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noun bʊlbʊl 1An uncastrated male bovine animal. Example sentencesExamples - These bulls produce heifers/cows that are above average in their milking ability, calving ease and fertility than the average bull in their breed.
- Breeding bulls and calves have so far formed the larger percentage of the farm-to-farm sales, with many producers holding out for the reopening of the marts for the sale of store cattle.
- Dog and I went walking again and went by various farm animals - bulls and cows, pigs, sheep and horses.
- Bulls occasionally fight bulls, but never the milk cow.
- The wild aurochs that roamed the old Eurasian continent was midway in size between a modern bull and an elephant, too big, strong and fierce to tame.
- All calves are reared to beef except the Friesian bulls.
- All matings were between cows and bulls of the same breed except for nine Polled Hereford sires, which were bred to both Horned Hereford and Polled Hereford cows.
- The Apis bull, a sacred animal to the Egyptians, came to be known as the incarnation of Osiris, god of embalming and cemeteries.
- We sometimes keep the bull calves and fatten them as young bulls.
- Now it is time to divide the herd among the three districts, the total number of reindeer for each area being made up of a combination of bulls, females and calves.
- A bull calf is typically worth about $100, but a heifer of the same age and breed is usually worth at least three times more.
- Although not a native animal, the bull has, after five centuries, become fully integrated into the indigenous world.
- It included 300 horses, 2,000 cattle, 12,000 sheep, 12 bulls and 90 brood mares.
- Dairy bull calves reared for beef through a pioneering fattening scheme are achieving gross margin returns of £199 a head for Pembrokeshire farmers.
- Presumably, Hanotte said, trade also brought zebu bulls that farmers interbred with domesticated taurine cows, producing the mixed herds of today.
- In a few cases, one in ten or twelve, a heifer born as twin to a bull calf will be normally fertile, but these odds are such that stockbreeders discourage breeding for the trait of mixed-sex twins.
- They saw professional rodeo cowboys ride bucking broncos and bulls, saddling wild horses, calf roping and watched whilst cowgirls barrel raced.
- Interestingly, an introgression of bison bulls in wisent herds would be compatible with paleontological records.
- There were no calving problems except with one set of twins (a bull and heifer calf).
- Meanwhile, very expensive thoroughbred horses, stud bulls, or whatever animals they may be could well be under threat.
- 1.1 A large male animal, especially a whale or elephant.
Example sentencesExamples - Flanked by dunes and beaches, Ano Nuevo Point is the winter home for thousands of northern elephant seals, with bulls staging dramatic fights for breeding rights.
- But only 800 of India's 20,000 elephants are bulls now.
- Although bull elephants spend a lot of time alone, they regularly meet up and renew their friendships, one of their favourite meeting places being around water holes.
- While elephants are indisputably social animals the social lives of males and females - bulls and cows - may be contrasted.
- One of these is the unusually high level of aggression observed between Addo elephant bulls.
- A big bull elephant seal had been lying there sleeping when another cruised up like a submarine, inflating its huge proboscis and blowing bad breath in a deep growl.
- Crews are leery of the full-grown sperm whale bull (up to sixty feet in length), a rarer sight.
- Soon after arriving he had Phang Lamphoon mate with Phrai Num Sek, a bull elephant he described as a magnificent animal with a fine, strong and healthy form.
- As the saying goes, when elephant bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers.
- Groups of adult cows or bachelor bulls are sometimes formed, however, and during the mating season pairs of rhinos may stay together for up to 4 months.
- Ramona's father was a wild bull elephant whose name and whereabouts are unknown.
- After the normal elephant show for the tourists, the Taylor family approached a bull elephant, intending to feed the animal.
- Mrs. Taylor died after the bull elephant went berserk and charged into visitors at an animal park near the popular tourist resort of Pattaya.
- Since bulls are drawn to females in heat, the pheromone could possibly be used to steer rogue elephants away from crops and villages - and destruction.
- One shark in particular had a huge semi-circular scar above its gills, possible inflicted by a bull or tiger shark.
- Tiny was a male bull elephant with one tusk shorter than the other.
- Adult male elephants are generally solitary or associate with other bulls in loose associations while females live in families.
- 1.2the Bull The zodiacal sign or constellation Taurus.
2British A bullseye. Example sentencesExamples - However, if you can start your draw with your aim slightly above the bull, and keep it on the target, this tends to be the best method, as you don't have to work against gravity, to get the bow higher.
