How To Use Fort In A Sentence

Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
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Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining. The Sun
Rose of Sharon braced her body against the movements of the car in an effort to protect her fetus.

It should be a baritone scoring game and the unfortunate should be in early disceptation for a top 3 pick. Xml's Blinklist.com
A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback? We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
an uncomfortable day in the hot sun
This tolerance has practical application in bioremediation and in efforts to colonize polluted sites.
Marriage followed alongside a comfortable life on the cosy road to middle-class success.
This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
In an effort to take some of the beguilement out of her young eyes, I make light of your dark and somber task.
On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
Unfortunately she has to work and then has class after work which is a bit of a bummer.
By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
Entry forms for the forthcoming Community Games should have been received by now.
And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
If you don't invest in these shares, you're saying no to a fortune.
But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap? McTeague
Fortunately, seven unaired episodes will give fans something to really dive into.
And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
His entry into the takeaway arena was somewhat fortuitous. Times, Sunday Times
Cornwall, the which abbeie Henrie de la Pomerey chasing out the moonks, had fortified against the king, and hearing newes of the kings returne home, died (as it was thought) for méere gréefe and feare. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
It would seem that efforts to train stalkers to high standards have been successful, and I would agree with that conclusion.
You might well feel a tad suspicious of this literary agent's good fortune. Times, Sunday Times
They spent their honeymoon adventurously cruising on a motorcycle, Nona riding comfortably in the side-car. Archive 2009-01-01
Many people striving to get through the next fortnight of seemingly ceaseless spending may be tempted to spread the cost with a zero per cent credit card. Times, Sunday Times
By convention, this assent is always forthcoming.
The food fares well in terms of freshness, quantity and effort, and there's a made-to-order pasta bar and a station where roast beef is carved before your eyes.
Unfortunately, she was also one of those women born to be adored by men.
The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
These same people also routinely said they felt comfortable with Bush as a leader with values and dignity.
What of it if Winter has another snow-storm or two up his sleeve?I take my staff and fare forth to greet Spring with three dogs at my heels.
I overheard two fifteen year old girls behind me at the ATM planning to get together tomorrow night and eat ice cream and comfort each other when they didn't get any valentines.
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One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
Efforts by tobacco companies to stop confectioners selling candy cigarettes in packs resembling cigarette brands seem to have been minimal.
But I am uncomfortable with the way he talks me into buying and wearing the costumes. The Sun
When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher. WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
From the father comes honour; from the mother, comfort.
a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine
However, this happy juxtaposition of Eastern style and Western living has not always been so effortless.
But I am now reaping the rewards of this effort in this trip.
Make a fortune and have fun Come to the pachinko parlor!
Fortunately, says Burtch, nearly all crowdfunded ventures - more than 95 percent - do deliver promised goods to their backers eventually.
This is the exclusive preserve of the cave explorer who cares less for personal discomfort.
My nose is uncomfortably stuffed up.
Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
In this high opinion of his own rank, he was greatly fortified by his ideas of the military profession, which, in his phrase, made a valiant cavalier a camarade to an emperor. A Legend of Montrose
As a prelude to the book, Dr Mitra has compiled an audio CD of some of the works that will appear in the forthcoming book.
The foreign birds, most of these parrots and cockatoos, unfortunately need to be kept in cages.
But physical discomforts during the third trimester, such as heartburn, leg cramps, fetal movement, shortness of breath and sinus congestion, can again interfere with sleep.
Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
He always talks about her to me, and I feel so uncomfortable and miserable.
Her condition was so critical medics called in the hospital chaplain to comfort her in her final moments. The Sun
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates
The first followed a head on collision with a bus, where she had to be cut out of the car and fortunately her only injury was severe whiplash.
General Alfred Terry traveled due west from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory with a force that included Custer and his Seventh Cavalry troopers.
So far, this scribe detects two "fortissimo" candidates -- people palpably impatient to get in office and shake things up. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth.
