I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Rahy has made a bigger impact as a sire .
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Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.
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On his sword was the rune of Khaine, a reference to the blade wielded by his mighty sire Aenarion.
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The sire is one of the country's top Thoroughbred stallions and his sire was the great Nijinsky.
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This was achieved by three potent sires.
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Torrey was also a very good sire , producing many excellent offspring.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children .
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He went on to sire a dozen children , and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.
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I am driven to seek the man who sired that dear child .
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Worse, he had sired a child by his own sister, in breach of the careful plans Amos had laid.
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Although no reference to them exists among surviving documents, it is certainly reasonable to assume that James sired children .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The stallion has sired several race winners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock.
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By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children.
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He's very old, and has sired nineteen sons on various women.
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He went on to sire a dozen children, and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.
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Impressionism begat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which sired futurism, expressionism and all manner of errant abstractions.
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In many societies the father has no special responsibility to support the specific children he sires.
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Stallions who run well on off-tracks tend to sire offspring that do the same.