Sentence examples for called spike from inspiring English sources

And in the Stone Gods, the book's gender-indeterminate hero falls for a so-called RoboSapiens called Spike who, at one point in the story, is reduced to a mere head – but a head able to perform heroic cunnilingus on a post-apocalyptic lesbian vegan.

Mark Shadinger, a Raider fan called Spike, traipsed out of a bar on Wednesday night, waiting for more of Raider Nation to join him.

By season six, Buffy was isolated, depressed, working in a burger bar, and locked in a highly sexual relationship with a soulless guy called Spike.

We're not involved in the programming of visual effects – we have a guy called Spike and a team of young computer whizzkids.

There are also two chinchillas, Amelia and Mr Skeeter; two ferrets, Doodle and Ferdinand; three cats, two doves, three cockatiels, two chickens, a lizard called Spike and a tarantula who goes by the name of Thomas Jefferson.

It was not long before a party Thursday evening at the Totem Gallery on Grand Street, to celebrate the publication of Mr. Coupland's new novel, "All Families Are Psychotic," and the opening of a show of his sculptures called "Spike".

These phenomena are called spikes (upward movements) and drops (downward movements).

Narrowband radio bursts with durations of the order of milliseconds, called spikes, are known to be associated with solar flares.

Neurons communicate using brief pulses, the so called spikes, which are emitted whenever a voltage threshold is crossed [9].

One hypothesis attributes the induction of synaptic plasticity to the relative rates between the pre- and postsynaptic action potentials also called spikes [58].

Depolarization block is a state of silence at membrane potentials more depolarized than those that support the generation of action potentials, also called spikes.