shew
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- shewer noun
Example Sentences
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In 2010, shew as awarded the International Cosmos Prize, which included a cash award of nearly $500,000.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024
The silent awe, the humble, the doubting eye, and even the hesitating voice, better shew it. . . .
From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016
“I do not think the office of reporters ought to be to criticize particular passages of a paper but to shew its place,” he told Lubbock.
From Nature • Apr. 18, 2016
Shall I shew, and not rue my proceeding?
From Time Magazine Archive
He smiled with some satisfaction in the rapt attitudes of his hearers; for both of us could not have been more attentive, though I, for empty shew, flipped the pages of my Locke.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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