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How to use dale in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Dale means a valley, often in an otherwise hilly area. Example: “Dale Earnhardt just put the chrome horn to that lapped car in front of him.”

More sentences with dale

  • Dale Earnhardt just put the chrome horn to that lapped car in front of him.From the entry chrome horn
  • Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant.2019, Maggie Blackbird, Redeemed: The Matawapit Family Series, #1, eXtasy Books, →ISBN, page 349. From the entry milk
  • Lambley is famous for its ‘dumbles.’ A dumble being a local name for a shallow dale with a stream.1999, Paul A. Biggs, Sandra Biggs, Best Tea Shop Walks in Nottinghamshire, Sigma Leisure, page 106. From the entry dumble
  • And Bakr—all ʿIrāq’s broad plain is theirs: but if so they will, a shield comes to guard their homes from lofty Yamāmah’s dales.2015, Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee, Omar Edaibat, Robert Hoyland, and Isabel Toral-Niehoff, “Arabic and Persian…. From the entry ʿIrāq
  • Driving out here, along a linear, Springsteenian freeway, the dales and the chimneys compete for attention, each of them equally irregular and harshly beautiful.2012, Owen Hatherley, A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain. From the entry Springsteenian
  • The car did not give us a minute's trouble throughout the trip — up hill, down dale, across uncharted wastelands between super highways.1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12. From the entry up hill and down dale
  • I have a great deal of sympathy with scientific doubters, and with those who test psychicism up hill and down dale and are not satisfied.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 275. From the entry doubter
  • Theirs was the same spirit that caused our own covenanting fathers to leave their homes and wander amongst the hills and dales and caves.1902, A. Gracie, “The Outlook in Ho-nan”, in China's Millions, China Inland Mission, page 86. From the entry Ho-nan
  • Dale Thomas's move from half-forward to the centre square was one of several eye-catching positional changes on show at Collingwood's intraclub match at Gosch's Paddock yesterday.2009 January 31, Jon Ralph, “That burning desire”, in Herald Sun. From the entry intraclub
  • Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph. From the entry Internet hunt

Meaning of dale

  1. noun A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
  2. noun The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.
  3. noun A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.

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Questions about dale in a sentence

How do you use dale in a sentence?
Dale is used as a noun. For example: “Dale Earnhardt just put the chrome horn to that lapped car in front of him.”
What is a short sentence with dale?
“Dale huffed up to the counter and fired her battle-axe stare at the attendant.”
What does dale mean?
Dale means a valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

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