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Substantiivit
- (sports) An area where players are temporarily confined while suspended from play following an infringement of the rules of the game.
- (figurative) A place for transgressors, a limbo; a place of confinement or self-isolation after (or in order to avert) transgressions; a state of disgrace.
- (US, Australia, colloquial) A panel van with a bed installed in the back.
Verbit
- (sports, usually in passive voice) to send a player off temporarily following an infringement of a rule in a game
Esimerkit
- Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug. He said “I see Max de Woppa spent three minutes in the sin bin.”
- Rob received a minor penalty, and as he served out his three minutes kicking back in the sin bin, Chinook′s sniper, Pierre Dion, shot from the point.
- At the play-the-ball Tamati and Dowling started jostling each other, then punching. The referee sent them to the sin bin.
- Punishment can be positive or negative, but both decrease the chances of the behaviour recurring. Positive punishment adds something unpleasant: yelling at the cat, for example. Negative punishment removes something pleasant: your company, for example, by putting the cat in the sin bin (see Chapter 9).
- Where habitual offenders remain, we can be sure that any sin-bin will not be populated by members of any one racial group alone.
- As the pupils who would be the occupants of the sin-bins would not be counted as having been excluded from schools - being simply rehoused within them - the Government′s policy to cut the number of permanent school exclusions would remain intact, while the complaints made by teachers could also be addressed.
- She was obliged to leave him in the sin-bin for four years.
- There′s a shag rug on the floor, padding on walls and ceiling, and, for extra comfort, a 600-gallon water bed. The Sin Bin is made by Chinook Mobilodge.
- There is the shag-carpet “sin bin” with its fur upholstery, mahogany paneling, stained glass, color TV and chrome sidepipes.
- Unlike the full-size Sin Bins of the ′70s, the new family vans are cute, comfortable and carlike.
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