing kaleidoscope of color, faces, tanned bodies, trophies, medals and ribbons.
- As yet, the colour and design of the ribbon has not been decided.
- On the bridge a Leading Stoker spotted his WWII Medal ribbons and said: ‘You must have been a CO of a battalion during the war, sir’?
- Rawlinson's London Times obituary said that he wore his ribbons and decorations ‘worthily,’ having earned all of them.
- Winners will be awarded medals and ribbons with the Special Olympics South Africa logo.
- As you play online, each point you get counts towards medals, ribbons and ranks that can be won.
- With 18 years in the Corps, he's not about to retire, especially after three combat award ribbons and that Silver Star.
- As veterans we leave the military with medals, ribbons and a national debt of gratitude for our service.
- My parents divorced when I was younger and I loved how proud my dad was of me whenever I brought home a new ribbon or a medal.
- Campbell attached copies of his military records to the lawsuit, showing that he received a Purple Heart and eight other medals, ribbons and decorations for his service in Vietnam.
- Every competitor is given an award - a gold, silver or bronze medal or a ribbon.
- With the proliferation of medals and ribbons for this and that, the time has arrived for the Combat Tanker Badge.
- He opened it to reveal a collection of small medals and ribbons.
- They hated that, felt it was all wrong to have him stand there in his getup - the four stars, his ribbons and decorations, and his pearl-handled revolvers.
- All-Star Reading Day and Championship Day are special days of honor and joy for the children, who receive ribbons, certificates or medals.
- The issue was whether Kerry threw away his medals or merely his medal ribbons during a protest in Washington DC.
- He earned four service medals and three ribbons before his honorable discharge in 1994.
Synonyms honour, decoration, star, order, badge, pin, laurel, wreath, palm, colours, insignia, plaque, award, trophy
2A long, narrow strip. slice the peppers into ribbons lengthwise Example sentencesExamples - Northern lights are ribbons of different colored lights that streak across the sky.
- Drive south from San Francisco, along the black ribbon of Route 1 as it hugs the northern coast of California.
- The fluorescent tagging devices are short glass ribbons just 100 micrometers long and 20 microm wide.
- A voiceover intones, ‘No more excuses, start to snack smart,’ as the camera shows ribbons of fruit in yogurt.
- The leading edge of the ice freezes to the stem's papery bark, and as the ice grows it is lifted upward by the attached bark, forming delicately curved, lacy ribbons.
- An orange ribbon of flame is charring its way across more than 20,000 acres near Los Angeles.
- I tucked in, and with a sideways glance through the bare low hedge, pushed on and on and tried to be optimistic about a ten-degree ribbon of pink sky.
- Beat the eggs with the sugar and lime peel until thick and ribbons form from the beaters when lifted.
- The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra.
- Then there was hamachi lightly braised in ginger tea, and yellowtail tataki crusted in pepper and laid in ribbons over slices of peach and soft avocado.
- When they are cool enough to handle, peel the peppers and remove the seeds, then cut each pepper into 8 ribbons from the stem end to the bottom.
- It was sleeting, and my team spotted a ribbon of smoke in the forest and wheeled off the road to a campfire, around which huddled six Lithuanian cyclists.
- Using a mandoline or a very sharp knife, finely slice carrots lengthways into ribbons.
- The ribbon of land mass, fringed with coconut trees, stretches for more than 12,500 miles around a vast lagoon.
- Quartz commonly forms polycrystalline ribbons; undulatory extinction, dynamic recrystallization and grain-boundary migration are widespread.
- The clever idea here is to make the shell of the chair out of a continuous broad ribbon of material that forms seat, back and sides in one fluid movement.
- Suddenly an explosion flamed in space, a ribbon of orange fire slashing out of the hull like a whip, lashing out into the blackness of space.
- That creates black borders at top and bottom and a narrow ribbon of picture across the middle of your TV screen.
- From the perch of my small roof garden I was able to see two long ribbons of black smoke exhaling from wounds in either tower.
- It is a ribbon of material along which magnetic particles are arranged to store data.
- 2.1 A narrow band of inked material wound on a spool and forming the inking agent in some typewriters and computer printers.
Example sentencesExamples - Each page through a printer or copier takes another bit of ink off the ribbon, or another copy off of the machine's life expectancy.
- The first tape storage products utilized magnetic particles coated onto a thin ribbon of metal substrate.
- The Man's story, for example, is told through a collection of discarded typewriter ribbons that Macushla finds in the basement of his uncle's house.
- In 1888, the typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.
- For example, they are used to provide the black color in inks, pigments, rubber tires, stove polish, typewriter ribbons, and phonograph records.
- There was a time, long ago that printers had ribbons and used dot matrix printing to create tiny dots that, when looked at, were readable.
- Forensic examiners were able to reconstruct the text of what had been typed on the ribbon of this typewriter.
- David waited tables, sold typewriter ribbons, and even delivered singing telegrams.
- Another laugh came after Moore trailed off, holding the book up so the audience could see that the typeface was fading as Stella's typewriter ribbon runs out of ink.
- He wrote up a report (on a typewriter, whose ribbon he destroyed afterwards) and sent it to the US embassy in Bonn.
- Final reports were prepared on manual typewriters with two-color ribbons so that totals appeared in red.
- They drove to Grossman's typists and took their copies, and their typewriter ribbons.
- My assignments never looked so good and when I wasn't printing, I'd put the ribbon in the fridge to make it last longer.