- Many players enjoy the satisfying thud of a third dart in the centre bull for its flashiness alone.
- If two darts hit the bullseye or outer bull, you win 2000 times your jackpot bet.
- I move the rifle to aim at the sighter bullseye which is just below the record bull on the target and I carefully shoot one round, noting its point of impact.
3Stock Market
A person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later. Often contrasted with bear Example sentencesExamples - The key to capturing those returns: Approach the stock market as a bull but without expecting the wild growth that used to power your portfolio.
- House prices may look high, but if you believe the bulls, shares in the quoted builders look cheap.
- However these stock market bulls also know that shares do not go up in a straight line and that unexpected events can have a profound effect on their company's share performance.
- The stock market began the year catching everyone - bulls and bears - off-balance.
- If bulls push prices up during the day but cannot achieve a close near the top of the range, stochastic turns down and a sell signal is issued.
- For many bulls, this is one ray of hope in the economy's overall dismal picture.
- Watching share prices crumble was less fun, and being misled by bulls was more costly than being misled by bears.
- As the markets nervously await tomorrow's opening, the bulls fear the bears have seized control and will force equity markets into a further decline.
- In retrospect, the objective was good, but the timing was not good as we were in a year-long bear market rally where the bulls made money and the bears did not.
- No doubt property bulls believe continued rises in house prices will offset any subdued rental yield.
- We have had a 13-month bear rally that has just about turned every analyst and investor into a raving bull.
- We do not share the hopes or convictions of the bulls.
- In this situation, bulls are losing their grip on the market, prices are rising only as a result of inertia, and the bears are ready to take control again.
- A downward breakout from a trading range will cause pain to bulls who bought and will make them eager to sell during the first market rally so that they can get out even.
- And if anyone was tempted to wager against bond prices, the emboldened bulls were tickled at the opportunity to take their money.
- After a 6% rise in the U.S. markets yesterday, many stock market bulls are daring to raise their heads for the first time in quite a while.
- Stock market bulls argue that, with dividends expected to grow in the long term, this makes shares good value.
- With no sign of any new exchanges on the horizon, OFEX should easily prosper when market bulls reappear.
- If bull power is already negative, selling short is inappropriate because bears have control over the market bulls.
- Turmoil on international stock means stock market bulls and bears have persuasive arguments, but which prognosis do you believe?
verb bʊlbʊl 1informal with object and adverbial of direction Push or move powerfully or violently. he bulled the motor cycle clear of the tunnel Example sentencesExamples - Any attempt to bull your way through an avenue of approach or into an objective area in tank fashion, will result in failure and possible loss of the vehicle and its personnel.
- After driving down the field, Harris bulled his way into the endzone, tying the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
- I knew the woods well enough that I took the lead, and Jeff bulled along after me through the underbrush, the two of us moving from toy to fallen toy with no other consideration in the world.
- He bulled forward like the heavyweight boxer of old, scoring nine times in eight climactic games.
- When Rangers bulled onto the field like there was a fire in the dressing room nobody made a sound.
- Seconds remained when Johnny Nevin left his full back berth and bulled his way into a centre field melee.
- A millionaire plantation owner and slave trader, Forrest joined the Confederate army as a private in June 1861 and bulled his way up the ranks to general.
- At the same time, he bludgeoned prison literacy and vocational programs, and bulled ahead with his plan to build a new prison at Delano.
- The true choice then is to bull ahead or else to abort.
- A lead point was magnificently secured by Dwayne Kavanagh five minutes from the end after he bulled through and shot from 50 yards.
- With a 550 cc engine, it has enough power to bull its way through deep snow and heft a grooming attachment up a steep hill.
- Cora took a majority decision in this rematch of the 2003 draw between the two men, bulling his way inside to outwork his foe.
- There was more than one instance where I bulled through only because I believe in completing a game before writing a review for it.
- Mara was there in a flash, bulling courtiers and servants alike out of the way.
- Without hesitation Seal Team Bob bulled into the crowd, tossing dancers to both sides of him.
- And after Schilling bulled his way through spring training as if those games actually meant something, the method to his business became even clearer.
- Keep in mind, he was at the helm of the Broad Street Bullies who bulled and bullied their way to Stanley Cup wins in 1974 and '75.
