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Example sentences for "ground"

Lexicographically close words:
grottoes; grottos; grouch; groue; groues; groundcar; grounde; grounded; grounder; grounding
  1. Teddy found Davis lying on the ground with a bullet in his hip.

  2. In a little while she saw the ogre take the key from his pocket, and hide it in a hole in the ground before he went to bed.

  3. At these words she struck the ground with her foot and a gulf opened, down which they went right into the heart of the earth.

  4. The ground was also covered with fruit and flowers, and in the middle of the valley rose a fountain surrounded by a velvety lawn.

  5. Being tired he stretched himself on the ground at no great distance from them, and soon they all three began to talk to one another.

  6. The ground opened under my feet, and I soon found myself in a far distant region transformed into a little dog, under which shape I had the honour to meet your Majesty.

  7. Mohammed lifted me from the ground and looked at me with admiration.

  8. With these words he spread the table-cloth on the ground and said, 'Table-cloth, open.

  9. I need someone to weed the ground and to sweep the dead leaves from the paths.

  10. Directly she uttered these words the ox fell to the ground and lay there, seven days and seven nights.

  11. Filled with astonishment Neangir sat up in bed, and beheld by the light of the moon the two watches slide to the ground and roll out of the room past the cats' quarters.

  12. Then the other general plunged in; but he fared no better than the first, and was soon on dry ground again.

  13. With these words she opened the window and threw the poor little beast out, and he fell on the ground as dead as a stone.

  14. The Draken came round about to eat him, but the dogs flung themselves on them and tore them in pieces, and scratched a grave in the ground with their paws, and buried the Draken so that Janni might not see their dead bodies.

  15. As soon as he catches sight of me, he begins to paw the ground and rear impatiently.

  16. The sky and the ground disappear when he bears me along under those long vaults formed by the apple-trees in blossom.

  17. The ground is dark and rich; there are narrow, shady paths.

  18. Struck senseless and bleeding to the ground for some trifling indiscretion, as he lay confined to his bed for many subsequent days, he formed the resolution of seeking his own fortune rather than submit to hourly degradation.

  19. McElvina was correct in his supposition; the commander of the frigate perceived that he had lost too much ground by deviating from his course, and the evening was closing in.

  20. Rainscourt, springing from his chair, at the corroborating incident to his previous ground of alarm.

  21. A gun here is the same to the cruiser, as a splash in the water is to the ground sharks at Antigua; up they all come to see what's to be had.

  22. The operation consisted in dragging along the ground great sheets, the corners of which were held up.

  23. When the ground is too hard to be dug, the Necrophori push the carcase further, till they find permeable soil.

  24. On a level with the ground is the royal cell, oblong, with a flat floor and a rounded ceiling, and pierced with round windows.

  25. They are large, whitish worms, with diaphanous skins, scaly heads, furnished with toothed mandibles, living in the ground or in rotten wood.

  26. If the attack recommences, the soldiers are at their posts, defending the ground inch by inch.

  27. During the combat, the soldiers strike from time to time on the ground with their pincers, and produce a little dry sound, to which the workers answer by a sort of whistling.

  28. This insect presents, roughly marked out in light yellow, on the black ground of its thorax, a human skull.

  29. This writer informs us that the peasants of that country, on meeting one of these moving columns, throw down their belts or waistcoats on the ground before it.

  30. To that may be added reflections which are above the ground colour, and which change the hues of the little animal according to the incidence of the rays of light.

  31. These black veins on a rather transparent white ground make this butterfly resemble a gauze veil, hence its French name, le gaze.

  32. It bends itself upwards by resting on the ground by its head and the extremity of the abdomen, and then it unbends itself suddenly, like a spring.

  33. Sitting on the ground at Miss Jenny Ann's feet the girls sang the splendid song.

  34. It walked on four feet, had a thick, shaggy mane, and its long black tail swept the ground in a proud arch.

  35. Madge tossed the paper to the ground contemptuously.

  36. He picked up a stick from the ground and began to whittle it calmly, emitting a guttural, choking laugh.

  37. Some of them pawed the ground in front of them.

  38. But the hand she reached out to Madge to help lift her from the ground was trembling.

  39. The little captain walked across the parade ground at Fortress Monroe to the house of Colonel Harris, her face very pale, her auburn head held high.

