Used in a Sentence

eyre

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

Editorial note

Fifty Shades of Grey is just Jane Eyre rehashed - young virgin falls in love with rich powerful man.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A surname.

noun

A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.

noun

(UK, law, historical) A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for eyre.

noun

A surname.

noun

A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.

noun

(UK, law, historical) A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)

Example sentences

1

Fifty Shades of Grey is just Jane Eyre rehashed - young virgin falls in love with rich powerful man.

2

Frankly, %eyre is not exactly a triumph of the lapidary style...

3

However, the next stop on the Eyre Highway does not.

4

Does it compare to Harry Potter or The Eyre Affair?

5

This would not be preferred though, as using eyre or anyhow or other error context libraries build convenient error context backtraces without needing to format things oneself.

6

Out of the box the language has Box<dyn Error> for this, but it's more common to use a third-party crate like anyhow or eyre that makes this pattern more ergonomic.

7

If I recall correctly from the last time I had to deal with this, it's the first 3 towns on the Eyre highway in WA coming from the SA border.

8

In an application that handles errors this way, most likely every function that does I/O returns Result<T, Box<dyn Error>> (or the anyhow or eyre equivalent), while functions that just do pure computation on trusted data return non-Result types.

9

Depending on what they actually want to do, they should either add more variants to StoreError for the difference failure cases, replaces the strings with a sub-types (probably enums) to do the same, or write a type erased error similar to (or wrapping) the ones provided by anyhow, eyre, etc, but with a status code attached.

Quote examples

1

The main square, Eyre square, has historically been shaded by trees - Wikipedia says early ash was planted in 1631 - but the council wanted to remove 80 of 105 of them, "because the landscape levels were to be altered".

2

"The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel" by Jasper Fforde, it starts slow, so give it 100 pages but I was hooked then and read all other books from him (and all are excellent).

3

As for the example you gave: File::create("foo.txt")?; If one added context, it would be File::create("foo.txt").context("failed to create file")?; This is using eyre or anyhow (common choices for adding free-form context).

Proper noun examples

1

Huck Finn, 1984 and Animal Farm, Brave New World, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Rings come to mind.

2

Jayne Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility.

3

Do I necessarily care that my students have read Jane Eyre?

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use eyre in a sentence?

Fifty Shades of Grey is just Jane Eyre rehashed - young virgin falls in love with rich powerful man.

What does eyre mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is eyre?

eyre is commonly used as noun.