Example sentences for: thorne

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

  • 6 million could follow, although Thorne noted the state appropriated $927,000 of that amount through June 2003.

  • There is support, in both the OED 2nd Supplement and the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, for Tony Thorne's definition, in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang [XVII, 3], of `callow youth' for gunsel . That appears to be the primary meaning of the word, whose suggested definition is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/ or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.

  • Though Passaic Legal Aid did meet with LSC president John Erlenborn in June, Thorne says the meeting was too limited in scope to satisfy due process.

  • It may be consoling but scarcely exonerating for Thorne to learn that he is not alone in failing to label such matter accurately: some American informants are evidently not to be trusted or have become too sophisticated from traveling abroad or by associating with speakers of other dialects of English.

  • So when I see an entry in shtuk/shtook/stook/schtuk labeled “British” in Thorne's book, I at once get suspicious, especially when it is defined as `in trouble,' shtuk “in its various spellings” is described as Yiddish for `difficulties,' and there is a (good) entry for shtick , besides.


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