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Sentence Examples Although it was frequently taken and then lost by the Turks, it became the seat of a bey who was subordinate to the dey of Algiers. This monument, one of the most beautiful palaces in the medina, was inhabited by successive dey and bey princes. Obasanjo dey there with him big fat stomach. In late 16th-century Tunis, a dey commanded the army and eventually was in sole control of the state, but by 1705 the title had disappeared from official lists. But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it. Not birds, you lamebrain, dey stole mongeese. Little animals from over in India, day kill da snakes, da cobras dere. Mas'r Sumner an' a'heap mo' on 'em would jes' like fur to kill dat Mas'r Dayton ef dey could cotch him. Ten percent of the value of the prizes was paid to the pasha or his successors, who bore the titles of agha or dey or bey. Didn't put them in two boxes lak dey does now, and dey warn't painted needer. Examples from Classical Literature Dey eben buyed terbacker from my mammy, an' dey paid her a dollar an' fifty cents a pound, stim an' all. When dey sont me to town I put on britches an' stuffed de tail o' my slip in 'em so's it pass' for a shirt. I knowed when dey started dat Wealaka school across de river from de Broken Arrow town. Fin'ly I gits de job workin' at de cotton oil mill in Corsicana and stays at dat job till dey says I's too old. What dey give chillun de most of was potlicker poured over cornbread crumbs in a long trough. Dey had guards out around de houses an' dey marched back an' forth day an' night to keep everybody from robbin' de houses. Dere was a neighbor, Shields, he's drivin' wood to town and goes n'cross masta's yard and dey have Arg'ments. Den some peoples keeps a bag of asafetida tied round dey neck to keep off sickness. Atter dey thru dentifyin us, Old Marster tuk us on bak home wid him, en we sho wus glad ter go. Dey so bizzy wid der confab, dat dey ain notice Mistr Wile Cat settin up on er lim er de tree. Dey CED dey could wip two ob you, but I guess one ob you could wip two ob dem. Dey tell me dat w'en slaves wus shipped to New Orleans dey had to be dress-up in nice clothes. Den dey all gadder in de circle an' fo' dey git dey supply, dey got ta do de pigeon wing. Las' de creeturs tuck'n helt er confab, en dey 'gree dat dey hatter set some un fer ter watch en ketch Wattle Weasel. Dey tell us what dey gwine do iffen we don't all go back to us massas and us all 'grees and den dey all dis'pear. Dar frien's seem de only ones what get kill, and when dey do de folks do nuffln wid de 'sesh. Here dey goes, all het up frum makin' speeches an' a-drinkin', an' packs de courtroom full. Dere some old men dat too old to work so dey sot in de sun all day and holp with de light work. Vell, dey not all chomp togesser every day same peoples, but ven de barze all full den forrrty tousand chomp in same time. Dem Yankees tuck eber thing dat dey saw eben to our Kush, what we had cooked fer our supper. Show More Sentences She tole him dey wuz ho'ses in de paster an' dat de Yankee camp wuz over near Laurinburg or somewhare like dat. De chillun's mammies, dey would come in from de fields about three times er day to let de babies suck. De riders gits so bad dey come most any time and run de cullud folks off for no cause, jus' to be orn'ry and plunder de home. Dey carried 'em down in de woods an' whup dem, den dey throws 'em in de pond, dere bodies breakin' de ice. Dey tole me I had no marster dat dey had fighted four years to free us an' dat marster would not whup me no more. I never seen 'em whup none but dey tol' us we'd git twen'y-nine licks iffen we got caught by 'em. He was the overlooker and went off to de Yankees, when dey come for foraging through dat country de first time. She plowed two oxes, an' if'en yo' has eber been around a steer yo' knows what aggravatin' things dey is. De papers, Sah, had been hidden in a pork barrel on board de Nancy, an' de shark must ha' t'ought dey smelt good. They didn' know nothin bout no britches till they was great big, jus' wen' roun' in dey shirttails. Not long 'fore sundown dey give evvy slave chile a wooden bowl of buttermilk and cornpone and a wooden spoon to eat it wid. When dey put her on de block dey put all her chillun aroun her to show folks how FAS she can hab chillun. Yessum, dey had a doctor sometime, but de most dey done wuz give 'em hoarhound, yellow root and tansy. Dese days dey calls 'em ballots, but in de ole days dey call 'em spirituals, case de Holy Spirit done revealed 'em to 'em. When dey got him back to de house, dey would buckle him down over a barrel and larrup him wid a plaited whup. Us loved to hunt for turkey nests 'cause dey give us a teacake for evvy turkey egg us fetched in. Den dey had anudder battle dar just befo' I lef', and de Yankees tuc' de place. De las' one he had pended on fer ter stan' by 'im had gone back on 'im, en dey did n' 'pear ter be nuffin mo' wuf libbin' fer. De las' one he had 'pended on fer ter stan' by 'im had gone back on 'im, en dey didn' 'pear ter be nuffin mo' wuf libbin' fer. De law kin sell me now if dey tell me to leave de state in six months en I don't go. Show More Sentences Atter he got well from de beatin' dey gib him, dey sold him. We'd hep 'em git away and just swear dat dey hadn't been home a-tall. Yas suh, dey had to have a demit to go any place outside work hours. Dem itty wee pads are ze very tweetest handies in ze whole big world, isn't dey, you darling itty man. I don't guess dey was SHO' nuff so, but we all thought dey was. Why, dat's where dey shaved it off befo' dey cut my head open. I hear dem talky, talky, when dey no tink I listen, just as before. An' she don' want to ma'hy him, if dey give her her druthers about hit. Dey will not take de scrip at eighty-two, and I tink dey are right. He was a hod carrier when dey built de old red brick Arlington. Yes, mam, I could sniffle a week, dey been cut me such licks. I was a moughty little chap when dey started me in as houseboy. You remember de little old train dey used to call de 'dinkey' don't you? On de way from Columbia dey had lots of store-bought things to eat. De Yankees 'stroy aw us white peoples va'uables wha' dey is see. We sweetened our cakes wid molasses, and dey was plenty sweet too. Whilst dey was a-worshipin' I'd slip 'roun' an' tas' out o' dey basket. An' while he waitin', sposen dey grab him an' sen' him to do waw? She was on her way to school when dey stoled her, when she de young gal. I lived dar wid 'em 'til de chullun drew dey parts an' us was 'vided out. Show More Sentences Ham can allers get dem when dey is 'round and skeered of the sesh. When I takes de chillen out to git de air, de minute I's roun' de corner I's gwine to gaum dey mouths all roun' wid jam, den dey can't nobody notice dey's changed. I was goin' teh lick dat Riley kid and dey all pitched on me. Laws bless you, honey, when I's slav' aroun', en dey 'buses me, if I knows you's a-sayin' dat, 'way off yonder somers, it'll heal up all de sore places, en I kin stan' 'em. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with dey What is the plural of dey? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words dextrously dextrous dextrose dextrorotatory dextromethorphan dextrocardia dezincification df DfE DH DHA dhaba 3-letter Words Starting With d de