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Example sentences for "furnish"

Lexicographically close words:
furloughed; furloughs; furmety; furnace; furnaces; furnished; furnisher; furnishers; furnishes; furnisheth
  1. No pains or expense have been spared to finish and furnish this college with every comfort, even luxury.

  2. It is not my design to render my sex any the less feminine, but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood, and furnish women with the means of usefulness, happiness, and honor, now withheld from them.

  3. We have divided responsibility sufficiently when we furnish both the conductor and the engineman a copy of the train order.

  4. If it is desirable for the brakemen and the fireman to be informed, we should furnish a copy to each man in the crew.

  5. You hope that your friend, the auditor, may be able to furnish you a good man who has such a thorough knowledge of accounts that you will be able to give less attention to such matters and therefore be out on the road that much more.

  6. She was most eager for the entrance of the gentlemen from the dining-room, that she might watch him and, till they came, she had not a word of amusement to furnish to her guests.

  7. Mrs Grey felt herself only the more called upon by all this to furnish the amount of sighs and tears which she believed to be due to Mrs Enderby's memory.

  8. The labours of Gaudry, Marsh, and Cope furnish abundant illustrations of this law from the marvellous fossil wealth of Pikermi and the vast uninterrupted series of tertiary rocks in the territories of North America.

  9. Physical science, in fact, has had nothing directly to do with the criticism of the Gospels; it is wholly incompetent to furnish demonstrative evidence that any statement made in these histories is untrue.

  10. Nor did even they furnish conclusive proof of his administrative capacity, especially in these days of novel and mortal stress.

  11. In every town and village there were now mass meetings, ardent speeches, patriotic resolutions, a confusing stir and tumult of words that would become deeds as fast as definite plans could furnish opportunity.

  12. Submarine rocks probably exist near the coast, which furnish these very hard masses.

  13. He observed that the left breast in particular was much enlarged; which Lozano explained to us from the circumstance, that the two breasts did not furnish milk in the same abundance.

  14. Chile, may furnish us with a limiting number, that is to say, the maximum which may be supposed in the capitania-general of Caracas.

  15. The rings, formed by the vestiges of the old footstalks of the leaves, furnish as it were the steps of a ladder perpendicularly placed.

  16. In the study of formations, which is the great end of geognosy, the knowledge acquired in the old and new worlds should be made to furnish reciprocal aid to each other.

  17. The fibres of the full-grown leaves furnish cords of extraordinary strength.

  18. The sharks of the port of La Guayra seem to furnish an analogous example.

  19. This village, the Valle, and the banks of the Macarao, furnish great abundance of peaches, quinces, and other European fruits for the market of Caracas.

  20. Whenever it has been seen at a greater distance, the observers, uncertain of their longitude, have not been in a situation to furnish precise data.

  21. The captain-general, Senor de Guevara, directed the teniente of Chacao to furnish us with guides to conduct us on our ascent of the Silla.

  22. But many scholastic philosophers contend that the nature and properties of possible essences, as apprehended by the human mind, furnish a distinct and conclusive argument for the existence of a Supreme Uncreated Intelligence.

  23. Not to dwell on the want of consistency in this change of character, its avowed inadequacy to furnish the solution required, is alone a sufficient refutation of it.

  24. Let those who are not satisfied with such reasons furnish a better solution of the difficulty.

  25. He then desired I would furnish him with a list of the names of persons I knew by experience to be generous and public-spirited.

  26. I was to take with me letters recommendatory to a number of his friends, besides the letter of credit to furnish me with the necessary money for purchasing the press and types, paper, etc.

  27. In England a bank's chief business is to furnish a safe depository for the funds of its clients.

  28. The custom spread into all cities of the empire of compelling those condemned to death to furnish this form of entertainment for the people.

  29. To furnish it with population he forced the people of the neighboring towns to remove to it, and offered rewards and honors to the great families who would come hither to make their home.

  30. When it was planned to furnish a water-system for the city of Tunis, all that had to be done was to repair a Roman aqueduct.

  31. When Marius required the king of Bithynia to furnish him with soldiers, the king replied that, thanks to the publicans, he had remaining as citizens only women, children, and old people.

  32. But the streams furnish water and this clayey soil when irrigated by canals becomes the most fertile in the world.

  33. Their alphabet resembles that of the Greeks, but the Etruscan inscriptions present only proper names, and these are too short to furnish a key to the language.

