How to use cur in a sentence
11 example sentences · noun
Cur means a contemptible or inferior dog. Example: “"You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur.”
Examples of cur by meaning
nounA contemptible or inferior dog.
- "You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 25”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
nounA detestable person.
- "Who 's a cur - now - hey?"1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page vi. 54
- What manner of cur are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe dead!1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 201
More sentences with cur
- If one interprets the cursūs at Stonehenge (and elsewhere in England) within Indo-European heritage (see e.g.2000, Raimo Anttila, Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *aǵ- (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 200)…. From the entry cursūs
- He will probably be next to a street cur that has parvo or rabies or distemper.1995, Mike Harlowe, K-9 Bodyguards: Ill. From the entry parvo
- That was funny, because I know that peckawood didn't know what a cur was.1980, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Fraser, Dizzy: To Be or Not to Bop, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry peckawood
- A skulk of foxes, a cowardice of curs are tonight’s traffic whispering in the yards and lanes.1973, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN. From the entry skulk
- Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, page 112. From the entry absconder
- Let's say that a stock you're interested in, Bright Light, is cur- rently trading at $20 a share.2003 September 22, Michael Sincere, Understanding Stocks, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry let's say
- Related perhaps to avenues and even the earlier cursūs, stone rows simply involve more or less regular lines of upright stones.1996, Timothy Darvill, Prehistoric Britain from the Air: A Study of Space, Time and Society, Cambridge, Cambs.: Cambridge University…. From the entry cursūs
- Lady Lewis sits crying in her room over the dog, & occasionally takes it out for strolls in the garden where it yelps like any other cur.1967 [1862], J. A. Symonds, “226. To Charlotte Symonds”, in H. M. Schueller, R. L. Peters, editors, The Letters of John Addington Symonds…. From the entry dogdoctor
Meaning of cur
- noun A contemptible or inferior dog.
- noun A detestable person.
- noun A sheepdog or watchdog.
Questions about cur in a sentence
- How do you use cur in a sentence?
- Cur is used as a noun. For example: “"You have no more spirit than a mongrel cur.”
- What is a short sentence with cur?
- “"Who 's a cur - now - hey?"”
- What does cur mean?
- Cur means a contemptible or inferior dog.
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