  40. When she was within a short distance of it the little creature collapsed and dropped with a soft flop on the ground at her feet.

  41. The chef d'orchestre, Pierre Monteux, refused to direct performances of this work, on the ground that the composer was not only a German, but a very much alive and active German patriot.

  42. And does not every one know that terrifying impossibility of speaking which fastens one to the ground for the eternity of a second, in what is the new, perhaps truer, computation of time in dreams?

  43. But I suppose that it did us no harm to be on the ground and ready.

  44. It's like digging a hole in the ground and looking into it.

  45. Seen from the low ground the star may seem close to the top of the mountain; seen from the mountain-top it is recognised as infinitely above it.

  46. Here the Baptist steps on to ground on which his assertions can be tested.

  47. John had indeed required the same preparation for entrance to the kingdom; but the Pharisees had not listened to John, and were offended precisely on the ground of his baptism.

  48. Again, this fact, that the Jews did not expect the Messiah to be strictly Divine, sheds light on the real ground of accusation against Jesus.

  49. The moral ground being thus prepared for the miracle in the confessed inability of the disciples and of the crowd, Jesus takes the matter in hand.

  50. It served to reveal the point at which Nicodemus had arrived, and the ground on which the conversation might proceed.

  51. He stooped down and wrote on the ground, as one who does not wish to answer a question will begin drawing lines on the ground with his foot or his stick.

  52. So He cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: and Jacob's well was there.

  53. Those who most determinedly proceeded against Jesus did so on the very ground that His miracles were becoming too numerous and too patent.

  54. They crucified Jesus on the ground that He was a blasphemer, and against this sentence He made no appeal.

  55. He who understands the Incarnation of the Son of God has a surer ground of faith, and a richer hope and a straighter access to heaven, than if the ladder of Jacob stood at his bed-head and God's angels were ministering to him.

  56. Acknowledging to such treatment forces me to declare that the witness is incompetent, on the ground that no one has a right to incriminate himself.

  57. Sometimes Nub lay perfectly still; then again he crept forward, shoving his noose carefully along the ground till it got very near the outer circle, to which the birds advanced before beginning to kick up the soil.

  58. It was generally of a reed or grass-like nature, so that they could push it aside or trample it down; and under the more lofty trees the ground was often for a considerable distance completely open, when they made more rapid progress.

  59. Now I go and slip it ober de head of de iguana; and when I pull him down, you pin him to de ground with your spears.

  60. The bird stood its ground boldly, not in the slightest degree alarmed at the appearance of the strangers, as it eyed them with a look of intense curiosity.

  61. At length returning, they threw themselves on the ground panting and blowing.

  62. The operation was somewhat fatiguing, owing to the roughness of the ground and the numerous roots which projected in all directions.

  63. The turtle cannot move when turned on its back, but as a further security it was tethered by the two fore paws to a stick stuck in the ground near the fire.

  64. As all the party were tired, they did not sit up late; but soon lay down in their respective bed-places, with a few boughs stuck in the ground to shelter their heads.

  65. The "surf-boy" though, quietly pinioned his arms and laid him on the ground a third time.

  66. The two gripped, and quickly Joe came to the ground in a heap.

  67. The two boys were interested in archery, and had brought their apparatus to this accepted meeting-ground for a trial of skill.

  68. It was an abrupt break in a shore ledge, and could be avoided by keeping to the right and taking the ground in the rear of the ledge.

  69. Joe made no answer, but renewed his effort, only to make a worse heap on the ground than before.

  70. The ground storey consists of a vaulted passage, already described as the outer parlour.

  71. Mr. Hope says: "The ground storey is entered from a vaulted lobby or antechamber, now modernized and converted into a porch.

  72. The second floor was devoted to his own special guests, while the ground storey contained a reception-room, and probably accommodation for one or two servants.

  73. During the last few years it has lost much of its colour; it is painted in tempera on a kind of gesso ground laid on a wooden planking nearly an inch thick.

