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Example sentences for "granted"

Lexicographically close words:
granos; granose; grans; grant; grante; grantee; grantees; granter; grantest; granteth
  1. I ought to have taken that for granted from the first.

  2. If all documents of the kind are granted with equal readiness, how many people are buried alive?

  3. You seem to have been in a deuce of a hurry to take it for granted I was dead.

  4. Fifteen years make a difference in a man's appearance--especially fifteen such years as it might be taken for granted that Twickenham had lived.

  5. But since, beyond the shadow of a doubt, you are partly mad, I am going to take it for granted that you are wholly mad.

  6. The style in which he took it for granted that there was no deception this time was to me a cause of perpetual surprise.

  7. And the débutante who is curious for all the experiences her new liberty makes possible takes it for granted that an amorous trifling is the ordinary incident to masculine attention.

  8. They take it for granted that, because I have made money and they read my wife's name in the society columns of the New York papers, I must be completely satisfied.

  9. He took it for granted that she would, and said: "I'll be up-stairs.

  10. She had never granted them to young men; she had rarely withheld them from dear old men.

  11. XIV Not nearly enough admiration has been granted by the male human to the most remarkable quality possessed by the human female--her ability to recuperate.

  12. Professor Pearson goes about to analyse the leaves of physics, but too often takes for granted the leaves of language.

  13. Rule nisi for a new trial granted by Justices Grove and Lindley.

  14. Smith, continued the Tory policy of concession to the former victim of the party; and he was granted a Select Committee on Perpetual Pensions, himself being a member.

  15. Farnley, These pages, Which owe their present form to advantages granted By his kindness, Are affectionately inscribed, By his obliged friend, John Ruskin.

  16. But ye denied the Holy and Just, and demanded that a murderer should be granted to you.

  17. Even when the Spanish Crown granted permission to build a stone fort (as happened more than once) circumstances proved that the time for the castillo had not yet come.

  18. A vast, rich territory stretched from the James River region to the Spanish Florida settlements, and in 1665 the British Crown granted a patent for its occupation.

  19. The position also granted him, as it granted certain tradesmen, immunity from arrest.

  20. This is the manner of it; it is granted to any man that shall live to see thirty persons descended of his body, alive together, and all above three years old, to make this feast, which is done at the cost of the state.

  21. If those gentlemen should not, therefore, withdraw their credit, I shall venture to apply the money when it shall become necessary, to the use for which they have granted it.

  22. His secretary remarked to me, that Spain would suspect that this subsidy had been granted in consequence of the protest of our bills, and that this Court would make it the cause of complaint against France.

  23. Suspicions entertained in Holland, that the United States have granted exclusive privileges in commerce to France.

  24. BY the Grace and License of the King, permission is granted to Sebastien Cramoisy.

  25. As the size of the earth, he says, has been demonstrated by other writers, we shall take for granted what they have advanced.

  26. Augustus not only confirmed to Salome the legacy made to her by Herod, of the towns Jamneia, Azoth, and Phasaëlis, but granted to her also the royal palace and domains of Ascalon.

  27. Alexander granted her request and proclaimed her queen, after the city was taken, but not the acropolis, which was doubly fortified.

  28. He says likewise, as the size of the earth has been demonstrated by other writers, we shall take for granted that the Greeks had not different standards of length, but always used the Olympic stadium and the foot corresponding to it.

  29. The Commissions of Privateers do not extend to the capture of private property upon land; that is a right which is not even granted to Queen's ships.

  30. When a licence is granted to one person, it cannot be made to extend to the protection of all other persons who may be permitted by that person to take advantage of it.

  31. Sidenote: Licences to Trade with the Enemy] A Licence granted by a state to its own subjects, or to those or the enemy, is a dispensation on its own side of the Laws of War, as far as its terms can be fairly construed.

  32. A licence cannot be ante dated, and if granted subsequent to capture it is no protection against condemnation.

  33. Her eye glanced round with the rapid emotion of one doubtful whether it were for weal or woe, yet with undaunted spirit to meet either, and as she granted her permission, Cis heard her whisper to Nau, "A rider came up even now!

  34. The young lady hath already requested license from us," she said, "and we have granted it.

  35. The gentleman I mean is willing to take her in her smock, and moreover his wardship and marriage were granted to my Lord by her Majesty.

  36. Therewith she claimed another day's hearing, with an advocate granted to her, or else that, being a Princess, she might be believed on the word of a Princess.

  37. We had granted his marriage to a little niece of my Lord Treasurer's, but she died ere coming to age.

  38. My reverence cannot but be greater than ever," faltered Humfrey from his very heart, his words lost in the kiss he printed on the hand she granted him.

  39. This treaty guaranteed Cuba representation in the Spanish Cortes, granted a free pardon to all who had taken part directly or indirectly, in the revolution, and permitted all those who wished to do so to leave the island.

