Sentence examples for dob from inspiring English sources

In 1955 a group of women led by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon formed the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first national organization for lesbians.

It's less "love thy neighbour" and more "dob your neighbours in to the DWP" – as I'm pretty sure the couple who left a full nappy on a table in the pub garden last weekend would quite happily do.

How much more corrosive to threaten Mrs Smith with Starmer's mind-focusing stint in prison if she doesn't dob in her fellow English teacher Mr Jones who, according to schoolyard gossip, is spending too much time with student X.

Our Renaissance forebears thought nothing of taking a 12-year-old wife, and it didn't occur to their neighbours to dob them in, beat them, bang them up, chip the sods, deport them, make them sign the sex offenders' register and plaster their faces all over the tabloids ("Leering Gary", though the "leer" was the rictus common to all terrified anthropoids).

His recurrent motifs now include a spherical, toothy, Mickey Mouse-like head, named "DOB" (an acronym referring to an obscure joke); generic flower symbols, sporting button eyes and rictus grins; "jellyfish eyes," with schematic lashes and light-reflection spots; many-eyed mushrooms, at times morphing into atomic mushroom clouds; and ornamental flourishes that recall Hokusai's waves.

Now and again, he palpably strives to muscle up his fine-art bona fides with varieties of abstraction, fierce or doomy narrative (a savage DOB or a monstrous character in death throes), spontaneous-looking brushwork, and knowledgeable references to Japanese and Western art history.

The Victorian police and FFA started an anti-violence campaign at the start of the season, with dob-in-a-yobbo hotlines, ticket regulations and more surveillance of fans.

The government is also talking up its dob-in-your-neighbour "crackdown" on foreign investors illegally buying in Australia, but its own parliamentary inquiry into that issue found in its 2014 report that foreign investment was "not causing market distortions".

Jack White Real name: John Anthony Gillis DoB: 9 July 1975 (Detroit, Michigan) Family: Was married to Megan Martha White (they are the White Stripes); now linked to Renée Zellweger Albums: White Stripes, De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant Other work: Appears in Cold Mountain.

John Birt DoB: 10 December 1944 Jobs: Former director general of the BBC, adviser to the Prime Minister Family: Separated from wife Jane (one son, one daughter); now with Eithne Wallis Education: St Mary's College, Liverpool; St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Karl Christian Rove DoB: 25 December 1950 (Denver, Colorado) Jobs: Deputy White House Chief of Staff, senior adviser to President Bush Family: Married Valerie Wainwright in 1976 (divorced 1979).