Sentence examples for prater from inspiring English sources

Instead of such durative aspect markers as the English progressive (e.g., "is talking"), verbs indicating position are combined with the main verb (e.g., Dano-Norwegian han sitter [står, går, ligger] og prater 'he is sitting [standing, walking, lying] and talking.').

With the crowd noise at fever pitch and four seconds on the clock Prater had the chance to win it.

The skyline is still dominated by the spire of St. Stephen's Cathedral and by the giant Ferris wheel in the city's chief park, the Prater.

He also, in a prater of giddy, rehearsed denunciations of Obama, told at least one story that was demonstrably untrue, about Obama supposedly saying that he was one of the four best Presidents ever.

After redshirting his first year and catching just one pass for 6 yards while battling foot and finger injuries in 2011, Prater elected to transfer to Northwestern in January.

On arrival in Berlin, I vowed to stem the tide, no matter the social awkwardness; picture if you might my German friend Nils's scientific expression on seeing my half-emptied plate of trout amandine at the beer garden Prater.

"Mr Rudd's bullying of Christian pastor Matt Prater on Q&A [in the week before the election] has caused many people to worry about freedom of speech and freedom of belief should the law on marriage be changed.

Nicknamed "Double Dynamite" as a result of their exciting stage shows, Prater and Moore reputedly came to greatly dislike each other and seldom spoke.

Samuel Moore (b. Oct. 12, 1935, Miami, Fla., U.S). and David Prater (b. May 9, 1937, Ocilla, Ga. d. April 9 , 1988 were gospel group veterans when they joined forces in Miami in 1961.

Johnson finished with six receptions for 166 yards and a touchdown, with the last of those catches a 57-yard pass from Matthew Stafford which put Matt Prater in position for the 27-yard field goal which settled the game.

Aides said that the co-chairman and co-chairwoman of the committee have asked Mark Prater, the chief tax counsel for Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee, to serve as staff director of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.