burke
Example Sentences
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He added: "The Government ... has no disposition or desire to burke the question; it is clearly an issue on which the new House ought to be given an opportunity to express its views."
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted
There must be no question of trying to shirk or burke it.
From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry
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)
Better perhaps not to burke the matter that she knew was on his mind.
From The Thousandth Woman by Hornung, Ernest W.
I think they used it first for Pethick Lawrence, that man who did so much to run the old militant suffragettes and burke the proper discussion of woman's future.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
