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Example sentences for "count"

Lexicographically close words:
counsellours; counsells; counselor; counselors; counsels; countable; countdown; counte; counted; countenance
  1. As she entered her own street she caught sight of Count Rosalka, a young attaché, helping Élise Denman out of a cab at the corner.

  2. Then, after church, Count Rosalka asked to walk home with me.

  3. I count it one of the greatest privileges of my life to have seen these players as I saw and heard them.

  4. Augustus Thomas I count the Pinero of America--and a true American gentleman.

  5. Say, if you want to count the idle people in New York just get up a free show at any hour of the day or night and they will all come.

  6. The advance agents would steal each other's printed matter and posters out of the express offices, and you could always count on a fight between the canvas men whenever the two shows were close enough together.

  7. It was a time when fractions of a second count and Depew's hesitation robbed him of his revenge.

  8. They that dwell in my house and my maids count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

  9. While wisdom is thus of value incommensurate with all else men count precious and rare, it is equally beyond the reach of all other forms of mundane life.

  10. I must speak of my trouble and you will count it rebellion.

  11. The Count wants us to drive to the Cascade.

  12. The count was no longer there, but they soon discovered him standing in his former position on the balcony, indulging in a smoke under the stars.

  13. Adolphe and the Count will always be welcome at Coombe.

  14. I was explaining to the Count the reason I prefer living in England after our marriage.

  15. After a time the count increased his stake, twenty louis being put upon the game.

  16. Count upon my help," he said enthusiastically.

  17. Le Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre is a tale of youth, for the young; and the eldest of us may count himself still young if he can still enjoy it.

  18. So far as your creditors are concerned," he said, "you may count upon my obedience, marquis.

  19. Among the sweetest hours of my dull life, I shall always count those I spent watching that noble face, irradiated by the reflections of the glowing sky and the impressions of a valiant heart.

  20. And be it hereby known to Mallet that we count upon him to turn the wheel.

  21. He had forgiven his old enemies and forgotten his old grievances, and seemed every way reconciled to a world in which he was going to count as an active force.

  22. She is a creature of moods; you can't count upon her; she keeps observation on the stretch.

  23. If there 's doubt in the matter, let the doubt count against one's self.

  24. But he must not acquire too many: if he is too polite when he comes back, Miss Garland will count him as one of the lost.

  25. Now all these sorts of parallels between Shakespeare and the Greeks are, Mr. Collins tells us, not to count as proofs that Shakespeare knew the Greek tragedians.

  26. The chains, if authentic, do not count as objections.

  27. McClellan telegraphs that the enemy far outnumbers him (fears count doubly), but that he will do his utmost and his best.

  28. For the sake and honor of human nature, I pray to destiny Stanton may not fail, and still count among the Wadsworths, the Wades, and the like pure patriots.

  29. We should sympathise with him, and not count it for a limitation, as some of his biographers have done.

  30. This chronology has the appearance of ignoring the Celebrated Trials, but then it is scarcely possible to count Celebrated Trials[65] as one of Borrow's books at all.

  31. Moreover, who was there in those days with blood in his veins who did not count the cultivation of the Fancy as the noblest and most manly of pursuits!

  32. Baron Itajuba, Brazilian Minister to France; Count Sclopis, an Italian statesman, and M.

  33. He disputed his reckonings like a man who must needs count the pennies, and no one suspected the sturdy wayfarer of carrying a fortune around his body.

  34. Eighty francs, that was ten times what the Duke gave, and as he handed me the money he looked up at me and said in that awful whisper of his: 'Count this over carefully when you get home and see if you can find out what else I have given you.

  35. My boots and spurs they count you nought, For in this town they were not bought.

  36. Know, Signor Count Guardiola, that my brother is uno povero pittore; and proud of it too, as so am I, his sister.

  37. Fortunately for her peace of mind, she knew nothing of the designs of Corvino; though she was not long in discovering the inclinations of Captain Count Guardioli.

  38. He could count but one experience, and that of a different kind.

  39. At first sight of Lucetta Torreani the Captain Count experienced a sensation akin to ecstasy.

  40. It was rather an amiability, that hesitated about giving pain; and, influenced by this, she listened to the solicitations and flatteries of the Captain Count almost as if she relished them.

  41. Captain Count Guardioli had received no orders of the kind; though, likely enough, he had given the Vatican some hints of the political proclivities of the sindico of Val di Orno.

  42. But there was no help for it, unless by an act of authority too arbitrary to be passed over without investigation; and the Captain Count was compelled to swallow his chagrin with the best grace he could.

  43. I am glad to know that we can count on your assistance.

  44. So reasoned Captain Count Guardioli; and, from that moment, commenced to lay siege to the heart of Lucetta Torreani.

  45. He did not leave the room before exchanging a look with Lucetta that consoled him for the insult, and another with Captain Count Guardiola, that disturbed his countship's equanimity for the remainder of the evening.

  46. He had caught sight of the sindico's fair daughter as she was crossing one of the corridors, and Captain Count Guardioli was not the man to close his eyes against such attractions as Lucetta possessed.

