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/ˈfɔɹd/
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[ UK /fˈɔːd/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːd/ ]
NOUN
- United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
- son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
- English writer and editor (1873-1939)
- grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
- 38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-2006)
- United States film maker (1896-1973)
How To Use Ford In A Sentence
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- The new Ford Mustang has a lot of punch.
- Most choose to buy in more affordable villages a little way away. Times, Sunday Times
- In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
- After a quarter of an hour, hot buttered toast on a covered hot water plate, with the Staffordshire cottage tea pot in its floral cosy, arrived.
- Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
- The former, namely, covetoufnefs, is a very mean and fordid palTion — refllefs, im - patient — and never contented With its A a prefent Sermons on practical subjects
- With most of Bradford's other income coming from mortgage broking, estate agency and property surveying, the decent yield really is at the mercy of house prices.
- But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq. The Student Operated Press
- At fourteen he was sent to the University of Glasgow, where he came under the influence of Francis Hutcheson, and in 1740 he went up to Oxford as Snell exhibitioner at Balliol College, remaining there till 1746. Introductory Note
