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Example sentences for "draw lots"

  • Just as I moved away I heard the boatswain say to Curtis: "Captain, when shall we draw lots?

  • Captain," he said, "we are going to draw lots.

  • Illustration: Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.

  • They heard how in the early spring in the meadow by the mill-dam Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost.

  • Tim and I had stopped our ploughs to draw lots and he had lost "Well, old chap!

  • I quietly placed my hand on Lorand's, in which he held the weapon and amid profound silence asked: "Would it not be good to draw lots to see who shall do it first?

  • Let us draw lots, and then he whom fate chooses, must die.

  • The two latter were to draw lots, and settle between themselves which should act in Bruttium with the two legions which the consul gave up; and he to whose lot that province fell, was to be continued in command for a year.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "draw lots" 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:
    all his; attended only; difficult matter; draw attention; draw from; draw lots; draw near; draw nigh; draw the; drawing back; drawing herself; drawing himself; drawing near; drawing nearer; drawing room; drawing them; drawn butter; drawn down; drawn from; drawn sword; free agency; incumbent upon; irreparable loss; loose materials; only tell; water from