Gert
noun
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
Gert
American
[gurt]
/ gɜrt /
noun
gert
British
/ ɡɜːt /
adverb
Example Sentences
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Traces of DNA in the stomachs of predatory snails give a team led by LMU geobiologist Gert Wörheide new insights into the ecology of placozoans.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
"It is such a shame the wonderful actor Gert Frobe, who played Goldfinger, had passed away before I started my photographic career, but it will take a lot to beat this wonderful character."
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
After the family returned to New York, Ms. Kollisch and Gert Berliner separated, in 1959.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
While most people had spent the previous week worrying about storms such as Emily, Gert, Herold and Franklin, Idalia took form off the Yucatan Peninsula and suddenly lashed out.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
I watched Gert skip behind the counter to stuff the money someplace.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Excited by her efforts to the point of hardly knowing whether to laugh or cry, she told us we were 'a pack o' gert fules,' and went.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
I've often thought that gert brains, like yours, be a crool burden in such times as these.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
When ur was a little chile ur shrimped with 'n! an' when ur was a gert maiden ur walked out with 'n!
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
As for you—" addressing Mr. Watlin—"you be a gert beefy critter, but don't be too sure you could tackle me, single-handed.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
Squire be clay, a gert human bein' wise wi' the wisdom that I understands.
From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell
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