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Example sentences for "encourage"

Lexicographically close words:
encountered; encountering; encounters; encountred; encountring; encouraged; encouragement; encouragements; encourager; encouragers
  1. The appearance of the country through which we passed on the 29th, was far from being such as to encourage us with the hopes of any change for the better.

  2. I gave the FIRST who swam the river a tomahawk (making this a rule in order to encourage them) with which he was highly delighted.

  3. Ought I not at least to encourage the poor man who would dare challenge the formidable, unconquerable arm of the captain of The Holy Terror to the Moors?

  4. The American in Europe would fain encourage the hearts of these long-oppressed nations, now daring to hope for a new era, by reciting triumphant testimony from the experience of his own country.

  5. Elsewhere there was nothing to encourage him.

  6. Let it encourage the faith that nothing but the noble and the good really succeed in the end.

  7. It will not do for the world to reply that it does, in words, encourage these fine qualities of youth.

  8. They encourage their people to take a deep personal interest in every legitimate activity aimed to bulwark world peace.

  9. In no other mode of life are older men so ready to encourage the willing junior.

  10. To encourage subordinates to present their views, and to weigh them in the light of reason, is at the same time the surest way to win their confidence and to refine one's own information and judgments.

  11. To nourish and encourage the top rather than to concentrate effort and exhaust nerves in trying to correct the few least likely prospects is the healthy way of growth within military organization.

  12. Oh, if I had only one friend to sympathize with, and encourage me!

  13. It is such tenants as you we want, M'Mahon, an' that we ought to encourage on our property.

  14. The truth is, if the worthy man thought for a moment that the ultimate loss of M'Mahon would have seriously injured her peace of mind, he would have bitterly regretted it, and perhaps encourage a reconciliation.

  15. Some of the Druses also intimated their desire to come and pay their respects, but upon my suggestion this was declined, it being considered undesirable to encourage their presence in Safed.

  16. Either the country was too healthy, or the inhabitants too poor to encourage immigration among doctors, for they were few and far between, and we find men of other trades acting in the capacity of physician.

  17. The captain of the watch was made a sort of tithing-man, whose business it was to preserve order and encourage godliness at the point of the bayonet.

  18. The plantations were so separated that any assembling of the children was difficult, the spirit of caste was too strong to encourage the free mingling of rich and poor, and the traditions of the Cavalier were not traditions of scholarship.

  19. Somehow she could not help thinking it would be most enjoyable to have two or three swains always dancing attendance on one, the way they did on Estella Raymond, even though one did have to encourage them.

  20. John Coulson was too apt to encourage Lizzie in this sort of thing, Annie felt.

  21. If you have their true welfare at heart, you will not only care for their being fed and clothed, but you will be anxious not to encourage unreasonable expectations in them--not to make them ungrateful or greedy-minded.

  22. We can encourage the disposition of looking at the brightest side of things, instead of the darkest.

  23. Since Sir James Brooke's visit, the Dido and several other vessels of war have cruised in the Asiatic Archipelago, all tending to suppress piracy, and encourage native trade and commerce.

  24. He tried to be jocular, but could not succeed in exciting our risibility: we did not even encourage his jokes by the shadow of a smile, and he seemed uneasy during the remainder of the time we sat at table.

  25. Hers was too healthy a nature to encourage morbid grief.

  26. I would not encourage false hopes, but this is a chance you may never have again--a chance of sharing her uncle's fortune.

  27. Ought she to encourage him by accepting these very useful and kindly attentions?

  28. What a pity you did not encourage him, Katie, and marry him!

  29. As he has grown quite civil of late, I think it right to encourage him.

  30. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature.

  31. And after his phone call to try to intimidate Paula Marks, I was well aware he didn't "encourage publicity.

  32. If you're here about doing a film," he began, "please be aware we do not encourage publicity.

  33. There must be motives of action held out to the child; something that will tend to keep him from the commission of evil, and something that will stimulate and encourage him in doing good.

  34. Is it our duty to encourage an intercourse which will tear the veil of innocence from her eyes?

  35. I should like to be kind to them, I should like to encourage the children to cheer them and speak to them.

  36. We do not encourage a belief in the fulfilment of dreams, nor pay any regard to them in general; but yet we find the words of Scripture true, Job xxxiii.

  37. I write to encourage the heathen in your country, of whom there are still many, to be converted to the Creator.

  38. Here you find it working in the middle of the Thames; and if you encourage us by buying our impressions, we will keep it going in the true spirit of liberty, during the Frost.

  39. Useless to remind himself that the Countess was notorious for her affability and also for her efforts to encourage the true welfare of the Five Towns.

  40. He would encourage thrift in the working-man and the working-man's wife.

  41. If it took a Corps Commander, going in front, to encourage them along to advance upon a few troopers.

  42. We could see there was some "hitch," and sent a few shells over there, just to encourage any little reluctance they might have about coming on.

  43. That is why some of us dare not enter the theatre, or encourage others to enter.

  44. The temptations for those who constitute, or those who encourage and support, armies to commit or to connive at immorality are too various and too multiplied to be distinctly mentioned.

  45. They would become hewers of wood and drawers of water to the tyrannical and oppressive, and would only encourage them in their deeds of wickedness.

  46. Why do nations encourage the cupidity of men by licensing and letting loose swarms of picaroons on their enemies, if it is not to inflict evil on them?

  47. Notwithstanding these directions were intended as a rule for Christians in all ages, yet they were promulgated while the disciples were under idolatrous governments, and were never intended to encourage them to worship idols.

  48. For my part, I would encourage the trade of the Colonists to the utmost.

  49. And to encourage their successors to bring arms, we must charge each one of them who fails to bring his gun one dollar for the use of the one we provide.

  50. The latter knew how to encourage the sick man without concealing from him his true condition.

  51. Besides, his brother was disposed to encourage his aspirations in the direction of a military life.

  52. And that will encourage the people, and put hope and life into them," added Fairfax.

  53. Such timid measures are just suited to encourage the enemy.

  54. The possession of Canada is important, and victories there now would greatly encourage our people.

  55. Let us then rely upon the goodness of our cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encourage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abet; admonish; advance; advantage; advise; advocate; animate; arouse; assure; back; bear; bolster; boost; brighten; caution; charge; cheer; comfort; confirm; console; countenance; cultivate; ease; elate; embolden; encourage; endorse; enjoin; enliven; exalt; exhilarate; exhort; expedite; expostulate; facilitate; favor; feed; flush; foment; fortify; forward; fuel; further; gladden; hasten; hearten; incite; indorse; induce; inspire; inspirit; invigorate; invite; liven; motivate; move; nerve; nourish; nudge; nurture; patronize; persuade; preach; prod; promote; prompt; provoke; pull; push; quicken; raise; reassure; rejoice; relieve; remonstrate; rise; root; sanction; second; solace; speed; spur; stimulate; stir; strengthen; subscribe; support; urge; vitalize; warn


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    encourage merit; encourage them