On-the-rocks Sentence Examples

When his eldest brother died, he'd felt pain and anger, but he'd never felt the crippling ache he did standing on the rocks near the ocean staring at Katie.

Instead she crossed to the full bar and traded the champagne for a triple shot of whiskey on the rocks.

Belfair watched, a sneering smile painted on her beautiful face, revenge was hers, as Jership the Terrible crashed in a bloody heap on the rocks below.

Moments later it clattered on the rocks below.

He manoeuvred so skilfully in the campaign against Radagaisus, who led a large force of various Germanic peoples into Italy in 405, that he surrounded the barbarian chieftain on the rocks of Fiesole near Florence and starved him into surrender.

In 1886 the old Liberal party was run on the rocks and went to pieces.

It was cut on the rocks by an Egyptian nobleman named Hannu, who states that he was sent by Pharaoh Sankhkere, Menthotp IV., with a force gathered out of the Thebaid, from Coptos to the Red Sea, there to take command of a naval expedition to the Holy Land of Punt (Puoni), "to bring back odoriferous gums."

The dried dung of the llama (taquia) is generally used as fuel, as in pre-Spanish times, for roasting ores, as also a species of grass called ichu (Stipa incana), and a singular woody fungus, called yareta (Azorella umbellifera), found growing on the rocks at elevations exceeding 12,000 ft.

The evergreen oak is wild on the rocks about the Lake of Garda, and lemons are cultivated on a large scale, with partial protection in winter.

In Syria there are tablets of conquest on the rocks at the mouth of the Nahr el Keib.

Amongst the kings of the XIIIth Dynasty (including perhaps the XIVth), not a few are represented by granite statues of colossal size and fine workmanship, especially at Thebes and Tanis, some by architectural fragments, some by graffiti on the rocks about the First Cataract.

The Pongo de Manseriche was first named Maranon, then Santiago, and later Manseric, afterwards Mansariche and Manseriche, owing to the great numbers of parrakeets found on the rocks there.

Here the Nile narrows and passes the Semna cataract, and graven on the rocks are ancient records of " high Nile."

There is an important crustose lichen assemblage on the rocks.

Yellowtail barracuda feed on silver baitfish and teeny-striped nudibranchs live on the rocks.

More than a thousand bodies were counted; large numbers were swept downstream, or lay bloated on the rocks.

However, the book does not mention that greater sand plover are regular in winter on the rocks at Paphos headland.

There has been very little drifting and not much in the way of riming on the rocks tho they were definitely wintry looking.

Observe the seals sunbathing on the rocks and the dolphins leaping !

Sailing north through a myriad of tiny islands, we spotted a couple of seals basking on the rocks.

Like many other tropical Mexican drinks, Daiquiris can be served on the rocks or frozen.

Since the alcohol is mixed with larger proportions of mixers, you can use brands that are more economical without compromising the taste that's often preferred for liquors served straight or on the rocks.

The good news is, there are ways to heal a marriage on the rocks as well as keep it healthy and nurtured from day one.

When the idea of a wedding was shot down, entertainment reporters started reporting that the two were on the rocks.

The couple issued a statement on January 11, 2007, after rumors began swirling that they were once again on the rocks.

The on-again off-again teenage couple have shot down any rumors that their relationship is on the rocks and still plan on getting married sometime after the birth.

Brian Austin Green and fiancé Megan Fox are on the rocks as she showed up at the Golden Globes alone.

Horror struck the group when Tom, attempting to peer out over a ledge to see how far they'd climbed, became dizzy, slipped and tumbled over the edge to his death on the rocks far below.

A man fell off a bridge on Old Sycamore Road, hit his head on the rocks and died.

Izzie was also in love and despite resistance, she agreed to marry Denny, not even caring that her career was on the rocks.

Her relationship with him had been on the rocks when she went to Hollywood, and in the middle of this series he paid her a visit and they broke up.

The beach trip marked the first appearance of the TLC star since announcing that her marriage was on the rocks.