Aside from comfort and fit, another factor to consider is conspicuity.
Also be careful when buying fortified wines and ports as some can be unbearably sweet or acidic.
There's a reason that those invites a fortunate few received, allowing them to attend the après-opening private reception at the latest, greatest Place To Be, the Feral Cheerleader, are tinctured with a hue you cannot find at Sherwin-Williams. James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California
The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
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The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
And even in their efforts to upraise the social revolution -- the great upheaval to which all A Girl Among the Anarchists
The lack of a back-and-forth "us-verus-Nasdaq" makes it hard to imagine what the exchanges, and the fees, will look like, said Neil Catania , co-founder of agency-only brokerage firm MND Partners, located on the NYSE floor. Stock Traders Fear Fee Hit
In times like these, to stroke the orb's gentle surface was a comfort, yet I fought the urge to wake it from its resting place.
Liqueurs commonly made this way include triple sec, cassis, Cointreau, Grand Mariner and so forth.
But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
The second half of the match comfortably surpassed the first in entertainment value.
The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
Unfortunately, in many cases, the first real symptom is a broken bone.
And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.
Finally, for those comfortable with investing in stocks there are a wealth of options to choose from.
We catered for forty but only twenty came.
Gorgeous in a seemingly effortless Kate Hudson/Blake Lively kind of way, her future calling dawned on her when she saw her dad performing on stage and became enamored with the costumes the dancers were wearing. Buzzine » Stacey Oristano
Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and A Desperate Character and Other Stories
Both Hyundai and Nissan have reversed their U.S. automotive fortunes but to differing degrees.
I have paid a small fortune in tuition fees to my local pool to teach both my children to swim.
Most of us tend to entertain our friends in the family room; a formal dining room becomes a mail sorting place, and a formal living room is a museum for curios and uncomfortable furniture.
Unfortunately, many contaminants remain unbanned, and an average of seven new chemicals are put on the market daily, most of them not tested for toxicity.
Unfortunately, I found the obvious talents of him and the director to have been gelded along the way and prevented from reaching the level of punch and impact that I think could have otherwise been delivered.
Unfortunately, the locker room is full of private equity houses hoping to refloat gym club chains. Times, Sunday Times
BALTIMORE - Michael Phelps was formally welcomed home Saturday with a two-pronged celebration that began with a parade and ended with a fireworks show at historic Fort McHenry.
Winning the Varsity matches, and in reasonably comfortable fashion, is cause for celebration.
Their appearance was outside the comfort zone of most people today. Times, Sunday Times
His success depended on a fortuitous combination of circumstances.
a reward incommensurate with his effort
Two-way trade between the two countries increased by more than forty per cent last year.
I tried on clothes that actually fit me and felt comfortable instead of living in denial and trying on clothing that depressed me when I couldn't get the pants above my thighs.
Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
But the president claims he abandoned this effort when told that it would require a presidential decree.
Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
Neither does it give them excuse for committing imprisonable crimes or for not making efforts to work to support themselves. Times, Sunday Times
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
Present receivings and comforts are consistent with a great many groans; not as the pangs of one dying, but as the throes of a woman in travail -- groans that are symptoms of life, not of death. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Mr Vermes, who was close to that research effort, finds good reason to criticise it for slowness and carelessness—but no ground to assert a conspiracy.
The first is the back-and-forth meandering pattern known as boustrophedon.
What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days. The History of Animals
Unfortunately, the anger was short-lived and a teensy bit of paranoia set in.
Artemesia moved to the pianoforte that was along one of the walls, and sat down on the bench, facing away from the instrument and towards Scott.
The most striking but by no means the only instances are the hole cut in a page of his novel Albert Angelo and the presentation, in The Unfortunates, of a box containing a bundle of unbound gatherings to be read in random order.
Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
Unfortunately, alternatives to bombing the North Vietnam were hard to come by.
Forty per cent of the population is suffering from malnutrition.
