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Bearer
"Bearer" in a Sentence (26 examples)
This check is payable to the bearer.
The bearer of this letter is my friend Suzuki.
This ticket entitles the bearer to one chocolate sundae.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
This ticket entitles the bearer to one chocolate ice cream.
Mark wrote a letter to his wife and gave it to Vassili to take to her, and this was what was in the letter: 'When the bearer of this arrives, take him into the soap factory, and when you pass near the great boiler, push him in. If you don't obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young man is a bad fellow who is sure to ruin us all if he lives.'
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but something terrible has happened.
The Serpent Bearer is an outspread but not very prominent constellation.
Tom was the bearer of both good and bad news.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
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And he [Solomon] set threescore and ten thousand of them [the foreigners living in Israel] to be bearers of burdens,
Forgive the Bearer of unhappy news: Your alter’d Father openly pursues Your ruine;
The slightest manifestation of sympathy or justice toward a person of color, was denounced as abolitionism; and the name of abolitionist, subjected its bearer to frightful liabilities.
Nay, quoth he, on his swooning bed outstretch’d, If I may not carry, sure Ile ne’re be fetch’d, But vow though the cross Doctors all stood hearers, For one Carrier put down to make six bearers.
[…] the bare coffin having been screwed down, was hoisted on the shoulders of the bearers, and carried into the street.
The deep shadows of the porch swallowed up priest, corpse and bearers […]
I promise to pay the bearer on demand.
Within an hour of our finally deciding to start five litters were brought up to the door of the cave, each accompanied by four regular bearers and two spare hands, also a band of about fifty armed Amahagger, who were to form the escort and carry the baggage.
The bar of the watch-guard worked through the buttonhole, and the watch—Platte's watch—slid quietly on to the carpet; where the bearer found it next morning and kept it.
a good bearer
In the common mode of pruning, this species of vine is no great bearer; but managed as it is here, it produces wonderfully.
[…] Wilt thou know Th’ effect of what I wrote? […] An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, […] That, on the view and knowing of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death,
P. S. If you’d send your pipes by the Bearer[…], I would put them in order, and play some Melancholy tunes, […]
1784, Samuel Johnson, letter cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 2, p. 487, Sir, The bearer is my godson, whom I take the liberty of recommending to your kindness […]
The message was brought, and Winterborne sent the bearer back to say that he begged the lady’s pardon, but that he could not do as she requested;
[…] he gave him a note to Mr. Harmon, one of the head managers of Durham’s— “The bearer, Jurgis Rudkus, is a particular friend of mine, and I would like you to find him a good place […]
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