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"Burke" in a Sentence (9 examples)
Kristen Burke and Juncheng Qian had been dating for more than one-and-a-half years before they broke up six months ago.
Coral reefs are essential for coastal protection, and for the food security and economic wellbeing of millions of people around the world. They are an important source of protein, a potential source of pharmaceuticals, and as Lauretta Burke of the World Resources Institute points out, a valuable tourist attraction.
As soon as the executioner proceeded to his duty, the cries of ‘Burke him, Burke him—give him no rope’... were vociferated... ‘Burke Hare too!’
"I don’t know that," interrupted the landlady; "Williams is a good hanging name: there was Williams who murdered the Marr's family, and Williams who burked all those poor dear children; I dare say he is some relation of theirs; but to think of his coming to the White Hart—it's no place for his doings, I can tell him: he sha'n't poison his wife in my house; out he goes this very night—I'll take the letter to him myself."
Perhaps he is Burked, and his body sold for nine pounds.
‘You don’t mean to say he was burked, Sam?’ said Mr. Pickwick, looking hastily round.
The reporters left it out... Those who spoke in favour of the poor men, were what the reporters call burked.
He put away—burked—the Directors' letter, and went in to talk to Riley
Socrates and Plato burked the issue.
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