Sentence examples for merle from inspiring English sources

In addition to acrobats, the finalists included Tina Humphrey, 37, a music teacher from Shrewsbury, and Chandi (below), her 12-year-old blue merle border collie she taught to dance after rescuing her from Telford dog pound as a four-month-old puppy.

Trouble was one of our teen reads of the month in 2014, so we've got a lot about it on the site: Read a review by JBOO1698, listen to a podcast of Non Pratt being interviewed by Merle, find out why Non Pratt only ever reads YA books.

MERLE HAZARD, an unusually satirical country and western crooner, has captured monetary confusion better than anyone else.

So local leaders had both the motive and the means to set up schools.Around 1000, reckons Merle Goldman, professor of Chinese history at Boston University, perhaps 30% of the 100m or so Chinese may have been literate to some degree.

Many Rhodesians were far from ordinary: just look at Doris Lessing, the latest Nobel laureate for literature, or Merle Park, a ballet dancer of renown.

Dubbed "Nashville West," Bakersfield is renowned for its contributions to country music and is the home of many recording artists, including Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.

The latter variation produced by the so-called leopard complex, a genetic mutation that results in a spotted coat often seen in modern breeds such as Appaloosas was realistically rendered in the 25,000-year-old cave paintings at Pech-Merle in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France.

Extensive cave systems bear remains of prehistoric art, such as that of Pêche-Merle in the Lot valley and the Lascaux Grotto in the Vézère valley.

Prehistorians could no longer argue that the Pech-Merle spotted horses were symbolic in nature rather than accurate representations of what the ancient artists saw.

"Clearly we're going to have the largest African-American turnout in the history of Georgia," says Merle Black, an expert on southern politics at Emory University in Atlanta.

It is "a mile wide and half an inch deep", contends Merle Hinrichs, chairman of Hong Kong-based Global Sources, Alibaba's main competitor.Above all, there is a question mark over Alibaba's revenues: so far it has virtually none.