Sentence examples for cardy from inspiring English sources

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cardy

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Alternative spelling of cardie

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Wally had on his green, worn-smooth corduroys — though it was already summery and he was sweltering — a faded, earthy-smelling, purple cardy over a green-and-ginger rugger shirt under which his hod-carrier belly tussled for freedom.

(Only once, when he couldn't resist the lure of a purple cardy).

In progressing from bristling bully to desperate compassion – and changing from military togs to cardy, then floppy underwear, straitjacket and hospital gown – Russell Beale does things that no other actor would do, yet makes each innovation seem entirely natural.

Don't worry about whether a cardy will ruin your outfit – by the time you put it on, everyone should be past caring anyway.

As Nadal goes through his usual ritual of arranging his water bottles, Federer could hardly look more relaxed, strolling around in his cashmere cardy with an air of nonchalance.

Faldo missed putts at the 5th and 6th, the second one being greeted by a cheer that would be unthinkable at any other golf tournament at the 7th he holed an eight-footer which was greeted only by a loud Hmmm from Mrs Maria Floyd, who was fetchingly dressed in a stars-and-stripes cardy over a T-shirt with USA etched in gold sequins.

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Children's books need to break out of those Christmas-cardy glass bubbles more.

In 1992 British physicist John Cardy postulated a formula for the final value of the critical probability.

In the 1980s the British physicist John Cardy, following the work of Russian physicist Aleksandr Polyakov and others, had established on strong informal grounds a number of results with good experimental confirmation that connected the symmetries of conformal field theories in physics to percolation questions in a hexagonal lattice as the mesh of the lattice shrinks to zero.

Peter Cardy, the chief executive of Macmillan, said " Unless successive governments take drastic action, we face... a widening gulf between those who have resources, and an underclass who did not realise they should have made provisions for a lengthy old age when they could be chronically ill".

A jury found Robert Black, who has been in prison since 1990, guilty of kidnapping and murdering Jennifer Cardy, who was nine years old when she disappeared in 1981.

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