Sample Sentences forborne (editor-reviewed)
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The scent of blooming jasmine was borne across the courtyard by the evening breeze.borne = carried
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She was reckless, and the consequences of her actions were borne by her closest friends.borne = suffered or endured
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Malaria is a debilitating disease borne by the Anopheles mosquito.borne = carried or transmitted
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The sound of the church bells was borne over the mist-covered hills by the morning wind.borne = carried
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He went on in the silence, borne on his triumph.† (source)
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She had borne ten children and nine of them had died in infancy, usually before the age of three.† (source)
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SNAPE: Sometimes costs are made to be borne.† (source)
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I couldn't of borne it to let Christmas go by.† (source)
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BEFORE BORIS, I HAD borne my solitude stoically enough, without realizing quite how alone I was.† (source)
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He had fallen into unbearably cruel worlds, and yet he had borne them.† (source)
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She'd borne him what his first two wives had failed to, a son at last.† (source)
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If only she 'd borne us a girl as she was ordered to do!† (source)
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—the bitterest insult that could be borne by a Congolese man.† (source)
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She has been in many wars, wandered in many forests, borne many children.† (source)
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This has already borne fruit in several fields.† (source)
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Two of my other sisters had borne children there.† (source)
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