Earl Grey

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noun

a variety of China tea flavoured with oil of bergamot

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Words nearby Earl Grey

earl, earlap, earldom, earless lizard, earless seal, Earl Grey, Earlier Han, Earl Marshal, earlobe, earlock, earl palatine

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How to use Earl Grey in a sentence

Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.
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Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”
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This is admittedly a loaded question, but do you feel James Earl Ray really killed Martin Luther King Jr.?
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The earl was killed in battle and Marshal captured, but he would later be ransomed by the queen herself.
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William appears to have organized acquiescence by English lords for John, and was duly awarded when he was made Earl of Pembroke.
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The old earl's property, the source of his wealth, as from his title the reader will have shrewdly guessed, was in collieries.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
He saw with evident pleasure the outward and visible signs of the old earl's immense wealth.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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