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cairn

[ UK /kˈe‍ən/ ]
[ US /ˈkɛɹn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
  2. small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland

How To Use cairn In A Sentence

  • After pulling the ball over midwicket, Cairns showed he was no one-trick pony.
  • Sights like this, a whale beached off Cairns, found with six square metres of plastic in its body cavity, have caused outrage at the killing capacity of the plastic bag.
  • First, the causeways may have probably been made "during the construction of the tower with its central pole," (here the cairn is a habitable beacon, habitable on all hypotheses,) or, again, The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
  • Our trip from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the Cairn Terrier Specialty Dog Show, was one long series of mishaps, turned into hilarious memories.
  • Slothrop kicks aside loose earth and finds a brick cairn, stuffed with potatoes ensiled last year. Gravity's Rainbow
  • A friend, he explained, had promised to meet him in that place; and though the shopwoman plainly doubted his veracity, and kept a sharp eye that he did not take to his heels with the cairngorm, she did not go so far as to suggest his removing himself from the zone of temptation. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
  • Despite Cairn's mixed results, the Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland remain enticing for oil companies, where experts estimate that 4. 1bn barrels of untapped crude lies. Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland
  • The soldier bellowed and bent over in pain, but still held onto Cairn to the best of his abilities.
  • Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life.
  • The cairns you see along the way were once used for supporting the coffin while the bearers took a well-earned rest.
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