Example sentences for: bourke

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

  • William Hill has offered odds of 10-to-1 that Bill and Hillary Clinton would announce divorce proceedings during 1999, 20-to-1 that the controversial "Millennium Dome" would be scrapped, 100-to-1 that Prince Charles would marry his sons' former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, and 1 million-to-1 that the world would end in August.

  • Accordingly, when Bourke became interested in Mexican customs and language, he approached them as the cultural remains of a higher Spanish-Arabic civilization.

  • John Bourke writes about an ancient custom in Mexico still used in the late nineteenth century: a merchant kept a tin cylinder for each customer, and after each purchase he’d drop a bean into it.

  • As the Enquirer says, nobody would begrudge Fergie a little happiness, but how much more euphonious it would be if Tiggy Legge-Bourke had coupled with Gaddo della Gherardesca.

  • Bourke observed, chronicled, and wrote both as a journalist and anthropologist about the folk medicine practices and the folk foodways of the Rio Grande region.


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