ho-dad

Definitions

Examples

• My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.

• His wife passed away and they had kids, and he wanted to focus on being a dad so he just stopped to raise his kids.

• The fear of…Dad, of the war…yes, that…but something else…the fear that life is nor being lived right here now.

• There was Carol White, a ho-hum homemaker who finds herself besieged by multiple chemical sensitivity in Safe.

• My dad had worked for a while as a ranch hand, and his “Open Road” was a remnant of those days.

• "Dad and Hans Rutter, as you know, weren't the sort of men to sit around and mourn over anything like that," she laughed.

• When I told dad, sez I, 'Dad, did ever yer hear sech a thing uz gittin' up afore light to feed stock?'

• The door banged shut behind him and I heard him at the foot of the stairs roaring "Ho-ho-there-ho!"

• He was one of Dad's tenants, a big purple-faced man, who drank a lot and never took much exercise.

• Why, I coaxed even dad over to camp once and I've always wanted Helena to go.