OGRE in a Sentence

Learn OGRE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre.

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 Meanings and Examples of OGRE
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ogre
 n.  (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
 n.  a cruel wicked and inhuman person
Classic Sentence:
1  So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
2  Their hearts sank as they heard me, for they remembered how they had been treated by the Laestrygonian Antiphates, and by the savage ogre Polyphemus.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
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