bort
Example Sentences
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“When my father said daay bort, pronouncing the word ‘deport’ by breaking it into syllables that creaked like a door opening and shutting,” she writes, “I felt its decree.”
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
It is tempting to wonder whether some curious misprints – "luther" for either; "bort" for both – constitute a sly joke about our own language-processing abilities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
My text will be: 'And Eve bort a Bon Ton System, and maid herself a fig leef pollynays, cut a la Princesse, and trimmed with dandylion ruchin and sun-flower brade.
From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
"And bort this banjer, put on your best noo trousers and come right on 'ere?"
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Other important abrasives are emery and corundum, garnet, pumice, diamond dust and bort, and feldspar.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
