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Example sentences for "colleagues"

Lexicographically close words:
collation; collations; collator; collators; colleague; collect; collectable; collected; collectedly; collectedness
  1. Matters in that city were at last brought to a crisis, and the doings of this gentleman and his colleagues came to light.

  2. The apparition was none other than Merrylees, who, having met the owner of the donkey and cart, and been told that his two colleagues were away with them to Penicuik, suspected their design, and had thus frustrated it.

  3. But much less would have been heard of these traits if the distinction made between him and his colleagues had been less conspicuous and less constant.

  4. By the end of March he began to breathe more freely; he had saved himself and his colleagues thus far and now he hoped that the worst was over.

  5. France and America were not to be separated; Lord North and his colleagues were not to be saved by the bad faith of either of their enemies.

  6. The influence of de Vergennes at Philadelphia had by no means been exhausted in securing colleagues for Mr. Adams.

  7. I am at a loss," he wrote, "to explain your conduct and that of your colleagues on this occasion.

  8. This was the work of Lord Durham, who had outrun all his colleagues at the time of the Reform Bill, and earned for himself the name of "Radical Jack.

  9. I owe my colleagues an explanation," said Stamfordham.

  10. It estranged his feelings altogether from his colleagues in Jerusalem, and he embraced the first best opportunity to rid himself entirely of his Jewish associations.

  11. Therefore Paul's epistles from his prison in Cæsarea are thunder-bolts against the law, circumcision, and his colleagues in Jerusalem.

  12. We know that Paul, who was then about thirty-five years old, wrote from Rome epistles in defence of his gospel and against his colleagues in Jerusalem, in the same spirit as those from Cæsarea.

  13. He meant, not to establish two independent jurisdictions, but that there should be one commonwealth, whose two rulers should be colleagues and coadjutors in its defence.

  14. He and his colleagues restored the long-lost peace.

  15. No sooner was his restraining hand removed than his colleagues fought among themselves, until Constantine overthrew his antagonists and once more united the entire Empire.

  16. We usually met our American colleagues at midday, and we were by that time in possession of the views of our home government as adopted by their Cabinet in the afternoon of the same day.

  17. It cannot be denied, however, that the absence of restraint in time attracted to the business unscrupulous men whose sharp practices frequently forced their colleagues of better conscience to do what their sense of honor and justice condemned.

  18. That Mr. Blackstone's programme will eventually receive the approval of a large number of his colleagues there can be but little doubt.

  19. The very patronage, too, he had assumed; so that, in fact, his colleagues were comparatively without influence or occupation.

  20. Lord Melbourne and his colleagues were recalled; explanations followed in both Houses, and the incident disappeared in a cloud of angry gossip.

  21. We laughed exultingly at the thought of our dismal colleagues .

  22. I writhe to think of being overcome by so unfair an enemy before I have demonstrated myself to maiden aunts who mistrust me, to colleagues who scorn me, and even to brothers and sisters who believe in me.

  23. Like most of his colleagues who have what is technically called "passed the Chair," he takes things very coolly, probably thinking that nothing remains to be done after having passed through such an ordeal.

  24. Martainville, the only one among his colleagues who really liked him and stood by him loyally, was more hated by the Liberals than any man on the Royalist side, and this fact drew down all the hate of the Liberals on Lucien's head.

  25. The Duchess of Kent and the Lady in Waiting were in an apartment immediately adjoining, and close to where Sir James Clark and his medical colleagues were assembled.

  26. And their chief was a Low(e) man from the land of moonrakers; and him and his colleagues were the Reformers of to-day and the Tories of to-morrow.

  27. His colleagues rocked and roared with laughter.

  28. Christophe's colleagues in the orchestra paid him sly compliments to which he did not reply, because he would not allow any meddling with his affairs.

  29. He mentioned his colleagues of his own town and the neighboring towns by name: or if he did not name them his allusions were so transparent that nobody could be mistaken.

  30. It was at the time when German poets (like their colleagues in France) were recasting all the Greek tragedies.

  31. It was then that Prince Gortchakoff and his colleagues in the Ministry were inspired by the doctrines of Katkoff, who in his Moscow Gazette exercised much authority over public opinion and even over the Tzar.

  32. Mr. President, did I say one word about the colleagues of the gentleman?

  33. Mr. Webster in his published letter, in justification of his course in remaining in the cabinet when his colleagues left it, gave as a reason the expected unity of the party under a new administration.

  34. He would say, however, that the remarks of the senator, harsh as they were, might well be construed as having allusion to his colleagues in the other House.

  35. Moore on behalf of himself and his colleagues urged his friend to accept and presented many cogent reasons why he should do so.

  36. Representatives they were, but, as said, of the British Government in India, not of India, whereas their colleagues represented their Nations.

  37. In 1836 Mr. Lincoln was again a candidate for the Legislature; his colleagues on the Whig ticket in Sangamon being, for Representatives, John Dawson, William F.

  38. His colleagues were several of them old acquaintances of the Vandalia times.

  39. In 1779 he visited Munich as member of the privy council, but after a short stay there differences with his colleagues and with the authorities of Bavaria drove him back to Pempelfort.

  40. Outside the all-important domain of finance, the attention of Minghetti and his colleagues was principally absorbed by strife between church and state, army reform and railway redemption.

  41. With his colleagues he left office in June 1846.

  42. This confidence made him less disposed than many of his colleagues to make the best of the renunciation of the candidature made, on behalf of his son, by the prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

  43. So far, then, as this declaration is concerned, it is clear that Gramont's responsibility must be shared with his sovereign and his colleagues (Ollivier op.

  44. This simple declaration of a strength of party was also attended with a very handsome rebuke of one of his colleagues (Mr. J.

  45. I said that I had not, and I did not believe my colleagues had.

  46. How he conducted that defence, was well known to some of his colleagues in that House.

  47. I am sure that my colleagues and every one in the House hold the character and virtue of that man in high esteem.

  48. But in the matter of open alliance with the rebels against the British Government France temporized, nor could the utmost efforts of Franklin and his colleagues extort a decision.

  49. His policy was modelled upon the worst of the panic-bred measures by means of which Pitt and his colleagues were seeking to suppress "Jacobinism" in England.

  50. He attempted to use the occasion of the appearance of an American Mission in Paris to wring money out of America, not only for the French Treasury, but for his own private profit and that of his colleagues and accomplices.


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