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Example sentences for "bachelor"

Lexicographically close words:
bacchanalian; bacchanalians; bacco; baccy; bacheler; bachelorhood; bachelors; bachi; bacillary; bacilli
  1. There was always a warm, corner in Jimmy Wallace's bachelor heart for youth, and innocence, and enthusiasm.

  2. She got one of those rich young bachelor women in New York to go into the thing with her, and organized a company, and made Abe Shuman an offer on all the costumes for Come On In.

  3. That trusty young bachelor who rides so gaily by the old knight's side, and who regards him with love and reverence, is his son, a brave young knight of twenty years of age, as we guess.

  4. John Matthew earned the distinction of being the first, but probably not the last, bachelor Lord Mayor; and a cheerless mayoralty it must have been.

  5. He lived a bachelor life in the Temple, doing good continually.

  6. She calls herself a bachelor maid, and if she is a fair sample of what they are, I'd like to be one.

  7. The lowest of the several literary degrees; a Bachelor of Arts.

  8. A go-between proposed her for this bachelor and it was arranged that he should pay her family eight strings of cash for "bridal outfit," and in due time the marriage took place.

  9. He pined for the society of a like-minded bachelor, a jolly bachelor of sociable habits, who would understand and sympathise with a desire to be free for a while from the tyranny of the tempestuous petticoat.

  10. Well, Fate has thrown us together again and I am still a bachelor - and I have money -" "Do please try not to insult me any further.

  11. Now, besides the sister who was jealous, she had a bachelor brother of a certain well-known stamp.

  12. She led the way back to the bachelor sitting-room, and for some little time Dick amused them greatly with his experiences over editors and magazines, and then the two went off together to Lorraine's flat.

  13. We find Ojeda next in Jamaica, and afterwards in San Domingo, where he inquired earnestly after the Bachelor Enciso, who had, it will be remembered, promised to aid him with reinforcements and supplies.

  14. Oxford, where fifteen years earlier he had received his degree of bachelor of music, and in 1805 he succeeded Dr Crotch as musical lecturer at the Royal Institution.

  15. Being a bachelor I've had to rely on my own unaided taste.

  16. Let me, without losing any more time, come to the eve of my wedding and the last night I spent in my bachelor rooms.

  17. I lived a quiet and contented bachelor until I was twenty-eight, and then I met Diana Chetwynd for the first time.

  18. He was not much to look at--rather a rough, mongrelly kind of animal; and he and a young man had kept house together for a long time, for the young man was a bachelor and lived in chambers by himself.

  19. He was appointed a Wort's travelling bachelor 1818, and spent some time in Italy and Sicily, afterwards publishing an account of his journey.

  20. In 1839 he was made bachelor in music at Oxford.

  21. I, bachelor John, Have had griefs of my own.

  22. Bachelor doors are always open in the army, and the desk key was generally in the lock.

  23. He lived in an old adobe near the big corral, boarded himself and a couple of Mexicans upon tortillas, frijoles and bacon, and was famous throughout the countryside as a confirmed bachelor and woman hater.

  24. There he found for her a fitting home till she should be old enough to sit at his table and live in his bachelor house; and no one but old Mr Gresham knew who she was, or whence she had come.

  25. He had a few bottles of good wine in his cellar, and occasionally asked a brother bachelor to take a chop with him; but beyond this he had touched very little on the cares of housekeeping.

  26. Neither did Josiah Cargill seek for any, but patiently submitted to all the evils with which a bachelor estate is attended, and which were at least equal to those which beset the renowned Mago-Pico during his state of celibacy.

  27. Is it to be wondered at, then, that the bachelor is selfish?

  28. The Bachelor's Advantage* There are enough who think "a young man married is a young man marred" to cause the bachelor to hesitate before renouncing his liberties, and to fight shy of entanglement as long as possible.

  29. A little duck laid gently across the grate, the kettle whistling with steam, and the coffee-pot ready--what bachelor was ever attended by more charming handmaiden than I by my little open fire?

  30. Tom, and I" (how funny to hear her call our old bachelor doctor, "Tom!

  31. He had been a bachelor too long, had travelled too much, lived too much in hotels; he admitted it himself.

  32. A couple of very young gentlemen, beardless students with bachelor degrees, were of the party; they were poets who had put aside their studies last year.

  33. Mrs. Hanka was greatly gifted and warmly interested in many things; she was a welcome guest wherever the youthful assembled, whether in homes or bachelor dens; nobody could resist her.

  34. I used to fancy myself the very reverse of a marrying man, and I don't say but what at this moment I think the man who lives and dies a bachelor does the wisest for his own comfort and his own prosperity.

  35. But I fear he is a dangerous friend for you, Gilbert," exclaimed Marian, horrified by this glimpse of bachelor life.

  36. It was just possible that Mr. Holbrook might be one of Sir David's innumerable bachelor acquaintances.

  37. At the very first he had been inclined to believe that Marian's lover must needs be one of the worthless bachelor crew with which the baronet was accustomed to surround himself.

  38. A man who has no taste for expensive bachelor pleasures and no home has very little opportunity for getting rid of large sums of money.

  39. She is the gentlest dearest girl, and is very well used to bachelor habits in the person of her uncle.


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