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Example sentences for "files"

Lexicographically close words:
filched; filching; fild; file; filed; filet; filets; fili; filia; filiae
  1. I noticed it at the time and three days ago I had only to refer to my files to put my hand on it at once.

  2. Go to his room and bring me the last two files of The Times.

  3. A dissenting judge sometimes files an opinion which is then printed in full in the reports.

  4. In Michigan only five out of the eight judges sit to hear a case, and if one of them files an opinion dissenting from that of his associates, the losing party can demand a rehearing before the full court.

  5. Any creditor, wherever he may reside, who files a claim against the insolvent estate, or receives a dividend from it, makes himself a voluntary party.

  6. In some of our States, also, if any private individual files a complaint under oath before a proper magistrate accusing another of a properly specified offense, a warrant of arrest may issue.

  7. After a careful search, however, no trace has been found among the Indian Office records and files of the plat and field notes in question.

  8. Footnote 184: A full history of Colonel Earle's attempt to secure a site for the erection of iron works will be found among the records and files of the Office of Indian Affairs.

  9. Stevens, chief clerk, for the readiness with which they afforded him access to the records and files of the Indian Bureau.

  10. Footnote 377: See Indian Office files for these two treaties.

  11. By half Ranks, close Files to the Right and Left.

  12. In doubling the Rear observe it done, when the half Files double the Rear.

  13. And by closing Files you may cleave or divide the Squadron.

  14. By half Files to the Right, double your Ranks to the Front.

  15. With a shout of warning he charged at what seemed to be a vulnerable point in the files of wedged shoulders.

  16. From the tool kit of his motor-cycle he took two files of different shapes and a pair of pliers and walked briskly and fearlessly over the uneven ground to the hangars.

  17. Agents probed and pried and poked their noses into the files and data sheets of every mental institution in the fifty states--as far, at any rate, as they were able.

  18. Not even the FBI could open the private files of a licensed and registered psychiatrist.

  19. Long files of guards re-entered by all the gates, and at six o'clock the only army outside Paris was the guards on the plateau de Chatillon.

  20. At the Champs-Elysees they wanted to break the files to taste blood.

  21. This purgation over, the convoys entered upon the route to Versailles, pressed between two files of cavalry.

  22. The clearing of the Ministries was publicly going on; files of soldiers were still marching off through the gates of the left bank.

  23. Where your memory fails you, and my files and wire jackets prove ineffectual, Inspector Weymouth's recollections may prove more accurate.

  24. You heard him speak of his files and of his wire jacket?

  25. Bethmann had taken with the British Ambassador produced no results, are questions which can only be answered by reference to the files of the Foreign Office.

  26. His greatest aid, indeed, was his marvellous memory, which almost enabled him to do his work without ever referring to the files of letters and documents.

  27. You'll need some files to reduce the metal to certain sizes.

  28. Then I have one half dozen jewellers' files of different sizes.

  29. Derwent Rose existed; the record of his birth was to be found in Somerset House among the files for the year 1875, and nowhere was there a certificate of his death.

  30. The consul in the Rue St Philippe at St Malo cannot help him, and at the Mairie at St Briac they will run through the files of the permis de sejour in vain.

  31. Files for wood have wider teeth than those for metal, so do not use a wood file on metal or a metal file for wood.

  32. Files are very important for smoothing or rounding edges and curving surfaces.

  33. The Register files may preserve some of his work.

  34. Then he forgot Farnham's presence in his turn, and enjoyed himself in a rational way with his files and chisels and screwdrivers.

  35. Bolty, you and the three files on the left come with me.

  36. The roads were covered to the distance of forty leagues by fugitives on foot, and several unbroken files of vehicles of every kind.

  37. Hitherto their search had been ineffectual, and to their great surprise, although the last: few files of the prisoners were now in the act of passing them, there was not the slightest trace of Desborough.

  38. This short discussion terminated just as the last few files were passing.

  39. Tell them how your papers were abstracted from the files twice.

  40. He always was a gay trump, and whenever I find him seriously inclined, I suspect some mischief brewing; for rapid transitions always wear portentous appearances, and your serious files are generally sly dogs.

  41. The first corps was indeed past, and I could see the last files of the infantry disappearing into the wood; but you can imagine my disappointment when out of the Forest of St. Lambert I saw a second corps emerging, as numerous as the first.

  42. Presently the last files of the army had passed by, the waving banners had receded into the distance, and the Wolsingham party, feeling a sudden sense of loneliness, had nothing left them but to resume their march towards Bordeaux.

  43. In a very few seconds the files of prancing horsemen became two lines of motionless figures with lances couched, facing one another watchfully.

  44. Edgar, and with a wild cheer he and his men sprang upon the struggling mass and towards the files spurring to their aid.

  45. But before I could touch them he laid his large bony hands over the lot and, looking me straight between the eyes, he said with earnest significance: "English files are worth as much as twenty francs apiece in the market.

  46. Mr. Benjamin, Secretary of State, asked the Secretary of War to-day to make such arrangements as would supply the State Department with regular files of Northern papers.

  47. Files of papers from Europe show that Mr. Roebuck and other members of Parliament, as well as the papers, are again agitating the question of recognition.

  48. The leading files were roasted alive, those following tumbled over their dead bodies into the flames.

  49. The actual Wright Field files should tell the answer.

  50. Tell me this: Did Shallett get to see any secret files at Wright Field?

  51. The Wright Field unit, I was told, still was a classified project, both its files and its photographs secret.

  52. If Project "Saucer" is ended, then all the files should be opened.

  53. There was an Intelligence report you might try to see--the Eighth Air Force files should have it.

  54. Formerly secret Project "Saucer" files would be opened to newsmen at the Pentagon, giving the answers to all the saucer reports.

  55. At this time I had also asked if Project "Saucer" files were now available.

  56. I told him I was not convinced, "I'd like to see the complete files on these cases I mentioned," I explained.

  57. Whether they matched the actual conclusions in Wright Field secret files there was no way of knowing.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "files" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archives; file; paper; registry