Sentence examples for burr from inspiring English sources

He is confident rather than arrogant, blunt, and an excitable talker, tumbling over words in his North Yorkshire burr.

A burr?

But "Somerset people are not warlike," he said once, his soft voice still carrying the burr of the place.

Fellow Republicans have called him a "burr under the saddle of the party"; Dennis Hastert, the House Speaker, publicly predicted that Mr Coburn would lose his Senate race.But Mr Coburn is no longer quite so isolated.

Simon Russell Beale (pictured above) is a chillingly hilarious Stalin; substituting a West Country burr for the original Georgian accent, he is cunning and charming, manipulative, menacing and intellectually insecure.

In a government in which every other minister seems to speak with a thick Scottish burr, Mr Johnson's authentic "sarf" London accent is refreshing.

Most Americans also know that Alexander Hamilton's political enemy, Aaron Burr, mortally wounded him in a strange duel fought on the banks of the Hudson river.

He lost his life in a duel with Aaron Burr, then the country's vice-president.

The filibuster was a mistake created in 1806 when Aaron Burr convinced the Senate to eliminate the previous-question rule; 31 years later an enterprising senator discovered you could use the lacunae to tie up debate forever.

Aaron Burr of New York, the Republican candidate for vice president and Hamilton's political enemy, obtained a copy and had it published.

In a particular blow to Mitch McConnell, the Republican majority leader, and Richard Burr, the intelligence committee chairman, the Senate rejected a series of amendments that were designed to weaken the surveillance and transparency reforms contained in the USA Freedom Act.