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bore - use in sentences
Object
- pant: Elsewhere, Brad Anderson bores the pants off anyone whoâll dare to listen, while sitting in front of a plank of MDF.
- bit: I got a bit bored with not catching fish too.
- tunnel: In this desperate plight Ts`ao waited until nightfall, when he bored a tunnel into the mountain side and laid an ambush in it.
- teenager: Jodie is a teenager bored with life, her family, her school and even her friends... until she meets Silas.
Adjective modifier
- tidal: The club is named after the famous tidal bore on the River Trent.
- narrow: Only then does the 883 get a narrower bore, which extends to its cylinder head, compared to the 1200.
Modifies a noun
- shotgun: Seriously, for squirrels i nice large bore shotgun is the way forward.
- trombone: On top of the wardrobe was his father's Salvation Army model small bore trombone.
- headstock: The 5/8 " bore headstock and tailstock were both fitted with No.2 Morse taper centers, the latter with self eject.
- hole: However, the bore hole with the high reading was not deep enough to be sampling the aquifer.
- pipe: Into this concrete foundation is cast a 1m length of 20mm bore steel water pipe with a tap on the outside end.
- gun: A smaller size ( say a 20 bore ) can be inadvertently loaded into a 12 bore gun and lodge in the barrel.
Noun used with modifier
- cylinder: If the master cylinder bore is scored, the whole unit is scrap and will need to be replaced.
- pub: By rights the next 100 words should be the standard issue bitter journalist slagging off local pub rock bores.
Preposition: of
- magnet: The bore of the superconducting magnet is sufficiently large to contain an adult human body.
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