Example sentences for: sir

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

  • Consider Dickens' sharp image in Bleak House (Chapter LIV) when he describes how “Sir Leicester leans back in his chair, and breathlessly ejaculates.

  • "No sir, I hit him with a bat.See, he was whipping on my mom againand whipping on me too and then one dayI just got tired of being whipped onand I hit him with my uncle's metal batand just kept hitting till he didn't move.I didn't mean to kill him, just make him stop."

  • Asked by a Scot what Johnson thought of Scotland: "That it is a very vile country, to be sure, Sir" "Well, Sir!

  • Following an outcry from, among others, Academy Award-winner Sir John Gielgud, the Smithsonian Institution has canceled a program.

  • The most important contribution to comparative linguistics was made by Sir William Jones (1746-94), a British linguist trained in the law who was appointed judge of the supreme court of judicature at Calcutta, in 1783.


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