Example Sentences

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“I’ll never forget, in his classroom, he had bearded dragons. We’d get there and he would let us feed them. I always looked forward to that class.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2021

McCormick had a doughty champion in Tribune Lawyer John Martineau who now jumped up in rebuttal to castigate the man who had bearded his boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had bearded a theatrical manager in his den and had been received with kindness and courtesy.

From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet

Nicholas preened himself as he sat there; he would tell Mary how he had bearded his Majesty, and what a diplomatist was her husband.

From The King's Achievement by Benson, Robert Hugh

Logan, the audacious lawyer from the Blue-Grass, who had bearded the McGill faction in their own courthouse, had, thoughtfully, sent Johnse Hatfield a Frankfort newspaper, as a significant token of some sort of respect.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett