Sharon

[ shuh-rohn shar-uhn ]

noun

1. Ariel, 1928–2014, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
2. a fertile coastal plain in ancient Palestine: now a coastal region N of Tel Aviv in Israel.
3. a city in W Pennsylvania.
4. a town in E Massachusetts.
5. Also Sharen. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “a plain or flat area.”

Sharon

¹

/ ʃəˈrɒn /

noun

1. SharonAriel1928MIsraeliMILITARY: soldierPOLITICS: politician Ariel (ˈærɪəl). born 1928, Israeli soldier and politician; Likud prime minister (2001–06)

Sharon

²

/ ˈʃærən /

noun

1. Plain of Sharon
   Plain of Sharon a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv

Example Sentences

The state paid for Sharon’s pilot period, but not every district or school has the money or staffing to mount large-scale programs—and Dussault says the district will need to foot the bill for any testing once this program ends in April.

From MIT Technology Review

Meg Dussault, the district’s acting superintendent, says each pool test costs the school between $5 and $50, and over a third of Sharon Public Schools students and staff participate.

From MIT Technology Review

On May 17, 1992, a bomb exploded outside the home of his daughter, Sharon, blowing a crater in her driveway, destroying her fiance’s BMW and shattering the windows of neighboring homes.

From ProPublica

Peter and Sharon’s friends came over to meet and bless their baby, Braird, shortly after he was born in June 2006.

From ProPublica

If Sharon’s brother spends a day trying to get the box open and finally does it, then I know that my time spent building it was worthwhile.

From Washington Post

I love the quote that Sharon Klein gave in the release on Deadline.

From The Daily Beast

Before he played, his wife, Sharon contacted Simon and told him that her husband was recently out of rehab.

From The Daily Beast

It is Ma who suggests to Rose of Sharon that she suckle a starving man.

From The Daily Beast

Welcome to “the new normal,” as Sharon Brackett, board chair for Gender Rights Maryland, referred to the race.

From The Daily Beast

Murphy married Simon Monjack, a British screenwriter, in May 2007, and the couple shared a house with her mother, Sharon.

From The Daily Beast

This once resulted at the Sharon operahouse, in turning a dramatic episode into a howling farce.

From Project Gutenberg

We are paid by weight, and in my time, in the Sharon mill, the balls were required to be two hundred pounds.

From Project Gutenberg

Without turning to the right or to the left, Tabea directed her steps to the group at the door of Sharon.

From Project Gutenberg

We had a pretty good view of the south part of the plain of Sharon and of the hill country that rose behind it.

From Project Gutenberg

Old Sharon Whipple, the player who putted, never knew that above him had gone a thing he had very lately said could never be.

From Project Gutenberg