shire

Example Sentences

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"She was used to a dopey shire and was taken aback by these foals zooming around her."

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

More recently, his works have also provided a fertile shire for nationalists who see themselves in his heroic archetypes.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022

A giant metal box sits in a field next to the shire council: one of several air-quality monitoring stations paid for by the mining and power-generating industries.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2021

One comment simply read: "Anything that ends with shire will do me, Lincolnshire or Yorkshire."

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021

There were dappled Percherons from France and shire geldings of tremendous size built to bear the weight of men in armor.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli