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Example sentences for: boar

How can you use “boar” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In front of the keep is Portugal’s most curious pelourinho, which stands on top of a primitive granite boar (porca), carved in prehistoric times.
So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose"; a catfish "the size of a boar hog"; a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog"; a night as dark "as the inside of a cow"; an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.
The 17th-century bronze statue of a wild boar known as il Porcellino, on the south side of the small Mercato Nuovo, is every Florentine child’s favorite.
Some of the common comparisons were: slow as the seven-year itch, mad as a biting sow, though as withleather, fierce as a boar hog, flat as a flitter , and hot as flugens .
I eschew the term homonym because it suffers from an inherent ambiguity: a homograph is, to lexicographers, at least, a word that is spelled the same as another but has a different etymology ( bear 1 animal/ bear 2 carry; bore 1 carried/ bore 2 drill/ bore 3 tire/ bore 4 tide wave); a homophone is a word that sounds exactly like another but is spelled differently ( bear/bare; bier/beer; bore/boar ).