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How to use harry in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Harry means to plunder, pillage, assault. Example: “Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.”

Examples of harry by meaning

verbTo harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.

  • Chelsea also struggled to keep possession as QPR harried and chased at every opportunity, giving their opponents no time on the ball.2011 October 23, Becky Ashton, “QPR 1 – 0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with harry

  • Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.From the entry rant
  • Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.From the entry missus
  • Harry didn't know why but the computer crashed out all of a sudden.From the entry crash out
  • Harry made a bungling attempt to catch the ball.From the entry bungling
  • Harry Potter has become such a febrile battleground that the pattern has already become well worn.2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social…. From the entry febrile
  • Harry Styles’ third studio album, “Harry’s House,” is on the way.2022 May 17, Mark Kennedy, “New this week: Harry Styles, ‘Angelyne’ and ‘The Valet’”, in Connecticut Post. From the entry Harrie
  • “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone. From the entry hockey
  • Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115. From the entry bong
  • Harry doubted that Snape had even heard her strictures on Mulciber and Avery.2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, UK: Bloomsbury, page 541. From the entry strictures
  • Harry is chosen to compete along with a Hogwartsian upperclassman, a French enchantress and a Bulgarian bruiser.2005 November 25, David DiCerto, “‘Goblet’ full of action, suspense”, in The Catholic News & Herald, volume 15, number 8, page 10. From the entry Hogwartsian
  • Harry would call in a chit with some desk manager who owed him a favor.2003, Linda Fairstein, The Bone Vault, Scribner, page 98. From the entry chit
  • "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here.2001, H. Beam Piper, Uller Uprising. From the entry ammo
  • Harry reached for the towel, draped it over his head, and clutched it under his chin, madonnalike.2000, Dennis McFarland, Singing Boy, Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 285. From the entry madonnalike
  • Harry Walker, a housepainter, had been a witness for the prosecution.1988 February 26, Jack Clark, “Who Killed Jay Brunkella?”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry housepainter
  • Harry Johnson who drove the Mobile bus and lived on the southern edge of town.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry bird dog
  • Harry said, "It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him.1949, Upton Sinclair, O Shepherd, Speak! Part I, reprinted, published 2001, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry make one's bed and lie in it
  • Harry Shapiro was crazy about musicians so we headed straight for his dommy.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1…. From the entry dommy
  • Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!1908, “The Seven Against Thebes”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 120. From the entry sevenfold
  • Harry Maguire's angry protests at not being awarded a corner gave those Welsh fans behind the goal immense pleasure.2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the…. From the entry and all that
  • Harry Roque said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana did not consult the President regarding the termination of the UP-DND Accord.2021 January 28, Raffy Rey Hipolto, “No consultation with the President?”, in The Philippine Daily Inquirer, retrieved 07 Sep 2025. From the entry inutile
  • Harry Guinness, was a policy and political adviser to Julie Bishop when she was foreign minister and deputy Liberal leader.2021 March 12, Mike Steketee, “The revolt of the Liberal moderates”, in Inside Story. From the entry small-l liberal
  • Harry and Meghan are easy to sympathize with.2020 January 10, Tom McTague, “The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision”, in The Atlantic. From the entry cakeist
  • Harry Kane was an absence in that first half.2018 September 15, Barney Ronay, “Finely tuned Liverpool are really getting into Jürgen Klopp’s groove”, in The Guardian. From the entry absence
  • Harries stresses the rescriptive character of many imperial decrees, responding to appeals rather than initiating law making .2013, Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors, page 11. From the entry rescriptive
  • "Harry had been about eight when three burly high school kids had followed him home, threatening to 'depants that little nerd.'"2004, Vicki Lewis Thompson, The Nerd Who Loved Me, St. Martin's Press,, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry depants
  • Harry dreamed he was back in the D.A. room.2003, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Scholastic Press, page 462. From the entry bauble
  • Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.1997, J[oanne] K[athleen] Rowling, “The Vanishing Glass”, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry cupboard
  • “Harry, if that’s what you are worried about, forget it.1994, Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde, page 291. From the entry inside baseball
  • Harry Storm, there is no such thing as a coincidence!1962, Lionel Fanthorpe and Patricia Fanthorpe writing as John E. Muller, The Return of Zeus, Gateway, published 2014. From the entry astrologeress
  • Harry Price has tested it with thermometric readings.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry thermometric
  • Harry then ponzied over on Rotarians, the slickest scheme in high finance that has ever been witnessed by the organization.1920, Rotary Club of Minneapolis, “Today's Meeting”, in The Tribunette, volume 7, number 29. From the entry Ponzi
  • Harry Slogden, which is one of the features of the Drury Lane pantomime, and promises to be a very successful number.[1919 December 31, “Pantomime Song Hits. All the Winners. [West and Co.’s Pantomime Features.]”, in The Era, volume 83, number 4,241…. From the entry plinky-plonky
  • Harry said "No.” Voted her dullish, and “cold like all blond women, with a touch, perhaps, of anæmia of the brain.”1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company…. From the entry anæmia
  • Harry Phelan, in cream marquisette with Persian borders.1910 November 17, “Mrs. D. O. Roblin’s Tea”, in The Toronto Daily Star, last edition, 19th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10…. From the entry burgundy
  • Harry and David spent most of their childhood outside, developing an intimate knowledge of the animals, waterways, and plant life of Mid Wales.2026 May, Cyrus Dunham, “Nature's Way”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 106. From the entry outside
  • Harry had seen the result of zjuk carried out by the Tapei Triad on a poor jerk they found in a back street of Tan-shui.2012 [2011], Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, Gjenferd [Phantom] (Fiction), New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99. From the entry triad
  • But as my guru harry Cohen Baba once told me, when you're faced with a dilemma, the only thing to do is make dilemmanade.1993, Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman, When you see a sacred cow-- milk it for all it's worth, →ISBN. From the entry dilemmanade
  • Harry Ufford opened his front door, and his animals, from the yard, came bursting through the cat-flap in the back door and rushed on him.1984, Randolph Stow, The Suburbs of Hell: A Novel, Taplinger, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry cat-flap
  • Harry ducked in dummy, hoping for the ace bare with Holmes but the sleuth duced as well and the defense cashed two hearts.September 4, 1980, Louis Egan Steele, “Bridge expert plays his cards right”, in Monrovia News-Post, page 49. From the entry ace bare

Meaning of harry

  1. verb To plunder, pillage, assault.
  2. verb To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
  3. verb To strip, lay waste, ravage.

Full definition of harry

Questions about harry in a sentence

How do you use harry in a sentence?
Harry is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.”
What is a short sentence with harry?
“Harry Phelan, in cream marquisette with Persian borders.”
What does harry mean?
Harry means to plunder, pillage, assault.

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