Zoar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Zoar
From Hebrew Ṣōʿar
Example Sentences
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Sometime in 1989, Herbert Darling got a call: A hunter told him he had come across a tall, straight American chestnut tree on Darling’s property in Western New York’s Zoar Valley.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020
At Lake Zoar, near New London, Conn., Sergeant W. E. Bushy of the state police cast bread upon the waters, literally.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sun was risen upon the Earth when Lot entered into Zoar, I read.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Lot escaped into Zoar, but his wife, who was behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
And their experience has been imitated by the German Communities at Economy, Zoar, the Society of Ebenezer, &c., &c.
From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey
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