sir

Example Sentences

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The pair said becoming a dame and a sir respectively was "wonderful and humbling at the same time".

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

Whether it is simply fewer courtiers, a bit less ceremony, no more people calling him sir, or bowing.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

Please, sir, can we have another order of that—and hold the rest?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

The scene is starkly similar to what Springsteen wrote about in one of the album’s most evocative songs — where children play outside “steel gates that completely surround, sir / the mansion on the hill.”

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

And I said, “Yes, sir, I know where it is. I’ll take them there today and make sure that they graze well and that nothing happens to them.”

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola