burke

Example Sentences

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There is no disposition here to burke the fact that these responsibilities are serious, if not onerous; that they call for administrative statesmanship of a very high order.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt

You cannot, beyond a certain limit of time, burke reality.

From The Free Press by Belloc, Hilaire

He has never been known to burke a school.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Look here—it's no use trying to burke facts.

From Scarhaven Keep by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

There seems to have been a strong determination on the part of the Government to burke the investigation.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles