Sentences with phrase «plonking -lsb-»

The place was BYO, but plonking a litre of vodka on the table didn't seem quite the done thing (perfectly acceptable in Russia, not as much on Sydney's north shore).

German food blogger Ohhhmhhh came up with the idea of buttering a slice of bread, sprinkling it with hundreds and thousands, using a heart - shaped cookie cutter to punch another slice, buttering it and plonking it on top.

But I'm plonking my money down somewhere very different.

Buying the best workstation for your business isn't just about plonking down cash for the most powerful laptop money can buy.

Being able to cook when you're out hunting towering creatures in Monster Hunter World isn't as simple as just plonking some ingredients over a campfire and letting a short animation play out.

You even get 32 GB of internal storage with an option to extend by up to 128 GB by just plonking a microSD card.

When new data comes along — pointed ears, for example — rather than just plonking it out there and relying on the public to remember the other bits, we should make sure in each paper that we briefly run over the whole thing again so the public can again draw an educated conclusion.

Speaking of genuine Nobel Laureates, a longtime climate correspondent from the glory days of Mark's Mailbox offers a slight correction to my disparagement of Michael Mann's plonking prose style:

It is never just a matter of plonking yourself down and losing yourself.

Villar Rojas has re-covered the floor with intersecting but unmortared bricks, resulting in an uneven surface and a pleasant plinking - plonking sound as visitors move across the space.

The Nintendo 2DS is aimed squarely at two types of people: Nintendo fanboys (and girls) and consumers (and their kids) who have always been curious about Nintendo's handheld platforms, but could never justify plonking down the money for one of them.

Instead, they've simply uprooted their tried and tested formulas, plonking them in a slightly different setting with new bells and whistles attached.

Just plonking Breath of the Wild elements in Link's Awakening wouldn't work; I wanted to ensure the design ethos of the former still shined through.

It's fast to setup and doesn't take up much space, perfect for plonking it down on a relatively small table and then crowding some friends around with a few beers.

It's an oddball life simulator, one that allows you to import the Miis of your friends and create totally new characters from scratch before plonking them into your weird and wonderful world.

Unfortunately you can't watch the show without having to get interactively involved and so plonking the kids in the middle of the living room whilst it is running is not an option (that's bad parenting though right?).

Of course the draw of the entire game is actually producing a movie, done by plonking a Producer token down on one of your studios.

Sometimes these effects can only be activated once, and other times they can be activated for each instance of the symbol, thus by plonking down a certain card at the end of your turn you could potentially gain a massive increase in power or recruiting points.

In it you attempt to build railway lines connecting various locations, spending cards to do so and plonking -LSB-...]

The beach is a bit scruffier here and we'd say if you're looking for a patch of sand to lay on, it's worth walking north, past the road head and the enormous statue, and plonking yourself down on the jet black sand.

And, if you are in a position where you typically save up for a plane ticket before plonking down your cash or credit card, you'll have a hard time implementing travel hacking tips.

Great golden sands that are groomed every morning will have you plonking your towel down on Altinkum's beaches.

AR Effect is an augmented reality app, aimed at kids, that can add effects to a scene — plonking a mini T - Rex to go after a cat was our favourite.

At the New York Motor Show BMW released the first real - world details of its new, more fuel efficient, four cylinder future by plonking a 2.0 litre turbo into the BMW Z4.

According to Skoda, there's big demand for a big spec sporty Superb, so they're answering that demand by plonking -LSB-...]

Screens are getting bigger, and they've got to go somewhere; the alternative is plonking these iPad - size infotainment monstrosities right in the center of things a la the Volvo XC90 or the Ram 1500.

The only chink in the Cayenne's armour was the high running costs but Porsche seems to have resolved that by plonking Audi's 3.0 liter V6 Turbo Diesel engine in the Cayenne.

Maruti has rather taken a very clever decision by plonking the AMT unit into the best selling compact sedan in the country.

Volkswagen has made the new Passat more tech friendly by plonking in a plethora of equipment and gadgetry on board.

Honda will also have the option of plonking the locally manufactured 1.6 L i - DTEC diesel unit that will power the India - spec Civic and CR - V.

With the 1713 kg XKR - S GT's tweaks, though, the 0 - 60mph time improves, falling 0.3 sec to 3.9 sec, plonking it firmly in supercar territory.

Will sports car buyers follow BMW down this road by plonking $ 150,000 or so on a 2014 BMW i8?

It's a plodding, plonking, clonking, clanking vanity project, watching which is like drowning in suet or being alone for two hours in the kind of airless hotel room that Hughes reputedly holed up in.

DOUGLAS ADAMS did everything humanly possible to avoid the daily drudgery of plonking down at his desk and pounding out his novel The Salmon of Doubt.

A televison journalist on the train had seen the chancellor plonking himself down in first class while in possession of a standard - class ticket.

He may say it shouldn't be about plonking Lib Dem trophies on the mantlepiece, but actually he does quite a lot of that with us as the conversation develops.

I thought breastfeeding was plonking the baby on the breast and that's it.

Uncle Ken took a different approach, not only picking the team for the next game, but plonking himself on the bench too between substitutes and archetypal hired goons.

Before plonking them into the oven I brushed the tops with some soy milk, because I was (quite rightly) worried about the excess flour I had everywhere.

Eight years ago, energy scion Bill Koch bought some reputedly rare plonk at auction from Eric Greenberg, a technology tycoon.

Dionysus While your here, what do you think about jesus and the water into wine thingy and you being an expert was it plonk or a very fine wine, as the song goes?

I took my book to the park after work today, plonked myself on a bench and soaked up some rays while indulging in a little «me - time».

I plonked in some raisins and pumpkin seeds, as well as paprika, cinnamon, nutmeg... pretty much everything.

This simple side salad is an easy way to incorporate more «kraut into your meal without it seeming like a big hunk of ferment plonked on top of your dinner.

The Plonk Wine Club earned the # 4 wine of the month club spot for the 10th year in a row for their incredibly low introductory offer of $ 69.99 for 12 bottles, which includes a professional corkscrew worth $ 49.99.

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Plus, it is still smarting from its experiences in the early 2000s when it bought BRL Hardy at the top of the market for $ 1.9 billion and watched most of that value get frittered away as the Australian dollar rose and the glory days of cheap plonk exports to the UK and US disappeared.

Bordeaux Court Deliberates on Fraud Case Involving More Than 1 Million Bottles of Wine: A Bordeaux judicial tribunal is weighing the fates of eight men accused of trying to pass off more than 1 million bottles of cheap plonk as more expensive Bordeaux from top appellations...

I'm happy to report that that just wasn't the case with the free corkscrew that came with our Plonk membership.

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