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Example sentences for: thorpe

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

Being born of parents from the East Midlands and spending the early years of my life there, having a name like John Thorpe never really gave me any problems.
Yes, I'm John Thorpe.
The countryside of Lincolnshire and Leicestershire abounds with village names that end with thorpe and, apart from being called Thorpy by my school pals, the name never caused any difficulty.
My name is Thorpe, not Philips, John Thorpe.
It is not as though Thorpe is that unusual a name in the States: after all, one of the great athletes of all time was Jim Thorpe, and they even named a town after him.