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• Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?From the entry permission
• Nonetheless, sire, they mean no disrespect and I also trust them.2017, David Neill, Thai And The Legend Of Gallows Hill, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry kingy
• I believe she’s a good match for those ‘anisongs’ you taught me, sire.”2017 August 3, Dojyomaru, translated by Sean McCann, edited by Emily Sorensen, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, volume 3, J-Novel…. From the entry anisong
• The blood loss involved in creating a childe takes a lot out of the vampire sire.2012, Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors, page 23. From the entry childe
• Plash-Goo was of the children of the giants, whose sire was Uph.2009, Edward John Moreton Dunsany, Tales of Wonder, page 64. From the entry child
• “Alms, sire,” he croaked, his eyes wide and fearful, his face lean and hungry.2004 09, Julie D'Arcy, Silverdawn, Mundania Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry pelerine
• Both the ocelot mother and margay sire of this little “marlot” were captive bred.2003, “FCF History”, in Feline Conservation Foundation, archived from the original on 09 May 2021. From the entry marlot
• Sire, the will to dare, their weapons weak, In spirit the State uphanded to success.1902, Randolph Keim De Benneville, La Fayette, the man of two worlds. From the entry uphand
• It is rare indeed that a 'chaser - even one as good as wild risk - makes a good flat sire."2003, Avalyn Hunter, American Classic Pedigrees 1914-2002, page 458. From the entry chaser
• However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories, page 186. From the entry mammophant
• “What gives?” "You can tell him, sire,” Wanda said.1981, Isidore Haiblum, The Tsaddik of the Seven Wonders, Doubleday Books. From the entry kingy
• Some of the horses were registered under phony papers, their sires having been ruled off the track as doped or doctored.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry attainder
• The lot of hazardise, the which, with fear For dam and unmanned feebleness for sire, A cognate pair, begets its parentage.1908, John Clark, Hannibal: A Drama in Five Acts, page 34. From the entry hazardise
• The second-ranking silverback is also a possible sire in the sixth case, although three other lower-ranking blackback males were also not excluded.2005, B. J. Bradley et al., “Mountain Gorilla Tug-of-War,”, in PNAS, volume 102, number 26, page 9421. From the entry blackback
• Restrained by Council members and dependent on the pills they dole out to him, he outsmarts his keepers and sires one into vampdom.2000, Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, Maryelizabeth Hart, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watcher's Guide, volume 2, page 168. From the entry vampdom
• The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she has the same red fur but cougar-like markings.1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet. From the entry shi
• It is really, as Johnson himself saw, an elliptical expression, and was due to an overquick wit, the sire of many an Irish bull.1900, Thomas Gray, William Mason, Duncan Crookes Tovey, Norton Nicholls, The Letters of Thomas Gray, Including the Correspondence of Gray…. From the entry overquick
• My formal Spanish must have sounded as pretentious to the ears of the paisano as “Whither goeth my sire?” would have sounded to a semi-literate Ozark mountaineer.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 30, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, published 2002, page 228. From the entry mountaineer
• “Welcome, sire!” Vespasian saluted, and after the briefest hesitation Plinius followed his legate’s example, swallowing his distaste for such deference to a mere native, albeit a king of his people.2002, Simon Scarrow, chapter 6, in When the Eagle Hunts (Eagles of the Empire; 3), London: Headline, →ISBN, pages 43–44. From the entry Plinius
• I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.1902, Frank Sherman Peer, Cross country with horse and hound. From the entry underbred

Meaning of sire

1. noun A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
2. noun A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and in biological research).
3. noun A father; the head of a family; the husband.

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How do you use sire in a sentence?

Sire is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?”

What is a short sentence with sire?

““She is my sire.”

What does sire mean?

Sire means a lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.