stormy petrel in a sentence
Examples
- Equally damaging was the news from West Bengal where the party's stormy petrel, Mamta Banerjee, has openly defied the party leadership by forming her own outfit.
- That day they forced steamer " Stormy Petrel " ashore where she was abandoned by her crew and, a few days later, destroyed by a gale.
- That year, they released three singles : " Accidents / I See It All ", " The Reason / Stormy Petrel " and " Wild Country / Hollywood Dream ".
- -- Oglethorpe : Former Auburn star Angie Milford, an assistant at Shorter the last four years, will try to guide the Stormy Petrels to a winning record in her first year.
- The name " Burevestnik " was inspired by Maxim Gorky's poem " The Song of the Stormy Petrel " ( 5A = O > C @ 525AB = 8 : 5 ).
- The name " Mother Carey's chicken " was used in early literature and often applied to several petrel species while the generic name of stormy petrel referred to the idea that their appearance foretold stormy weather.
- Making matters worse, he seemed to lack the temperament for politics; as one newspaper put it, " A stormy petrel on the commission from start to finish, he narrowly escaped confirmation by the Senate both times.
- An Irish nationalist, though not a Fenian, and a highly visible and articulate champion of justice, Devlin had broad appeal among the Irish working classes of Montreal, and a reputation as the stormy petrel'of the Irish community.
- The eight Ruritanian novels, sometimes known as the Empire series or the Stormy Petrel series, are set in three fictional countries in Eastern Europe : the Empire, Flavonia, and Ornowitza, the latter being a small duchy between the other two.
- In Hampton's obituary, the " Los Angeles Times " said that the councilman " gained some note as a stormy petrel, " speaking out against the Los Angeles Housing Authority, street railway operations, the Police and Civil Service Commissions and Mayor Bowron.