  40. Granted that he obeyed instructions, if, indeed such instructions ever existed, just think for a moment what would have happened if he had not!

  41. I ask no more liberty than is granted unto him; the rudest, coarsest fare, a little straw, or the bare ground beside his couch.

  42. Nay, I can ask naught which the Earl of Hereford hath not granted of himself," said Sir Nigel.

  43. He spoke of his country, aye, and less deplored the chains which bound her then, than with that prophetic spirit sometimes granted to the departing, dilated on her future glory.

  44. It is not at his request I come; no, no, no, he spurns life, if it be granted on conditions.

  45. And it was in truth as if a superhuman strength and presence had been granted the patriot king that night, for there were veteran warriors there, alike English and Scotch, who paused even in the work of strife to gaze and tremble.

  46. I swear to thee I will do naught that can make thee regret thou hast granted an orphan's prayer.

  47. The spiritual interpretation has the less difficulty, that it must necessarily be granted in the case of אשם, immediately preceding.

  48. The reason is here stated why the Servant of God receives so glorious a reward; why, after He has been removed to God, a generation so infinitely great is granted to Him.

  49. But this salvation can be granted to those only whose hearts are prepared to receive it.

  50. But in the case of those who are in God, who possess the fundamental knowledge, this knowledge must be developed, carried on, and brought to full consciousness through the instrumentality of those to whom God has granted the gifts for it.

  51. The people are filled with joy on account of the deliverance granted to them by the Lord,--their deliverance from the yoke of their oppressors, from the bondage of the world which now comes to an end.

  52. The enumeration of the three Patriarchs recalls to mind the whole series of the promises granted to them.

  53. But they overlooked the circumstance that enough had already been granted for convincing those who were well disposed, and that it can never be a duty to convince obstinate unbelief in a manner so palpable.

  54. For it is not the position which Israel takes that is spoken of, but that which is granted to them.

  55. And to have an easy mind she must have granted her the little, little boons she asketh.

  56. But the Halls' farm and another of near three hundred acres were granted to Edward Hall.

  57. Most of the land was granted to the Sieur Throckmorton with the abbey's buildings and tithe barns.

  58. II In the part of Lincolnshire that is a little to the northeastward of Stamford was a tract of country that had been granted to the monks of St Radigund's at Dover by William the Conqueror.

  59. This singer has had granted to him a glimpse of two great truths--the universality of the Church, and the mode of entrance into it by reception of a new life.

  60. There is nothing more awful in the imprecations of the Psalter than that petition that the boon of a swift end to their miseries may not be granted them.

  61. It would have been ridiculous to refuse to see him, so, in spite of my repugnance, I granted his request.

  62. The Duc d'Anjou, a little before, had pleaded great fatigue, and had asked leave to retire to his hotel, which had been granted to him.

  63. By our holy father the Pope, who granted me this favor.

  64. Very wise people will doubtless think that was a childish wish, but the kindly angel of his release granted it.

  65. So I have taken it for granted that its localities and data are correct, for if I had made an error some one would have told me of it.

  66. In March, the dearest wish of my heart was granted me.

  67. He took for granted that Ossian was authentic.

  68. Artists, in every way his inferiors, were welcomed to the ranks of 'the forty;' but to Romney never were granted even the poorer dignities of associateship.

  69. And why should he take it for granted that Sheba was ready to drop into the arms of the big Alaskan whenever he said the word?

  70. If his report is favorable to the claimants, the patents will be granted without further delay.

  71. Had she rushed into his arms like a lovesick girl, taking it for granted that he cared for her?

  72. She seemed to take it for granted that he would at last marry Sheba after wearing away the rigid Puritanism of her resentment.

  73. He takes it for granted that you are guilty.

  74. During the reign of Edward, and that of Philip and Mary, many privileges were granted to Cabot; he was made governor of the Russian company, and had the management of the expedition which sailed under Sir Hugh Willoughby to the North Seas.

  75. These three persons were monks of St. Jerome, and were accompanied by a lawyer of great abilities, and Las Casas, who was granted the title of "Protector of the Indians.

  76. After much difficulty, in consequence of the opposition of the meddling bishop, this extent of coast was granted to him, with liberty to extend it indefinitely into the interior.

  77. However, he was very kind to Richard and myself and frequently allowed us to play about behind the scenes, which was a privilege I imagine he granted to very few of his friends' children.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "granted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; acknowledged; admitted; affirmed; alleged; allowed; approved; assumed; authenticated; avowed; certified; confessed; confirmed; given; granted; gratuitous; inferred; presumed; presumptive; professed; providential; putative; ratified; received; recognized; sealed; signed; stamped; supposed; supposititious; though; understood; validated; warranted