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"Bore" in a Sentence (37 examples)
He bore the future of the company on his shoulders.
How easy would it be to bore a tunnel through it?
The prisoner of war bore himself with great dignity.
The tax bore hard on the peasantry.
The document bore his signature.
People who talk about themselves all the time bore me.
You no doubt bore people.
The revolution, in itself, bore no fruit after all.
My wrath shall far exceed the love I ever bore.
I bore this trial.
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to bore someone to death
Reading books really bores me; films are much more exciting.
He bores me with some trick.
[…] used to come and bore me at rare intervals.
I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored.
On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
to bore for water or oil
An insect bores into a tree.
to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole
short but very powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore […] a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood
to bore one’s way through a crowd
What bustling crowds I bored.
This timber does not bore well.
Their eyes bore into my back.
The right hand of Curtis was open too much ; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.
Hanlan, it seems, led at about a mile, when Beach's steamer bored him, and to avoid the danger of being swamped, he put on a violent spurt and drew well clear of Beach, getting some lengths lead.
They take their flight […] boring to the west.
the bore of a cannon
the bores of wind-instruments
My neighbour is such a bore when he talks about his coin collection.
What a bore that movie was! There was no action, and the dialogue was totally uncreative.
It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses.
Yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter.
In another moment a huge wave, like a muddy tidal bore, but almost scaldingly hot, came sweeping round the bend up-stream.
Q. When the Fireſhip appeared to be going down towards the Real, do you think that the Dorſetſhire could have bore down in Time, to have covered and aſſiſted her?
[…] by altering their course a very little, and easily have bore down abreast of our settlement, without incurring the smallest risk!
The end of the 20th century and the start of the new millennium have bore witness to a remarkable revolution in the way parasite/host biological interactions can be conceptually designed and experimentally studied.
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