Example sentences for: burr

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

  • ’ A local preacher who came to our chapel greatly amused us by describing the encounter of a prophet with a “burr,’ a word that kept recurring in his sermon.

  • One word crops up in almost every review of the Disney CEO's "riches-to-riches autobiography" (Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly ): "bland."

  • Full grown, these fish weigh two to three times as much and are now a protected species, but they were once so abundant in American waters that Aaron Burr claimed he could cross the Hudson from Manhattan to New Jersey on their backs.

  • .. in Bere Regis, who was born in the village and who speaks with a delicious Dorset burr, always uses “I” instead of “me.”

  • To learn more about the hell-bound former secretary of State, read The Kissinger Transcripts , edited by William Burr, or visit the National Security Archive Web site at http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/.


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