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Example sentences for "draw"

Lexicographically close words:
draughtsman; draughtsmanship; draughtsmen; draughty; drave; drawback; drawbacks; drawbar; drawbridge; drawbridges
  1. We expected to draw the best German divisions to our front and to consume them while the enemy was held under grave apprehension lest our attack should break his line, which it was our firm purpose to do.

  2. In the main, the organizing staffs of the two nations could draw lines from the coast to the battle-fields, and say: "Between these two shall America have her habitation and her name.

  3. He meditated, by a skilful operation, to draw the Persians from their impregnable citadel, and improving his advantage in the field, either to intercept their retreat, or perhaps to enter the gates with the flying Barbarians.

  4. The laws of marriage, the education of children, and the authority of parents, which may seem to draw their origin from nature itself, are ascribed to the untutored wisdom of Romulus.

  5. The patient reader may draw some light from Mascou (Hist.

  6. But her warm entreaties, fortified by the prayers of Belisarius, were insufficient to draw the holy monk from the solitude of Ephesus.

  7. I draw my humble science from the article Comete, in the French Encyclopedie, by M.

  8. If, however, the Chartists fire and draw their swords and use their daggers, the Military are to be called out.

  9. The Queen must draw Lord John Russell's attention to the accompanying draft[31] with regard to Schleswig, which is evidently intended to lay the ground for future foreign armed intervention.

  10. The Queen would, however, draw Lord John's attention generally to the mode of filling up those Church sinecures.

  11. He promised to draw up a Memorandum, which he would bring to-morrow at twelve o'clock, after having consulted some of his colleagues, and begged that it might not be considered that he had accepted the Government till then.

  12. Many private considerations combined to draw him homewards, even though the honour and the advantages of retaining this Office were willingly recognised.

  13. The Queen wishes to draw Lord John Russell's attention to the enclosed draft, which she does not think can go in its present shape.

  14. Madame von Marwitz leaned back her head to draw her hand across her eyes, clearing them of tears.

  15. I will ask Mrs. Talcott for the key and we will draw all the blinds and you shall see it.

  16. Have I not loved him with a saintly love, seeking to uplift what would draw me down?

  17. You draw them rather as Forain does; I should do it, I suspect, with more sentimentality.

  18. Tante needs all of you, really, to draw her out.

  19. Encircling this little oasis of peace where he and Karen could, at all events, draw their breaths, were storms and arid wastes.

  20. Karen said nothing to emphasise the contrast between the duke's friends and Gregory's, but she couldn't have failed to draw her comparison.

  21. I've only to smash the panels close to the bolts, put my arm through the hole, and draw the bolts back.

  22. Slipping one hand between the bars he caught the end of the blind, and, pulling it gently down, let the spring draw it upward.

  23. What signal could he give that would draw an answering signal from the girl?

  24. The small ark stranded in his chimney corner was attractive enough to draw him there.

  25. When he reached his room and shut himself in, he set his candlestick on a table and proceeded to draw from his pocket the memorandum-book, also producing the stump of a lead pencil.

  26. When they were hysterical in their laudations, his grace and readiness controlled them; when they were direct and earnest, he found words to say which they could draw aid from later.

  27. We'll feast each other ere we part, and let's Draw lots who shall begin.

  28. Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn Most useful for thy country.

  29. I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

  30. Your way is shorter; My purposes do draw me much about.

  31. Her love to both Would each to other, and all loves to both, Draw after her.

  32. I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey; For he hath laid strange courtesies and great Of late upon me.

  33. Were't not that we stand up against them all, 'Twere pregnant they should square between themselves; For they have entertained cause enough To draw their swords.

  34. Gentle Octavia, Let your best love draw to that point which seeks Best to preserve it.

  35. To show that points will THROW OFF as well as DRAW OFF the electrical fire, lay a long, sharp needle upon the shot, and you cannot electrify the shot so as to make it repel the cork ball.

  36. Musschenbroek held in one hand this jar, while with the other he attempted to draw sparks from the barrel.

  37. Would not these pointed rods probably draw the electrical fire silently out of a cloud before it came nigh enough to strike, and thereby secure us from that most sudden and terrible mischief?