  74. When all the accumulation of soil was removed, and the ground lowered, the foundations of the old walls were discovered.

  75. There are still to be found enthusiasts who would like to remove the screens from our cathedrals on the ground that they interfere with the utility and the beauty of the nave and the choir.

  76. Any one who has tried growing nasturtiums must admit that they almost take care of themselves, and if the ground is enriched but a little their growth and yield of blossom is astonishingly abundant.

  77. I have seen a toad go into the ground in late fall.

  78. He would see the field crickets in their galleries in the ground in a dormant state, all their machinery of life brought to a standstill by the cold.

  79. The tail of the gray squirrel shows to best advantage when he is running over the ground in the woods--and a long, graceful, undulating line of soft silver gray the creature makes!

  80. He had found the tree unsafe, and his instinct now was to get to the ground as quickly as possible and take refuge among the rocks.

  81. The yellow and black hornets lose heart as autumn comes on, desert their paper nests and die--all but the queen or mother hornet; she hunts out a retreat in the ground and passes the winter beyond the reach of frost.

  82. When I was a farm-boy, it was about this time that I used to get out of my boots for half an hour and let my bare feet feel the ground beneath them once more.

  83. She hunts out a retreat in the ground and passes the winter there, doubtless in a torpid state, as she stores no food against the inclement season.

  84. In the winter the short-tailed meadow or field mice come out of their retreat in the ground and beneath stones and lead gay, fearless lives beneath the snow-drifts.

  85. Still, he reached the ground first, and his sweetheart breathed more easily.

  86. The mother bird was very busy bringing and placing the material, consisting mainly of dry maple leaves which the winter had made thin and soft, and which were strewn over the ground all about.

  87. A highhole alights on the ground in full view in the orchard twenty yards away, and, spying my motionless figure, pauses and regards me long and intently.

  88. The spindle hummed along the ground and filled in no time.

  89. He stood in the doorway and pounded the ground with his golden club until the whole castle shook.

  90. Lenka went and there, sure enough, was a clear bubbling spring and on the ground beside it a bucket.

  91. She threw herself on the ground and kissed it.

  92. He stood in the doorway and banged the ground with his silver club until the whole castle shook.

  93. Ludmila struck the ground with Yezibaba's wand and changed it into a field.

  94. I can tell you I was surprised but instead of letting them drop on the ground I let them slip back into the baby's clothes.

  95. When he saw the ground sprinkled with blood, he cried out: "Surely there has been a murder here!

  96. In a fury she threw the pitcher on the ground and broke it into a hundred pieces.

  97. She struck the ground with the magic wand and instantly instead of the rocky hillside there appeared an orchard with rows on rows of trees that blossomed and bore fruit as you watched them.

  98. He struck the ground with his leaden club and the whole castle shook.

  99. On more level ground it would have been by a moat or ditch.

  100. He ground his teeth at the consciousness of his own impotence to do them injury.

  101. Before we could stop the machinery, it dropped again, and he was ground to pieces before our eyes.

  102. Selecting a site that was high and dry, Armitage first dug a square hole in the ground three feet deep by about fourteen feet in length and breadth.

  103. The grass and ground all around was charred and blackened by the flames, but of the fire itself nothing remained.

  104. He clenched his fists and ground his teeth.

  105. He clenched his fist and ground his teeth as he saw these perfumed, pampered passengers watching them as they might view wild animals in a cage.

  106. The then French ministry took exception to the message on the ground of its containing a menace, under it was not agreeable to the French Government to negotiate.

  107. If the Presidential veto be objected to upon the ground that it checks and thwarts the popular will, upon the same principle the equality of representation of the States in the Senate should be stricken out of the Constitution.

  108. Having come so far, it is fitting that we should pause to survey the ground which we have covered and the path which lies ahead.

  109. Therefore, our decision was made to concentrate the bulk of our ground and air forces against Germany until her utter defeat.

  110. So much have our people felt this that in the Platt amendment we definitely took the ground that Cuba must hereafter have closer political relations with us than with any other power.

