单词 | flinders |
释义 | flinders (once / 207357 pages) n WORD FAMILY flinders USAGE EXAMPLESHe laughed and fired again, and one last tower, one last chess piece, took fire, ignited, and in blue flinders went up to the stars. Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles(1950) A stack of old Washington Post stories on the District’s street nomenclature had been reduced to flinders. Washington Post(Oct 06, 2014) After the pillows came the furniture and other household goods, every bit of it either shivered to flinders or carried off. Cahan, Abraham, The White Terror and The Red—A nove...(2012) n bits and splinters and fragments it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage Hyper accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole Flinders (once / 5837 pages) n WORD FAMILY Flinders USAGE EXAMPLESThe sites included the centrally located Flinders Street train station, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Federation Square, a popular riverside gathering place. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) The alleged threat was to prominent city locations including Flinders St Station and Federation Square, he said. BBC(Dec 22, 2016) But he wasn’t looking for proof of that when he got out of his car near the Flinders mountain range several years ago. Washington Post(Nov 08, 2016) n British explorer who mapped the Australian coast (1774-1814) Syn|Exp Matthew Flinders, Sir Matthew Flinders adventurer, explorer someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) |
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