PERRY: There's no question about it, parents who are comfortable with a child who gets a C or D, parents who are comfortable dropping their child off at a school that they no is ragged -- they have watched that school undereducate a generation or two -- parents who are willing to go down and fuss and fight when their child doesn't play on the basketball team, but are unwilling to go down and fight the same way when that child is not being served in -- in the classroom. CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2009
It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie. The Forgotten Garden
Think about it that way and the end of the world is quite a comforting idea. Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately, they were all reasonably priced; this could get seriously expensive if you're not careful!
She was the founder of the company, and for forty years its guiding spirit.
He has made derogative remarks, made players uncomfortable playing for him, and is not leading the team in the right direction.
But I was going through a reclusive and non-communicative phase, and his efforts to talk to me, to establish genuine communication, were met with a stony and moody silence.
Greek warriors took the fortress with little effort.
The farmers weren't too appreciative of our efforts, but we got the job done. The Sun
‘I thought my lads did very well and I was pleased with their effort,’ said Sinnott.
Unfortunately, we knew the shutout streak would come to an end," Buffalo captain Stu Barnes said. NHL - National Hockey League - Buffalo vs. Ottawa
The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
Examine the painful area carefully in an effort to localize the most tender point.
While President Obama swore fealty to free trade, he also called for "balanced growth," which is diplo-speak for U.S. efforts to get China to spur domestic consumption and rely less on exports. Will Marshall: Does America Have a China Policy?
Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
Unfortunately, adhoc bibliographies date quickly and are not always brought up to date after initial publication.
So much for postcrisis efforts to whittle banks down to a more-manageable size. J.P. Morgan Plays a $20 Billion Hand
Quarterback Brady Anderson was injured in an unfortunate collision with one of his team-mates.
He first felt discomfort back in June and the problem was diagnosed as a stress fracture. The Sun
What a suasory example it is for those, who through some freak of fortune, being enabled to shake off the dust of honest toil and industry, are very ready to look downward with contempt upon the rank they have just left. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense
On Sunday evening, after the dishes had been washed and Jared was in bed, Charisse and Stefàn were lounging comfortably on the plush leather cuddler sofa in their den and listening to a classic Grover Washington, Jr. CD. Who Said It Would Be Easy
Despite advances in headphone design, the fact is you are still listening to glorified stereo, where the sounds appear to thump uncomfortably inside your head.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Unfortunately, the company decided that after the Christmas rush, there was no need for all the extra people they took on, so your old pal Jean was out on her keister!
Unfortunately, the show's message to millions of impressionable teens is that it's OK to take drugs.
‘Unfortunately, Bulgarian coal is lignite, we have no anthracite, no petrol or gas,’ he said.
Leaders like that get only the bare minimum of effort and never rouse employees to cooperative activity.
After a short break James will commence his winter training for the forthcoming indoor season.
Despite being very comfortable by Zambian standards, he is a man who does not spend his money carelessly and he is on a salary just like his wife and his workers.
Forte is a very popular figure in city government, seemingly beloved by every local politician in sight.
The visitor suggested that this be announced by Roh during his forthcoming meetings in Moscow.
So my idea is that we need these shining knights from the castle to journey forth on a quest.
They toast their epic efforts in a demob-happy frenzy. Times, Sunday Times
His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
Mr Abbott noted that it was unfortunate he had been verballed'' by some protesters. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
You don't want to lose that excited edge, but you should also be getting progressively more comfortable as dates go by.
His efforts have turned up critical leads, brought forward witnesses and suggested potential persons of interest. Times, Sunday Times
The low boot cuff allows you to maintain the tuck position longer and with less effort.
The weather hampered search efforts by 115 locals and soldiers from the mainland. The Sun
It is an uncomfortable feeling to find in her sickness the conventions of beauty - boniness and pallor.
Claire looked at her feet, shuffling uncomfortably in place.
