Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis.
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Sire
/saɪə(ɹ)/
Synonyms for "sire" (183 found)
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Noun(13 words)
Verb(1 words)
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13 entriesCollocations
11 entriesbreeding sireexcellent siregood siresire a coltsire a foalsire linesire lineagesire offspringsire progenystud sirethe sire
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21 total sentences available.
For fourteen years Tom had owned a purebred dog, and he remembered that the breeder had furnished him a pedigree chart showing every dam and sire going back four generations.
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But, fearing this, the Sire omnipotent / hath buried them in caverns dark and deep, / and o'er them piled huge mountains in a heap, / and set withal a monarch, there to reign, / by compact taught at his command to keep / strict watch, and tighten or relax the rein.
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Him now Saturnia sought, and thus in lowly strain: / "O AEolus, for Jove, of human kind / and Gods the sovran Sire, hath given to thee / to lull the waves and lift them with the wind, / a hateful people, enemies to me, / their ships are steering o'er the Tuscan sea, / bearing their Troy and vanquished gods away / to Italy."
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