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- noun Plural form of
sir . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sir .
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Examples
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That, sirs, is the only demonstration of a .375 I've ever seen.
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And in short, sirs, "said I," by enumerating all the other appointments of
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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“When we got there, they'd brought the shot Esquimaux and the woman and some of the white bear meat back to the sea camp — leaving bloody swaths on the ice, sirs, which is what we followed in for the last hundred yards or so — and Dr. Goodsir was trying to save the life of the old Esquimaux man.”
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Top executives called him "Rudbek," junior executives called him "Rudbek of Rudbek," and those still more junior crowded their words with "sirs" -- he could judge status by how he was addressed.
Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957
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"No, my dear sirs, that is only the first move our adversaries have made -- king's pawn two squares forward; to which I have replied with queen's pawn one square forward."
Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Maybe you'd not thank me if I showed him to you, young sirs, that is, if he be the man."
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"Maybe you'd not thank me if I showed him to you, young sirs, that is, if he be the man."
The Armourer's Prentices Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The assembled were mostly "sirs" and overwhelmingly white.
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There ain't no ranks here, no "sirs", no bloody salutes, no gentlemen.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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- Her constant "sirs" were still getting on his nerves, but he knew this was good conditioning.
Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982
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