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Example sentences for "buy"

Lexicographically close words:
buty; butyl; butyrate; butyric; buxom; buye; buyed; buyer; buyers; buyeth
  1. Yet I would buy thee to remain here--here at my court; here by my hand which will give thee the labour thou lovest, and will defend thee if defence be needed.

  2. Then he would buy my Colisyum, and I wouldn't sell it for all his puffball lordship might offer.

  3. That the world should go on when he was gone, that men should buy and sell and laugh and drink, and flaunt it in the sun, while he, Prince Kaid, would be done with it all.

  4. This seasonable supply enabled us to buy some good food, and to make some amends for our late privations.

  5. Mohammed told him, that horses were nearly connected with his fate, and that he must buy horses before he would be fortunate.

  6. Now, if you like, you shall buy the new tire, and then we will have some rides.

  7. How can Mr. Morrow buy such jewelry, do you suppose?

  8. That will buy enough to stay your hunger until you can reach home to enjoy the good supper your aunt will have ready.

  9. Here is your money for it, lady, and we will each buy a roll.

  10. We will not take breakfast here, but will buy a roll in the village and when we come to a brook we can eat it.

  11. Why, that would buy a house and garden in the Odenwald.

  12. To his surprise and delight, he found that he could buy a singer and a cage for two marks, and he purchased both.

  13. Paul and I will buy twenty cents' worth and Fritz need not help because he has lost his money.

  14. Now I see that it is my usual time for getting supper, and Paul will go out with me to buy something for it.

  15. But never mind; your luck will change; your Pixy will come back, and I will buy you a new straw hat.

  16. Remember that the police decides that you must buy your opera tickets on a Sunday morning, and stand queue for hours till you get them.

  17. They buy or are presented with two or three costumes each year, and when they marry they have a stock that will last a lifetime and will provide them with the variety their pride demands.

  18. They buy a few yards of cheap stuff and get in a sewing-woman to make it up, for as a rule they are not nearly as clever and capable as Englishwomen about making things for themselves.

  19. Sometimes the employers buy the cards and stamps, and show them at the Post Office once a month; sometimes they expect the servant to pay half the money required.

  20. But if she has money only she can buy florid pretentious stuff that outdoes in ugliness the worst productions of our "suite" sellers.

  21. Take care you don't try to buy stamps at the Post Office out of your turn.

  22. His wife performs greater miracles still, for she has to buy a winter gown and a summer gown, a hat and gloves, for her £2.

  23. In England, if you buy a goose your cook roasts it and sends it up, and that is all you ever know of it.

  24. But you will know for certain that when you want ribbons for a hat you had better buy them in Kensington and not in Frankfurt, and that though there are plenty of cheap materials in Germany, the same quality would be cheaper still in London.

  25. Your English maid-servant will buy a blouse length at a sale for a few pence, make it up smartly, and wear it out in a month of Sundays.

  26. So we set off to buy our tape, and again found a private room, an amiable family, but no one who felt able to sell anything.

  27. Supper in Germany is the easiest meal in the day to provide, as you buy the substantial part of it at a Delikatessenhandlung, and find that even a German landlady will condescend to get you rolls and butter and beer.

  28. When people over there know no better they buy themselves tawdry horrors, just as they do here.

  29. He asked Gray at the same time where he could buy some bullets, and three-penny worth of gunpowder.

  30. I wish then," said Harris, "that he would buy me an ounce of arsenic.

  31. One of the party could buy a lot at the sale, and going to pay for it, he could see what money was in the chest, by presenting a note of such an amount as that Mr. Walsh would not be likely to be able to give change without going to the safe.

  32. I shall never have anywhere to put them, so it is folly to keep them, if any one will buy them.

  33. She is quite a mother to me--helps me to buy my candles and do all my shopping--takes care of me at dinner, and quite rejoices when she sees me enjoy conversation or anything else.

  34. Do you think any one would buy my "Encyclopaedia Britannica" at half-price, and my globes?

  35. Even when a man goes on an excursion of pleasure he will at starting buy a penny ticket which insures his life for a hundred pounds in case of accident!

  36. They bring also many furs, which they buy in Siberia, coming towards the Moscow.

  37. I'm quite indifferent if you buy or no: Though I'm but poor, there's nothing that I owe.

  38. Twill buy you bread, and vegetables too, And wine, a good pint measure: add to this Such needful things as flesh and blood would miss.

  39. Well, then, who will buy a cow that is sure to be dead to-morrow or next day?

  40. That we must keep a cow was acknowledged by both; and the first step to be taken was to buy one.

  41. Where can I buy some toys and truck, to come out on Number Three?

  42. I didn't buy 'em from the Chinaman that offered, but I come horrible near it.

  43. That I can easily buy in Chang-ngan," replied Pei-Hang.

  44. We don't care what price we might have to pay for a fox's liver; pray, buy one for us at any expense.

  45. He'll buy him, and then he'll boil him in a pot and eat him.

  46. When I've got it I will buy all the land hereabouts and become Count.

  47. When his money was spent, the Jackal felt puzzled as to how to get a living, since no one would give him food and he could buy none.

  48. But I'll buy the pestle and mortar from you with some of the money the mandarin has given me.

  49. And directly we get to the village we'll buy some biscuits; I know it's long past dinner-time.

  50. If he has money enough he can buy the succession to Folking if you choose to sell it to him.

  51. An abridged edition of one of these (the price is one to three dollars) should be accessible to each student who cannot buy the larger volumes.

  52. She said not to buy those sort of carpet tacks.

  53. Wrong: For a dime you can buy two pieces of pie or cake and ice cream.

  54. Right: For a dime you can buy two pieces of pie, or cake and ice cream.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accede; accept; acclaim; acquiesce; acquire; agree; applaud; approach; assent; bargain; believe; bribe; buy; cheer; comply; consent; corner; corrupt; credit; engross; finger; fix; get; grease; hail; have; lubricate; marketing; monopolize; nod; obtain; order; pick; procure; purchase; ransom; reach; receive; redeem; rescue; shop; shopping; sop; square; steal; swallow; take; trade; trust; welcome; lubricate; marketing; monopolize; nod; obtain; order; pick; procure; purchase; ransom; reach; receive; redeem; rescue; shop; shopping; sop; square; steal; swallow; take; trade; trust; welcome