What's the difference between wore and yore?

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.

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).

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