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Example sentences for "arrear"

Lexicographically close words:
array; arrayed; arraying; arrays; arre; arrearages; arrears; arreigned; arrer; arrers
  1. With the exception of the Hollander element, the officials also were glad of its arrival, and secretly hoped that the country would be taken over, when there would be more chance of their getting their arrear pay.

  2. Having fallen in arrear of the time, these generally refer to unknown words he has encountered in the newspapers.

  3. The priests even in times of grave embarrassment claimed the right of exemption from public burdens, and only after very troublesome controversy submitted to make payment of the taxes in arrear (558).

  4. The sickness of the Roman general and the mutiny of one of his corps, occasioned by their pay being in arrear for many years, favoured the rising.

  5. This threat does not imply that he is to change his language or his country, but that he must pay all the arrear of rent which he owes, and that he must thenceforward pay his rent on that day when it becomes due.

  6. I am thus thrown so much into arrear respecting Milton, that I already despair of being ready at the time appointed, and so I have told my employer.

  7. A strange weariness that has long had dominion over me has indisposed and indeed disqualified me for all employment;[681] and my hindrances besides have been such that I am sadly in arrear in all quarters.

  8. Besides, the whole country is heavily in arrear already for land-taxes and quit-rents.

  9. He looked up every outstanding liability, and routed out a lot of recusants who had fallen into arrear with their penalties.

  10. There is besides some arrear of rent from the College farms which was due at the time of the sale, and which Hugonin has never clearly settled.

  11. Its army still lay on our borders, and in distress for a long arrear of pay, not less occasioned by the want of pecuniary funds than a stoppage of communication.

  12. That every Member not in arrear of his Annual Subscription, shall be entitled to One Copy of every Work published by the Society during that year.

  13. Under these circumstances the smallness of the above arrear is no proof of the fairness of the revenue.

  14. Occasionally two or three districts have only one judge between them, who is then usually in arrear with his work.

  15. Are you generally a little bit in arrear end of the year?

  16. That class are pretty well looked after by the fish-curer; they are only allowed advances in such small proportions as enable them to get through the year, and to be as little in arrear as possible at the end.

  17. Stewart, 8917] Mr. Sievwright made a statement with regard to this letter, which adds nothing to what appears in it, except the fact that most of the tenants were in arrear for rent.

  18. But do you think a man would stand permanently in arrear at settlement with you if he had money in the bank?

  19. You said that a number of your neighbours had been carried through by the fish-merchant when they were in arrear from the badness of the season, and you also said that you knew a great number who had been so carried through?

  20. Are these cattle often taken from men who are in arrear with their accounts?

  21. Did he tell Thomas Wilson that he must not sell his cow because he was in arrear of rent, or in debt?

  22. There might be three rents in arrear of the rental.

  23. That event was not likely to happen; for, since the grant had been made, a new arrear of tithes had accrued.

  24. He argued that there were more cases in the court of chancery than could be considered during the year, and that with the present judges in the court of chancery all those in arrear would be speedily dismissed.

  25. He had also to get through a considerable arrear of professional affairs, and to write several letters on the private business of Lord Dreddlington, and of Mr. Titmouse--respectively.

  26. But all this is not an answer to H's question; what he wants to know is whether the day at the Antipodes is twelve hours in advance or in arrear of our day and, whichever it is, why is it?


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrears; decline; defalcation; default; deficit; delinquency; failure; imperfection; inadequacy; inferiority; insufficiency; overdraft; shortage; slump