  111. A pretty pickle,[1] indeed, to ground a man's plans on such dashed impudence!

  112. Did it rise from the ground in the woods, or from a far memory of children throwing a bully into the sea?

  113. But in the fort was another whose presence our rough fellows likened to a star flower on the stained ground of some hard-fought battle.

  114. Like a gleam of sunlight through dark came the thought--this was a cave, the cave of the pirates whose voices I had heard from the ground that night in the forest, one pleading to save me, the other sending Le Borgne to trap me.

  115. But she only gets down on the ground the way she did with you and puts my foot on her neck.

  116. Looking closer, from shrub to open, I recognised the ground of that night attack in the woods.

  117. Ben's teeth ground out an assent that sounded precious like an oath; for he knew that he was being asked for hostages of safe-conduct while M.

  118. An Indian can pick his way over known ground without a torch.

  119. Feet at a smouldering fire too dull for an enemy to see and heads pillowed on logs, we bivouacked with the frosty ground for bed.

  120. The ground sloped precipitously; and I was holding back by the underbrush lest the bank led to water when an indistinct sound, a smothery murmur like the gurgle of a subterranean pool, came from below.

  121. Then my antagonist leaped back with a shivering cry of horror, flung the weapon to the ground and fled into the dark.

  122. In that Faubourg St. Antoine house, I mind, we took grand apartments on the ground floor, but up and up we went, till M.

  123. The Prince Rupert might ground on the shallows," he warned.

  124. If we kill an enemy we place his body in the ground that it may go to Molop Az.

  125. All the dead who are buried in the ground go there.

  126. He smiled, and turning, pointing to the nose of the prospector protruding from the ground at our backs.

  127. As I touched the ground I snatched a broken limb from the tangled mass that matted the jungle-like floor of the forest and, leaping unnoticed behind the shaggy back, dealt the brute a terrific blow.

  128. These too saluted Ja, by touching the points of their spears to the ground directly before them.

  129. Time after time I bowled him over as fast as he could stagger up, until toward the last he lay longer on the ground between blows, and each time came up weaker than before.

  130. The red man groped ahead a few paces and then began to ascend a primitive ladder similar to that which leads from the ground to the upper stories of his house.

  131. Time and again the colossal bull tossed the enormous tiger high into the air, but each time that the huge cat touched the ground he returned to the encounter with apparently undiminished strength, and seemingly increased ire.

  132. They beat their great wings up and down, and smote their rocky perches with their mighty tails until the ground shook.

  133. Because of the angle at which we had entered the ground the trip required nearly a day longer, and brought me out here upon the sand of the Sahara instead of in the United States as I had hoped.

  134. Poverty in these cases only makes an intelligent man ground himself all the better in that stern practical training which is the basis of his future career.

  135. Will you permit me, then, to go over the ground we traversed, this time in my own way, pen in hand?

  136. He never began to write about anything until he had cleared the ground well before him.

  137. The etcher protects a copper-plate by means of a waxy covering called etching-ground, and wherever this ground is removed the acid bites the copper.

  138. The time spent in breaking the ground has been wasted, except so far as the exercise of breaking the ground may have been useful in mental gymnastics.

  139. The waxy ground does not in the least affect the strength of the acid, it only intervenes between it and the metal plate.

  140. Our immediate forefathers had the peaceful time for their lot; those who went before them had passed over very rough ground at the Reformation.

  141. Let me suggest, as some ground of consolation and of hope, that your very knowledge of the difference which pains you is in itself the evidence of a deeper unity.

  142. The inference from these facts which concerns every one of us is, that we are not to build up any edifice of intellectual self-satisfaction on the ground that in theological matters we believe or disbelieve this thing or that.

  143. When his wife is as unsettled as himself, the pair seem to live in a balloon, or in a sort of Noah's ark, which goes whither the wind lists, and takes ground in the most unexpected places.

  144. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

  145. They migrate from one hunting-ground to another as the diminution of the game impels them.

  146. The crash of falling houses made the solid ground tremble.

  147. The solid ground seemed to be melting away under her feet, and all the material things around her were visionary, unreal, far away.