  38. A blunt body must be brought within an inch, and draw a spark, to produce the same effect.

  39. I'm hopin' with every breath I draw that what you say is true," said Shif'less Sol.

  40. But he would be an aid, nevertheless, since the attack upon his own party must draw off warriors from the leaguer of the fleet.

  41. Draw him out as much as you can," said Henry.

  42. Do you think the great chief, Timmendiquas, will draw off?

  43. It was inevitable where human beings were so few, and the skies and the forest were so immense, that he should feel the greatness of nature and draw his symbols from it.

  44. Henry had no time to draw tomahawk or knife, but before the trigger could be pulled he seized the renegade in the powerful clasp of his bare arms.

  45. We would be just as likely to draw the Indians upon us, and we can find him, anyhow.

  46. He clasped Henry close and then sought to free one hand that he might draw his knife.

  47. Anna first made her draw close to her own mother; Anna was at once her spur and her reward during the first hard years at Shotwell Street.

  48. She took the baby, and Julia kissed her mother and aunt, expecting to draw from the former the usual long complaints when she said: "How are you, dear?

  49. Julia's eyes were fixed on him as if she were powerless to draw them away.

  50. The greatest draughtsmen draw leaves, like everything else, of their full-life size in the nearest part of the picture.

  51. Whence it might seem a waste of time to draw landscape at all.

  52. Continue to draw lines of the same length all round the circle.

  53. If the reader will draw boughs of trees long and faithfully, giving previous pains to gain the power (how rare!

  54. Also, if you will try to draw the spiral of the fir-cone, you will understand something about tree-perspective, which may be generally useful.

  55. I feel sorely tempted to draw one of these same spires of the fine grasses, with its sweet changing proportions of pendent grain, but it would be a useless piece of finesse, as such form of course never enters into general foreground effect.

  56. I could not draw them accurately enough if I drew them in spring.

  57. I draw them thus, because the furrows are important clues to structure.

  58. But observe, if we draw the oak-leaves all equal, as at a, Fig.

  59. What secret source of spiritual force have they been able to draw upon to keep fresh and dewy this eager, artistic sense that must be developed with so much labor among any Western people?

  60. In fact, the average Chinese rickshaw coolie of Singapore is a fine physical type, and he will draw for hours with little show of suffering a rickshaw containing two people.

  61. He sat down and began to draw on his elastic-sided boots with groans.

  62. As the horses made the turn for home, he heard her draw her breath.

  63. Don't matter who, only so long as they'll draw a gun on you soon as smile.

  64. When she found he did not draw up alongside, she slackened her pace.

  65. And thus it is possible to draw the outline of a religious outlook on the world, into which the results of world-lore could well be fitted.

  66. In so doing he makes distinct progress, for he can now go beyond what is actually seen, he can draw inferences with certainty as to effects and work back to causes.

  67. In her toying she sought to draw the skin back over the head, a slight cry of pain from him caused her to stop.

  68. I could not move my hand very actively, but I continued to gently draw my finger and thumb a little back together, and then thrust forward again.

  69. I knew she had not had much, but I wished to draw her on, and to make her open out as to her feelings, being determined to make the most of any confidence on her part.

  70. The doctor made me aware of this, and arranged for a meeting of us three, under the pretence of inattention which I was to simulate and draw young Dale into some fault that would require punishment.

  71. I deemed it prudent also to draw a long face.

  72. She pressed her knee against that of the doctor opposite, who I presume, was dozing off, and in a whisper I heard her draw his attention to my extraordinary development.

  73. In this lascivious pause I saw her hand steal under the pillow, and draw out the handkerchief and put it under her belly.

  74. I heard the doctor whisper to aunt, to draw her attention to it.

  75. This would make it necessary for her to go abroad, when she would be so far advanced as to be likely to draw observation.

  76. Marian Lawrence would draw in her nostrils and purr: "Lee was always an erratic and impressionable boy.

  77. And then a curious expression of fear flitted through her eyes and she seemed to draw herself together.

  78. In a moment she began to draw on her gloves.

  79. When Zattiany went, there were no ties to draw me back and habit is strong.

  80. She should be able to draw no unfavorable comparisons with Hohenhauer, whose composure had probably not been ruffled in forty years.

  81. Then she began to draw Dinwiddie and Osborne out, and it struck him that her attitude was not merely that of the accomplished hostess.

  82. Grumio, Draw forth thy weapon; we are beset with thieves; Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.

  83. I mean to shift my bush, And then pursue me as you draw your bow.

  84. There were so many pleasures in sight that they found it hard to choose, but finally it was decided among them that each should take her turn in making plans for the afternoons, and that they would draw lots for first choice.

  85. I'm going to draw my pots,' he said, 'Want to come along?

  86. Both were deeply interested at each draw from the pond, and watched eagerly as the small packages were opened.

  87. Our staterooms open into one another, so you needn't be afraid, but you will have to draw lots for the upper berth.

  88. But, unlike the Germans, they seem to have unlimited reserves to draw upon.

  89. But your mettle would be more magnified (since you have long allowed those valiant exercises in the street) to draw your Archers from Finsbury, and, during high market, let them shoot at butts in Cheapside.

  90. To make the sword pencil, proceed as follows: Take the desired portion of hair from a large camel's-hair pencil of selected quality, and draw to the proper bevel from one side of the flat portion of the hair.

  91. Others draw the cloth tight and firm and size it with a solution of starch and water.

  92. A single pencil, if necessary, can be made to draw a various assortment of lines, running from the hair line to the round line, or even heavier.

  93. To clean a new varnish brush preparatory to using it as a finishing brush, first draw the stock of the tool through the fingers, continuing this operation until the loose dirt is quite fully worked out.

  94. But, all things considered, the writer deems it best to have a pencil made to draw a certain line and no other.

  95. Then putty deep holes and indentations, following this with draw puttying all parts in need of such treatment.

  96. He is very heavy; I wish you would help me to draw the sledge.

  97. When the enemy has sailed off, I can draw it up to the top again.

  98. From henceforward live happily, all of you, together, and if troubles should draw near you send for me, and I will aid you to get through them.

  99. I have been taught how to manage a horse, to draw a sword, and to throw a lance some sixty paces, but I never learnt to sew, and such a thing would have been thought beneath the notice of the pupil of Elfi Bey, the ruler of Cairo.

  100. She will draw you up with a long boat-hook, and you must greet her from me, and give her the smallest ring as a present.

  101. With his hand on the hilt of his sword he demanded Lizina in so terrific a voice that the mother hastened to the well to draw her prisoner out.

  102. Then he was given a flute and a zither, but he was just as well able to draw music from them; and the prince, whose courage was gradually rising, spoke to him in all the languages he knew.

  103. He looked at her fondly, and took her hand, which she tried to draw away, crying: 'Ah!

  104. The old man also gave him a silver apple out of which came the most beautiful hussars and a silver staff; and a copper apple from which he could draw as many foot soldiers as ever he wished, and a copper staff.

  105. At the bottom of the street the river night-scene, scintillating with points of light, burst on her vision, and seemed to draw her into its own strange mood of mystery.

  106. At the corner of Tite Street she stopped to draw breath, for her heart was now thumping painfully.

  107. I recognise this before it is too late, and I have determined, not lightly, but after full and serious consideration, to draw back.

  108. I draw my breath hard at the thought; there is a deep pain at my breast; my teeth are set.

  109. She, however, proceeded to draw for him various pictures, and he presently found himself listening with a deeper eagerness than he had foreseen.

  110. And there was even a minute when hansoms came dashing into the street one after the other; most of them to pass right through it, and only one or two to draw up in the street itself.

  111. Miss Robinson hardly dared mention his name now: it seemed to her that to draw attention to his poverty was to humiliate him.

  112. His lip had a trick of quivering, his words slurred themselves together, and so did his handwriting when he had occasion to draw up a small agreement.

