-ry
1 Americanabbreviation
suffix
Etymology
Origin of -ry
Middle English -rie < Old French; short form of -ery
Example Sentences
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Twelve years ago, bewhiskered old Leonor F. Loree wanted to merge his Kansas City Southern Ry. with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads.
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Sir Henry Thornton, potent president of Canadian National Ry. gave them a banquet in Montreal.
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An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles.
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Off to the R. R. shop at 7:30 to touch up the iron malamute which carries mail and passengers to Fairbanks . . . the Ry. stamp mills for the Willow Creek gold mines.
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S.-E. of Ry. culvert about 4-3/4 miles S.-E. of Istabulat Station, T.C.
From With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous
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