Alphabet:
[w_ˈɜː], [wˈɜː], [wˈɜː]
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Definitions of Were

  1.   To wear. See 3d Wear.
  2.   A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
  3.   The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.
  4.   The pl. of WAS, used as pa. t. of BE.
  5.   Of the verb be.
  6.   To guard; to protect.
  7.   A man.
  8.   Plural form of the past tense of the verb be.
  9.   Of to be.
  10.   The imperfect pl. of Be, and the first and third person sing, of the subjunctive mood.
  11.   Indicative plural and subjunctive singular and plural of Was, imperfect of BE, v.
  12.   A weir. See Weir.

Quotes of Were

  1. The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. – Floyd Abrams
  2. I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. – Bob Balaban
  3. We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. – Heston Blumenthal
  4. To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  5. It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes. – John Clayton
  6. With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. – Beverly Cleary
  7. But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner. – Ed Gillespie
  8. That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. – Wyclef Jean
  9. Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in. – Jack Kilby
  10. I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime -time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. – Hugh Laurie
  11. Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. – Christopher Plummer
  12. When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us. – Ben Shahn
  13. The War on Drugs employs millions- politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military- that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. – L. Neil Smith
  14. There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players. – Stephen Stills
  15. We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half -hour. – Amy Tan

Usage examples for Were

  1. “ We were just going to. ” – Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce
  2. “ Well, you were all afraid. ” – The Awkward Age by Henry James
  3. “ " We didn't go when we were little like you. ” – Brother and Sister by Josephine Lawrence
  4. “ If I were you, I would not say that. ” – Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
  5. “ They were all very sorry for her. ” – Hoodie by Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
  6. “ Is that what you were going to say?" ” – Major Vigoureux by A. T. Quiller-Couch
  7. “ For him, they were no more and could be never again. ” – Concerning Sally by William John Hopkins
  8. “ Why did you not let me know where you were ” – Parrot & Co. by Harold MacGrath
  9. “ If she were alone in the world! ” – The Nameless Castle by Maurus Jókai
  10. “ But if it were not, then what could it be? ” – Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle
  11. “ I'm glad you were not. ” – A Village of Vagabonds by F. Berkeley Smith
  12. “ The rumours were true, then? ” – The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life by Charles Klein
  13. “ Do you mean to say you did not know who they were ” – Red Men and White by Owen Wister
  14. “ She knew we were going there all the time. ” – 32 Caliber by Donald McGibeny
  15. “ But you were too kind, you know. ” – Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
  16. “ Where were you when I came in? ” – Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan
  17. “ He might have said, Were you? ” – Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
  18. “ If he were in love with the lady? ” – The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
  19. “ You said you were going to tell me something, Jack. ” – To Him That Hath A Novel Of The West Of Today by Ralph Connor
  20. “ And what were they doing there? ” – The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. Packard

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