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
You may feel as John Keats did when contemplating an ancient urn: “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought/As doth eternity.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2015
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
“Bartleby says that thou dost have a face like unto a squished plum,” he would tell her.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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