What's the difference between sore and yore?

Sore


Definition:

  • (n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.
  • (n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
  • (n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
  • (superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • (superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
  • (superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.
  • (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
  • (a.) Fig.: Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • (a.) In a sore manner; with pain; grievously.
  • (a.) Greatly; violently; deeply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
  • (2) Both beds are excellent in preventing Pressure Sores.
  • (3) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
  • (4) Plastic surgeons have contributed to the understanding of pressure sore pathophysiology and prophylaxis.
  • (5) A review of 103 surgically closed pressure sores shows unsatisfactory results.
  • (6) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
  • (7) As the metaphors we are using to conduct it show, the migration debate in Britain is sorely in need of some perspective.
  • (8) Subjects with cancer were paired with subjects without cancer based on age (mean = 78), sex, and pressure sore risk.
  • (9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
  • (10) I was sorely tempted but in the end I simply paid the fine.
  • (11) Sore arm after vaccination was reported most frequently in younger female participants; however, sore arm was accepted as part of the process of vaccination and not considered a reaction by most.
  • (12) Systematic, prospective epidemiological studies of these agents in well-defined populations of various age groups are sorely needed for definition of the relative importance of each agent in human disease.
  • (13) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
  • (14) The proportion of culture sore-throat patients returned to the original 55% level after an initial period of enthusiasm.
  • (15) Experts have said that Apple sorely needed to produce a phone with music capabilities as long-term protection for the lucrative iPod, which has helped boost the company's profits to record levels.
  • (16) The least severe sore (type 1) can be protected using polyurethane film dressings.
  • (17) Two ten-minute rapid tests for diagnosing Group A streptococcal pharyngitis in 147 emergency department patients with a complaint of sore throat were evaluated using positive throat cultures as the marker for disease.
  • (18) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
  • (19) The general election result was, of course, crushing for Labour MPs south of the border as well as north, and the wounds are still very open and very sore.
  • (20) We discuss some epidemiological aspects and diagnostic difficulties resulting from a changing clinical pattern of the disease, and emphasize the need for streptococcal sore throat treatment and continuous secondary prophylaxis to prevent recurrences.

Yore


Definition:

  • (adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The subjects of 2015’s most exciting underground publications are a world away from the stapled-together, photocopied, fanzines of yore.
  • (2) With its stripped-back stone slab, here hovering above a line of Corinthian columns, it speaks volumes about this moment in time, its architecture used to embody rapid modernisation, nostalgia for historical greatness and the imagined national unity of yore.
  • (3) Yore's alleged crime is the production and distribution of child pornography.
  • (4) Since feminists – and anti-feminists – of yore spent so much time scrapping over the politics of female orgasm, it is useful to get the basic physiology down.
  • (5) On Saturday, protesters demanded Linden re-open the gallery which, aside from Yore's piece, houses the Like Mike exhibition, a series of work by seven artists in tribute to the late Mike Brown, the only Australian artist to be successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
  • (6) Paul Yore, 26, pleaded not guilty to producing and possessing child pornography over an installation that included images of nude adults with children’s faces attached.
  • (7) Chambers said Yore’s work would divide opinion, offending some people while others would see it as a right to freedom of expression.
  • (8) Or that they fear the changes that have followed as a result of this prolonged near-zero rate policy will make it impossible for them to manage the rate hikes as smoothly and gracefully as in days of yore?
  • (9) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
  • (10) But Jason Smith, the director of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, said Yore’s work was of outstanding merit.
  • (11) West Brom have now come from behind to earn points in their last three games – beating Arsenal and drawing at West Ham – and with the wind swirling wildly around and the Hawthorns crowd finally buying into “Tony Pulis’s blue and white army” with encouraging gusto, Spurs of yore might have wilted.
  • (12) The interview room currently plays host to Ken Rosewall, John Newcombe, Ashley Cooper, Neale Fraser, the grand slam giants of yore.
  • (13) In times of yore you would have woken up in a panic, scrambling in the dark, trying to find your fur coat or velvet smoking jacket.
  • (14) Yore’s art dealer Geoff Newton said the artist was happy to have the court battle behind him.
  • (15) Yore is yet to be charged over child pornography offences, which can carry a 10-year prison sentence.
  • (16) Clearly Paul Yore’s work is confronting, and intentionally so,” she said.
  • (17) In a promotional interview played to the court, Yore said it was an homage to avant-garde artist Mike Brown and was deliberately confrontational.
  • (18) Slowly they return, the clean-shaven, square-jawed heroes of yore, displaced for so many years now by their darker, more intricately conflicted brethren,” noted the Los Angeles Times TV critic, Mary McNamara.
  • (19) "That's not to justify paedophilia and exploitation, but I'm not sure that Paul Yore's non-binary view of sexuality is a major risk to society.
  • (20) In fact, to find a Clooney film I properly enjoyed I'd have to go all the way back to Fantastic Mr Fox, released back in the time of yore (ie 2009).