Pore

//pɔː(ɹ)//

"Pore" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Experts will now pore over the fine print of the contract.

In lab experiments, when researchers blocked that pore the parasite stopped growing and eventually died.

Bacteria can grow in a blocked pore.

The scientists say older cloth is best because repeated washings soften and loosen the threads, reducing the pore size.

I normally exude confidence from every pore.

This TV has such a high definition screen; I can practically see every pore in their skin.

I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.

the pores of a rock.

Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.

After reading White’s vitriolic language, The New York Times facetiously remarked that “Kansas is bleeding from every pore of her vocabularium. Sharp’s rifles are discharging from the well-known Emporium of White & Son, unlimited, and Bibles are closed until after election.”

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Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.

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