sente
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of sente
First recorded in 1975–80; from Sesotho, from English cent ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Perto da base da cadeia alimentar encontra-se da Silva, a vendedora de Fortaleza, que se sente otimista quanto ao futuro, apesar de seus crescentes problemas de saúde.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2017
Karate ni sente nashi: there is no first attack in karate.
From New York Times • May 13, 2010
The acttes are to bee described, farre passed, by the pre- sente state thereof, and also by the tyme to come.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard
Whan he vnderstode that she so dyd, he meruailed greatly at her vndeserued beniuolence: wherfore he sente for her, and asked, why and howe he had deserued, that she prayde for hym?
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew
Hirdnesse ⁊ iacob to sen hem. sente ioseph to dalen ebron.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
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