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Example sentences for "doubt"

Lexicographically close words:
doubling; doublings; doubloon; doubloons; doubly; doubte; doubted; doubter; doubters; doubteth
  1. Approaching nearer, the surface was unbroken, and doubt usurped the place of certainty in his mind.

  2. No doubt they worked mostly in the morning, having the early hours all to themselves.

  3. I have seen a fine cock robin paying assiduous addresses to a female bird as late as the middle of July; and I have no doubt that his intentions were honorable.

  4. The instinct of cleanliness no doubt prompts the action in all cases, though the disposition to secrecy or concealment may not be unmixed with it.

  5. No doubt we should find good browsing on Peakamoose, and trout enough in the streams at its base.

  6. They have rushed wildly about over the snow, and, I doubt not, have given the piratical red squirrel a piece of their minds.

  7. Some creature ran between my feet and the fire toward morning, the last night we slept in the woods, and I have little doubt it was one of these wood-rats.

  8. He no doubt at this season lives largely upon the memory (or the fat) of the many good dinners he had in the plentiful summer and fall.

  9. There can be no doubt that these are spies, sir," said Colonel Fuesco.

  10. Besides, if you doubt me, sir, it would be well to be on the safe side, anyhow.

  11. I guess there is not much doubt of that," replied Chester, "but Rome is a pretty sizeable town.

  12. There was little doubt in Chester's mind now that he was due for his trip to Vienna with the ambassador.

  13. There was no doubt that Italy would be the first to take the offensive.

  14. With persons accustomed to the use of this instrument, there is no doubt that the mode of obviating the difficulty of "keeping the place," would suggest itself at once.

  15. I doubt not he will discover to be the identical fragment to which he refers.

  16. I cannot doubt that his duty, or at least one of his duties, was that of woodward, and that, as such, he assigned timber for repair of the premises.

  17. I have no doubt but this is the correct German form of the name.

  18. There can be no doubt of the value of a Literary Medium of this peculiar kind.

  19. The note is not signed at length, but there can be no doubt as to its authorship, as I purchased the volume which contains it at the sale of the unreserved books of Mr. Malone in 1818.

  20. Far as my humble daily round extends, There's none but longs to see us lay the foe low; I cannot trace upon my list of friends A solitary instance of a Bolo; So that I've sometimes nursed a doubt Whether there are such lots of them about.

  21. It's precisely because it is an institution that I doubt your statement.

  22. The boy did not in the least doubt the truthfulness of the story.

  23. Captain Burrows happens to be officer of the day," said the corporal, who no doubt wondered how Marcy came to be acquainted with him.

  24. If they get hungry, my mother will no doubt feed them as she has done a hundred times before; but Kelsey can't come on this place to work.

  25. I haven't the least doubt of it, although I did not see them do it," said Mark, who wished he could add effect to his story by saying that he had seen his father robbed of his money.

  26. No doubt it would be a wise thing to do," replied Mrs. Gray.

  27. Marcy did not doubt it, for if Beardsley had been foolish enough to place himself in that position while Julius was within reach of him, the black boy could have knocked him senseless without any trouble at all.

  28. There was no doubt about his earnestness, and the captain looked disappointed.

  29. He is the fellow who captained the robbers to-night, and no doubt he was feeding Bose something, when I thought he was trying to quiet him.

  30. Beyond a doubt your overseer was a Confederate in principle; and if that is so, his abductors must have been Union men.

  31. Marcy did not break out into cheers as the captain no doubt thought he would, but settled contentedly back in his chair and drew a long breath of relief.

  32. No doubt there were better hiding-places about the house, but the blue-jackets came up so suddenly that he did not have time to go to them.

  33. He can, and no doubt will put you on the right track at once.

  34. The fellow was certainly leading the horses toward them, and Sir Redmond and Dick, appearing over the hill just then, proved beyond doubt that neither had been murdered in cold blood, or in any other unpleasant manner.

  35. I doubt if any man can whisper things to a girl he loves, and do it calmly.

  36. I must confess I hated him and there was no doubt that he had succeeded in seeing Elena Ivanovna yesterday either at the masquerade or even here, and putting all sorts of nonsense into her head.

  37. Ivan Ilyitch, whom the wine was beginning to affect, began by smiling, but by degrees a bitter doubt began to steal into his heart; of course he liked free and easy manners and unconventionality.

  38. And no doubt I should have shot myself if it had not been for that little girl.

  39. And I felt how the coffin was shaking and reflected upon it, and for the first time the idea struck me that I was dead, utterly dead, I knew it and had no doubt of it, I could neither see nor move and yet I was feeling and reflecting.

  40. What was his horror when he actually, by unmistakable signs, convinced himself now that he really had enemies at the table, and that it was impossible to doubt of it.

