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

La pauvre femme, voiant approcher el navire, se tira au bort de la mer, auquel lieu la trouvèrent à leur arrivée.

From Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

The black diamonds, called bort, are used mainly for arming diamond drills and for polishing other diamonds.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

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 Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller