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Example sentences for "false position"

  • I have told you," he cried, "that I am in a false position altogether, and that I will not bear it any longer!

  • Then Lady Markland would say to herself that it was the transition only that was painful, that they were all in a false position, but that afterwards, when the preliminaries were over and all accomplished, everything would be well.

  • You ought to see that I am in a false position.

  • She felt through every nerve that she was in a false position, and wondered how she was to mend it.

  • So you found yourself in a false position?

  • It is what is called a false position to be in, when they are obliged to go on pretending to perform a miracle in which no men of sense and education believe, and in which it is well known they don't any of them believe themselves.

  • Should I be guessing right if I guessed that those questions have been in some way the means of leading you into a false position?

  • But if I did speak to the major, I should be very careful, in your place, not to put myself in a false position.

  • Austria is to some extent in a false position.

  • The government has done nothing, most assuredly, to place you in a false position.

  • It was not fair to her to put himself in such a false position; in fact, not decent.

  • However he might feel towards her now, whatever their relations, he must not put her in a false position.

  • The truth is, Lord John Russell placed himself in a false position when he yielded to the importunity of the Court and the Peelites by consenting to accept office under Lord Aberdeen.

  • At length the Queen, determined no longer to be put in a false position, drew up a sharply-worded memorandum, in which explicit directions were given for the transaction of business between the Crown and the Foreign Office.

  • He regarded them, moreover, as ministers of religion who were hostile to the work of the Reformation, and therefore he deemed that they were in a false position in the Anglican Church.

  • His decision 'not to run away from the Eastern complication,' as Prince Albert worded it, placed both himself and Lord John Russell in somewhat of a false position.

  • The truth is, that you are in a false position relatively to your mother, and your mother is in a false position relatively to you.

  • It has placed us all in a false position.

  • Yours is a false position, a cruel position; but make the best of it--take the thousand per annum, and enjoy your life.

  • I would rather have been dead than have put you in a false position, Leone--you know that.

  • De Soto found himself in what is called a false position; so that he deemed it necessary to resort to cruel and apparently unjustifiable expedients.

  • Again De Soto found himself in what may be called a false position.

  • He must woo as a man, and trust to fortune for his escape from a false position.

  • When you first saw me I was a gawky schoolboy, learning to use my brains, and knowing already that life had nothing to offer me but a false position.

  • He's in a false position; let him get out of it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "false position" 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:
    comparatively large; could remember; east passage; false belief; false brethren; false claim; false doctrine; false idea; false membrane; false name; false oath; false pretences; false religion; false sense; false step; false teeth; false witness; foreign mission; honey locust; little earlier; living cells; native woman; somewhat curved; than they; there ain; this they