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Example sentences for "does the"

  • Like a path seen at dusk across a moorland, plain and visible from a distance, but fading gradually from us the more near we draw to it, so does the belief in free-will fade before the near inspection of reason.

  • For just as her life lay in conformity to 'The unwritten, and the enduring laws of God,' so does the life of the profligate lie in the violation of them.

  • The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched.

  • The number of the caudal and sacral vertebrae vary; as does the number of the ribs, together with their relative breadth and the presence of processes.

  • But the important fact for us is, that though the workers can be grouped into castes of different sizes, yet they graduate insensibly into each other, as does the widely-different structure of their jaws.

  • Does the Australian, moreover, away from his native land perpetuate his patriotism by oft partaking of this pastoral fare?

  • Now, no fish comes so close to the land as does the mackerel, yet it is certain that it never makes its way into the estuaries and inlets till after spawning is finished--for that it spawns in the open sea is almost without a doubt.

  • They do well enough, as does the borecole or kale itself, in all the cooler parts of Australia.

  • As the poet has his song, so does the nightingale, so does the cricket, so does the rivulet.

  • As elements and atoms live and act, so do clouds; so does the earth; so does the ocean, the Milky Way, and the Solar System.

  • Observe that usually it is the girl that sings or does the courting.

  • Nausicäa, though a princess, does the work of a washerwoman and drives her own chariot to the laundry on the banks of the river, her only advantage over her maids being that they have to walk.

  • The development of the arch, formed by the hypapophyses of the third and fourth dorsal vertebrae, also varies considerably, as does the size of the hypapophysis of the fifth vertebra.

  • The number of mammae vary, as does the period of gestation.

  • The front margin of the crest is more or less perpendicular and varies greatly, as does the curvature of the posterior end, and the flatness of the lower surface.

  • I may here mention that maize and wheat sometimes produce new varieties from the stock or root, as does the sugar-cane.

  • An example of inductive reasoning is found in the following passage:-- Does the closing of the saloons affect appreciably the amount of drunkenness in the community?

  • Not always, of course, does the question of possibility constitute an issue, since frequently the possibility is admitted.

  • Second, does the study of Greek acquaint us with the best that has been known and said in the world, and, therefore, with the history of the human spirit?

  • Does the student in the lonely country college form more lasting friendships?

  • What a blank, for instance, does the history of the world for the next six thousand years present to the mind, compared with that of the last!

  • As the book of Genesis constitutes a suitable introduction to the Pentateuch, without which its very existence, as a part of the divine plan, would be unintelligible, so does the book of Deuteronomy bring it to a sublime close.

  • When the masked battery opens, does the "Baptist" Lieutenant believe in his heart that God takes better care of him than of his "Congregationalist" Colonel?

  • Does the reader of these pages ever think of the work a sick man as much as a well one has to perform while he is lying on his back and taking what we call his "rest"?

  • Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass?

  • Does the gate of divorce open more frequently from following the one theory than the other?

  • Once spent, does the world to each succeeding experimenter in it become old and stale?

  • Or, to put the question in another form, does the system of education in our common schools give the pupils a taste for good literature or much power of discrimination?

  • Does the law of nature forbid the use of certain kinds of meat, or of certain vegetables, on particular days, during certain seasons?

  • Does the law of nature extend so far as the scruples of desires and thoughts.

  • Does the law of nature interdict absolutely the use of wine?

  • Does the law of nature look on that absolute chastity so recommended in monastical institutions, as a virtue?

  • Does the mother, feeling the brood quicken inside the satin wrapper, herself break open the vessel at the opportune moment?

  • Does the Lycosa at least feed the younglings who, for seven months, swarm upon her back?

  • Thus, in short tacks, for the thread is never very long, does the Spiderling go about, seeing the country, until she comes to a place that suits her.

  • After this cannibal orgy, does the Lycosa go back home?

  • The quai des Subsistences tells its purpose as does the quai de l'Uranie.

  • Soon we heard the eternal diapason of these shores, the constant and immortal music of the breakers on the white stone barrier, a low, deep, resonant note that lulls the soul to sleep by day as it does the body by night.

  • She pursues the man she wants, as he does the woman.

  • There are men who mak' no more in wages than they did five years ago, when everything cost half what it does the noo.

  • Ye ken whaur the man stands who deals wi' his love and his friends and his siller as does the Scot.

  • Money went farther then, and in Scotland especially, than it does the noo!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "does the" 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:
    catarrhal inflammation; colonial life; common among; does appear; does come; does mean; does not; does not know what; does occur; does the; does well; does what; does when; feeling rather; give ground; happened that; hath commanded; her only; moderate fire; monopoly price; political agent; possible only; resembling those; small arms; testimony against; wild sheep