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drury

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for drury.

Editorial note

I don’t know, it would bring a little spice to my next night at the Drury Inn.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of drury gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

A town south of Auckland, New Zealand.

noun

A settlement in Buckley community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2964).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for drury.

noun

A surname.

noun

A town south of Auckland, New Zealand.

noun

A settlement in Buckley community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2964).

noun

An unincorporated community in Sumner County, Kansas, United States.

Example sentences

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I don’t know, it would bring a little spice to my next night at the Drury Inn.

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While it is amazing that Rod Drury (Xero’s CEO) has built Xero up to a valuation of about 2 billion, it's not a surprise.

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If you like this sort of stuff, I recommend John Drury Clark's Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants.

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I wonder if you can clone the voice and tonality of Peter Drury and even make a game of Pong emotional.

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You don't know the Muffin Man who lives on Drury Lane?

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Rod Drury CEO/Founder of Xero has a speech impediment...

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It must have been well into the era of Ian Drury and Sid Vicious before Abba finally - blessedly - began to fade from the public mind.

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Edit: any other interesting John Drury Clark style anecdotes?

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For those not familiar, Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark goes into detail about all the different things aerospace engineers have tried, including some incredibly dangerous combinations.

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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark, which is a personal memoir from a senior researcher with many decades experience developing rocket fuels - he is the proverbial Rocket Scientist.

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In Xero's case, the CEO Rod Drury started his first successful company, Glazer System, in 1995 and sold it in 2000; he finished undergrad in 1987 so he must've been around 30 when he started it and 35 when he finally had his first taste of success.

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Found this on the wiki, quoting the rocket scientist John Drury Clark: > It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals—steel, copper, aluminum, etc.—because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride that protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere.

Quote examples

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“Cybertruck customers are in it for the stares and glares—they don’t care about how many times [this vehicle is] going to be recalled over 30 years,” says Drury.

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>the way Jason Drury shifts from “tried to dox” to “doxx’d” I double-checked all my comments, that never happened.

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I have no idea who Jani Patokallio or gyrovague.com are, and the way Jason Drury shifts from “tried to dox” to “doxx’d” makes me wonder if this is astroturfing by Jani or Jason or a 3rd party.

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> Similar to other critics (earlier this year, a CNN reviewer called the pickup a “disturbing level of individual arrogance in hard, unforgiving steel”)—Drury believes Cybertruck buyers are people “who think ‘I don’t care if I kill people when I drive this thing down the street,’” he says.

Proper noun examples

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The Heart of Everything That Is - Bob Drury/Tom Clavin: This is Red Cloud's story told using his autobiography.

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Xero HQ is very much in New Zealand and the CEO (Rod Drury) still lives in Hawkes Bay of New Zealand.

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Is the author using Drury, Michener, and Morris West to beat up on 2023?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use drury in a sentence?

I don’t know, it would bring a little spice to my next night at the Drury Inn.

What does drury mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is drury?

drury is commonly used as noun.