Example sentences for: borne

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

  • What has happened, evidently, is that peg acquired the sense of step, measure, degree hence take (someone) down a peg meant reduce (someone) by a measurable amount, and this is borne out by the OED at peg, sb . 1 3, (with variants) which has citations going back to 1589.

  • By late 1999, more than a year after the embassy bombings, diplomacy with Pakistan, like the efforts with the Taliban, had, according to Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering, "borne little fruit."

  • Why is this most cherished belief not being borne out by events?

  • This biological rationale is borne out by evidence that interacting proteins have more highly correlated expression profiles than do non-interacting proteins [ 27 ] . However, if a single component of a signaling network is independently (and differentially) regulated, it would not necessarily be excluded using our approach, if for instance, it connected two halves of a pathway which had similar average expression profiles.

  • This expectation was most dramatically borne out in the "Best and Worst" rankings.


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