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Example sentences for "ould"

Lexicographically close words:
ougly; oui; ouija; ouir; ouk; oulde; oule; oultre; ounce; ounces
  1. Ely Ould Mohamed VALL, which declared it would remain in power for up to two years while it created conditions for genuine democratic institutions.

  2. Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed TAYA siezed power in a coup in 1984.

  3. If us was to go for to take the lamb, they 'ould pine.

  4. To be seen with a square of green silk round mee ould noddle!

  5. Let my ould collough be; she was my nurse, and won't trouble any one for long.

  6. If I could kill my man,' he said, 'that would be doing good service to ould Ireland.

  7. When Ould Ireland's fought her fight and conquered, we'll find he's died game in the streets somewhere.

  8. It was worn by justices in ould days, and had the wondrous property of contracting or relaxing according to his just or unjust conduct.

  9. There is no one in the house but myself, Norah, and the collough, my ould nurse.

  10. Biddy gave a yelp and wanted to run to the Little House, but the blagyards gagged her mouth with an ould rag, and tuk her away screeching.

  11. That his honour had gladdened their hearts by seeing the property into the ould family again--as ould a one as any in ould Ireland.

  12. Whisht now, or Oi'll be making an ould fool of mysilf.

  13. What my ould eyes would give for a sight of it!

  14. But long o' her his veins 'ould run All crinkly like curled maple, The side she breshed felt full o' sun Ez a south slope in Ap'il.

  15. Sure an' ye wouldn't bring disgrace to yer ould mither and yer family!

  16. I've got a notion this very minute that I know where I might find my bear; and after nightfall I'll bait the ground wid some ould combs av wild honey.

  17. By the same token," observed Tolly Tip, "till me av one of the tramps had on an ould blue army coat wid rid linin' to the same?

  18. In fact, the very last time I glimpsed the ould varmint we've been spakin' about 'twas at the bee tree I'd chopped down.

  19. I wint home to sacure some pails, and whin I got back to the spot there the ould beast was a lickin' up the stuff in big gobs.

  20. Is it the ould storekeeper in Stanhope ye mane?

  21. If ould Mary Flynn could be always "bout the same,' the clods o' the valley would never cover her bones.

  22. For what's a man in ould Ireland that has a head for annything but puttaties!

  23. Can't ye speak to y're ould fool of a cook, sir?

  24. Sure, of coorse, they can't be up to his thricks, an' he an ould sojer!

  25. The sun don't know how to obsarve a madium at all in this counthry, as our poor ould Irish sun does.

  26. To think o' Miss Linda, that's one of the ould auncient Wynns of Dunore since Adam was a boy!

  27. Here, Pat, come down an' see yer cousin just arrived from the ould counthry!

  28. The beautiful ould counthry, as has the greenest grass that ever grew, an' the clearest water that ever ran, an' the purtiest girls in the wide world!

  29. Wisha, good luck to the poor ould counthry, where all our animals is dacent and respectable, since St. Patrick gev the huntin' to all the varmint.

  30. It's I that wud sooner see the plentiful hearths of ould Ireland, where the turf fire cooks the vittles dacently!

  31. Joost mind what ould England's about, A sendin' her throops into Canaday; And all her ould ships on the coast Are ripe for some treachery any day.

  32. Whin the noise died away a bit, my ould friend Snow, he of the boardin' house, arose and made a motion.

  33. Often and often I've tould the ould man that same.

  34. Virginia office, and whin just opposite the Curry works, he met ould mother McGarrigle, who lives down by the freight depot.

  35. And she said 'to say you had niver kissed a woman since you had lift your ould mother.

  36. He couldn't lave the ould places--the ould places.

  37. And the son of ould Chevydale must have something good about him.

  38. Well then I want to go out till I look--take one look at the ould places; for somehow I think my heart was never so much in them as now.

  39. Polite language for a rascally sotherer of ould skillets and other anonymous utensils.

  40. No, dey won't; I wouldn't tink to begin at all wid dat ould skillet.

  41. An' then to live in a country where I'd not see these ould hills, the green glens, and mountain rivers about us, that have all grown into my heart.

  42. As far as I remimber, I began with murphies, when I was two feet high, in my father's cabin in ould Ireland.

  43. Och, but if I wance had my pistol and the ould cutlass.

  44. As Raleigh's friend and agent White's name deserves honorable mention in the history of 'Ould Virginia.

  45. To these two earnest and true men we owe, as has been said, nearly all we know of 'Ould Virginia.

  46. Th' ould foulks ha' had their turn: they mun make way for the young uns.

  47. Twas ould Commodore Trounce as the remains belonged to, an' 'tes a queer yarn, ef you niver heerd et afore.

  48. By which, in the end, was ould Venice preserved.

  49. That might delay us, be the powers, so we wouldn't be able to pull into the ould Soo short of tomorry, bad cess till hasty George!

  50. The ould Wireless is safe beyant the p'int!

  51. Sure th'ould one might ha' plinty more hidden away on us.

  52. And what d'you call that for an ould flitterjig?

  53. But niver a tell she'll tell onless she happens to take the notion in the quare ould head of her.

  54. Ay, bedad, and a very dacint ould crathur he was.

  55. For he hasn't been worth pickin' up off the road ever since he was bad with the fever last year, and he might as well be dhrinkin' so much ditch-wather as the ould stuff Dr.

  56. Pasthorini says that there will soon be a change, an' 'tis a good skame it 'ill be to have him a sogarth when the fat living will be walkin' back to their ould owners.

  57. Lave the ould villain to God, who he can't chate, any way.

  58. If these ould eyes could see that, I would be continted to close them in pace an' happiness for ever.

  59. Bring me the ould knife, till I make a fair divide of it among ye.

  60. Myself laughed till I was sick for two days afther it--the ould thief!

  61. To the divil wid skamin' upstarts, that hasn't the ould blood 'in thim!

  62. Sure we're to go back to our own ould farm!

  63. Twas in Ould Calabar, where most of the dry land is swamp, and the rest mud, and the rule is, drink and die.

  64. Now, my dear bhoy, we will hear Ould Blazes' remarks in ten minutes.

  65. As before, he made a circle, and touched the flag, when my gentleman, the greyhound, appeared in the ould place.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ould" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.