  41. No doubt that was because I was drunk," he thought with agonising doubt.

  42. Ivan Andreyitch did not know the handwriting, but he had no doubt it was an assignation.

  43. Heaton was in doubt about the result, for Waally and his people knew something of artillery, though of echoes they could not know anything at all.

  44. The rise in the ocean favoured such an expectation, and no doubt was the reason why the Neshamony was not dashed to pieces within the first five minutes after she was washed off her ways.

  45. As Mark stood looking at them, a doubt first suggested itself to his mind concerning the propriety of men's doing anything that ran counter to their instincts, with any of the creatures of God.

  46. Somewhere within this cloud, how far or how near from him he knew not, Mark made no doubt a new outlet to the pent forces of the inner earth was to be found, forming another and an active crater for the exit of the fires beneath.

  47. At length, one was brought forward who could speak English, and that so well as to leave little doubt in Bigelow's mind about the stranger's being either an Englishman or an American.

  48. Here he not only found abundance of water for all he wanted, but to his surprise he also found a sandy bottom, formed no doubt by the particles washed from the surrounding rocks under the never-ceasing abrasion of the waves.

  49. This greatly simplified his toil, though he had no doubt that, in the course of time, he should meet with intruders in his beds.

  50. All attempts to obtain an announcement of any national character, on the part of the strangers was evaded; though, from the appearance of everything he saw, the governor could not now have the smallest doubt that he had to do with pirates.

  51. No man could any longer doubt of its being honourable, as well as useful, and even the boys petitioned to be allowed to go out.

  52. It is true that, just at that moment, there was a shower every day, and sometimes two or three of them; but it was then spring, and there could be little reason to doubt that droughts would come in the hot and dry season.

  53. But there's never been a moment's doubt in my soul since I looked into your eyes that night in the old prison.

  54. All doubt had been removed by the announcement in the Republican of his promotion to the rank of Captain for gallantry on the field of Chancellorsville.

  55. Not a doubt had yet entered his soul that he would do it.

  56. She hadn't a doubt now that all the stories about his fast life and his contempt for women were true and much more than gossip had dreamed.

  57. That Lee's ragged, footsore army hemmed in thus with Antietam Creek on one side and the broad, sweeping Potomac on the other would be crushed and destroyed he could not doubt for a moment.

  58. Everything is darkness and doubt and discouragement.

  59. The smile that played about the corners of his fine, keen, blue eyes when he said this left no doubt in the mind of his hearer as to his real opinion of the poor country lawyer who had by accident been placed in the White House.

  60. For the first time a little doubt crept into his mind.

  61. Yet not for a moment did he doubt the result.

  62. Her father's growing hatred of Abraham Lincoln left her in no doubt as to whose master hand had guided the assaults on the rear of his distracted administration.

  63. Beyond a doubt he expected the Union to be dismembered and he proposed to form an alliance between the Latin Empire which he was founding in Mexico and the triumphant Confederate States.

  64. I know that he holds that position, but the people in the North doubt it.

  65. And I haven't the slightest doubt on that point," Betty said with quick emphasis.

  66. Beyond a doubt this pretty mother with the sunshine of France in her blood had known how to flirt in her day--and her beautiful daughter was enough like that picture to have been her twin sister.

  67. Fortunately this doubt could be conclusively disproved,--especially in England, where it was known that the British government had wired by the cable before its failure news of great political importance.

  68. The result of that experiment was that the bonds of the railroad company were sold at once, and there was no longer any doubt as to the success of the road.

  69. It is too much to say that the Atlantic cable would never have been laid, but there can be no doubt that the enterprise would have been long suspended, without this timely aid.

  70. In his rude, careless way, Bob had loved his mother rather better than he had any one else, and Edward did not doubt that he felt badly.

  71. Mr. Burrows, more for form's sake than because he had the slightest doubt about Robert's reply.

  72. Mr. Burrows had not a doubt of his guilt, for had not Ellis Holbrook, whose word was law in the school, said he saw the mischief done?

  73. When his parents heard him say this they said: 'Now there is no doubt that he is mad;' and they spoke no more about his marrying.

  74. But still we were both very nearly making ourselves very foolish and very unhappy; so we will take a lesson never to doubt each other again.

  75. Arrived at the top, he saw a plat of fine, long grass growing, which he made no doubt was the grass he had to take.

  76. Then there is no doubt it was himself,' said the count.

  77. You will be surprised when you hear, for no doubt you think from his picture that Stuart was a sensible boy.

  78. Be this as it may, it is established beyond doubt that it was the oratory of Queen Bertha, the first English Christian queen, who here worshipped, with her chaplain Liudhard, long before the advent of S.

  79. And do any of you still have any doubt about who it was hiding away on that rotten old shelf up there, and listening to all we did?

  80. To be sure it seemed most reasonable, and not one of the men appeared to doubt the accuracy of the guess in the least.

  81. I could see that Dolph was following some line he had no doubt marked out for himself.

  82. No doubt he was more or less thrilled with pleasure to think that Mr. Huggins, who was quite an important man in the affairs of Hickory Ridge, should consider him able to grapple with this situation.

  83. Without doubt the one flower that holds the foremost rank of the late summer and autumn flowers is the Golden-rod.

  84. Nothing more was said about it, but there was a heap of thinking done; and no doubt every fellow present was making up his mind to be more vigilant, so that he might be the next to deserve favorable notice from the leader.

  85. No doubt he slipped in and out with almost the handiness with which one might crack a whip.

  86. Having work to do would take him out of himself, which no doubt was a great security against the recurrence of the evil from which he had been delivered.

  87. No doubt their act was inconvenient; for, however light the roofing, some rubbish must have come down on the heads of some of the notabilities below.

  88. No doubt his anomalous position as a subject prince helped to make him the bad man he was.

  89. At all events, the Twelve seem to have been able to buy his little stock, which done, they went back to tell Jesus, no doubt thinking that such a meagre supply would end all talk of their giving the crowd to eat.

  90. Here they were, most of them from mere curiosity, some of them no doubt with deeper feelings; here they were, with their diseased and their demoniacs, and as soon as His foot touches the shore He is in the midst of it all again.

  91. His assurance helps trembling confidence to be born, and out of doubt the great calm word of the Master smites the fire of trust.

  92. He had no doubt as to who this new Teacher, armed with mightier powers than John who 'did no miracles' had ever possessed, was.

  93. So there must have been a spasm of fear even among Christ's friends when they heard of Him as risen again, and much confusing doubt as to what would be the amount of resemblance to His old self.

  94. That astonishment and distress no doubt were partly due to the recoil of flesh from death.

  95. He had no doubt what he wanted most--the opening of these blind eyes of his.

  96. In some respects that man had advanced beyond the father in our story, for he had no doubt at all about Christ's power, and he spoke to Him as 'Lord.

  97. There follows from that thought this practical lesson, that the discovery of much unbelief should never make a man doubt the reality or genuineness of his little faith.

  98. Gurth counsels well," said Haco, abruptly; "there can be no doubt of the wisdom of his words.

  99. At his death, Godwin was known to have wished, and even armed, for the restoration of the Saxon line; and only yielded to the determination of the Witan, no doubt acted upon by the popular opinion.

  100. Some doubt has been thrown upon my accuracy in ascribing to the Anglo-Saxon the enjoyments of certain luxuries (gold and silver plate--the use of glass, etc.

  101. The captains remained a few moments behind, the Saxons silently gazing on the King, the Normans whispering each other, in great doubt and trouble, and darting looks of the bitterest scorn at their feeble benefactor.

  102. The monk here will be spokesman; and ask safe-conduct to Gryffyth to deliver my message; he will also bear certain tokens, which will no doubt win the way for you.

  103. But the majority being English, there could be no doubt as to the decision; and Edward, to whom the emergence gave both a dignity and presence of mind rare to him, resolved to terminate the dispute at once.

  104. There can be little doubt that it is the true one.

  105. We made out the Johnnie Duncan bearing down, intending no doubt to take off Clancy and me.

  106. If I had, I doubt very much if I'd have started.

  107. No one can believe the exultation of the people, nor doubt that the Divine Hand was there, bestowing such unity on the world.

  108. I do not doubt but that by God's help you practise all this.

  109. The violence of his tyranny, which led many to doubt even the providence of God, brought the Catholic Church in North Africa into the deepest distress.

  110. There can be no doubt that, while the Pope had become legally the subject of the eastern emperor, the bishop of Constantinople had become in fact the emperor's ecclesiastical minister in subjugating the eastern episcopate.

  111. If this be so, we expressly order you to presume to do so no more, because beyond doubt it is very unseemly.

  112. I breathe again joyously, and do not doubt that you will do even more in religion than I desire.

  113. Beyond doubt she had extraordinary cleverness and was a weaver of spells, so that in a sense she could temporarily disguise her personality.

  114. I have no reason to doubt the word of this man of business," he replied, "because at the time when I saw him he could not possibly have learned of the crime, but nevertheless his account is almost unbelievable.

  115. The man was stripped to the waist, in order no doubt that his movements might not be impeded, and I beheld a torso like that of some Milo wrought in ebony!

  116. Had it come later I don't doubt that 'A' would have dismantled the Red House again so that the investigation would have been severely handicapped.