He has here at home a harpsichord, forte-piano, harmonica, guitar, violin, and German flutes, and at Williamsburg, he has a good pipe organ. Colonial Children
Willoughby in outwearying: she asked herself how much she had gained by struggling: -- every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force, and rendered her less able to get the clear vision of her prospects, as though it had sunk her deeper: the contrary of her intention to make each further step confirm her liberty. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The proposed shopping centre has called forth an angry response from local residents.
Men have been unwearied in their efforts to obscure the plain, simple meaning of the Scriptures, and to make them contradict their own testimony; but like the ark upon the billowy deep, the word of God outrides the storms that threaten it with destruction. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
Country folk in both the United States and Mexico often live under unfortunate circumstances but that does not excuse your belittling them because you consider yourself to be "highborn". Small town living
Unfortunately, no one took my messages seriously.
`Kate, dear Kate, it's sweet of you to want to be my comforter. SEA MUSIC
As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
Instinctively, Hunter tried to field the ball barehanded - an unfortunate decision, as it turned out - and incurred a hairline fracture to his right thumb.
The soft cushions were so much more comfortable than the hard bench of the wagon.
It is easy to see religious motivations here in terms of imperatives to care for the unfortunate; 'almsgiving' is undoubtedly a strong theme in most faith traditions. New Perspectives on Faith and Development
If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
To get out of the comfort zone is to grow, learn and advance for a better future. Dr T.P.Chia
All recycling will be collected from the kerbside, so there will be no excuse whatsoever for people who claim that recycling is too much effort.
In spite of my efforts to pacify it the baby continued to cry / continued crying.
Certainly, more and more new plastics will come forth before long.
For the floors above, we can use temporary airsealing floor by floor, and portable equipment; when we have things atmosphered and lighted and heated, you and Martha and Tony Lattimer can go to work systematically and in comfort, and I'll give you all the help I can spare from the other work. Omnilingual
Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
Relying on their well-established formula of eerie melodies, pastoral soundscapes, babbling children and rhythmic clamour, their sophomore effort rings true.
I was unfortunate enough to have an accident while on holiday in Minorca, where I spent eight days in hospital after an operation for a broken hip.
Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
The lawyer-turned-playwright's "true story" of her friendship with a convicted "homegrown" terrorist does suffer from an unfortunate Pollyannaism, however. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
Sensual and materialistic, they want all the power, comfort and control they can get out of life.
The bed stood in one corner, a rough wooden frame hooked to the wall and ropes looping back and forth to support a mattress. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
Nothing, in short, evinced to the august visitors any symptom of a reverse of fortune, such as they had been led to expect, in the position and circumstances of Marie de Medicis. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
Everything will work fine, but unfortunately your phone will be stuck in restore mode until you jailbreak it, which is what we're doing next.
Unfortunately the glow is so faint that no readily foreseeable telescope will be able to capture it.
He's comfortable like this, lying against an array of chenille pillows while the woman in his arms nestles against him.
The government may finally find itself forced to address a subject that it has previously found uncomfortable. Times, Sunday Times
Known as chemurgy, the science lost much of its ‘reason for being’ after WWII when the petroleum industry redirected its attention from the war effort to commercial products.
There's also more back seat leg and headroom and more comfortable rear seats, an area criticised in the current model. The Sun
While a great comfort on long or rough rides, there are some situations where a fully locked differential is a benefit.
They got comfortable on the rocks, with the waves roaring in, lapping at their feet, they stroked their bellies and chattered on about the sea, about stealing a small fishing boat when they should have been in school. September 17 , 2004
Although efforts to divert single-use batteries from the waste stream are growing, only a patchwork of regulations currently exists, depending on where you live.
Watch the monitor and tell me if the level goes above forty decibels.
One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
The impressive fort in the centre of the town presently houses the collectorate and other district office.
The young man — fortified as he was by a natural cynical pride and passionateness — winced at this unexpected reply, notwithstanding. A Changed Man
The good weather we've experienced over the past two days allowed us to fully prepare the cars for the forthcoming European races.

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