Sentence examples for bore from high-quality English sources.

• Trombones vary in bore.

• Raymond was not a harmless bore.

• Amy likewise bore up stoutly till the steamer sailed.

• Bore (Pugilistic), to press a man to the ropes of the ring by superior weight.

• Rachel bore Jacob two sons, Joseph and Benjamin.

• Some invertebrates are able to bore through rock.

• His second wife, Mary I of England, bore him no children.

• The height of the bore is greater near the banks of a river than at midstream.

Use bore in a sentence.

• Chmielewski grows stone fruit just 50m downhill from a bore owned by Coca-Cola Amatil.

• The Gradus ad Cantabrigiam suggests the derivation of BORE from the Greek Βάρος, a burden.

• When a tidal bore forms in a river, the direction of flow of the water changes abruptly as the bore passes.

• Leah’s maidservant, Zilpah, bore him Gad and Asher, and Rachel’s maidservant, Bilhah, bore him Dan and Naphtali.

• Bore hunting would be an ideal substitute for fox hunting, and the dramatic reduction in hot air would also solve the global warming crisis.

• The bore then doubles back, ascending through the butt to the long joint and bell, where the holes are controlled by keywork for the left thumb.

• Constantine himself had two wives: Minerva (or Minervina), who bore Constantine his firstborn child, Crispus; and Fausta, the daughter of the previous Western emperor who bore him three sons.

• The classic example of a bore occurs on the Qiantang River (the lower course of the Fuchun River), in Zhejiang province, China, which has bore heights that reach nearly 9 metres (about 29 feet).

bore sentence examples

• Saxhorns, from sopranino to contrabass, have a wide buglelike bore, in contrast to Sax’s parallel but short-lived saxo-tromba family, and they are frequently called by the names of other valved brass instruments of similar pitch.

• Calibre is the diameter of the bore in inches or millimetres, and the full title of a rifle gives other information; e.g., .30-30 means a rifle with a bore diameter of .30 inch (7.62 mm) and a cartridge case designed to hold 30 grains (2 grams) of powder.

• Then I awoke, and knew not whether to throw myself into the sea or to live on and make the best of it; but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.

• He was an instant convert and thenceforth an avid attendee, a member of the earliest cadre of Dead freaks who bore witness to the band’s metamorphosis from a mere blues-and-dance band into a full-bore improvisational psychedelic experiment—what he called “primal Dead.”