- After bulling my way through the crowd, I finally found Noelle, but she wasn't ready to leave.
- Maxi Lopez, a powerful 20-year-old signed from River Plate in the transfer window, simply bulled his way through Chelsea.
- All this added up to the unbelievable: Wake won the regular season title in the nation's best conference and bulled its way into the AP top 10.
2be bullingno object (of a cow) behave in a manner characteristic of being on heat. Example sentencesExamples - The older weanlings are ideal for bulling in late spring when they are about 18 months old.
- Herd health: cows should be bulling well, have healthy shining coats and be good on their feet.
- The message in this is that after the first three weeks of bulling is over, fewer cows will be bulling and it will be more difficult to confirm standing heat.
- Epp et al. collected blood samples from steers at feedlot arrival and at the onset of bulling behavior to assess circulating hormone concentrations.
- Cows are coming back bulling as they should and are showing very strong heats, he said.
Phrases Taking action hastily and without thought. I try not to analyse anything—I just go in like a bull at a gate Example sentencesExamples - He was up in his room getting another coat and in his usual hurry to do everything like a bull at a gate, he slipped and decided to finish the steps off headfirst.
- They should give people warning - not just go round like a bull at a gate and take everything off.
- In fact as soon as he saw London he went at it like a bull at a gate, and the brothels and coffee houses held him spellbound to the extent that he returned to London over and over eventually settling in the city.
- I pushed him away across the car port and he came back like a bull at a gate when I pushed him again.
- He was like a bull at a gate, or a dog without a lead, but being the cub scout I was, the motto was ‘Be prepared… for anything’.’
like a bull in a china shop Behaving recklessly and clumsily in a situation where one is likely to cause damage. he was rushing about like a bull in a china shop Example sentencesExamples - Never an actor to employ a degree of subtlety, Brian is more like a bull in a china shop.
- We are not going about this like a bull in a china shop.
- Whether you are window-shopping at Gucci, barging about Swarovski like a bull in a china shop or knocking over a cosmetics display at Christian Dior, the shop assistants are unfailingly charming.
- Adam snapped back, ‘Look, there's no point going at this like a bull in a china shop.’
- Understandably, Hoggard has wanted to build up gradually after all the hard work he did in South Africa last winter and in his three Championship outings with Yorkshire he has been steady rather than going at it like a bull in a china shop.
- I've learned so much from my back-up team and I won't be training like a bull in a china shop.
- The new Minister is acting like a bull in a china shop, and prefers to bully everyone into submission.
- Smillie, topping the bill for the first time in his 15th pro fight, must have been tempted to go off like a bull in a china shop as another full house roared him forward.
- I haven't seen much of him, but Julius Francis told me he virtually runs out of his corner from the first bell, like a bull in a china shop.
- You have to ease your way in, rather than be like a bull in a china shop, which isn't my style anyway.
take the bull by the horns Deal decisively with a difficult or dangerous situation. she decided to take the bull by the horns and organize things for herself Example sentencesExamples - We are taking the bull by the horns and saying we have to move the church to where we see the centre of the Christian worship to be.
- All this could have been quite enough flamenco for one week, but taking the bull by the horns, I returned on Tuesday for the Compania Antonio El Pipa in De Tablao.
- However, there is no contemporary equivalent to the reconstruction modernists that took the bull by the horns in Britain in the late 1940s.
- Hawick finally took the bull by the horns and, in typically rumbustious form, rumbled upfield where they won an attacking lineout right on the Melrose five-metre line.
- Some forty years ago, the Soviets took the bull by the horns and launched Yuri Gagarin into space.
- If your money problems are pushing you towards the edge of financial disaster, now's the time to take the bull by the horns and deal with them.
- ‘They were the ones who have been prepared to take the bull by the horns and deal with the incompetence of the police with regard to investigation of their cases,’ he said.
- He said: ‘I'd always wanted to do sign writing and one day I took the bull by the horns and did it.’
- This deeply divided body, which is averse to making tough decisions, is highly unlikely to take the bull by the horns and be decisive in choosing a method.
- One school in Minnesota really took the bull by the horns.
within a bull's roar (of) informal usually with negativeExtremely close or near (to) no one has come within a bull's roar of producing a work of such sweep and quality Example sentencesExamples - You're the only woman who has managed so far to get me within a bull's roar of an altar.
