shew
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- shewer noun
Example Sentences
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A pleasant “thank you” seemed meant to laugh it off, but a blush, a quivering lip, a tear in the eye, shewed that it was felt beyond a laugh.
From Literature
Much has already been said in the excellent blog by Jonathan Liew; the intolerance shewn by to Ms Osaka in respect of her health and well being beggars belief.
From The Guardian
So likewise those living creatures that are enemies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us that such poisons will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures.
From Literature
Yet tree shews do not share the same enzyme-producing mutation as humans.
From New York Times
‘Take with you paper and ynke,’ instructed a well-educated mariner in the 1850s, ‘and keepe a continual journal … that may be shewed and read at your return.”
From New York Times
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