How do you use Sore in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like painful or angry, plus the exact meaning.
Sore in a sentence
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Sore meaning
- Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
- Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
- Dire; distressing.
Using Sore
- The main meaning on this page is: Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive. | Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. | Dire; distressing.
- Useful related words include: painful, angry, mad, huffy.
- In the example corpus, sore often appears in combinations such as: sore throat, with sore, and sore.
Context around Sore
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sore
- In this selection, "sore" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, skin, big, little, throat, thumb and feet stand out and add context to how "sore" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little sore so he and a sore point here. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sore" sits close to words such as allege, blades and depths, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sore
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There was a lot of sore feet and sore hands. (10 words)
Bit of a sore head after your big night out? (10 words)
Everything hurts, everything's sore, and you’re mentally exhausted. (10 words)
At the intersection of Constitution Avenue NW and 12th Street NW, where the IRS building stands, I spotted a woman who stuck out like a sore thumb, dressed in Barbie pink over her jeans. (34 words)
Following a number of procedures for liposuction, a tummy tuck, and a breast reduction, the following day she experienced a sore throat, pain and tightening in her chest, before collapsing. (30 words)
But a concerned citizen and rights activist, James Ibor Esq, was driving by on Saturday morning and sighted the big sore on the woman’s breast from his car. (29 words)
And since there wasn’t too much going on in Talkeetna in April of 2003, I stood out like a sore thumb, you know? (24 words)
Bit of a sore head after your big night out? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
There was a lot of sore feet and sore hands.
Symptoms include a painful red lump or bump on the skin, hot, red or swollen skin, sore, crusts, blistering and red or sore eyelids.
According to the CDC, at week nineteen, only 1.9% of patient visits were related to respiratory illnesses, including fever, cough, and sore throat.
All you get from begging on bended knee is sore knees.
Although it’s a new year, the city is reopening an old wound — a sore lack of housing and new residential properties in the city’s core neighbourhood.
And Liam Hendriks, but Hendriks has pitched in five games after battling cancer and is on the injured list with a sore elbow.
And since there wasn’t too much going on in Talkeetna in April of 2003, I stood out like a sore thumb, you know?
Another year is closing, and with it comes some renewed optimism for a fresh start and some relief that we are leaving some sore spots behind.
A sore point here were efforts by the Soviets to insist that countries such as Australia be banned from pursuing their own nuclear program.
At the intersection of Constitution Avenue NW and 12th Street NW, where the IRS building stands, I spotted a woman who stuck out like a sore thumb, dressed in Barbie pink over her jeans.
Bit of a sore head after your big night out?
Burns added Schmitz’s personal trainer administered “to his sore puppies,” after which the pitcher shot a 72 on the nearby golf course.
But a concerned citizen and rights activist, James Ibor Esq, was driving by on Saturday morning and sighted the big sore on the woman’s breast from his car.
Chloe-Leigh Todd, 22, from Gateshead, sought advice in March 2020 after having been ill for a month with a sore throat.
Especially after a long night out, their mild udon makes for the perfect headache or sore throat cure.
Even Grizzy is a little sore, so he didn’t partake in the scrimmage part of it.
Everything hurts, everything's sore, and you’re mentally exhausted.
Following a number of procedures for liposuction, a tummy tuck, and a breast reduction, the following day she experienced a sore throat, pain and tightening in her chest, before collapsing.
Get a professional to test for mold to avoid health problems like stuffy nose, sore throat, coughing, wheezing, and burning eyes.
Harvey was asked by : "Another sore spot: Morgan Wallen, one of the most commercially successful and controversial artists in the past year, was shut out again.
Common combinations with sore
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sore throat 39×
- with sore 16×
- and sore 13×
- sore spot 13×
- like sore 7×
- sore thumb 7×
- to sore 7×
- sore and 7×
- sore right 7×
- or sore 6×