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
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
Hamlet: Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2013
Why art thou sad, my soul, and why dost thou disquiet me, chanted the priest in his deep rich voice.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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