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Lexicographically close words:
abounds; about; aboute; abouten; abouts; aboveboard; aboveground; abovementioned; aboven; abovenamed
  1. Subject to this explanation, the general accuracy of the observed figures which attest the truth of the above conclusion cannot be gainsaid on theoretical grounds, nor can the conclusions be ignored to which they lead.

  2. Readers who desire fuller information as to the antecedents conducive to success that are too briefly described further on should refer to the above book.

  3. The honeymoon was shoring placidly above them.

  4. Above green-flashing plunges of a weir, and shaken by the thunder below, lilies, golden and white, were swaying at anchor among the reeds.

  5. In this country Law was above the sovereign.

  6. She is indeed very much above her station--pity that it is so!

  7. Above board with me, and you'll find me handsome.

  8. How absurd it is of that class to educate their women above their station!

  9. I know you quite above flattery--so different from other women!

  10. God warn't above the devil then, I thinks.

  11. Berry was a soft, not a timid, woman: and it happened this night that her thoughts were above the fears of the dark.

  12. But God's above the devil, and here I am, ye see.

  13. Their hair was not crisped, like the recently discovered tribes of the African coast, under the same latitude, but straight and coarse, partly cut short above the ears, but some locks were left long behind and falling upon their shoulders.

  14. Suddenly, from somewhere above them, a burst of music fell upon their ears.

  15. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

  16. And sitting thus amid the stark, silent trees, above the wet, cold earth, with the chill of winter in the air, there is no fitter or sweeter songster in the whole round year.

  17. They now supposed that the ships had sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of the skies.

  18. The Alleghanies are not yet heaved up above the level surface of the ground, for over them are spread the boggy lands and thick forests of future coal fields.

  19. If the dog does less, it is because of his stupidity and clumsiness, not because he is above such business.

  20. Oft some scavenger, with vane Motionless, above we knew Wheeled thro' altitudes of blue By his rapid shadow's stain.

  21. Some speak of secret love, but God above Hath knowledge and divinement.

  22. Above the dark trees of the Cours la Reine the sky glowed softly golden, reflecting the million lights of Paris.

  23. He raised his head and looked up along the windows above him.

  24. Marie watched them until they had disappeared among the trees, and then turned on his back, staring up into the softly stirring canopy of green above him, and the little rifts of bright blue sky.

  25. Marie continued to watch the girl bent above her sewing.

  26. He took his pillows across to the window and disposed them there, for it was a French window opening to the floor, and the level of the little balcony outside was but a few inches above the level of the room.

  27. However evil his case might have looked, his elastic spirits had mounted above all difficulties and cares, confident in the face of apparent defeat.

  28. Once more the man cried her name, and she knelt forward and bent above him.

  29. Marie's head and found that he had received a severe bruise, and that the flesh had been cut before and above the ear.

  30. It felt hot, and as if there were a very tight band round it above the knee.

  31. Captain Stewart's flat was up five stories, at the top of the building in which it was located, and so well above the noises of the street.

  32. I find it hard above all to imagine the existence of a living woman in the bounds of your sect, whose breasts flow with milk instead of hardening with pedantry.

  33. Above all, he was encouraged early to trust his own impulse and pursue his own bent.

  34. MY DEAR DAD,--Don't allow yourself to be shocked with surprise on reading the above date till you hear the reasons which have brought me here at this singular season.

  35. The boy was confined to his bed for the next two years, and one leg was twice amputated above the knee.

  36. Here in this precipitous Alpine village we occupy rooms in an empty house with a yellow-plastered front and an iron balcony above the street.

  37. Do you keep your room above the freezing point or can't the thing be done?

  38. G-- I had got as far as the above G when the faithless Israelite of yesterday evening came in.

  39. At home he was not above espousing the queerest of opinions, if by so doing he could excite his children to gallop after him and ride him down.

  40. I send the above remarks on "materialism," because they were what I was groping for the other evening, but could not say till you were gone and I in bed.

  41. And if our colleges are to make men, and not machines, they should look, above all things, to this aspect of their influence.

  42. Above all things, save yourself from bodily pain, if it can be done.

  43. See those scars on his face, Shiny--the one on the cheek bone and the other above the eye.

  44. At the end of one room was a marble mantelpiece above which there was a defaced, gilt-frame mirror.

  45. He was put into a cell which held two beds, one above the other, as in the cabin of an ocean liner.

  46. A mist of light hung like an atmosphere above the Great White Way.

  47. He knew that shooting from above is an art that few men have acquired.

  48. He stopped in front of a store above which was the legend "I.

  49. A man would have to hang out from the wall above the ledge to see him.

  50. Above the bellowing of the herd she heard another yell.

  51. The copper hair of his strong lean head rose above the tangle of the mêlée like the bromidic Helmet of Navarre.

  52. Nothing in the heavens above or the earth below could stump him.

  53. Clay's eyes were on the gutter above while he jerked his way down a foot at a time.

  54. He held the receiver above the level of the waters in breathless expectancy, knowing that if water entered the box its sensibility would at once be destroyed.

  55. He may perhaps have a friend living above us," suggested Madame Nicole.

  56. Eagerly he commenced to string up his aerial to several old nails which he found in the wall above the height of his head.

  57. Meanwhile Roddy Homfray, having left Elma, was strolling slowly home full of thoughts of the slim and charming girl who had bewitched him, and yet whose station was so far above his own.

  58. The little window was fully eight feet above the floor and he had nothing to mount upon to grip its ledge.

  59. It was a long and wordy screed, couched in the quaint and flowery language of the Moors, but the above was the gist of it.

  60. Had it been left above there might have been more serious suspicions of foul play.

  61. Above were high bare oaks swaying slowly in the wintry wind.

  62. At last they descended a flight of winding stone steps, slippery with slime, but on reaching the last step they found the water to be high above their waists.

  63. Which of the above are considered the more nutritious and why?

  64. His drums are situated above plates which may be seen on the lower side of the body, one behind each hind leg.

  65. Of course the air still rises somewhat above this base and continues to get cooler, and to have more and more vapor condensed.

  66. The side bud below 4 (where the fruit was borne the year before) barely lived, not elongating, as seen above 3.

  67. We have now found, therefore, that the little side shoots upon apple twigs often become fruit-branches or fruit-spurs, while the more ambitious branches above them are making a great display of stem and leaves.

  68. Fill around it with soil, leaving just the tip of the bulb showing above the dirt.

  69. Study the brace roots that come off the stalk an inch or more above the ground.

  70. In Fig, 194, however, it will be seen that the seed is really being forced apart by the stem or stalk above the peg for this stem is now growing longer.

  71. The substances mentioned in the above table are all needful to sustain the life of man and beast.

  72. Then we will lay a ruler alongside of it, and make an ink mark one-quarter of an inch from the tip, and two or three other marks at equal distances above (Fig.

  73. This may be readily distinguished from the above species by the fact that its yellow flowerets occur from three to ten in a head.

  74. How do the leaves look when they first appear above the ground?

  75. The bird flies in a very characteristic manner, never raising the wings above the plane of the back, and when seen below the horizon line always shows the white feathers in the tail.

  76. This is another species of red clover, resembling the one just discussed, except that its flower-head rises on a long stalk above the upper leaves, while the red clover has the flower-head set close to these leaves.

  77. A wreath of fog settled in a valley with the hilltops rising above it.

  78. In the production of digestible nutrients per acre ranks above clover as 24 ranks above 10.

  79. But, above all, she was rejoicing in it, filling her hungry lungs with the strong air of his success.

  80. Just above her, when she lifted her lids, she saw bits of moon-flooded sky incrusted like silver in a sharp black patterning of plane-boughs.

  81. It hangs where you noticed the empty space above the mantel-piece, in the Vandyke room.

  82. They had reached a piny knoll high above the ledge on which the house was perched.

  83. She had known a great many archaeologists, but never one as agreeable as the Prince, and above all never one who had left a throne to camp in the desert and delve in Libyan tombs.

  84. The whole of his past, and above all the tendency, on which he had once prided himself, to live in the present and take whatever chances it offered, now made it harder for him to act.

