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Example sentences for "birthday present"

  • And the best of it is," he chuckled, "it's all through her giving you that birthday present.

  • She handed me a five dollar bill, saying, "Tib, my dear, my only disappointment is that I cannot give you as large a birthday present as I had planned.

  • Papa was so provoked when I told him of it that I did not dare say a word about the riding-habit, especially as he had just handed me my little Swiss watch as my birthday present.

  • However, he does not know that you thought of making him a birthday present, so you are at liberty to spend your money as you like.

  • Mamma sent it me to buy a birthday present with, and I've spent sevenpence already.

  • Is that the way to buy a birthday present?

  • Then I'll buy you a birthday present--something spiffing.

  • Mamma sent it me last week to buy a birthday present.

  • Then she added in sport, "I wish you would give it to me for my birthday present.

  • The little place in the country, given to Edith partly in jest by her father as a birthday present, was now their only refuge, and to this they prepared to go on the first of April.

  • In providing for birthdays to come, I guess you have forgotten your baby's birthday present.

  • Sunday afternoons preaches moral sermons to daughters, who are laughing in their sleeves at him all the time, and who brags about the meerschaum pipe which the seducer of his own daughter gives him as a birthday present!

  • My daughter bought it for me as a birthday present.

  • She brought him a white lamb as a birthday present, and made him some sort of a speech besides; but what it was all about nobody could tell, she spoke so low.

  • Tell me, Toto," said the girl; "what would Ozma like best for a birthday present?

  • She met the Patchwork Girl and said: "What are you going to give Ozma for a birthday present?

  • And you spent it all on a birthday present for me!

  • That thousand dollars of his was earmarked for Lucille's birthday present, and he doubted whether he ought to risk it.

  • He was actually in a position to go to a thousand dollars for Lucille's birthday present.

  • Do you still demand your discharge as a birthday present?

  • Field-marshal, we give you peace as a birthday present!

  • The only thing I understand is, that I am no more of any use, and I request your majesty to give me my discharge as a birthday present--be so kind as to grant it immediately.

  • The third bequeathed the Moonstone as a birthday present to his niece, on condition that my father would act as executor.

  • The wicked Colonel's will has left his Diamond as a birthday present to my cousin Rachel," says Mr. Franklin.

  • A chance word dropped by Mr. Franklin, when the two were alone, one day, after dinner, revealed that he had been charged by his father with a birthday present to be taken to Miss Rachel.

  • Is there any young lady in existence, sir, who could resist the temptation of accepting such a birthday present as The Moonstone?

  • What can we give her for a birthday present?

  • I am looking for a birthday present for my wife," I answered.

  • Well," I said; "I'm down here to get a birthday present for my wife.

  • Nobody seemed to be very much interested whether she got a birthday present or not.

  • The next day, in order to square myself with my wife for getting a letter I hadn't any use for, I went to one of those New York department stores to get her a birthday present.

  • Do you know what Ralph is going to give me for a birthday present, Grandmother?

  • It's my birthday present, and I want to see it first.

  • Let's go see if Norman Crane's aunt sent him a birthday present," suggested Sister the first morning they were free to leave the yard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birthday present" 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:
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