- Any suggestion that they get within a bull's roar of the levers of power is intolerable.
- None of the riders in the breakaway is within a bull's roar of threatening his lead.
- If I were a parent, I wouldn't let any child under 15 within a bull's roar of this movie.
- The government is offering a figure which is not within a bull's roar of what may be appropriate.
- Their striker didn't get within a bull's roar of scoring.
- Just about everyone within a bull's roar either works at the property or they know someone who does.
- Your client is not within a bull's roar of getting bail.
- He hasn't gotten within a bull's roar of a budget forecast yet.
- Even with this significant boost to his chances, he won't be getting within a bull's roar of victory.
Origin Late Old English bula (recorded in place names), from Old Norse boli. Compare with bullock. Bull goes back to Old Norse. In Stock Exchange terminology a bull is a person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later, the opposite of a bear. The latter term came first, and it seems likely that bull was invented as a related animal analogy. Nowadays, people might associate bull in the sense ‘nonsense’ with the rather cruder term bullshit, which has been used with the same meaning since the early 20th century. Bull is much older being first recorded in the early 17th century, in the sense ‘an expression containing a contradiction in terms or a ludicrous inconsistency’. An Irish bull was a fuller name for this. Where this bull comes from is unknown, though the experts are sure it has nothing to do with a papal bull (an order or announcement by the pope), which is from medieval Latin bulla, ‘a sealed document’. The bull of bulrush (Late Middle English) and bullfrog (mid 18th century) probably indicates size and vigour. See also bulletin
Rhymes full, Istanbul, pull, push-pull, wool noun bʊlbʊl A papal edict. the Pope issued a bull of excommunication Example sentencesExamples - Papal bulls and indulgences were also identified as tools of this treacherous persuasion.
- A papal bull dated June 1520, was issued declaring that Luther was a heretic.
- In 1452 the Bishop of Rome spoke out and gave his official blessing in a papal bull.
- Taking no chances, the pope issued a papal bull automatically excommunicating any printer who might make an alteration in the text.
- A papal bull of 1145 encouraged this kind of regional pilgrimage to Pistoia by urging Tuscan bishops to promote travel to the relic.
- The Room of the Signatures, named for the signing of the papal bulls, again features some works by Raphael depicting the enlightenment.
- It was a simple matter then for Pope Julius II to issue a bull to sanction the marriage.
- The word bull is still used in English for a Papal Bull, an edict issued by the Pope.
- It suggests considerable unawareness of his danger that, when taken, he was wearing an Agnus Dei and in possession of a papal bull.
- The papal bull was taken to Paris and stored for safe keeping.
- He knew of the fall of Edessa and the call for help, though he probably did not know of the papal bull.
- After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.
- Witches were also put on trial, following a papal bull against witchcraft issued in 1484.
- The necessary calculations were carried out by Antonio Lilius and written up into a Papal bull by Christopher Clavius.
- In the first years of the 16th century, the screw-press was invented, probably by Bramante for the striking of papal bulls.
- The document was a private letter, not a papal bull.
- Pius V published the bull of excommunication of Elizabeth in 1570 to aid the Rebellion of the Northern Earls, but deliberately without informing Philip first.
- As a result, they repeatedly solicited papal bulls condemning Jansenist works, and persecuted priests who refused formally to accept the condemnations.
- In mid-1349, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull denouncing the flagellants as a heretical movement.
- The Pope obliged, issuing on November 1, 1478, a papal bull called Exigit Sincere Devotionis.
Origin Middle English: from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla 'bubble, rounded object' (in medieval Latin 'seal or sealed document'). noun bʊlbʊl mass nouninformal Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense. much of what he says is sheer bull Example sentencesExamples - Every time I think of this, I have the same reaction: What bull.
- How much bull can one fit in such a short opening paragraph?
- ‘He sure is a whole lot of bull though,’ one of them remarked as Beva stood in the middle of the ballroom of the plush Marriott Hotel.
- Which means that the more bull you give, the more they love you.
- But that's pure bull, I'm not outdoorsy, I don't breeze about in fleeces.
- To the person who sent this, you took 4 minutes of your time to read this, yet you could not spare the 15 seconds it took for me to Google this and identify it as bull.
- Either way, it makes my point that online polls are bull.
- Craig told her, and as much as she wanted to believe that those words were just bull she could tell that she meant it, and even though she didn't want to admit it she was also glad they had kissed.