  85. The ripples of the lake had gradually widened and faded into a silken smoothness, and high above the mountains the moon was turning from gold to white in a sky powdered with vanishing stars.

  86. Perhaps the same thought had actuated Nick: perhaps he had understood sooner than she that to attain moral freedom they must both be above material cares.

  87. She murmured her assent and stood up, stretching her sleepy arm above her shoulders.

  88. He wanted above all things to get away from sentiment, from seduction, from the moods and impulses and flashing contradictions that were Susy.

  89. You are going to grow above your record, and above this position--far above!

  90. For several moments after he had stopped she gazed at him with something that was very like awe; then she said, barely above a whisper: "You are going to do it!

  91. Before starting out upon his first try at fortune, he gazed into the mirror above his wash-stand and for a long time studied his face, wondering if the men he was going to meet would read his record there.

  92. Barnes, a young fellow of twenty-five, shirt sleeves rolled above his elbows, aproned in a rubber sheet, head swathed in gauze.

  93. She drew suddenly back, there was a sharp indrawing of the breath, the face hardened, the eyes above the fur neckpiece gleamed fiercely.

  94. David stepped squarely before her; his tall form towered above her, his dark eyes gleamed into hers.

  95. Above the glowing window the chapel's short spire, softened by the round-hanging poetry of night, seemed to his imagination to be the uplifted, supplicatory hands of the neighbourhood.

  96. Don't you know that she's far, far above you?

  97. Above the buzz of four tongues rose a wild, wailing air of the Carpathians that the orchestra, in red velvet jackets, were setting free with excited hands from their guitar, mandolin, xylophone and two violins.

  98. A minute later they were in the street, from which the day had all but faded and into which the shop-windows and above them the tier on tier of home-windows, were stretching their meagre substitute.

  99. She had known that David was in education above the level of her friends, but the side of himself he was now showing she had not before seen.

  100. The bond was snapped--he was ten thousand miles above her!

  101. Far above the line of opposite housetops, in a moonless sky, gleamed thousands of white stars.

  102. The above extract presents us with the surname of Domingo, states that he was a Lombard, and had been under the professional care of Dr.

  103. This extract and the entry above are sufficient to prove, were other evidence wanting, that Dr.

  104. Most of the entries in which he is mentioned relate to payments of money that he had won from the king at cards and dice, and which in less than three years amounted to above 620l.

  105. Some of the persons thus "banished" were evidently above the lower orders, for we find that William Morley had six servants, and Hadstone, three.

  106. Then a chair was shoved back in the room above and some one began to move about.

  107. The wound was stinging sharply, and the arm above the cord was turning black and swelling fast--the pressure must come off.

  108. But whereas at the gate they were on equal footing, here the assailed had vastly the advantage; for standing on the edge of the landing, where the stairs divided, they were high above their foes.

  109. I have it:--you are paroled to silence until the sun has risen above the highest branch .

  110. I was leaning on the railing just above you.

  111. Simon Gorges, the anger on his ugly face flaming red as the hair above it.

  112. It may have been that she was careless, or that the scene had made her nervous, for while her first two arrows struck the blanc truly as before, the third went a finger's length above it.

  113. League after league was done no faster than a walk; the horse, at every step, sinking into the mud far above fetlock, and coming to the relief station completely exhausted.

  114. For a space Stafford glanced carelessly over the crowd; then lifted his eyes toward the blue above him, as though fain to see the bourne whither he was bound.

  115. When they neared the Capital, the Duke and a few of his chosen Knights had ridden out into the country to meet them; and Sir Aymer de Lacy had gone gayly and expectantly, thinking much of a certain fair face with ruddy tresses above it.

  116. His frame was angular and above the ordinary height.

  117. With a wide grappling hook he caught it above the ball, and drawing it in tied the two ends together, forming a great loop around the chain where it was fastened to the bridge.

  118. The place was strange to me, and in the faint glimmer of the torches and the uncertain moonlight I could discern no escutcheon above the gateway and no banner on the tower.

