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Example sentences for: bore

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The words of a nation's speech are continually clipped and worn down by constant currency, until, like ancient coins, the legend which they bore at first becomes effaced.
For at least three hundred years the “additional designations’ that the Norman philosophy made necessary were not “inherited family names,’ but by-names, which applied only to those who bore them.
It, and all its successors, bore the unmistakable imprint of Tyndale.
Although many Scottish nobles were dedicated to the cause of independence, others either bore grudges against the ruling king or held lands in England that they feared to lose.
Rod Stewart has infuriated his wife, model Rachel Hunter, by being both an incorrigible flirt and an old bore.