Sentence examples for mar from inspiring English sources


The word "mar" is not considered to be standard English, so it would not usually be used in written English. "Mar" could be used as a slang term, as an abbreviation for "marijuana." For example: "I'm gonna pick up some mar before the party tonight."

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mar

verb

To spoil, to damage.

  • Grammys]] was marred when a microphone fell on the piano’s strings.

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Thousands of soldiers and federal police were guarding polling stations where violence and calls for boycotts threatened to mar elections for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nine of 31 governorships and hundreds of mayors and local officials.

The spareness, learned in his youth from the poet Louis Bouilhet, is still there – as in the opening of "Hautot & Son" (1889), where, as Sean O'Faolain writes, "the scene is brilliantly and swiftly painted, with three lines for the countryside and six for the sportsmen" – but the stories' scope helps avoid the glibness that can mar his shorter work.

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Sterile, defensive tactics on the pitch and hooligan violence off it (the organisers, with justice, fear the influx of barbarian fans from neighbouring Britain) could yet mar this year's contest.

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They ignored warnings from lesser mortals, such as one in 2001 from MAR/Hedge, a diligent trade journal.

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Bits may be borrowed from the manuals of other democracies, but much will need to be invented from scratch.In this section Democracy's hard spring Throwing money at the street Reprints Related items Libya's fledgling alternative government: Who's in charge?Mar 10th 2011Tunisia and Egypt, the region's revolutionary pioneers, are already running into turbulence.

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