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Example sentences for: sabra
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Even the notorious sabra impudence is frequently expressed in a truncated form.
Between 1790 and 1984, only 1.5 percent of those receiving patents were women, notes Sabra Chartrand in the New York Times . From 1984 to 1996, that increased to 9.2 percent.
By 1708, Iohann Buxtors had already published his Abbreviaturis Hebraicis , and the colloquial Hebrew of the sabra , the native-born Israeli, carries on the grand tradition.
Little wonder that foreign-born Israelis, especially those who were taught old-world manners, soon learn to parrot another abbreviated sabra expression: they describe the offender as having a Padas Pa(rtsuf) d(oresh) s(tira) a face that invites a slap.
An old Jewish lady in Israel was chided by her children for talking to their Sabra children in Yiddish, the dialect of the ghetto, instead of in Hebrew.