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Example sentences for "best they"

  • He therefore caused the little remaining food to be given out equally to the companies, ordered them to follow as best they could to the Chaudiere settlements, and set out with a birch canoe and five bateaux.

  • The men on the coachman's seat protected themselves from the rain with their cloaks as best they could, and uttered no complaint.

  • As it was utterly impossible to advance farther with dog and sledge, they were compelled to restrain their impatience as best they could, and await open water, when they might resume their journey in kayaks.

  • So they had to get food as best they could.

  • Without beasts of burden, the tired workers themselves had to drag the logs as best they could, and then with slow and painful toil hew them to the right size and shape and put them in their proper places.

  • The British officers rallied their troops as best they could.

  • Old squaws or invalids rode as best they could on top of the baggage on the larger travoys.

  • The four officers slept in the sleigh as best they could.

  • Similarities in words, in common with all tongues, are found between the Aztec and others, but at best they can be called only accidental.

  • Half dead with cold and weariness they reached the temple, where drawing their mantles over them they flung themselves down in a confused heap on the rush mats, so often mentioned, and slept as best they could.

  • They told him as best they could, how for the love of a peddler of pepper, named Toveyo, the princess had lain down to die.

  • They breakfasted as best they could on coffee without sugar or cream, and some stale bread, with an egg apiece, and whisky.

  • The family came out in front of the house, keeping back their tears as best they could at this the first parting; but Sam, tho he loved them well, had no room in his heart for regret.

  • Clark declared the fight finished, and the crowd broke up hastily, leaving Cleary and his associate to get Sam away as best they could.

  • The Moritos passed through the jungle with the agility and noiselessness of cats, but the three white men floundered along as best they could.

  • They had covered his remains with their hands as best they could, piling up a little mound of sand over it.

  • Now as we loaded the oxen, it was agreed that Rogers and I should go ahead with all but Old Crump, and get in camp as soon as possible, and they were to follow on as best they could.

  • The British troops all this time were replying as best they could to the enemy's fire, but the men were gradually being worn out, and their shooting was comparatively ineffective.

  • Most of these were removed to Omdurman, where they were left to get on as best they could, and exposed to many privations.

  • Many of the sick found room in the ambulances, and others trudged along as best they could on foot.

  • Then men made ready for the fray as best they might, and stood, sword in hand and drenched with foam, clinging to the bulwarks of the Gudruda as she wallowed through the seas.

  • Now all the men climb down the slippery rocks as best they may, though the spray wets them, and with them goes Atli.

  • Then Eric called for men to follow him, and many answered, creeping as best they might to where he stood.

  • Express my regret that I am obliged to leave at once, but I am sure he will have so much to hear, from his daughter, that it is best they should be alone together, for a time.

  • The wounded were put on a boat and a detail left to bury the dead, after which they must catch up as best they can.

  • Across the bows of these the artillery, cavalry and wagons were passing in a continuous stream, and infantry was crossing through and among them as best they could.

  • The boys passed the day as best they could in reading and playing games, and in snowballing each other and Jack Ness and Aleck Pop.

  • And he and Sam raised Tom up as best they could.

  • They put in the time as best they could, although every minute seemed five.

  • The three went to their rooms and cleaned up as best they could, and then took a walk down the road in the direction of Rushville.

  • The boys went into the fight hungry, lay for two days in trenches, almost without food; and when they were wounded, were ordered to make their way to the rear as best they could.

  • There were only two old scows which had been thrown away as useless, but the Red Cross men patched them up as best they could, and then loaded them with the material asked for.

  • Orders were passed that the men should try to entrench themselves as best they could, and spades and other tools were sent forward to those corps who were not provided with them already.

  • They were advised to make their way to Gravesend, and then to shift for themselves as best they could.

  • In the daily practice of railway working station-masters, porters, signalmen, engine-drivers or guards are frequently placed in difficulties which they have to surmount as best they can.

  • They separated, to weather the storms of winter as best they might, hunting and fishing amongst the savages, and enduring every species of privation and suffering which fate could inflict upon them.

  • Some of the English were kept prisoners, while others made their way as best they could to New Severn and Albany.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "best they" 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:
    are here; best advantage; best calculated; best could; best known; best love; best respects; best seen; best suited; best take; best they; best understood; best work; best works; bestow upon; bestowed upon; digestive tract; economic factor; fair statement; however much; lucky fellow; official account; preached unto; stood like; took their; working parties