  34. The government ordered that wherever aid could be given, rations should be issued to the families, and while the government did all it could in this way, it was not able to furnish shelter and houses for their comfort.

  35. There was no mild look in De Artigny's eyes as he fronted him, yet he held his temper, recalling my plea no doubt, and I hastened to step between, and furnish him excuse for silence.

  36. Far more than with it, especially if I furnish a good substitute.

  37. This wonderful organization undertakes to furnish a complete record of the burial place of every soldier.

  38. Where suitable crosses have not been provided, they furnish one, bearing an aluminum plate showing the name, number, regiment and date of death wherever this information is available.

  39. While the great majority of physicians are willing to furnish the information as to the cause of death, etc.

  40. The following statistics of cases which entered the Berlin Veterinary College furnish further corroborative evidence.

  41. In the dead body there is no disease, although its results remain, and furnish the most efficient means of identifying the processes which occasioned them.

  42. A knowledge of its nature enables the seat of the latter to be recognized, and its variations furnish a desired test of the efficiency of therapeutic agents.

  43. The limbs may furnish to the eye many expressive signs of disease or disability.

  44. Beneath the pleuræ may be seen ecchymoses, hard, fibrous nodules, and yellow elevations, which on being incised furnish grumous pus.

  45. The cutaneous surfaces of the body may also furnish a diphtheritic exudation.

  46. Humanity demands that charity should furnish places of refuge in which poor outcasts can receive assistance during the perils of child-bearing.

  47. Indeed, there is no author of an earlier date than Spigelius[1] whose writings furnish any positive evidence that he ever met with the disease.

  48. These qualities of yellow-fever infection, and especially its faculty of reproduction (which only organisms possess), furnish almost conclusive evidence that yellow fever is a germ disease produced by a specific contagium vivum.

  49. The character of this information depends largely upon the character of the physicians who furnish it.

  50. How enviable was the enthusiasm which could thus furnish me with energy, in the midst of hunger, poverty, and universal desertion!

  51. At first I carefully avoided the habitations that lay in my way, and feared to be seen by any of the persons to whom they belonged, lest it should in any degree furnish a clue to the researches of my pursuers.

  52. My next care was to furnish myself with another suit of apparel, totally different from any to which I had hitherto had recourse.

  53. I warn you that, unless you are prepared to furnish me with a satisfactory explanation, I shall feel bound to complain to the English Ambassador.

  54. His stock of money would not furnish the high bribe that they would demand for letting him through at night and without a passport.

  55. Take the page with you; furnish yourself with all the money and jewels which you can collect.

  56. Already the Lord of Imbercourt has returned with a hundred and fifty lances; the number of nobles in the town, with their retainers, will furnish near five hundred more.

  57. Prevot; "I will easily furnish you with proof that your forest is tenanted as I say.

  58. Of course, self-registering gauges would give the most satisfactory results; but any graduated gauge, systematically observed, would soon furnish evidence of the phenomenon.

  59. In tobogganing, the hills and open meadows at Tahoe City and at Glenbrook will furnish royal sport for the devotee.

  60. Every plant and bird and animal that gets into these under-currents, and sometimes the great trout that are swept into the net-like nest are there held fast to furnish food for the ong.

  61. Eventually, in the last decade of the century, the water-power plants were converted into hydro-electric plants and began to furnish electric current for power and lighting in the city of Reno and as far south as Virginia City.

  62. Mr. Hankes's memory was now to be submitted to a very searching test, and he was called on to furnish details which might have puzzled "Our own Correspondent.

  63. Egad, if you furnish the ready, I 'll buy the Cathedral and the Cursaal.

  64. Well, my Lord, were I to reduce my services to a mere monetary estimate, and furnish you with a bill of costs, for what a goodly sum should I stand in the estimates.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "furnish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; adapt; adjust; administer; afford; allot; appoint; arm; attune; award; bear; bless; clothe; condition; contribute; deck; decorate; dispense; donate; dower; dress; enable; endow; endue; equip; feed; fill; find; fit; fructify; fruit; fund; furnish; gear; give; grant; heel; indulge; invest; keep; lend; maintain; man; market; munition; offer; open; outfit; prepare; present; produce; provide; qualify; recruit; render; replenish; rig; sell; staff; stock; store; subsidize; suit; supply; support; tune; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    furnished apartments; furnished house; furnished room; furnished with