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How to use hale in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Hale means sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired. Example: “This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots.”

Examples of hale by meaning

verbTo drag or pull, especially forcibly.

  • As well hale a man to court for violation of an unenacted law.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 117
  • They will hale the King to Paris, and have him under their eye.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 262

More sentences with hale

  • This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots.From the entry hale and hearty
  • Hale saved half the steak to be warmed over for breakfast.2004, Steve Frazee, Eric Frazee, Tower of Rocks: A Western Duo, Waterville, M.E.: Five Star, →ISBN, page 159. From the entry warm over
  • Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.1999 April 4, Joan Ryan, “Men, Women, Apples and Oranges”, in The San Francisco Chronicle. From the entry femaleist
  • Hale immediately distanced themselves from fangirlish behaviors.2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry fangirlish
  • Three of the four are hale and hearty today, and it is doubtful they have forgotten a single detail of that event.1997, Arthur March, Franconia and Sugar Hill, page n.a.. From the entry hale and hearty
  • As for his own relative hale and heartiness, he attributed it to drinking a bottle of beer per night; ‘all the beer drinkers seem to be keeping pretty fit’.2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. From the entry hale and heartiness
  • Now, at almost 90, he is hale and hearty, full of recollections, and retains a keen interest in life—a truly remarkable character and a great gentleman of the footplate.1959 April, L. H. Leedham, “A Veteran of the M.S.L.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279. From the entry recollection
  • Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God’s angel to Mary quoth.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry thole
  • Hale smiled inwardly, for he thought he could already see the lay of the land, and he wondered that, at such an age, such fierceness could be.1908, John Fox Jr., chapter 4, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. From the entry lay of the land

Meaning of hale

  1. adjective Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
  2. noun Health, welfare.
  3. verb To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

Full definition of hale

Questions about hale in a sentence

How do you use hale in a sentence?
Hale is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “This is a hale and hearty dish, filled with beef, potatoes and carrots.”
What is a short sentence with hale?
“Hale immediately distanced themselves from fangirlish behaviors.”
What does hale mean?
Hale means sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

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