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

In trade, the term bort is extended to all small and impure diamonds, and crystalline fragments of diamond, useless as gem-stones.

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

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

Vell, sir, I broke mine jaws and leg, but managed to get alongside again, and was hauled on bort.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)