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Example sentences for: bore

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All sports junkies bore their friends with stories of their astounding predictions.
Peter Dickinson, who writes superb fantasy novels for children, once explained it by saying, "You're not allowed to bore children."
The mob that came to savage them bore a striking resemblance to the flesh-eating zombies in the cult movie Night of the Living Dead :
A rifle is a `long-barreled firearm with spiral grooves [rifling] cut into the bore to impart a spin to the projectile.
I had never noticed it before, but the reason that the old-fashioned bicycle was named the penny-farthing was that the large front wheel bore the same proportion to the tiny one at the rear as a (British) penny bore to a farthing.