  113. Two little peeping windows, a cracked and weather-beaten door, and a discoloured barrel for catching the rain water, were the only external objects from which I might draw deductions as to the dwellers within.

  114. He fumbled with his trembling fingers in trying to draw one from the case.

  115. What power could there be to draw this tender girl, through wind and rain and darkness, across the fearsome moors to that strange rendezvous?

  116. Mrs. Adams, my landlady, was wont to carry up my frugal breakfast; yet it was very rarely that I allowed her to break the current of my thoughts, or to draw my mind by her idle chatter from weightier things.

  117. She tried to raise her arms and to draw up her knees but two dressers restrained her.

  118. She had, indeed, felt the baseness of it while yet there was time to draw back, but the memory of her own humiliation had been her goad whenever she hesitated; and then the way had been made irresistibly easy for her.

  119. As it is, you may find it difficult to draw back.

  120. On the whole, the experience was sufficiently complete as it stood; yet he could not help wishing to win; indeed, he had gone too far to draw back, and for that reason alone the idea of defeat in the end was intolerable to him.


  121. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "draw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviate; abyss; accept; acquire; adduction; admit; advantage; affect; affinity; allure; allurement; appeal; approach; assume; attendance; attract; attraction; bag; bait; balance; bankrupt; base; bewitch; bleed; borrow; breach; break; bring; broach; cajole; call; canyon; captivate; capture; catch; cavity; chalk; chap; character; characterize; charm; chart; chasm; check; chew; chimney; chink; circumscribe; cleft; coax; coeval; col; collect; color; compact; compress; concentrate; conclude; concomitant; condense; consolidate; constrict; contemporary; continue; contract; convince; copy; corral; correspond; crack; cramp; cranny; crevasse; crevice; curtail; cut; daub; deadlock; decant; decoy; decrease; deduce; deduct; defile; delineate; dell; depict; deplete; derive; describe; design; determine; diagram; dike; dip; disentangle; ditch; ditto; doodle; draft; drag; drain; draught; draughtsman; draughty; draw; dredge; drink; earn; edge; educe; elongate; empty; enchant; engage; ensnare; entice; equal; eradicate; even; evoke; evolve; excavate; excavation; excise; exhaust; express; extend; extract; extricate; fascinate; fascination; fault; feature; fissure; flaw; flirt; flume; fracture; furrow; gain; gap; gape; gash; gather; get; gorge; gouge; gravitation; gravity; groove; gulch; gulf; gully; gut; hale; hang; harvest; hatch; haul; have; heave; hole; impoverish; incision; incur; induce; infer; inhale; interest; inveigle; invitation; joint; judge; knit; knot; leak; lengthen; let; limn; lobby; lure; lynch; magnetism; magnetize; make; map; match; milk; mine; moat; narrow; neck; net; noose; notch; obtain; odds; opening; outline; paint; parallel; pass; passage; paunch; pencil; picture; pipette; plot; pluck; portray; prevail; print; procure; produce; profile; prolong; prompt; protract; pucker; puff; pull; pump; purse; quarry; raffle; ravine; reach; reap; receive; reduce; register; remove; render; rent; represent; rift; rime; rival; rope; rub; ruin; rupture; sack; same; score; scrag; scratch; seam; secure; seduce; seduction; sell; shade; shorten; siphon; sketch; slit; slot; smoke; snake; soak; solidify; spell; split; stalemate; start; stencil; stimulant; strain; strangle; stretch; suck; symbolize; sympathy; take; tap; temptation; tense; tie; tighten; tint; touch; trace; traction; trail; train; trawl; trench; troll; tug; turnout; unearth; unravel; uproot; valley; vantage; verge; void; wile; win; withdraw; woo; wrest; wrinkle; write


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    draw attention; draw back; draw from; draw lines; draw lots; draw near; draw nigh; draw the; draw them; draw together; draw water; drawing back; drawing herself; drawing himself; drawing near; drawing nigh; drawing room; drawing them; drawn back; drawn battle; drawn butter; drawn down; drawn from; drawn sigh; drawn sword; drawn through