Kure
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“They get anchored to a number on a screen,” said Tony Kure, a Cleveland-based certified financial planner.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
Paralympic and two-time world champion Bonnie Bunyau Gustin of Malaysia won the gold medal, while Nigeria's Innocent Nnamdi was awarded bronze over team-mate Thomas Kure after the pair both finished level on 132.5 points.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2022
In Kure, a district in Nakatosa town, many fishermen have gone out of business in the past three decades, said Takahiro Tanaka, a fourth-generation owner of a fishmonger who calls himself a "katsuo sommelier".
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2022
But the captain, Montgomery Sicard, wanted to survey the treacherous reefs around the uninhabited Kure Atoll, then known as Ocean Island, about 60 miles west.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
Hatsue’s mother, Fujiko—the daughter of a modest family near Kure, hardworking shopkeepers and rice wholesalers—had come to America as Hisao’s picture bride on board the Korea Maru.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
