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Sentence count:25Posted:2017-04-06Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: scanningcunningrunningspinningstunningplanningbeginningawakeningMeaning: [ken]  n. conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry. 
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1 The doctor advised Ken to avoid strenuous exercise.
2 The ship was wrecked on the Kent coast.
3 Both firms are based in Kent.
4 Such things are beyond my ken.
5 Ken began to lament the death of his only son.
6 Don't get Ken onto politics or we'll be here all night!
7 The world breaks everyone,(www.Sentencedict.com)and afterward many are strong at the bro ken places .
8 Ken agreed to accompany me on a trip to Africa.
9 Ken has more than 10 years of experience in photography behind him, so he is well qualified to offer advice.
10 Kent is the garden of England.
11 Financial matters are beyond my ken, I'm afraid.
12 Red Ken won seat in Parliament.
13 Ken gave her an embarrassed grin.
14 Ken passed the books to Sergeant Parrott.
15 Last night was the first time that Ken had opened up about his feelings.
16 When Ken Hom wrote his first book for the BBC he was asked to tone down the spices and garlic in his recipes.
17 The subject matter was so technical as to be beyond the ken of the average layman.
18 Ken was furious, but forced himself to appear calm on the outside.
19 For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
20 Ken tipped up the wheelbarrow, then stood back to rest.
21 Wikipedia tells me that a kenning is called a kenning from a norse phrase translating as "to express a thing in terms of another."
22 Based on the kenning degree of whiting value of grey number, this paper gives a kind of order relations of interval grey number.
23 The American Heritage Dictionary says that window is an example of a type of word called a "kenning" that the Norse loved to invent.
24 JENNIFER KENNING graduated from Saint Cloud State University (Minnesota) with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in analytical writing and has studied screenwriting at the University of California Los Angeles.
25 The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.
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