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Example sentences for "are still"

  • His methods, his rapid inventions and procedures, in this matter, are still memorable to Prussia; and perhaps might with advantage be better known than they are in some other Countries.

  • But we are still to know, Whether the subjects of the Pope or of the Grand Turk are the more abject.

  • One forgets that it is February, that we are still in the winter--the luminous winter of Egypt.

  • Deuteronomy thoroughly recognises that offerings, even though offered outside of Jerusalem, are still offered to Jehovah; for the author of Leviticus xvii.

  • It is only in preparation, it has not yet appeared: we are still standing on the ground of Deuteronomy, but the way is being prepared for the transition.

  • Here we are still in Horeb, not in Mosera.

  • The late laborious Sharon Turner, whose 'Histories' are still kept in print (apparently).

  • Think for a moment, dear reader, for all readers are dear, even the stupidest, and you will see that you are still entangled in conventions and prejudices.

  • We are still at Newby Bridge, and nothing has occurred of remarkable interest, nor have we made any excursions, beyond moderate walks.

  • Here we are still in London, at least a month longer than we expected, and at the very dreariest and dullest season of the year.

  • Such confessions, by tens of thousands, are still to be found in the judicial records of Germany, and indeed of all Europe.

  • As we enter the sixteenth century the Dead Sea myths, and especially the legends of Lot's wife, are still growing.

  • If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our Fellow-Mortals; and if we succeed in our Expectations, we are Eternally Happy.

  • Of this second Nicene council the acts are still extant; a curious monument of superstition and ignorance, of falsehood and folly.

  • So far as we can learn we are still as completely cut off from the outside world as we were yesterday.

  • Got away at 3:30 to the banging of heavy siege artillery and invitations to come back "if we are still here.

  • The Minister arranged to have his telegrams accepted and transmitted without loss of time, so we shall soon get word home that we are still in the land of the living.

  • The Germans evidently were led to believe they had gained a great victory; whereas the forts, which are the only object of the campaign, are still intact.

  • These last would seem therefore to be merely such permissions to travel by the Government post-horses as are still required in Russia, perhaps in lineal derivation from Mongol practice.

  • It is worth noticing that the housings of cut cloth or appliqué work ("draps entaillez") are still in fashion in India for the caparison of elephants.

  • In all these extraconscious matters, we have not yet reached the stage of definite deduction, we are still bringing up materials to the scene of operations.

  • While we are still breathing on this earth it is already surmounting most of the great obstacles that limit and paralyse our existence.

  • In all those manifestations of our unknown guest, it is our posthumous ego that already lives in us while we are still in the flesh and at moments joins that which does not die in those who have quitted their body.

  • The sculptures that support the stage--Sileni bending beneath the weight of cornices, and lines of graceful youths and maidens--are still in their ancient station.

  • Houses climb right to the crests of gaunt bare peaks; and the brown mediæval walls with square towers which protected them upon the mountain side, following the inequalities of the ground, are still a marked feature in the landscape.

  • The inner court for stabled horses and the stations for the catapults are still in tolerable preservation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are still" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another manner; are about; are all; are apt; are but; are given; are going; are here; are led; are made; are obliged; are often; are ready; are the; areca nuts; considerable number; first vice; fundamental principle; human creatures; latent heat; lawful things; present society; these birds; tiny woman; title given; whither thou