dost
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Duke of Gloucester in "Henry VI, Part I": Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
POLONIUS: If thou dost insist upon thy wretched vision then let me invest your time; be true to thy work and speak to me through the reason of the null and alternate hypotheses.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
Why dost no man say ‘Juliet and Romeo?’
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2016
Banquo gazes at his betrayer not with zombielike menace but with quiet reproach, belying Macbeth’s subsequent claim that “thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with.”
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
“Hope art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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