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  • noun Plural form of usher.

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Examples

  • The new name ushers in an online database, set to go live in a few months, which will include digital access to more than 4,000 photographs that date back to the late 19th century.

    Queens Public Library Currently Digitizing Some of Its Oldest Holdings, Collection Will Go Online in Spring « ResourceShelf 2010

  • The going rate this year to bribe the ushers is $20 a head.

    www.bollettieri.comWant better seats? Show ushers the money 1999

  • For the fourth time already, one of Bao-bao's five "co-best buddies," as he calls his ushers, taps into the microphone and booms, "Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention?"

    The Kitchen God's wife Tan, Amy 1991

  • Also, the ratio of bridesmaids to ushers is now askew, but she will persevere.)

    Monday greenmother 2009

  • Among the ushers were a city councilman, a senator, and assorted scions.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • Among the ushers were a city councilman, a senator, and assorted scions.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • Among the ushers were a city councilman, a senator, and assorted scions.

    Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

  • They are taken to and fro to these things in the care of persons one would call ushers unhesitatingly were it not that they also pretended to teach.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • They are taken to and fro to these things in the care of persons one would call ushers unhesitatingly were it not that they also pretended to teach.

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

  • A couple of hours later, a phone call ushers him - according to Castro - into a room where the players are having their pregame meal.

    NYT > Home Page By KEYVAN ANTONIO HEYDARI 2011

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  • Consecutive letters within this word spell the 5 pronouns "us", "she", "he", "her" and "hers".

    July 15, 2010