- Often, we'd sit there and get drunk, dance badly to the student disco and talk a load of bull about football to each other and any other person pretending they were students who happened to be drinking there at the time.
- Wait, you feel that what I'm saying here is bull?
- Well, my response is that that's a bunch of bull.
- And Carlos and Gerald, among other supposedly intelligent men, are buying that bull.
- He went there, had a little bit of a photo-op, made a little bit of a quip that he thought that he had seen a lot of bull in Washington, but he certainly was seeing a lot more there.
- But now we know that was all bull, and so I now believe I was wrong.
- On a much smaller scale, the writer of the opinion column in my local paper talks bull every week, completely contradicting the factual articles sharing the page, which infuriates me.
- All that bull about it being the taking part that counts… nonsense.
- Do you think astrology is totally cool or complete bull?
- Stuck in a rut of family movies Gooding is cast against recent type as sharp New York advertising executive, Darrin Hill, who stretches the salesman's bull into his own life story.
- Trust me, these ‘get rich quick’ ads are pure bull, guff and hogwash!
- It'll get lost in all that paper and bull that gets shovelled around when lawyers and officials get hold of you.
Origin Early 17th century: of unknown origin. nounbʊlbo͝ol 1An uncastrated male bovine animal. Example sentencesExamples - The Apis bull, a sacred animal to the Egyptians, came to be known as the incarnation of Osiris, god of embalming and cemeteries.
- It included 300 horses, 2,000 cattle, 12,000 sheep, 12 bulls and 90 brood mares.
- Although not a native animal, the bull has, after five centuries, become fully integrated into the indigenous world.
- Now it is time to divide the herd among the three districts, the total number of reindeer for each area being made up of a combination of bulls, females and calves.
- A bull calf is typically worth about $100, but a heifer of the same age and breed is usually worth at least three times more.
- They saw professional rodeo cowboys ride bucking broncos and bulls, saddling wild horses, calf roping and watched whilst cowgirls barrel raced.
- Presumably, Hanotte said, trade also brought zebu bulls that farmers interbred with domesticated taurine cows, producing the mixed herds of today.
- In a few cases, one in ten or twelve, a heifer born as twin to a bull calf will be normally fertile, but these odds are such that stockbreeders discourage breeding for the trait of mixed-sex twins.
- Breeding bulls and calves have so far formed the larger percentage of the farm-to-farm sales, with many producers holding out for the reopening of the marts for the sale of store cattle.
- Meanwhile, very expensive thoroughbred horses, stud bulls, or whatever animals they may be could well be under threat.
- Dog and I went walking again and went by various farm animals - bulls and cows, pigs, sheep and horses.
- All calves are reared to beef except the Friesian bulls.
- Interestingly, an introgression of bison bulls in wisent herds would be compatible with paleontological records.
- These bulls produce heifers/cows that are above average in their milking ability, calving ease and fertility than the average bull in their breed.
- The wild aurochs that roamed the old Eurasian continent was midway in size between a modern bull and an elephant, too big, strong and fierce to tame.
- Bulls occasionally fight bulls, but never the milk cow.
- All matings were between cows and bulls of the same breed except for nine Polled Hereford sires, which were bred to both Horned Hereford and Polled Hereford cows.
- Dairy bull calves reared for beef through a pioneering fattening scheme are achieving gross margin returns of £199 a head for Pembrokeshire farmers.
- There were no calving problems except with one set of twins (a bull and heifer calf).
- We sometimes keep the bull calves and fatten them as young bulls.
- 1.1 A large male animal, especially a whale or elephant.
Example sentencesExamples - A big bull elephant seal had been lying there sleeping when another cruised up like a submarine, inflating its huge proboscis and blowing bad breath in a deep growl.
- Although bull elephants spend a lot of time alone, they regularly meet up and renew their friendships, one of their favourite meeting places being around water holes.
- One of these is the unusually high level of aggression observed between Addo elephant bulls.
- Since bulls are drawn to females in heat, the pheromone could possibly be used to steer rogue elephants away from crops and villages - and destruction.
- One shark in particular had a huge semi-circular scar above its gills, possible inflicted by a bull or tiger shark.
- Tiny was a male bull elephant with one tusk shorter than the other.
- While elephants are indisputably social animals the social lives of males and females - bulls and cows - may be contrasted.
