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  • verb Present participle of sire.

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Examples

  • The article, "McCain and Rove form a tentative alliance," at click here states "McCain's relationship with the Bush camp has been fraught since the 2000 primaries in South Carolina, when McCain was falsely accused of leaving POWs behind in Vietnam and of 'siring' an illegitimate black child -- actually his adopted Bangladeshi daughter, Bridget -- and his wife, Cindy, was accused of having a drug problem."

    Holier than thou! 2008

  • Sentinels had been on earth twenty-six thousand years, since the last battle against the darkness, and because they fell victim to the temptations of the planet, namely lying with human females and siring children, they were now banished from ever returning home.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • And the misguided emphasis on their moral instruction by special tutoring and targeted efforts at job training and paid internships is only exacerbated by approaches at "mentoring" them in life skills -- that is, casting a long shadow on and blaming black and Latino men singularly for siring children out of wedlock.

    Michael Meyers: Mayor Bloomberg's Discriminatory Young Black and Latino Men's Initiative Michael Meyers 2011

  • And the misguided emphasis on their moral instruction by special tutoring and targeted efforts at job training and paid internships is only exacerbated by approaches at "mentoring" them in life skills -- that is, casting a long shadow on and blaming black and Latino men singularly for siring children out of wedlock.

    Michael Meyers: Mayor Bloomberg's Discriminatory Young Black and Latino Men's Initiative Michael Meyers 2011

  • Bears were thought of as emblems of lust, abnormally potent, capable of raping women and siring a cross-bred race of heroes.

    The History of a Fallen King Jonathan Sumption 2011

  • Sentinels had been on earth twenty-six thousand years, since the last battle against the darkness, and because they fell victim to the temptations of the planet, namely lying with human females and siring children, they were now banished from ever returning home.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • During those first few weeks of married life together Philip must have devoted himself wholeheartedly to siring a son with Olympias.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • During those first few weeks of married life together Philip must have devoted himself wholeheartedly to siring a son with Olympias.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Think about it this way: pretend for a moment that you are a beer-bellied, slope-faced, slack-jawed, thick-necked, trailer-park-dwelling hominid from the jungles of Appalachia, with a high-school equivalency degree and career skills chiefly in plumbing and siring children.

    Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010

  • During those first few weeks of married life together Philip must have devoted himself wholeheartedly to siring a son with Olympias.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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