  117. There is no doubt of it," answered Gatton; "the cabman drove him there, and it was certainly at the Red House that he met his death.

  118. This apprehension was strengthened no doubt by my memories of Gatton's last words as I had been on the point of setting out from Upper Crossleys.

  119. Beyond any shadow of doubt this crate was the same which on the night before had lain in the garage of the Red House!

  120. We haven't found the firm who supplied it, but I don't doubt that the business was done over the telephone, cash being paid as before.

  121. I have seen Inspector Gatton," she replied; "but as he told me that he was coming along to you, no doubt you know what took place.

  122. I would have sacrificed much to have been afforded means to comfort Isobel; a furious anger towards the man who thus deliberately had brought doubt and unhappiness upon her had taken up permanent quarters in my mind.

  123. If they should take Briand in the act, should they have even the least doubt concerning him, you must repudiate him entirely.

  124. It was after they married that Jeanne began to borrow ideas and doubt the advantages.

  125. In the eyes of his daughter the doubt still lingered.

  126. Hutten, in a letter addressed to Robert Crocus, denied that he was the author of the book, but there is no doubt as to his connexion with it.

  127. It was found necessary to adjourn the sitting until the 7th of June, on which occasion the outward decencies were better observed, partly no doubt from the circumstance that Sigismund was present in person.

  128. For a further decrease of external pressure the discharge diminishes,--a result no doubt improbable.

  129. She trembled with the sudden doubt at the thought.

  130. The class, this evening, was much in doubt about giving him the silence.

  131. Peyrehorade, "and I doubt if Heaven ever produced such a woman, how I pity her lovers!

  132. I doubt it very much, in spite of my patriotic desires.

  133. By the magnificence of the frame, and the rosewood easel on which it rested, there was no doubt it was the chief gem of the collection.

  134. Then it is a ghost, there can be no doubt about it.

  135. I doubt not also that our friend Massigny, who was both a stupid and a coxcomb, became, when dead, spotless and a martyr.

  136. She exercised a kind of fascination over the Count, and I did not doubt that he was very much in love with her.

  137. We looked down on this extraordinary spectacle from a high gallery; no doubt the colonel treated us to it to give us a good appetite for our dinner.

  138. In the morning a surgeon came to see me, sent no doubt by Don Ottavio.

  139. No doubt the artist who painted this portrait painted another for Massigny.

  140. No doubt she thinks, poor woman, I heard all about her former liaison; it seems to have been generally known.

  141. You know," I said to the Catalanian who had been my guide since the previous day--"no doubt you know where M.

  142. If he had repulsed an invasion, I doubt if he would have received heartier or more sincere congratulations.

  143. No doubt they are inlaid in the bronze; it might perhaps be a Roman statue.

  144. Countess, no doubt for the purpose of devouring her undisturbed, into a thicket, for these beasts are great gourmands; they like to dine at ease, as the monks.

  145. Herr Nordeck has only given me some hints of the matter; but there can be no doubt that danger is involved in it.

  146. He was in some doubt as to what you really wanted to know, so I advised him to keep you thoroughly informed on the subject of my studies.

  147. If I had had any doubt of that, I should have been enlightened by the bullet which, not long ago, as I was coming home from the border-station, sped so close by my head that it ruffled my hair.

  148. I imagine no one has ever raised a doubt as to your right to your estates.

  149. Added to which, he has no doubt taken care of his own interests in all things, great and small.

  150. You have even called at the farms leased out to the different tenants, and you will no doubt soon be as much at home everywhere else as you already are in your mother's drawing-room.

  151. The steward is a rich man, there can be no doubt of that.

  152. I doubt that Waldemar has drawn inferences from any observations of his own; but over at the manor-farm they are sure to have whispered enough in his ear to put him on the alert.

  153. He, as yet, has all the elasticity and enthusiasm of youth; he looks on every doubt as to the ultimate triumph of our cause as treason.

  154. She felt the storm coming, but she at once prepared to meet it, and the resolved expression of her face showed beyond a doubt that, in any struggle with her, her son would have a hard fight of it.

  155. As Herr Nordeck's former tutor, you are no doubt acquainted with French?


  156. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doubt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agnosticism; agonize; anxiety; apprehension; challenge; concern; contest; diffidence; disbelief; disbelieve; discredit; dispute; distrust; doubt; flounder; foreboding; grope; hesitation; incredulity; misgiving; mistrust; objection; perplexity; qualm; query; question; scoffing; scruple; skepticism; suspect; suspense; suspicion; unbelief; uncertainty; wonder; worry


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    doubt about; doubt but; doubt not; doubt that; doubt the; doubt they; doubt whatever; doubt whether; doubted whether; doubtful cases; doubtful value; doubtful whether