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

This bort is crushed in steel mortars to form diamond powder, which is largely used in lapidaries’ work.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

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

He considers that the "bort d'Illande" was Dutch oak, 480 pieces of which had been given to the king by the officer called Sénéchal of Hainault.

From The Care of Books by Clark, John Willis