Sample Sentences forogre (editor-reviewed)
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In the story, the ogre lived in a dark cave and captured anyone who came near.ogre = frightening giant
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He acted like an ogre, shouting at everyone and making unreasonable demands.ogre = cruel or terrifying person
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One day, an ogre attacked the village.ogre = frightening giant
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"David," Rudy said in a reassuring voice as he held my shoulders, "I know I bark at you quite a bit, and you may think I'm an ogre." (source)ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person
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ogres with monstrous teeth, and... (source)Ogres = frightening giants
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Poor Bilbo sat in the dark thinking of all the horrible names of all the giants and ogres he had ever heard told of in tales, but not one of them had done all these things. (source)ogres = frightening giants that like to eat people
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"You don't know my father," I said, like he was some big ogre, chasing boys across the yard with a shotgun. (source)ogre = an evil, hideous, and frightening person (in fairy tales: a frightening giant -- especially one who likes to eat people)
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Ella, it's not safe here with the ogres. (source)ogres = frightening giants that like to eat people
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Ogreish gloom encompassed me in recapitulation of the agony of the night before.† (source)standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" means having the characteristics of. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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As in the stories of the cannibal ogresses, the fearfulness of this loss of personal individuation can be the whole burden of the transcendental experience for unqualified souls.† (source)
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We think we saw an ogre, honestly, they get all sorts at the Three Broomsticks —† (source)
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Not all of ourwarders were ogres.† (source)
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Above all, the ogreish mother who, Barnard enlightenment or no, has dominated Les's life with bitchery and vengeance ever since the moment when she caught Leslie, then three, diddling herself and forced her to wear hand-splints for months as prophylaxis against self-abuse.† (source)
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He looked out of place among humans, like an ogre in a storybook.† (source)
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I do not believe in ogres, nor soothsayers, nor in the supernatural things.† (source)
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We see that Danglars was collected enough to jest; at the same time, as though to disprove the ogreish propensities, the man took some black bread, cheese, and onions from his wallet, which he began devouring voraciously.† (source)
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