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Example sentences for "better able"

  • We have not as yet taken root in the earth; when the branches and leaves shall have appeared, then we shall be better able to oppose the mighty.

  • I am unwilling, however, to follow this subject further, because I shall be better able to do so when we meet, which I hope will be shortly, if the Lord will.

  • When you come hither you will perhaps be better able to inform us.

  • The senate strongly opposed it, and would not suffer Camillus to lay down his dictatorship, thinking, that, under the shelter of his great name and authority, they should be better able to contend for the power of the aristocracy.

  • By which means they should not only have much more room, but by the advantage of two great and magnificent cities, be better able to maintain their territories and their fortunes in general.

  • Without explaining himself farther to the vizier, he desired to see the prince, that he might be better able to judge of his disorder and its cure.

  • After they have seen the effect of the present regulation, they will be better able to judge of what is right in this particular than we can do.

  • Does not every gentleman discover that, when a particular article is offered to the consideration of the committee, he will be better able to give his opinion upon it than on an aggregate question?

  • We shall be better able to judge how far we are likely to succeed, when the bill for the collection of the revenue is brought forward.

  • Still Charles sat quiet, for he judged rightly that Monteath would be better able to compose himself, if left undisturbed.

  • Mr Barker was no better able to guess Mr Rathbone's designs than Charles himself; so they were all obliged to wait in patience till their kind friend should return to town, which did not take place till the following autumn.

  • They were, indeed, better able to withstand the violence of the winds and waves than might be supposed from the materials of which they were built.

  • It appears to me, however, that through these it may still be discovered; and in all probability we should be better able to form some idea of it were the oldest method of making indigo still known.

  • I have given it at full length, as accurately as possible, and I have added, in order that the reader may be better able to compare and judge, references to the original words of the authors.

  • That I might be better able in my technological lectures to convey to my pupils an idea of knitting, I made a drawing on the subject, and caused a pin-maker to weave for me a small screen of brass wire.

  • If we resolutely shut our eyes to these patches of fierce irregularity, we shall be better able to criticize the author's own work by the standard of his contemporaries.

  • But the effort is worth making, since the mind, as soon as it has realized what not to expect, is better able to appreciate what is offered.

  • With Sackville's stiff lines before us we shall be better able to appreciate the later playwright's genius.

  • It will be quite time enough for that when he is better able to stand it.

  • She will be better able to bear it after a good night's sleep.

  • I might perhaps be better able to judge whether it would be advantageous or otherwise for you to accept the offer, but you must be the best judge as to whether you would like to accept it or not.

  • And, should there be anything in the way of her returning immediately, I can remove her for a time to where her children are, as I shall be better able to keep my eye upon her there.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better advantage; better come; better condition; better days; better for; better knight; better known; better make; better position; better tell; better than; better things; better understanding; better understood; deep reverie; dozen people; easy sail; generally accepted; geographic range; great improvement; minded people; public instruction; seek them; what cause; what terms; your opinion