Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for were. Search instead for werde.
Definitions

were

[wur, wer, wair] / wɜr, wər, wɛər /




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

For some users, Runna’s savings came with a hidden cost: an injury from plans they said were too strenuous.

From The Wall Street Journal

The two men were once part of the so-called PayPal mafia, a group that went on to invest or found successful Silicon Valley companies.

From The Wall Street Journal

Voters were enthused by what they saw as her decisiveness and frank style of communication, as well as her optimism and outsider status as a woman in a male-dominated political world.

From The Wall Street Journal

Researchers at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University created this framework to explain how quasiparticles form and to link two quantum states that were previously thought to be incompatible.

From Science Daily

“It was just full of very proper people, but very judgmental, and there were secrets on the street,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times