The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

I can't stand to see them mistreated. I suppose it seems silly to you. You and your friends must all think me a cabbagehead.

What were once shoreside amenities now stand forlornly in the middle of the desert, a 300-yard hike from the beach.

A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.