What's the difference between wore and wove?

Wore


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Wear
  • () imp. of Wear.
  • () imp. of Ware.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Hence, Ruud Geels, a striker, had a squad number of one while the goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed wore No8.
  • (2) Six individuals wore the appliances while rinsing daily with a neutral 0.2% NaF solution for 4 wk.
  • (3) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (4) The uteri of ten patients who wore a copper-T for several months up to two years were examined immediately following hysterectomy by conventional microscopic techniques, fluorescent optical techniques after Acridin-Orange-Fluorochromization and by histo-chemical techniques for copper.
  • (5) So Mick Jagger still wears clothes that he wore when he was 20 – quite possibly the exact same clothes – and the man looks great, because that's who he is.
  • (6) None of the patients experienced skin irritation under the prosthesis and 94% of them wore their prosthesis daily.
  • (7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
  • (8) Interinstrument variation during treadmill experiments while subjects wore two accelerometers at the same time was on average 22% and was not improved after adjustment for differences found in the bench test.
  • (9) May, who once wore a T-shirt bearing the slogan "This is what a feminist looks like" has campaigned against sexual violence and worked hard on getting more Tory women MPs, is far more likely to ask questions about how a policy will impact on women than her male colleagues.
  • (10) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
  • (11) The Jazz played defense, but Bryant’s persistence wore them down.
  • (12) I like American names and I always wanted to live in the US.” David Miliband: Trump refugee ban threatens west's global reputation Read more On their necks, Nimr and his wife wore necklaces with little metal crosses.
  • (13) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (14) Defensive players who wore prophylactic knee braces had statistically fewer knee injuries than players who served as controls.
  • (15) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
  • (16) The patients, who ranged in age from 9 to 14 years, accepted the appliance readily and wore it 24 hours each day, even while eating.
  • (17) All subjects wore markers over their mandibles, hips, and knees and were filmed three times with the weighted belt worn on a randomly selected trial.
  • (18) Topographical corneal thickness changes were monitored in 10 subjects who each wore a hydrogel contact lens with a large central aperture ("donut" lens) for 6 hours.
  • (19) Fifty-nine patients wore extended-wear contact lenses for cosmetic purposes.
  • (20) The refractive error was not stable in some eyes; between 6 months and 4 years after surgery, 23% of eyes had a continued effect of the surgery of more than 1.00 D. For 323 patients with both eyes operated on, 64% stated they wore no optical correction.

Wove


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Weave
  • () of Weave
  • () p. pr. & rare vb. n. of Weave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That helped cement the power of the money men in Westminster, with Sir Fred Goodwin's knighthood being just the most egregious example of government believing the mystique the financial sector wove around itself.
  • (2) A new report that provides the most comprehensive look yet at Cho also shows how his parents, teachers and mental health counsellors wove a safety net that held him together through most of high school.
  • (3) Officials, a commissioner, divisional court judges and – ultimately – the attorney general wove a web of secrecy around the correspondence.
  • (4) According to AFP, a weatherman on Russian state television wove comments on Ukraine's political crisis into his weather forecast, warning of a "wind of change" in the country's east.
  • (5) It was a very clever and accomplished piece of writing that wove everything together.
  • (6) Nora Shourd and Cindy Hickey said Bauer proposed to Shourd using an improvised ring he wove together with threads from his shirt.
  • (7) She wove a web of reasons to support her argument, while conceding that the Brulotte decision might be a “wrong decision” that the court would have to stick to for the foreseeable future.
  • (8) The speaker is Richard Cross, home secretary in Benjamin Disraeli’s government of the 1870s, the man who wove the strands of health and housing reform, slowly spun in the preceding decades, into law.
  • (9) The taskforce carefully wove these submissions into a final draft that has been endorsed by the leadership bodies of both organisations.
  • (10) The letters came from veterans, teenagers and aspiring novelists, on everything from torn-out notebook pages and Smythson cream wove to Hello Kitty stationery.
  • (11) It was essential to marry pictures and words to tell a complete story – the book interweaves drawings, paintings, documents and ephemera with many first-hand accounts of life in Terezín; I wove the narrative in and around the pictures.
  • (12) In the village of Guvecci in the deep south, minivans were shuttling along a bitumen road between the countries, disgorging dozens of men, women and children who then made their way along dirt roads that wove between olive groves.

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