  47. My friend, it makes a difference when you count God in.

  48. Out of bare eight weeks that I have lived here, six have been spent in prison; and now that they have let me out, I can find nothing better to do than to count the pebbles upon this beach here.

  49. Count von Schwerin, a nephew of the Kaiser.

  50. At Freistadt Count von Sedlitz ignored the passports and ordered the party searched to the skins, including the women.

  51. Count Wolfgangen Durel was struck by a bullet in the head.

  52. Count Oleine's Palace is near perfected in this manner.

  53. They show that he did not travel merely to count steeples, as he expresses himself in one of his Letters: they develop his private character as one of the most amiable kind.

  54. I went to see the Count de Liancourt's Palace in the Rue de Seine, which is well built.

  55. The Count was so exceeding civil, that he would needs make his lady go out of her dressing room, that he might show us the curiosities and pictures in it.

  56. In the evening we saw the garden of Count Giusti's villa where are walks cut out of the main rock, from whence we had a pleasant prospect of Mantua and Parma, though at great distance.

  57. He abused both the Count and his visitors, and in his vexation with himself was ready to speak out and to hold forth upon anything.

  58. Her sister Varya got on Maika, Nikitin on Count Nulin, the officers on their horses, and the long picturesque cavalcade, with the officers in white tunics and the ladies in their riding habits, moved at a walking pace out of the yard.

  59. And either because her Giant was very friendly with Count Nulin, or perhaps by chance, she rode all the time beside Nikitin, as she had done the day before, and the day before that.

  60. She thought a little, and said: "Why is it Count Alexey Petrovitch hasn't come?

  61. She looked anxiously at him and at Count Nulin and said: "You must hold him all the time on the curb, Sergey Vassilitch.

  62. There is no one, I imagine, more Conservative than Count Alexey Petrovitch, yet even he has not come.

  63. Pyotr Dmitritch, angry with Count Alexey Petrovitch, his visitors, and himself, was relieving his heart.

  64. Some one must be staying the night, as Pyotr Dmitritch was addressing some one and speaking loudly: "I don't say that Count Alexey Petrovitch is an impostor.

  65. In his manner with the lawyers he imitated Count Alexey Petrovitch a little, but when the latter said, for instance, "Counsel for the defence, you keep quiet for a little!

  66. Sofya Petrovna said afterwards that there was a tangle within her which it was as difficult to unravel as to count a flock of sparrows rapidly flying by.

  67. After the roll-call the First Sergeant in command calls out "Count fours!

  68. I want to count the silver, and dust the parlor, and keep the library in order, and run to meet my father when he comes home from the office.

  69. Mamma, I can count all the way up to twelve.

  70. After a second stroke, when "Count Robert" was practically finished, the publishers objected to the work in the last volume.

  71. Working with a disabled brain but with heroic resolution, he wrote "Count Robert of Paris" and "Castle Dangerous.

  72. The aptitude for art among all nations of antiquity," remarked Count de Gobineau a few years later, "was derived from an amalgamation with black races.

  73. This amalgamation is clearly apparent in the Greeks to-day and because of it Count de Gobineau has called their ancestors half-breeds and mulattoes.

  74. This they count a juster cause of war than the other, because those injuries are done under some colour of laws.

  75. Commerce is of little use to them, but they know the value of money, and they count for the use of their ambassadors and explorers, so that with it they may have the means of living.

  76. Ze man of my Mutter (I called him 'Papa') vere farmer to ze Count von Zomerblat.

  77. Ven I come to my own country and go to ze town I ask, 'Where live Kustaf Mayer who was farmer to ze Count von Zomerblat?


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "count" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    account; adjudicate; aggregate; allegation; allow; amount; apportion; aristocrat; arraignment; article; aspect; await; baronet; batch; beat; blame; budget; bunch; calculate; calculation; capitulation; case; cast; catalog; census; charge; chunk; cite; clutch; complaint; consider; count; datum; deal; decrease; deem; denunciation; detail; difference; divide; dose; drum; element; enumerate; esteem; estimate; expect; facet; fact; factor; figure; fix; gentleman; grandee; group; heap; hold; hope; hunk; implication; import; imputation; incidental; include; increase; indictment; information; innuendo; insinuation; instance; inventory; item; judge; laird; landslide; lawsuit; look; lot; magnate; matter; mean; measure; mess; militate; minutiae; noble; nobleman; number; opine; pack; page; parcel; part; particular; patrician; peer; plaint; point; poll; portion; pound; presume; problem; product; prosecution; quantity; rank; rate; ration; recapitulation; recite; reckon; reckoning; recount; recounting; reduce; regard; rehearsal; repertory; reproach; respect; returns; ruffle; score; signify; squire; star; state; statement; suit; sum; summary; summation; suppose; swell; tale; tally; tap; taxing; tell; thing; thoroughbred; thrum; thump; total; weigh; whole


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    counted upon; counted worthy; counter attack; counterfeit money; countless numbers; countries where; country called; country clergyman; country code; country flight; country gentlemen; country girl; country house; country houses; country like; country parish; country parson; country places; country road; country school; country town; county clerk; county commissioners; county courts; county judge; county superintendents