Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
robes
IPA transcription: [ɹ'oʊbz]
Usage examples
Instead of blankets, many of the travellers bought the cheaper buffalo robes.
And when he got there he hung up the robes on the wall, and lay down to sleep.
He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
So he bestowed on them robes of honor and entreated them with distinction, and they made him Sultan over them.
Wait till in everlasting robes This democrat is dressed, Then prate about "preferment" And "station" and the rest!
Into each of these he entered, took the maidens' robes, went out again, turned the palaces back into eggs, and went home.
And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him, and one of them very beautiful, decked in royal robes.
When they have thus visited all the houses, they strip the Rain King of his leafy robes and feast upon what they have gathered.
And I will deck thee with all the robes of the sea, and all the plunder that I have taken in rare cities shall be piled before thy feet.
Others again, stripped of their beautiful robes, were exiled far from their parishes, threatened, grossly insulted, ducked in horse-ponds.