  119. I prize that stone far above its intrinsic value, for it was given to me by my beautiful Princess, you know, and I would not lose it for anything.

  120. I was just about to say that I thought we had sufficient, when Shin Shira called my attention to a balloon hovering just above our heads.

  121. I do not know many titled people, and had never before visited a real live Duchess, so I was just telling myself that I must really be on my very best behaviour, and above all, that I must not be late in arriving.

  122. It aims above all at being a frame in which can conveniently be inscribed, in the course of further studies, new conceptions more detailed and more thoroughly examined.

  123. He was above all an amateur of ideas, a dilettante in ideas, toying with them with infinite pleasure, like a superior Greek sophist, and in all French philosophy no one calls Plato to mind more than he does.

  124. No one ought to have doubts about the soul, for to have doubts presupposes thought, and to think is to be; above all things we are thinking beings.

  125. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, above all else a natural philosopher, settled at Athens about 470 B.

  126. He claimed, above all, to be able to make a good orator.

  127. It is here essential to employ these technical terms or else not to allude to the dispute at all, because the strife is above all a war of words.

  128. The common, kindly men and women of our time, the now at length sovereign people, lived to love and desire peace above all things.

  129. His elbows were resting on the slide of the roof above the steps which led to the cabin.

  130. I found out that it was placed in a gallery above the door by which we had entered.

  131. I touched a switch and set the lights above the fireplace shining.

  132. I fell to dreaming of what life might be like to the man who refused to take it as it is, who insisted on seeing above him, not silly little twinkling stars, but great worlds coursing through the infinite spaces of eternity.

  133. As we entered I heard the sound of an organ, played very softly, somewhere above me.

  134. I had settled down quietly in a comfortable chair, and was wondering, as I always do in that smoking room, at the grain of the wood in the panel above the fireplace.

  135. I should, under the circumstances, have considered myself justified in breaking a temperance pledge, on the principle, once explained to me by an archdeacon, that charity is above rubrics.

  136. Somewhere above my head, it might be supposed, statesmen with furrowed brows were taking anxious counsel together for the safety of the nation, retiring now and then when utterly exhausted, to damn the situation in private rooms.

  137. Above our heads were offices, tiers and tiers of them.

  138. Our life together is sacred, hallowed, a thing apart, "'Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

  139. We can always live them, apart from, above the bitter voices of the crowd.

  140. All of you, my husband, too, though he is far above the rest of you--but even he!

  141. These splendid efforts are made in defiance of materialism, without the remotest hope of gain, just to keep, to save from destruction, a possession felt instinctively to be the most precious thing of all, far above gold and rubies in price.

  142. There was potentiality of wealth so great that, if it were realised, men everywhere would be raised above the fear of want.

  143. But what I longed above all to hear was a full orchestra, and Wagner!

  144. For almost a quarter of a century, in our dear Turkey, we longed above all for something new; we would have welcomed death even as a change, but everything, everything was always the same.

  145. I had come above all things to educate myself in music, and now I find that they, with their unbounded opportunities, have shamefully failed to avail themselves of what to me, as a Turkish woman, is the great chance of a lifetime.

  146. But the doctor wished me to come here, and I, who long above everything else to be strong, am hoping the pure air will cure me.

  147. In every country there are women—though they may be a mere handful—who are above class, above nationality, and dare to be themselves.

  148. The lawless ones who close the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti, Here is one from the heavens, a child of yours, Come and receive her, take her above to Awakea, the noonday.

  149. And on the day when Kahalaomapuana was to depart for Kealohilani, the rainbow was let down from above the earth.

  150. While detained on Molokai by the weather, Lonoikamakahike and his wife are playing checkers when the lover sings a chant from the cliff above Kalaupapa.

  151. Above the bluffs of the south coast lie great bowlders tossed up by tidal waves.

  152. He went first clear to the top of Waialala, right above Kalaupapa.

  153. There right above them was the upper jaw shutting down upon them, and only by quickness of flight in their bird bodies did they escape.

