Warks
Britishabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Atwal and Barot, in Rugby, Warks, says it cannot take more patients as the situation "will only get worse".
From BBC
Newsnight is finding that out the hard way; one can only wonder how long the Paxmans and Warks will feel happy with an association with a programme that links somebody to paedophilia and is wrong.
From The Guardian
But ye ken, lassie, that there’s that de’il—muckle sorrow to him—a’ways pitching his tares and his bad seeds ower the wall, for them to come oop in weeds; and gif ye no keep the hoe busy at wark, and bend your prood neck and stiff back to keep tearing them oop by the roots, Auld Sootie’s rubbing those hands of his at the way in which his warks run on.
From Project Gutenberg
Far sall we fare baith eist and west, Owre ilka clime by Scots possest; Then sen our warks sall never dee, Timor mortis non turbat me.'
From Project Gutenberg
Bet' be dune zhat zhan glowrin at peckturs, an' stotchies, an' stuff'dbirdies an' beasties, forbye lezzardancrawcadil deevles—objecks o' nashistory an' artanshiensh, an' ither warks o' darkness—o'zh Shabb's.
From Project Gutenberg
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