Sherborne

/ (ˈʃɛːbɔːn) /


noun
  1. a town in S England in Dorset: noted for its medieval abbey, ruined medieval castle, and Sherborne Castle, a mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594. Pop: 9350 (2001)

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How to use Sherborne in a sentence

  • Sherborne more than replaced Lismore as an object of affection, and as a subject of care and anxiety also.

    Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
  • For this Ralegh put him in the stocks in Sherborne market-place, and had him bound over to good behaviour by the county justices.

    Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
  • He was found to have been living for some time past at Sherborne, perhaps under his alias, on a pension granted him by Ralegh.

    Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
  • The mercy of the Crown extended for the present to the maintenance even of his rights over the estate of Sherborne itself.

    Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
  • He had to urge the Council to stay the Commissioners at Sherborne, whose rapacious activity had again awoke.

    Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing