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• He always makes much of the fact that he is related to an earl.From the entry make much
• But it wasn’t only the madness of paranoid earls and fashionable landowners that was encoded in them.2018 April 18, Paul Cooper, “Europe Was Once Obsessed With Fake Dilapidated Buildings”, in The Atlantic. From the entry folly
• Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place.2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door. From the entry Brideshead
• Earl, who has lobstered, scalloped, groundfished and run tugs most of his life, is half joking.2004 January 1, Bob Bernstein, “Pumping out the heat”, in National Fisherman. From the entry groundfish
• That was ten years ago, and the earl—dead or alive—has lain doggo ever since.1984 December 17, Craig Brown, “Lucan Everywhere”, in New York, volume 17, number 50, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry lie doggo
• Earl Warren can fairly be identified with those tendencies of the Warren Commission.1982, G. Edward White, Earl Warren: A Public Life, →ISBN, page 212. From the entry singlemindedness
• With tear-stained eyes, he watched his king still struggling like an earl with the worm.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 45. From the entry tearstained
• At dinner the other evening I made a really truly growly belted earl squirm.1927 November 9, Punch, or The London Charivari, London: […] [T]he Office, […], page 512, columns 2–3. From the entry honey
• "You're an embarrassment to your wolfly ancestors," muttered the earl, though the corners of his mouth twitched up-ward.2021, Andrea Penrose, Murder at Queen's Landing. From the entry wolfly
• Earl Young was the in-house drummer at Philadelphia Records.2019, Alon Shulman, The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry stickman
• Earl Sweatshirt packs so much into his verses that listening to one can feel like trying to crack a cipher.2018 November 8, Sheldon Pearce, “Earl Sweatshirt “Nowhere2go” Track Review”, in Pitchfork, archived from the original on 27 Oct 2022. From the entry cryptex
• Earl had some very basic training in the finer art of “non-speak.” which was the RCP language of choice.2010, Lou Morissette, Rolicking City Police: Blue Deceit. From the entry nonspeak
• Earl de Sadist’s pioneering efforts didn’t stop there.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Toys for kinky girls and boys—It’s not just whips and chains anymore.” (chapter 3), in Weather Balloons Make…. From the entry painstaking
• Earl for a boy, Earline for a girl." I don't know why I said okay, but I did.2001, George Singleton, These People Are Us: Short Stories, River CityPress, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry Earline
• In another case an etheromaniac earl committed extravagances which, from a moral point of view, classified him among mental deficients.1998, Louis Lewin, Phantastica: a classic survey on the use and abuse of mind-altering plants, Inner Traditions / Bear & Company, page 169. From the entry etheromaniac
• Earl discovered a broken pane, an “escape exit,”, and they covered it with a splitting piece of Masonite.1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 385. From the entry masonite
• Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 21. From the entry slaughter
• The sword of Ing betrayed its earl.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 44. From the entry well-smithied
• Earl laughed after the others, unheartily but genially.1959, Lenore Marshall, The hill is level, page 136. From the entry unheartily
• Earl Fry bought a bushel basket of peaches for $3.60.1919 September 26, ““Chumps” Are the Consumer and Producer”, in The Labor Journal, volume XXVIII, number 22, Everett, Wash., page one…. From the entry investigatress
• An earl in the English peerage is of the same rank as a count in some of the continental countries.1900, Linn Boyd Porter, A Sugar Princess, page 240. From the entry earless
• Any Bridgertonian will be familiar with their fair share of dukes, but the class was also occupied by marquises, earls, viscounts, barons and their families.2023, Catherine Curzon, Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society, unnumbered page. From the entry Bridgertonian
• After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Crown of Dalemark, page 116. From the entry marrying
• Earl is always a good time.1985 April 20, Joseph Beam, “Black Men Loving Black Men: The Revolutionary Act of the Eighties”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry sip
• Earl Tupper, whose name became a household word because of the plastic containerware he marketed so successfully, died today in Costa Rica.1985, David Keith Cohler, Broadcast Journalism: A Guide for the Presentation of Radio and Television News, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.…. From the entry containerware
• Earl Shaw, Jr. take us back to the early years, and then, using modern survey tools and analysis, tell us why nonpartisanism was to be abandoned.1984, Perspectives on Minnesota Government and Politics, page 147. From the entry nonpartisanism
• Sometime during the ninth century B.C., in a small Chinese state called San—situated near modern-day Pao-chi in western Shensi Province—an earl commissioned a set of ritual vessels.1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, New York…. From the entry Pao-chi
• Many foretell Michael's tide far and wide five nights on past the equinox when earls and ceorls keep harvest time with the high angel's feast remembered together throughout the land.2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England and the influence of Ramsey Abbey on the major English monastic…. From the entry high angel

Meaning of earl

1. noun A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.
2. noun Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.

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Questions about earl in a sentence

How do you use earl in a sentence?

Earl is used as a noun. For example: “He always makes much of the fact that he is related to an earl.”

What is a short sentence with earl?

“Earl is always a good time.”

What does earl mean?

Earl means a British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.