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Example sentences for "bouts"

Lexicographically close words:
bout; boute; bouteille; boutique; boutonniere; bouwery; bovate; bovates; bove; bovine
  1. Strange whirling days were those that followed, what of my audiences with the Emperor, my drinking bouts with Taiwun, my conferences with Yunsan, and my hours with the Lady Om.

  2. The rules for officials and rounds are identical with the British, except that only in final bouts does the last round last four minutes.

  3. During the annual boxing competitions between Oxford and Cambridge more than half the bouts have been known to end in this manner.

  4. These old eyes of mine has seen a mighty lot of things here'bouts durin' de eighty-seven years I been 'round here.

  5. I looks at her and say, 'Nigger, how does I know whar'bouts you throw dat thing down?

  6. My theory is, sir, that during one or other of the drinking bouts they had together the pseudo George Harrington let his tongue run rather fast, and Saul Harrington was too clever for him; he nailed him at once.

  7. Nevertheless, following decades of mismanagement and statist policies, the economy in the late 1980s was plagued with huge external debts and recurring bouts of hyperinflation.

  8. A good many unfinished bouts in other sports were being rapidly worked off.

  9. All that happened now was exhibition sparring bouts between members of the club.

  10. There were preliminary bouts before the main event.

  11. He asks me to tell him again what my name is and I does so, and then he says to me: "Whar'bouts you say you hails frum?

  12. This is seldom successful, until three or four bouts have been fought out, and a clear back fall gained.

  13. Between bouts with prelates, Luther sent a few thunderbolts at Erasmus, accusing him of vacillation and cowardice.

  14. The whiskey-drinking bouts that he records at the Fenian headquarters in the office of the Fenian newspaper had no existence but in his imagination, and the brutal murder of a landlord by the Fenians is an infamous creation of his too.

  15. This ludicrous story produced such an effect, that it became a fashionable amusement to compose blank sonnets, and in 1648, a quarto volume of bouts rimés was published.

  16. Bouts Rimés are words or syllables which rhyme, arranged in a particular order, and are given to a poet with a subject, on which he must write verses ending in the same rhymes, disposed in the same order.

  17. Lively bouts of about three or four rounds were fought.

  18. He frequently had bouts of severe back pain that made working almost impossible.

  19. Alice suffered bouts of depression over thoughts like these, and had many acute illnesses like colds that hung on interminably and would not go away.

  20. The only thing dangerous about simple gallbladder problems is ignoring them (between the bouts of severe pain they can cause) because then the inflamed gallbladder can involve the liver.

  21. Many were their forms of revelry; amongst these were comissationes, or drinking bouts pure and simple.

  22. The Van Eycks led the way, and painters like Bouts and others, though Dutch by birth, became Flemish by adoption in their art at least.

  23. Bouts and Mostert have been spoken of under the Flemish school.

  24. But let us to the Eight Villages, whose fame rests upon a legend of olden drinking-bouts and of competitions between different towns and villages, to decide whose men could drink the most liquor.

  25. He consorted with the wilder young men of the town and went on drinking bouts with them.

  26. Tired of these bouts of wakefulness I got off the bed--for I was lying full-dressed even to my boots--and crept softly to the window.

  27. Of how to use it I knew nothing, unless many bouts at single-stick with Jack should be some sort of apprenticeship in swordcraft.

  28. Yet neither ever so much as nicked, flicked or scratched the other in their more than sixty bouts with two sabers apiece.

  29. It was this illogical but unescapable sensation which kept the interest of the whole audience, of the whole of every audience, at a white heat over the bouts of Murmex and Palus.

  30. Then there was a panting sigh, and a familiar voice cried: "Where'bouts are yer?

  31. It's like the preliminary bouts in Madison Square Gardens," he said to Blackie at last.

  32. He and his fellow senator, Caius Balbus, had passed the night in one of those gloomy drinking bouts to which the Emperor Domitian summoned his chosen friends at the high palace on the Palatine.

  33. I had been working for some hours, very much against the grain, with continual bouts of that mistiness of which I had complained.


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