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- noun Plural form of
sire . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sire .
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Examples
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Our sires were the minster builders who wrought themselves unknown
The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Kate Seymour MacLean
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The demi-gods are they that were born of earthly women, but their sires are the elder gods who walked of old among men.
Tales of Three Hemispheres Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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It is with reason that these thinkers have been called the sires of German speculation; for in them we trace the origin of an independent German philosophy, nay, the germs of many celebrated systems developed five centuries later on, in some cases fully outspoken in these early thinkers.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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It is, indeed, unnecessary to convert them, -- a process to which their miscreant sisters usually submit with great goodwill, -- and they are also relieved from the necessity of showing the extreme undutifulness to their more religiously constant sires, which is something of a blot on Paynim princesses like Floripas in
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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They are not men as are we-even if their sires 'sires' sires were of our breed.
Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952
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They are not men as are we-even if their sires 'sires' sires were of our breed.
Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952
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This month, McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds announced that two sires—Justenuffhumor, owned by Darley, and Here Comes Ben—will be at their farm in 2012.
Horse Breeding Canters Back to N.Y. Pia Catton 2011
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All she has to do is size up a bunch of mares with her eyes, and feel them over a little with her hands, and hunt around till she finds the right sires, and get pretty nearly what she wants in the result — except color, eh, Paul? he teased.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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The horse breeder can reverse his method of selection, and from slow and clumsy sires and dams bred up a strain of horses beautiful and swift.
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He sires an illegitimate son, a character already familiar to readers—Ah Fatt.
The Ashes of History Abheek Bhattacharya 2011
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