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How to use po in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, adjective

Po means a peacock. Example: “I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.”

Examples of po by meaning

nounA chamberpot.

  • Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude-- Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!1961, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, “P** P* B**** B** D*******”, in The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann
  • ‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 67
  • Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 44

nounThe police.

  • "Sometimes we get busted by the po, but we always find a new place to show off our rides.2008, Megan T. White, Rounding the Finish Line, Baltimore, M.D.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 209
  • "'Bout time the po' got here," someone said loud enough for Bree to hear.2009, Debra Webb, Secrets in Four Corners, Toronto, Ont. […]: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 155
  • Now, one of the rules I had—this is another reason why certain police probably respected us dudes—when it was hot, when I saw certain po, we would shut it down.2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 89

More sentences with po

  • I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.From the entry pos
  • Maybe Chi Lung see her blouse in his dream, know Rose his po po—and come back.”2019, Virginia King, The Fourth Door, page 69. From the entry po po
  • The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.2005, Gay Morris, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance, page 19. From the entry posé
  • A classical ballet syllabus has a similar structure, where steps are grouped together into sets such as posé, jeté, batterie etc.2016, Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India, page 165. From the entry posé
  • Tumor tissue pO₂ was measured using a pO₂-histograph.2007 June 28, Bernd Gagel, Marc Piroth, Michael Pinkawa, Patrick Reinartz, Michael Zimny, Hans J Kaiser, Sven Stanzel, Branka Asadpour…. From the entry histograph
  • It'll be a piece ay pish likesay . . . he sais, as he's escorted away by a po–faced labdick.1993, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Times Film School, page 68. From the entry po-faced
  • GWM, 30, good background seeks live-in cook-houseperson pos. for Sept.1977 August 20, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 18. From the entry houseperson
  • Po chou city contained four pao inside the wall and three more plus part of a fourth in its kuan.[1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry Po-chou
  • "That po gal." Jones explored a booth with the broom.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN. From the entry B-drinker
  • This vowel is similar to the Catalan sound in the words Jordi or sola and to the Galician sound in the words ola or po.2009, Eva Estebas Vilaplana, Teach yourself English pronunciation, page 18. From the entry Galician
  • Po chou in the northwest corner of Anhwei was located on a river which joined the Huai river near Feng-yang fu city.[1973, Gilbert Rozman, Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN…. From the entry Po-chou
  • Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow Post. From the entry Polandball
  • I think some new level of tollerance should be astablished based on new ideas otherwise "po zakonu prirody" they will go in one way or another.2000 January 2, Nana Bukhsianidze, “How many kids have you killed today, you bastards?”, in soc.culture.yugoslavia (Usenet), archived from…. From the entry Rossiyan
  • Instead of a croque monsieur, there’s Welsh rarebit, plus rotisserie chicken, fried-oyster po’ boys, and, as a tribute to the neighborhood’s immigrant past, German specials like wiener schnitzel with spaetzle.2003 August 25, Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, “Good Mojo...Keith McNally's Latest Gamble...Pot Luck”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New…. From the entry wiener schnitzel
  • You was a po' skimpy little boy no mo' than about fo'teen when you lef' home to come No'th; but I knowed you the minute I sot eyes on you.1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Thimble, Thimble”, in Options. From the entry skimpy

Meaning of po

  1. noun A peacock.
  2. noun A chamberpot.
  3. noun The police.

Full definition of po

Questions about po in a sentence

How do you use po in a sentence?
Po is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.”
What is a short sentence with po?
“I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.”
What does po mean?
Po means a peacock.

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