Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying near the shore or coast.
- Shelving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Lying near the shore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Lying near the
shore .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your changing shory is beginning to look like a bunch of lies piling up.
Mark Penn: If We Keep Drawing "Contrast" With Obama We'll Win Unexpected States 2009
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Bob Flynn has won several awards for his writing, and, while I have been a long time reader and fan of his shory story work, this novel is one of the most authentic Texas works to ever grace my shelves.
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A shory story a week for twenty years or so, I believe he said, and I was determined to try it.
Archive 2009-04-01 Steve Perry 2009
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I'd also like to plug my friend Dominic Green's short shory "The Clockwork Atom Bomb" which has been nominated for a Hugo.
Forthcoming books adamosf 2006
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What a wonderful story shory how Shea-Porter's people have such a high sense of self importance to think someone might might actually break the law at her expense.
UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports 2009
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Nothing happens for millions of years, and then, for some unknown reason, you will see a huge jump in speciation all at once, over a very shory timespan.
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"Anyway, to make long shory stort, Mr. Nestor he says, 'What you doin' now?
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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