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Example sentences for "counted upon"

  • He stands for everything that tends to advance the public welfare, however, and his aid and co-operation can always be counted upon to further measures and movements for the general good.

  • In religious faith he is a Methodist and he can be counted upon to give his support to all projects looking toward the moral advancement of his community.

  • He is not remiss in the duties of citizenship, however, and his co-operation can be counted upon to further every plan and measure for the general good.

  • Body vermin or wet clothes or bad billets or the chance of a sudden and a violent taking-off--no matter what it is--the American soldier may be counted upon to make a joke of it.

  • He much prefers his cheerful chansons, and when an American band plays for him it is a jazz tune that most surely may be counted upon to make him cry "Encore!

  • In the main I believe it may be taken as an accepted fact that the inhabitants of a small place behave after rather a different fashion from the way in which the inhabitants of a great city may be counted upon to bear themselves.

  • Only her looks, of which she was confident, were to be counted upon to carry her beyond the stage doors.

  • But a continuance of such favours was not to be counted upon; and the problem of living a fourth week away from home was one serious and importunate--always assuming she should fail to secure work before her money ran out.

  • Mr. Ledgerwood was a very progressive man, public-spirited in all that he did, and his aid and cooperation could ever be counted upon to further public progress.

  • He and his wife are members of the Federated church at Prescott and his aid can always be counted upon to further any movement that tends to uplift the individual or advance the best interests of the community.

  • He stands for progress and improvement along all lines and his cooperation can ever be counted upon to further any well devised plan for the general good.

  • Both he and his wife attend the Congregational church and can be counted upon to further movements having as their object the moral advancement of the community.

  • He could be counted upon to vote for a Reciprocal Demurrage bill without first consulting the Southern Pacific's political agent, Jere Burke.

  • Such a committee would, of course, be in sympathy with machine policies, and could be counted upon to amend the bill to the machine's liking.

  • Eleven of Them May Be Counted Upon to Vote Against the Machine at the Session of 1911, Two Are Doubtful, One Will Probably Vote with the Majority, While Six May Be Counted Upon to Support Machine Policies.

  • In addition, aside from the Bulletin, there was no San Francisco publication that could be counted upon to back their movement.

  • Her yielding amiability could always be counted upon as a factor by the calculating; sweet-tempered to weakness, she could be beguiled or distressed into any course the desires of others dictated.

  • A woman who will cry when she is bullied, may be counted upon to submit after she has cried.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "counted upon" 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:
    behind him; certain respects; considerable thickness; counted upon; counted worthy; dear guardian; death pollution; deep well; fruitful field; holy calling; land and; large business; looking place; molten metal; remain quiet; remember what; sent him; seven miles; specific experience; the brother; these places; tremendous rate; worried about