orders
/ (ˈɔːdəz) /
short for holy orders
in holy orders or in orders ordained
take holy orders or take orders to become ordained
short for major orders, minor orders
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How to use orders in a sentence
I learned that he was working and living in the Lower East Side, delivering orders for an Italian restaurant and raising two kids.
This courageous act earned him a late-night knock on the door with orders for Serna to vamos from Cuba.
He orders a toasted bagel and asks to charge it to a room he is certainly not staying in.
I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal | Olivia Nuzzi | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFive months in, thousands of orders fulfilled, six days before Cyber Monday.
Days Are Numbered for Nestdrop, LA’s ‘Uber for Weed’ | Justin Hampton | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFrancis then supposedly told the officer that he was the one giving orders now and ordered a cappuccino for the Swiss soldier.
Is The Pope Unprotected Now That He’s Fired the Head of the Swiss Guards? | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.
There he gave orders for the car to be put into running condition for the following morning, and returned to the hotel.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeBut it was not only as an organiser and transmitter of orders that Berthier proved his usefulness to his chief.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonIn case that they would not abandon the religion which they preached, the officials of Masamune commenced to execute their orders.
A royal decree (December 31, 1622) orders the Dominicans in the Philippines not to meddle in affairs of government.
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