Shari

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

noun

Also Chari. a river in N central Africa, flowing NW from the Central African Republic into Lake Chad. 1400 miles (2254 km) long.

a female given name.

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Contemporary Examples of shari

Shari had committed suicide three years earlier, while she was dating Merchant.
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E. Jean Carroll
April 19, 2014
Neither can Shari Arison's group use Bank HaPoalim to cover her losses.
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Bernard Avishai
January 31, 2013
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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Nicole LaPorte, Kate Aurthur
August 16, 2011
And the author of the letter was Shary Nassimi, not Shari Nassimi.
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Nicole LaPorte
July 18, 2010

Historical Examples of shari

I did the only thing I could think of, and dialed Shari at her laboratory.
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"I can think of ten poisons that would give you the symptoms," Shari said.
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Shari and I rode the elevator to seventy-seven in chilly silence.
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Shari's lips moved, but her mouth was as empty of sound as her face was of blood.
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I looked my surprise at him, and Shari quieted down just a little.
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British Dictionary definitions for shari

Shari

noun

a variant spelling of Chari

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