Shari

[ shahr-ee for 1; shar-ee for 2 ]

/ ˈʃɑr i for 1; ˈʃær i for 2 /

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noun

French Cha·ri

[sha-ree] /ʃaˈri/ . a river in northern central Africa, flowing northwest from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1,400 miles (2,254 km) long.

a female given name.

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How to use Shari in a sentence

Shari had committed suicide three years earlier, while she was dating Merchant.
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Neither can Shari Arison's group use Bank HaPoalim to cover her losses.
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“Ansur al-Shari is not Al Qaeda,” said one of the Libyan sources.
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Shari Levine, Bravo's senior vice president of production, dismisses the idea that Housewives is a recipe for a broken marriage.
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And the author of the letter was Shary Nassimi, not Shari Nassimi.
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The lake has no outlet, but receives several rivers, of which the Waube and the Shari are the most notable.
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But Shari was something rare—a gorgeous woman, if somewhat distant, who was thoroughly intelligent.
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"As a statistician, you'll make a great biochemist," Shari said, putting the deck away.
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Shari must have had a swell time at dinner with some guy who didn't gamble, because she didn't come home until nearly midnight.
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For a moment the grin flickered off his face and I tensed to catch Shari if she should start to drop.
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British Dictionary definitions for Shari

Shari

/ (ˈʃɑːrɪ) /

noun

a variant spelling of Chari

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