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
Her companions do not miss her till they reach Zoar.
From Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century by Richard Morris
Every saloon is shet up in Loontown and folks flock to hear him from as fur off as Zoar and the town of Lyme.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
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