Blake

//bleɪk//

"Blake" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Blake loved to walk in the country round London.

This is the church where Blake is buried.

Sir Peter Blake was tragically killed by pirates on the Amazon river in 2001 as he was on a mission to monitor environment change.

One of my favourite books is Australian Aboriginal Grammar by Barry Blake. It fired up my imagination about life in Australia's deserts.

Blake has been coaching the team for two years in Iten, where a culture of competition pushes his athletes.

One of my fantasies is to visit Oz, Australia. In my life, there was a phase wherein I studied Australian Aboriginal languages. Foremost linguists whose work I have read are Barry J. Blake and Robert M. W. Dixon. In their research, the language samples are like little stories. How people lived in the ancient deserts fires up my imagination. The Aborigines ate witchetty grubs and played with boomerangs.

"What the Holocaust setting does for this film, which addresses questions that are more human than Jewish," explains director Tim Blake Nelson, "is it furnishes the audience, through its historical accuracy, with a level of credibility."

The Male Vocalist of the Year award went to Blake Shelton for the fifth year in a row. Shelton gave special thanks to an artist who has never won a CMA award that he credits as one of his biggest musical inspirations.

Graham Blake grew up on Sarah Creek, a tributary to the bay. His father and grandfather made a good living as watermen by harvesting, transplanting, fattening, and then re-harvesting oysters from the creek. It was an early form of oyster farming. In the 1940s and ‘50s his family could harvest 200 to 300 bushels of oysters each day. Blake says those days are long-gone.

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[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip.

Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies.

Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish.

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