doth
Example Sentences
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The faithful felt Hugo doth protest too much, and voted him out at the next opportunity, making the barrister their first traitor scalp.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” she whispers of an overwrought performance shown on stage in the Shakespearean tragedy.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
His acceptance speech included a quotation from Francis Bacon: “Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
The chronicler Samuel Pepys recorded that she "commands the King as much as ever, and hath and doth what she will."
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2022
We looked at it, standing on its white linen doth as huge as History, and could almost smell the sweet wax in the darkness of a long time ago.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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