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Example sentences for "answers"

Lexicographically close words:
answerer; answeres; answereth; answering; answerit; answeryd; ant; anta; antacid; antae
  1. It answers its purpose admirably so long as it remains in the proper place, but not a moment longer.

  2. You will never pull him out of them," answers Fist.

  3. The courts of law open from the vast but inelegant Salle des Pas Perdus, which answers to our Westminster-hall.

  4. His rules are drawn up in the form of answers to two hundred and three questions.

  5. To give wrong answers to these questions is to set up a false ideal; the more strenuously such false ideal is followed, the more disastrous are the consequences.

  6. But nobody would have suspected it from his answers to Rachel's questions, or from any portion of their animated conversation.

  7. But he was too clever for her; that she did feel, whatever else he might be; and her only chance was to return to the plain questions with which she had started, demanding answers as plain.

  8. This form of argument by asking questions to which the answers must needs be favorable to his contention was peculiarly characteristic of Marshall.

  9. Professor Channing sums it all up when he declares: "Of all men in history, not one so answers our expectations as Washington.

  10. Carmella smiles across the room in a brief second of chance and Estelle answers the smile.

  11. Are there no answers to these conundrums and the thousand others that might be asked by a person with a slight attack of curiosity?

  12. I'm afraid if you don't give the boys satisfactory answers the place will close down at noon.

  13. She instantly braces up and answers with spirit.

  14. He still holds him fast; binds him in strong chains; until he takes his proper shape at the last; and answers as a true seer, so far as answer is possible, whatever question may be put to him.

  15. In a game in which Mr. Canning was the questioner, the questions and answers were as follows:— First.

  16. The questions are put in the order here given, and the answers must be numbered to correspond with the questions.

  17. From such answers a witty little girl may guess that belle was the chosen word, (belle, a fashionable lady, and bell, an instrument of sound.

  18. THE difficulty of this game consists in guessing the meaning of two or more nouns, which sound alike but have different meanings, without any other help than the answers given to the above questions.

  19. When all the answers have been written, the papers are collected by the President.

  20. No one is to see what answers have been written by any other person.

  21. The questions are to be put plainly, though in the alternative, if desired, and the answers must be plain and direct.

  22. Dave tried to think of something to say, but the German seemed not to want answers to his questions.

  23. If they speak the truth, their answers to my questions may be very interesting, and enlightening.

  24. She fancied she heard answers in the affirmative, and then again she wasn't sure.

  25. Of course the only boy who replied to every question was Slightly, and no one could have been more hopeful of coming out first, but his answers were perfectly ridiculous, and he really came out last: a melancholy thing.

  26. The objections must be compared with the evidence; we must know what accusation each brings against the other, and what answers they receive.

  27. If my method itself answers your objections, it is good; if not, it is good for nothing.

  28. Yet he does not succeed in winning any formal avowal from Sophy; she listens to what he says and answers nothing.

  29. All the answers in the catechism are the wrong way about; it is the scholar who instructs the teacher; in the child's mouth they are a downright lie, since they explain what he does not understand, and affirm what he cannot believe.

  30. Let your answers be always grave, brief, decided, and without trace of hesitation.

  31. She is discouraged by ill-treatment; she no longer speaks to us, no longer answers to our call; when she has been scorned so long, it is as hard to recall her as it was to banish her.

  32. And yet in all probability no one of these answers is true, or anywhere near the truth.

  33. The questions he now asks and answers are, in effect, (1) Will Wealth confer the good, the tranquil and enduring satisfaction which men seek?

  34. It is not a telephone, but it answers the purpose far better.

  35. As far as I can remember, the conversation rested principally with me, and her answers came back chiefly in unspoken thoughts.

  36. I only know that he answers to the name of Joe.

  37. Poor Anne looked all the whiter, and only mumbled out a few answers to the kind counsels lavished upon her.

  38. People qualify for public services By ticking answers at random choices!

  39. In many cases distinct answers to these prayers are secured, so evident that none could mistake them.

  40. If an answer is desired to the question, "Is such an institution needed," that number answers is most emphatically.

  41. He has good reason to believe in the power of prayer, for the answers he has received in some cases have seemed almost miraculous.

  42. At three o'clock, he appears promptly on the platform in the auditorium where the Adult department of the Sunday-school meets, gives a short exposition of the lesson for the day, and answers from the Question Box.

  43. Such direct, unmistakable answers to prayer strengthen faith, give confidence to ask for prayers for loved ones, and make it a very earnest, solemn part of the prayer meeting service.

  44. But various answers have been given at different times, to the question, How shall we divide the ten?

  45. This answers fairly to the date of Pentecost, which was afterwards connected by tradition with the giving of the law.

  46. His spinal cord answers to the ventral cord of the articulates.

  47. The intercalation of a new organic molecule in a living being answers to the introduction of a new form in the universal organic series.

  48. Runjeet takes off his shoes and stoops down, and puts some of the dust on his forehead; it amounts to taking off a hat, and only answers to the same respect that we should wish anybody to pay on entering one of our own churches.

  49. John,' and it answers to its name quite readily.

  50. The inventive power which coins new words or modifies old ones, and adapts them to new wants and conditions as often as they arise, answers to the variety-making power in the animal creation.

  51. Our savants have never discovered the reason why this is so, And ninety per cent of the laymen care less than the savants know; It answers every purpose that this is manifest: The paint keeps getting redder the farther you go out West.

  52. It answers every purpose fully better than the others, and can be had of all the instrument makers for a third of the expense of those previously in use.

  53. In order to discover the foreign body, probes will sometimes be required; the finger often answers the purpose best, unless when the wound is of considerable depth.

  54. The Indian rubber bandage worn over the stocking or drawers answers fully as well as any other method.

  55. Passing on to Mr. Holland in George Yard, I cheered him with answers to his many inquiries as to the placing out of his rescued ones.

  56. The fallowing plain answers to practical questions, are written by those well acquainted with the work:-- I.

  57. We have to-day realised answers to your prayers for us, whilst cutting through miles of ice, going at the rate of two knots an hour, but all has been peace and safety.

  58. Deeply interesting were their testimonies of answers to prayer, the power of the Word, and delivering grace in time of trial in the factories where they labour.

  59. I've just received," he said, "the answers to our cables to Liverpool and Paris.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "answers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.