dost
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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What about when Titus’s brother retorts, sensibly: “Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023
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
Like the bystanders in the Gospel of John, I’m left asking: “How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2017
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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