Synonyms belt, sash, girdle, strap, tape, ring, hoop, loop, circlet, circle, cord, tie, string, thong, fillet, strip
verbˈrɪbənˈribən no object, with adverbial of direction Extend or move in a long, narrow strip like a ribbon. miles of concrete ribboned behind the bus Example sentencesExamples - But dead ahead, far away across the valley where the ground began to rise sharply again in stands of pine, a narrow white swath of cleared ground ribboned through the dark trees, clearly visible.
- Just when the filigree of family ties here splays open from my blood, ravelling into the mossy veins ribboning along through the dark peat, shadows in another land take form, tugging on my twine of years tangled in that other place.
- All seven colors of magic ribboned through the spell-form, which looked superficially like a gate.
- Little red cuts ribboned across the top of her feet; several beads of blood gathered and threatened to fall in the aircar.
- To escape the whispers, I fled outside where wild flowers ribboned under the fence, or to the old stables.
- Laura Smith's colour-crammed back-projections, with captions ribboning up the side, are now fully-fledged and better-timed.
- Freeways ribbon across picture postcard views, and there are more dulcet Kiwi tones on National Radio than I can translate fast enough.
- The pathway is now used by people who walk, run or cycle along the scenic trails, which ribbon in and around Canmore.
- Let it ribbon through holiday centerpieces, over mantels or stream it across doorways.
- The road ribboned down the steepest slopes in switchbacks so convoluted that I continually met Christina almost head-on but with my eyes level with her pedals.
- When the orange mixture starts to ribbon, remove the basin and stand it in cold water to cool slightly.
Phrases Perform an opening ceremony, typically by formally cutting a ribbon across the entrance to somewhere. Example sentencesExamples - The Prince rounded off the tour by cutting a ribbon to officially open the shop when he received a surprise from Kendal royalist Wyn Newman, 77, who presented him with her lovingly-stitched tapestry of Crathie Church, near Balmoral.
- West Wiltshire MP Dr Andrew Murrison cut the ribbon to open the £475,000 building, which was jointly funded by the college and the Learning and Skills Council.
- After a blessing by branch chaplain Father John Tyrrell, Mayor Everitt and John Gould cut the ribbon to officially open the building.
- After cutting the ribbon to the entrance to the woodland walk I was presented with a bouquet by the youngest daughters of the last grandchild to be actually born at Townhead.
- With banners flying, the group shouted their objections as Essex County Council officials cut the ribbon to officially open the new road.
- Sean Bean, renowned for his ‘100 per cent Blade’ tattoo, will use his sword from the TV series Sharpe to cut the ribbon to officially open the centre.
- Tomorrow, Jack McConnell, the First Minister, will cut the ribbon that officially opens the station and marks an end to the needless delays.
- They will start signing autographs and meeting fans from 2.30 pm until 7pm after cutting the ribbon to open the store's new gallery extension.
- Mary officially opened the show by cutting the ribbon with Mickey on one side and the very popular Duncan Stewart on the other, each of whom planted a loving kiss on her cheek!
- A long-time resident of Cullingworth, Elsie Hollingsworth, and a pupil from Cullingworth Primary School, Jessica Darnbrook, officially opened the trail by cutting a ribbon in a ceremony at the viaduct.
cut (or tear) something to ribbons 1Cut (or tear) something so badly that only ragged strips remain. Example sentencesExamples - He, Seven, squirmed under Eight's grip, teeth bared furiously, and dragged the knife through Eight's long coat, tearing the fabric to ribbons.
- Take one item, set it on fire or tear it to ribbons (you'll love it, trust me), then box the rest up and send them to the Goodwill.
- At the height of the battle, three other enemy ships were also pouring death into the ‘Billy Ruffian'. Shot tore away sails, ripped up deck planking, cut hammocks to ribbons and hurled guns from their carriages.
- When it comes time for our vampires to dispatch the unlucky couple they have chosen, they rip off their stylish Ankh pendants and cut their necks to ribbons with a hidden blade.
- Cadi wondered aloud as she and Jeir cut a serpent to ribbons.
- The machete stabbed and slashed, cutting his shirt to ribbons.
- 1.1Damage something severely.
the country has seen its economy torn to ribbons by recession Example sentencesExamples - On the physical side my hands are cut to ribbons, I have never cut and scratched myself at work like I have in the past few weeks, this also included a major electric shock which left a burn on my right wrist (now faded).
- The line-up now is rather different from two years ago when O'Driscoll cut them to ribbons with a fantastic hat-trick in Paris.
- For the first time she seemed to notice that her hands were cut to ribbons.
- Both batsmen have the ability to tear any attack to ribbons and a quick 60 or 70 from them will set Border on the road to a good total.
- Six sets of brilliance had taken him through the final two rounds as he cut Andy Roddick and then Mark Philippoussis to ribbons.
- It was fine with people, as far as we knew, but it nearly tore another dog to ribbons and the staff had to deal with that.
- Yes, his squad of highly skilled artists can weave beautiful patterns and cut a poor defence to ribbons, but we knew that anyway.
- Apparently it's not enough to sue 12 year-old girls, they have to make make sure your favourite TV shows are cut to ribbons as well.
- So with a rail strike cutting services to ribbons, the impact on York was guaranteed to be devastating.
- If he waited for reinforcements, then his ship would be cut to ribbons by the time help arrived.
Synonyms injure, hurt, damage, harm, maim, mutilate, disable, incapacitate, scar
Origin Early 16th century: variant of riband. The French spelling ruban was also frequent in the 16th–18th centuries. |