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How to use the word pearl in a Sentence? Page #2

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We have recently had some of the biggest country acts play the room -- from Zac Brown Band to Chris Stapleton -- and this genre consistently does extremely well at the Pearl.

Jon Gray

Found on CNN
5 years ago

At present, visitors to Hong Kong from mainland China tend to fly in for one or two days, mostly for shopping, and seldom travel to other areas in the Pearl River Delta.

Marcos Chan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

[Pearl Fernandez was] violent, abusive and neglected her children even before she met Isauro. Even her own family considered her a danger to her children.

John Alan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I’m for these resolutions, but they're not resolutions to provide college to the children of the people who died in the fire. Not to the grandchildren of the people who died at Pearl Harbor. They're resolutions that don't mean anything except they're nice.

Sherrod Brown

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Twenty-five years ago President Bush spoke at the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as the sitting president, and we have a copy of the speech in our auditorium here on a continuous loop.

David Jones

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We began working on this about six months ago, twenty-five years ago President Bush spoke at the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as the sitting president, and we have a copy of the speech in our auditorium here on a continuous loop.

David Jones

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The fact that there have only been two big catastrophes -- one was Pearl Harbor... and the other was 9/11. They are both the same kind of stature and horror in the American memory.

Anthony Summers

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

One of the things that was hidden was the secret that United States was breaking the Japanese diplomatic code and keeping that secret saved countless lives during the war... but after that, there is no worthy reason for continuing to vilify two honorable men and to allow them to shoulder the responsibility of the death of so many young men. It is an injustice that should be righted. the fact that there have only been two big catastrophes -- one was Pearl Harbor... and the other was 9/11. They are both the same kind of stature and horror in the American memory.

Anthony Summers

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The airplanes were coming right through, torpedo planes came in first. Slow-flying planes. They could have been fighter planes …. DISPLAY OF RARE ITEMS MARKS 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF Pearl Harbor.

Edward Hammond

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The atmosphere here is miles different from anywhere else, i worked at Pearl Street, one of the biggest Whole Foods in the country, a crazy machine with so many moving parts. Then I came here and everyone was having fun and joking around.

Brittany Strachan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I hope that this pearl of world civilization, or at least what's left of it after bandits have held sway there, will be returned to the Syrian people and the entire world.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and it appears that the threat of harm to America from ISIS now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then.

Democratic Mayor David Bowers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Next week, Mr. Trump is probably going to say that FDR was around when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it's what you do after that matters. And that's the sign of leadership.

Jeb Bush

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I mean, so next week, Mr. Trump is probably going to say that FDR was around when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It's what you do after that matters. And that's the sign of leadership, you don't have to have your last name named Bush to be able to understand that.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sometimes life turns its back to people. A misfortune, a physical accident or a mental emergency can take them by surprise. Similar to the unexpected assault on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in New York, which took a whole nation by surprise , the lives of individuals can be suddenly disrupted.

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The manager of the restaurant came over and said, ‘ I hear you got a pearl in your oyster. ’ I said, ‘ Well I ’m up to ten so far, ’.

Toni Elliott

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We need for Alamo Plaza to have the kind of reverence and respect for history that we see in places like the battlefield at Gettysburg and at the monuments at Pearl Harbor.

City Councilman Joe Krier

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Ronald Reagan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

Anthon St Maarten

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!

Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When President Bush invaded Iraq after 911 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor.

John Kerry, Debate

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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