- Ramona's father was a wild bull elephant whose name and whereabouts are unknown.
- As the saying goes, when elephant bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers.
- Crews are leery of the full-grown sperm whale bull (up to sixty feet in length), a rarer sight.
- Flanked by dunes and beaches, Ano Nuevo Point is the winter home for thousands of northern elephant seals, with bulls staging dramatic fights for breeding rights.
- But only 800 of India's 20,000 elephants are bulls now.
- Soon after arriving he had Phang Lamphoon mate with Phrai Num Sek, a bull elephant he described as a magnificent animal with a fine, strong and healthy form.
- Groups of adult cows or bachelor bulls are sometimes formed, however, and during the mating season pairs of rhinos may stay together for up to 4 months.
- Adult male elephants are generally solitary or associate with other bulls in loose associations while females live in families.
- After the normal elephant show for the tourists, the Taylor family approached a bull elephant, intending to feed the animal.
- Mrs. Taylor died after the bull elephant went berserk and charged into visitors at an animal park near the popular tourist resort of Pattaya.
- 1.2the Bull The zodiacal sign or constellation Taurus.
2Stock Market
A person who buys shares hoping to sell them at a higher price later. Often contrasted with bear Example sentencesExamples - The key to capturing those returns: Approach the stock market as a bull but without expecting the wild growth that used to power your portfolio.
- Stock market bulls argue that, with dividends expected to grow in the long term, this makes shares good value.
- We have had a 13-month bear rally that has just about turned every analyst and investor into a raving bull.
- In this situation, bulls are losing their grip on the market, prices are rising only as a result of inertia, and the bears are ready to take control again.
- No doubt property bulls believe continued rises in house prices will offset any subdued rental yield.
- However these stock market bulls also know that shares do not go up in a straight line and that unexpected events can have a profound effect on their company's share performance.
- After a 6% rise in the U.S. markets yesterday, many stock market bulls are daring to raise their heads for the first time in quite a while.
- Turmoil on international stock means stock market bulls and bears have persuasive arguments, but which prognosis do you believe?
- Watching share prices crumble was less fun, and being misled by bulls was more costly than being misled by bears.
- And if anyone was tempted to wager against bond prices, the emboldened bulls were tickled at the opportunity to take their money.
- The stock market began the year catching everyone - bulls and bears - off-balance.
- For many bulls, this is one ray of hope in the economy's overall dismal picture.
- If bulls push prices up during the day but cannot achieve a close near the top of the range, stochastic turns down and a sell signal is issued.
- With no sign of any new exchanges on the horizon, OFEX should easily prosper when market bulls reappear.
- If bull power is already negative, selling short is inappropriate because bears have control over the market bulls.
- As the markets nervously await tomorrow's opening, the bulls fear the bears have seized control and will force equity markets into a further decline.
- House prices may look high, but if you believe the bulls, shares in the quoted builders look cheap.
- In retrospect, the objective was good, but the timing was not good as we were in a year-long bear market rally where the bulls made money and the bears did not.
- We do not share the hopes or convictions of the bulls.
- A downward breakout from a trading range will cause pain to bulls who bought and will make them eager to sell during the first market rally so that they can get out even.
adjectivebʊlbo͝ol attributive (of a part of the body, especially the neck) resembling the corresponding part of a male bovine animal in build and strength. his bull neck and broad shoulders Example sentencesExamples - Reid has slimmed down from his 255-pound playing weight, but at 6 feet 3 inches he still has the bull neck and massive thighs of a National Football League defensive tackle.
- He is 33, a short, stocky man with a bull neck, a round head, and a freshly scrubbed demeanor.
verbbʊlbo͝ol 1with object Push or drive powerfully or violently. he bulled the motorcycle clear of the tunnel no object he was bulling his way through a mob of admirers Example sentencesExamples - Without hesitation Seal Team Bob bulled into the crowd, tossing dancers to both sides of him.
- At the same time, he bludgeoned prison literacy and vocational programs, and bulled ahead with his plan to build a new prison at Delano.
- I knew the woods well enough that I took the lead, and Jeff bulled along after me through the underbrush, the two of us moving from toy to fallen toy with no other consideration in the world.
- And after Schilling bulled his way through spring training as if those games actually meant something, the method to his business became even clearer.
- All this added up to the unbelievable: Wake won the regular season title in the nation's best conference and bulled its way into the AP top 10.