  148. By this falling mass Lavirotte had been struck and hurt, and under some of the flooring, earth, and stones he now lay partly covered, prostrate upon the ground of the vault.

  149. But all the strong life above-ground was now as remote from him, as little allied to help he might expect, as the faintest cloud darkening in the east.

  150. Over at the Thompson place the ground had been plowed up in part, and as soon as he left Jerry Borden Randy set to work in earnest to plant late vegetables.

  151. Be thankful that you weren't ground up under the paddle-wheel.

  152. Father says he will run the works into the ground so that the stock won't be worth a cent.


  153. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abyss; acres; affirmation; alluvium; ambition; amphitheater; angle; antecedent; area; arena; argument; aspiration; assertion; assumption; auditorium; axiom; back; backdrop; background; base; basement; basin; basis; beach; bed; bedding; bedrock; belt; bottom; bowl; brush; build; call; calling; campus; canvas; carpet; catechize; cause; chalk; chalky; channel; charcoal; cincture; circus; civilize; clay; clod; close; coat; coating; cockpit; color; coloring; confine; confines; confirm; consideration; container; coop; corridor; country; course; court; courtyard; cover; crayon; crushed; crust; data; deck; deep; define; demonstrate; department; depend; determinant; determinative; device; direct; dirt; distance; distemper; district; division; down; drier; drop; dust; dusty; dye; earth; easel; edify; educate; element; embed; enclave; enclosure; engrave; enlighten; entrench; environs; esplanade; establish; etch; etiology; factor; farinaceous; fell; field; fine; fix; flaky; flat; flatten; floor; flooring; fold; footing; forum; found; foundation; freehold; fundament; fundamental; generator; goal; grassland; grated; ground; grounds; groundwork; guide; gymnasium; hall; hew; hinterland; horizontal; hypothesis; ideal; imbed; impact; impalpable; implant; impress; imprint; infix; inform; ingrain; inscribe; inspiration; install; instance; instruct; insulate; intention; invest; isolate; jam; land; landholding; ledge; level; list; locale; lodestar; lodge; lowest; mainspring; marketplace; mat; matter; mealy; medium; milieu; milled; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; neighborhood; occasion; pack; paint; paintbrush; palaestra; pale; palette; park; parquet; part; parterre; parts; pastel; patch; pavement; pen; pencil; perspective; pigment; pit; pitch; place; plain; plane; plant; platform; position; post; postulate; powdered; powdery; prairie; precinct; precincts; precipitate; predicate; premise; premises; presupposition; primer; priming; principle; print; proof; proposition; prostrate; pulverized; purlieu; purlieus; quadrangle; quarter; radical; range; raze; rear; reason; region; relay; rest; right; ring; root; rudiment; sake; salient; scaly; scene; scenery; school; score; scurfy; seat; section; setting; settle; shipwreck; show; shredded; sill; site; sketchbook; sod; soil; source; space; spatula; sphere; spring; square; stadium; stage; stain; stamp; stand; standing; standpoint; statement; station; status; stay; steppe; stereotype; stimulus; strand; stump; subsoil; substance; substratum; substructure; surfacing; table; teach; tempera; terrace; terrain; territory; theater; theorem; thesis; thinner; throw; tincture; title; topple; topsoil; trench; trip; tumble; turpentine; tutor; underpinning; varnish; vehicle; vest; vicinity; viewpoint; vocation; walk; warrant; wash; wedge; wherefore; why; woodland; wreck; spring; square; stadium; stage; stain; stamp; stand; standing; standpoint; statement; station; status; stay; steppe; stereotype; stimulus; strand; stump; subsoil; substance; substratum; substructure; surfacing; table; teach; tempera; terrace; terrain; territory; theater; theorem; thesis; thinner; throw; tincture; title; topple; topsoil; trench; trip; tumble; turpentine; tutor; underpinning; varnish; vehicle; vest; vicinity; viewpoint; vocation; walk; warrant; wash; wedge; wherefore; why; woodland; wreck


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ground cinnamon; ground cloves; ground coffee; ground color; ground colour; ground floor; ground ginger; ground glass; ground level; ground rice; ground squirrel; ground water