Sir

[ US /ˈsɝ/ ]
[ UK /sˈɜː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a title used before the name of knight or baronet
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How To Use Sir In A Sentence

  • This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
  • You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
  • Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
  • I had a sirloin steak, with béarnaise and frites, which they contrarily call chips, and a bit of salad. Times, Sunday Times
  • “And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
  • This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • Patients then had either normal or low-dose ciclosporin (also spelt cyclosporin), low-dose tac-rolimus or low-dose sirolimus. Times, Sunday Times
  • Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
  • So, what makes a map desirable? Times, Sunday Times
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