BORE in a Sentence

Learn BORE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
273 example sentences for BORE, such as:
1. The thief bore away my watch.
2. Her husband is a crashing bore.
3. And that, in time, becomes a bore.
4. The queen bore him four fine sons.
5. The discussion bore against the bill.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of BORE
bore
 v.  make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
 n.  a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He passed by the graves on the knoll and turned his head to glance at one of the older headstones, which had interested him deeply as a boy because it bore his name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Dilcey was tall and bore herself erectly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  As the carriage bore her down the red road toward the Wilkes plantation, Scarlett had a feeling of guilty pleasure that neither her mother nor Mammy was with the party.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  And that, in time, becomes a bore.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  The hospitals were filled with dirty, bewhiskered, verminous men who smelled terribly and bore on their bodies wounds hideous enough to turn a Christian's stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  Scarlett bore their gaze with a wide-eyed childlike expression.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Except for the messy business of nursing and the bore of bandage rolling, she did not care if the war lasted forever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  It was as though he bore an impersonal contempt for everyone and everything in the South, the Confederacy in particular, and took no pains to conceal it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  You think her silly and stupid and her patriotic notions bore you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  A faint hot breeze that had sprung up bore the smell of smoke to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  The women bore themselves like ladies and she knew they were ladies, though menial tasks were their daily lot and they didn't know where their next dress was coming from.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  Scarlett bore his remarks with silent dignity and, as time went by, she turned all her attention to him and his customers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  Frank, Pitty and the servants bore her outbursts with maddening kindness, attributing her bad disposition to her pregnancy, never realizing the true cause.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  He has been described as a 'charmless bore'-not by me, I hasten to add.
2  The speech bore the stamp of authority.
3  A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
4  The thief bore away my watch.
5  She disliked the president, whom she once described as an 'insufferable bore'.
6  The discussion bore against the bill.
7  This new model of drilling machine can bore through solid rock ten metres deep.
8  Despite everything, she bore her former boss no animosity.
9  The room bore evidence of a struggle.
10  After years of hard work, his efforts finally bore fruit.
11  The queen bore him four fine sons.
12  The clever girl bore off the first prize.
13  He used a drill to bore a hole in the door.
14  Her husband is a crashing bore.
15  The envoy bore back to us this good news.