Harley

[ hahr-lee ]

noun

1. Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford, 1661–1724, British statesman.

Harley

/ ˈhɑːlɪ /

noun

1. HarleyRobert, 1st Earl of Oxford16611724MBritishPOLITICS: statesman Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford. 1661–1724, British statesman; head of the government (1710–14), negotiated the treaty of Utrecht (1713)

Example Sentences

Asked what they knew about Republican Joni Ernst, one woman volunteered, “She rides a Harley.”

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I met him because his daughter, Lily, and my daughter, Harley, are friends.

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Still, Harley was always the first guy in the room to crack a joke and make us laugh.

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Harley, 14, longed for the comfort of his imprisoned mother and struggled to control his anger and to stay out of jail himself.

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Regular customers throughout the city know to wave at Sandra when she goes rumbling past on her Harley-Davidson.

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Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, died; an English statesman and literary character.

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The ministers at length flattered themselves that Harley's resolution might be rescinded.

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Harley was unwilling to give more than three hundred thousand pounds.

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The general sense of the House was that Harley offered too little, and that Montague demanded too much.

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Meanwhile, both the disciples of Somers and the disciples of Trenchard were grumbling at Harley's resolution.

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