  154. As they sailed they stood off Makahanaloa, and, looking out, saw the rainbow arching above the beach of Keaau.

  155. Three days the veil of mist hid the sea, and on the fourth day the seer's stay at Kaamola, in the very early morning, he saw an end of the rainbow standing right above Maunalei.

  156. Moanalihaikawaokele and Laukieleula and Laieikawai sat above the rainbow pathway.

  157. Many days the seer lived here with his daughter above Honopuwaiakua.

  158. Muggins, pointing to a hole in the perpendicular cliff a short distance above the spot where they stood.

  159. The great breakers may thunder on the reef, and even send their spray over, for it is little above the level of the sea, and nowhere much more than a few yards in breadth, but inside all is peaceful and motionless.

  160. So, in this great ocean river, there are eddies where seaweed collects and stagnates, and where the air above also stagnates (for the air currents are very much like those of the sea).

  161. Bukawanga, who virtually acted the part of commander-in-chief, although all the chiefs considered themselves above him, moved about actively at all times to make sure that the village was properly guarded at every point.

  162. Some are small and low, like emeralds just rising out of the ocean, with a few cocoa-nut palms waving their tufted heads above the sandy soil.

  163. However, I have not above three minutes to stay, so do let us try that sweet adagio.

  164. And, above all, I cannot let him get away with that microfilm.

  165. As the SR-37 floated through the hard vacuum five hundred miles above central Nebraska, Karnes leaned back in his seat, turning the odd cigarette case over and over in his hands.

  166. The high-velocity three millimeter slug whined through the air above Karnes' head and buried itself in Lansberg's shoulder.

  167. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. Greatorex brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pair of stairs round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg.

  168. I found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a good sight, and I bless God for it.

  169. Whatever phenomena occur, the medium must be, as she has been, above suspicion.

  170. The dressing-room had a large rug, like the nursery above it, and turning back the carpet was a simple matter.

  171. Suppose Sperry came down and said Arthur Wells had been shot above the ear, and that there was a second bullet hole in the ceiling?

  172. I was afraid to move, lest the dragging thing above come down and creep over me in the darkness and smother me.

  173. But, above all, the voluntary recruiting of four hundred thousand men of all social conditions who have rallied to the flag of the Empire for the defence of her existence and for the triumph of Civilization and Justice.

  174. They know, from the clearest conception, that Monarchical democratic institutions are as much different from Imperial autocratic tyranny, as true broad patriotism is far above narrow and fanatical "Nationalism.

  175. On the above mentioned date, Mr. Wilson, the President of the great American Republic, delivered the following speech to the Congress, in Washington.

  176. When has the Imperial Parliament adopted the above mentioned "Resolution"?

  177. The prime ministers of Great Britain and France have signified their entire assent to the energetic stand taken by President Wilson in the above quoted reply to Austria's peace communication.

  178. Public opinion had rapidly rallied and ripened at the horrible sight of so many American citizens, women and children, murdered in mid-ocean, their dead bodies floating over the waves, and their souls from above crying for vengeance.

  179. My moderator is the authority of the divine will, that governs us without contradiction, and that is seated above these human and vain contestations.

  180. All actions exceeding the ordinary bounds are liable to sinister interpretation, for as much as our liking no more holds with what is above than with what is below it.


  181. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "above" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    above; again; ahead; aloft; aloof; also; altogether; ascendant; before; beside; better; beyond; capping; chosen; distinguished; else; eminent; excellent; extra; farther; finer; foregoing; free; further; furthermore; greater; high; higher; highest; item; likewise; marked; more; moreover; outstanding; over; overhead; past; plus; preceding; previous; rare; rivaling; similarly; skyward; subject; super; superior; surpassing; then; tiptoe; too; topping; transcendent; transcendental; transcending; upmost; upon; upper; uppermost; upstairs; upward; over; overhead; past; plus; preceding; previous; rare; rivaling; similarly; skyward; subject; super; superior; surpassing; then; tiptoe; too; topping; transcendent; transcendental; transcending; upmost; upon; upper; uppermost; upstairs; upward


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    above all; above described; above directed; above everything; above ground; above medium; above mentioned; above referred; above said; above stated; above the; above them; above timber; above water