Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.

The soldiers, drawn up in hollow square—how apt is this word hollow, when applied to men who have fasted, in view of promised doughnuts!—received the procession, which consisted of music, then the ladies, then the doughnuts.

One American student sought my help to take the work further in his school science project, in which he studied how doughnuts differ from cookies.

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The prostate gland lies just below the bladder and is shaped like a doughnut.

He put on the life jacket and began paddling around. A doughnut life raft popped up out of the ocean in front of him.

In about 1951, the same company sealed into their vacuum doughnuts the regenerative peelers so that X-ray beams or electron beams could be obtained with the sealed off commercial tubes used in […]

When I was at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . . . there was a lady student there — and I had designs on her doughnut

My mother was sixteen when she lost her doughnut. Said she waited till she was legal. She was itching to do it she said.

Girl, now you've reached puberty Your doughnut should cover itself With curly hair, with soft hair.

Make my jelly roll with your doughnut hole.

The bearded clan's men approaches in order to munch the carpet, kiss the kitten, and suck the wet doughnut! You open your legs wide showing the view that makes me drool!

You fucking doughnut, of course you don't microwave a salad!

At 12.30 in the afternoon – half-an-hour earlier and she could have been accused of perpetrating an April Fool’s swansong deception – Hughes stood up in the Commons, doughnutted by as ugly a bunch of sad or scowling Blair babes as you could gather.

The desiccated scoreboard flag wiggled atop an Impala that doughnutted the fifty-yard line.

Ms Lumley’s co-campaigners were behind him, and had arranged it so there were pictures of injured Gurkhas behind each of his ears. What a terrible fate for any politician, to be doughnutted by hideous lacerations!

In the early days of the broadcasting, the whips would see to it that their front-bench speaker was ‘doughnutted’, surrounded by eagerly attentive supporters.

The historical precedent may be Henry II and Thomas Becket: “Oh who will rid me of this troublesome priest?” Or, in the Schama edition, “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?”⁵⁶ Despite my doubts that even 12⁵² century kings spoke like this, dub judge for cleric and it sits easily in a vision of Cameron doughnutted by his cabal.

My blood still boils when I watch, in television replays, my grimaces of anger immediately behind Geoffrey Howe as he delivered his resignation statement in which I was ‘doughnutted’ by the cameras. […] By coincidence, I was sitting on the fourth bench below the gangway immediately behind Sir Geoffrey Howe as he delivered his resignation statement. This meant that I was ‘doughnutted’ in the television pictures of virtually every word he uttered.

But when President Ford walked along a corridor from the conference room to get a cup of coffee, he was doughnutted by a scrummage of twenty worried bodyguards, flattening delegates from other nations against the wall and interrogating them if they failed to display a pass. […] Secret Service secret agents spoke up their sleeves to a control room – then doughnutted around him in close protective formation.

A couple of other supporters had doughnutted round him.

In another stunt, to protest against the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, Hannan and other Oxford Eurosceptics ‘doughnutted’ Norman Lamont, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, at a Europhile meeting in Bath – that is, they surrounded him, to give the impression to the television cameras that there were many more protesters than there actually were.

The reshuffle was awful. Chris Grayling for Ken Clarke [as Lord Chancellor]. Hunt to Health. Owen Paterson to Environment. Cable doughnutted, surrounded by Tories in his own department.

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