Benton

[ ben-tn ]

/ ˈbɛn tn /

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noun

Thomas Hart "Old Bullion", 1782–1858, U.S. political leader.

his grandnephew, Thomas Hart, 1889–1975, U.S. painter and lithographer.

a city in central Arkansas.

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How to use Benton in a sentence

Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
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It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
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Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
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He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.
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This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.
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Lady Maude advanced; she had really come in by accident; her head was bent, her eyelashes rested on her flushed cheeks.
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Then she bent her glance to the writing, and studied it a moment, what time the man from Paris watched her closely.
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She opened a large black fan and moved it slowly while looking intently at her son's bent profile.
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British Dictionary definitions for Benton

Benton

/ (ˈbɛntən) /

noun

Thomas Hart . 1889–1975, US painter of rural life; a leader of the American Regionalist painters in the 1930s

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with Benton

bent on

Also, bent upon. Determined, resolved, as in Jamie is bent on winning the math prize. This phrase, first recorded in 1762, always uses the past participle of the verb bend in the sense of “tend toward.”