- Keep in mind, he was at the helm of the Broad Street Bullies who bulled and bullied their way to Stanley Cup wins in 1974 and '75.
- Cora took a majority decision in this rematch of the 2003 draw between the two men, bulling his way inside to outwork his foe.
- Mara was there in a flash, bulling courtiers and servants alike out of the way.
- He bulled forward like the heavyweight boxer of old, scoring nine times in eight climactic games.
- Any attempt to bull your way through an avenue of approach or into an objective area in tank fashion, will result in failure and possible loss of the vehicle and its personnel.
- A millionaire plantation owner and slave trader, Forrest joined the Confederate army as a private in June 1861 and bulled his way up the ranks to general.
- With a 550 cc engine, it has enough power to bull its way through deep snow and heft a grooming attachment up a steep hill.
- A lead point was magnificently secured by Dwayne Kavanagh five minutes from the end after he bulled through and shot from 50 yards.
- The true choice then is to bull ahead or else to abort.
- Seconds remained when Johnny Nevin left his full back berth and bulled his way into a centre field melee.
- Maxi Lopez, a powerful 20-year-old signed from River Plate in the transfer window, simply bulled his way through Chelsea.
- When Rangers bulled onto the field like there was a fire in the dressing room nobody made a sound.
- After bulling my way through the crowd, I finally found Noelle, but she wasn't ready to leave.
- There was more than one instance where I bulled through only because I believe in completing a game before writing a review for it.
- After driving down the field, Harris bulled his way into the endzone, tying the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
2be bullingno object (of a cow) behave in a manner characteristic of being in heat. Example sentencesExamples - Cows are coming back bulling as they should and are showing very strong heats, he said.
- The message in this is that after the first three weeks of bulling is over, fewer cows will be bulling and it will be more difficult to confirm standing heat.
- Epp et al. collected blood samples from steers at feedlot arrival and at the onset of bulling behavior to assess circulating hormone concentrations.
- Herd health: cows should be bulling well, have healthy shining coats and be good on their feet.
- The older weanlings are ideal for bulling in late spring when they are about 18 months old.
Phrases like a bull in a china shop Behaving recklessly and clumsily in a place or situation where one is likely to cause damage or injury. Example sentencesExamples - Adam snapped back, ‘Look, there's no point going at this like a bull in a china shop.’
- I haven't seen much of him, but Julius Francis told me he virtually runs out of his corner from the first bell, like a bull in a china shop.
- Whether you are window-shopping at Gucci, barging about Swarovski like a bull in a china shop or knocking over a cosmetics display at Christian Dior, the shop assistants are unfailingly charming.
- You have to ease your way in, rather than be like a bull in a china shop, which isn't my style anyway.
- Smillie, topping the bill for the first time in his 15th pro fight, must have been tempted to go off like a bull in a china shop as another full house roared him forward.
- The new Minister is acting like a bull in a china shop, and prefers to bully everyone into submission.
- Understandably, Hoggard has wanted to build up gradually after all the hard work he did in South Africa last winter and in his three Championship outings with Yorkshire he has been steady rather than going at it like a bull in a china shop.
- Never an actor to employ a degree of subtlety, Brian is more like a bull in a china shop.
- We are not going about this like a bull in a china shop.
- I've learned so much from my back-up team and I won't be training like a bull in a china shop.
take the bull by the horns Deal bravely and decisively with a difficult, dangerous, or unpleasant situation. Example sentencesExamples - If your money problems are pushing you towards the edge of financial disaster, now's the time to take the bull by the horns and deal with them.
- We are taking the bull by the horns and saying we have to move the church to where we see the centre of the Christian worship to be.
- All this could have been quite enough flamenco for one week, but taking the bull by the horns, I returned on Tuesday for the Compania Antonio El Pipa in De Tablao.
- Hawick finally took the bull by the horns and, in typically rumbustious form, rumbled upfield where they won an attacking lineout right on the Melrose five-metre line.
- One school in Minnesota really took the bull by the horns.
- Some forty years ago, the Soviets took the bull by the horns and launched Yuri Gagarin into space.
- He said: ‘I'd always wanted to do sign writing and one day I took the bull by the horns and did it.’
- This deeply divided body, which is averse to making tough decisions, is highly unlikely to take the bull by the horns and be decisive in choosing a method.
