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How to use pa in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Pa means father, papa. Example: “My ma was born in the forties and my pa was born in the seventies.”

Examples of pa by meaning

nounA fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.

  • A pa or Māori defence fortification appears at a height on the hill above the bay.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 68

More sentences with pa

  • My ma was born in the forties and my pa was born in the seventies.From the entry forties
  • Pa went to town to buy a new plough.From the entry go to town
  • Pa strings the lights while Janet takes the ornaments one by one from the cardboard egg-crates.2014, Kent Otto Stever, Kinder, Gentler Ways: Reflections of a River Town Boy, →ISBN. From the entry egg-crate
  • Why, I won' be keepin' you from doin' what yore pa done said.2012, James E. Ferrell, Cross-Pull, CrossBooks (softcover) (harcover), chapter 23, 347. From the entry youself
  • When my pa was a boy, he used to go help Grampa lay off his mile."2007, Margaret Maron, Winter's Child, →ISBN. From the entry road captain
  • Pa had a knack for growing and he spent many hours pampering his crops.2004, Dave Stevens, My Western Roots, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry Texas tea
  • Pa and the two children washed and polished all the windows, and Henry scrubbed B.1988, Mary Steele, Mallyroot's Pub at Misery Ponds, Ringwood: Puffin Books, page 71. From the entry sandsoap
  • "Yore pa don't hold to card playin' but you needs to have quiet and rest.1979, Marguerite Noble, Filaree: A Novel of an American Life, published 1985, page 109. From the entry peart
  • 'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him.1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in…. From the entry ride
  • “That’s a really sweet boyfie,” sabi pa nito.2022, Rose Tan, Arvy Nicole’s First Love Survival Guide, Precious Pages Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry boyfie
  • Pa had bought the staircase that used to stand in the entrance hall of a Randlord mansion in Johannesburg.2013, Dominique Botha, False River. From the entry Randlord
  • The only silver coin of this empire reported so far is a Tara of the time of Pratāpa devaraya.1979, The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, volume 41, page 70. From the entry tara
  • Pa startled me with his sudden stern tone.1966, Marguerite Henry, Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West. From the entry smitch
  • Everything I've tried since pa died has gone flooey.1935, John Milton Oskison, Brothers three. From the entry flooey
  • The Dromi Tsang House (kro me chong) is located in the region of Dabpa (,dab pa), in the village of Sumdu (gsum 'du, chin.2017, Peter Herrle, “Dromi Tsang House in Dabpa”, in Tibetan Houses: Vernacular Architecture of the Himalayas and Environs, →ISBN, →OCLC…. From the entry Jinzhu
  • My grand pa was the carpenter on his ship, but had a few years before swallowed the anchor and stepped on land to repair boats.2008, Scott Telek, The Ghost Ship, page 184. From the entry swallow the anchor
  • Pañcika's iconography depicts him with a pot-belly, holding a skin purse (probably full of gold coins or jewels) and an offering bowl.2007, Material Matters, →ISBN. From the entry pot-belly

Meaning of pa

  1. noun Father, papa.
  2. noun Grandpa, grandfather.
  3. noun A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.

Full definition of pa

Questions about pa in a sentence

How do you use pa in a sentence?
Pa is used as a noun. For example: “My ma was born in the forties and my pa was born in the seventies.”
What is a short sentence with pa?
“Pa startled me with his sudden stern tone.”
What does pa mean?
Pa means father, papa.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pa (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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