- ‘They were the ones who have been prepared to take the bull by the horns and deal with the incompetence of the police with regard to investigation of their cases,’ he said.
- However, there is no contemporary equivalent to the reconstruction modernists that took the bull by the horns in Britain in the late 1940s.
Origin Late Old English bula (recorded in place names), from Old Norse boli. Compare with bullock. nounbʊlbo͝ol A papal edict. the Pope issued a bull of excommunication Example sentencesExamples - As a result, they repeatedly solicited papal bulls condemning Jansenist works, and persecuted priests who refused formally to accept the condemnations.
- The word bull is still used in English for a Papal Bull, an edict issued by the Pope.
- A papal bull of 1145 encouraged this kind of regional pilgrimage to Pistoia by urging Tuscan bishops to promote travel to the relic.
- In 1452 the Bishop of Rome spoke out and gave his official blessing in a papal bull.
- It suggests considerable unawareness of his danger that, when taken, he was wearing an Agnus Dei and in possession of a papal bull.
- In the first years of the 16th century, the screw-press was invented, probably by Bramante for the striking of papal bulls.
- The document was a private letter, not a papal bull.
- Witches were also put on trial, following a papal bull against witchcraft issued in 1484.
- In mid-1349, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull denouncing the flagellants as a heretical movement.
- The Pope obliged, issuing on November 1, 1478, a papal bull called Exigit Sincere Devotionis.
- After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.
- Taking no chances, the pope issued a papal bull automatically excommunicating any printer who might make an alteration in the text.
- The Room of the Signatures, named for the signing of the papal bulls, again features some works by Raphael depicting the enlightenment.
- It was a simple matter then for Pope Julius II to issue a bull to sanction the marriage.
- A papal bull dated June 1520, was issued declaring that Luther was a heretic.
- Pius V published the bull of excommunication of Elizabeth in 1570 to aid the Rebellion of the Northern Earls, but deliberately without informing Philip first.
- Papal bulls and indulgences were also identified as tools of this treacherous persuasion.
- The papal bull was taken to Paris and stored for safe keeping.
- The necessary calculations were carried out by Antonio Lilius and written up into a Papal bull by Christopher Clavius.
- He knew of the fall of Edessa and the call for help, though he probably did not know of the papal bull.
Origin Middle English: from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla ‘bubble, rounded object’ (in medieval Latin ‘seal or sealed document’). nounbʊlbo͝ol informal Stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense. much of what he says is sheer bull Example sentencesExamples - But now we know that was all bull, and so I now believe I was wrong.
- How much bull can one fit in such a short opening paragraph?
- Either way, it makes my point that online polls are bull.
- Trust me, these ‘get rich quick’ ads are pure bull, guff and hogwash!
- Which means that the more bull you give, the more they love you.
- Wait, you feel that what I'm saying here is bull?
- But that's pure bull, I'm not outdoorsy, I don't breeze about in fleeces.
- And Carlos and Gerald, among other supposedly intelligent men, are buying that bull.
- On a much smaller scale, the writer of the opinion column in my local paper talks bull every week, completely contradicting the factual articles sharing the page, which infuriates me.
- ‘He sure is a whole lot of bull though,’ one of them remarked as Beva stood in the middle of the ballroom of the plush Marriott Hotel.
- Stuck in a rut of family movies Gooding is cast against recent type as sharp New York advertising executive, Darrin Hill, who stretches the salesman's bull into his own life story.
- Well, my response is that that's a bunch of bull.
- Often, we'd sit there and get drunk, dance badly to the student disco and talk a load of bull about football to each other and any other person pretending they were students who happened to be drinking there at the time.
- He went there, had a little bit of a photo-op, made a little bit of a quip that he thought that he had seen a lot of bull in Washington, but he certainly was seeing a lot more there.
- All that bull about it being the taking part that counts… nonsense.
- Craig told her, and as much as she wanted to believe that those words were just bull she could tell that she meant it, and even though she didn't want to admit it she was also glad they had kissed.
- It'll get lost in all that paper and bull that gets shovelled around when lawyers and officials get hold of you.
- Every time I think of this, I have the same reaction: What bull.
- To the person who sent this, you took 4 minutes of your time to read this, yet you could not spare the 15 seconds it took for me to Google this and identify it as bull.
- Do you think astrology is totally cool or complete bull?
Origin Early 17th century: of unknown origin. |