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Example sentences for "howd"

Lexicographically close words:
hovers; hoving; how; howbeit; howcome; howdah; howdahs; howdy; howe; hower
  1. Howd thy tongue," she answered with a proper touch of wifely irritation at his levity.

  2. We're goin' to howd him over th' shaft a minnit till tha mak's up thy mind.

  3. I think that our cock-sure kumred has geete howd of another mare's neest," he remarked, relapsing unconsciously into his native dialect as he frequently did when stirred.

  4. Yo'll have t' parish up after yo if yo doan't howd your tongue,' said David roughly.

  5. But in the bustle Margaret had managed to say to David, 'Howd your tongue, noddle-yed, will yo?

  6. Howd your tongue, an blow up t' fire,' was all the reply she vouchsafed him, and Reuben obeyed.

  7. But she got waker and waker, and at last she coon't howd up no longer, but took wholly to her bed.

  8. Well, we got her to bed, and for a whole week she coon't howd up at all.

  9. The Owd Master nivver could howd up arter that.

  10. And when I've gotten howd on him, I'll hollow.

  11. Then do thou run out o' t' back door, and I'll howd him tight, and thou can poise him behind as much as thou like.

  12. Howd up a minute," she said, passing one strong arm under me and lifting me as if I had been a baby; and almost before I had realised it she slipped off my jacket and placed a cushion beneath my head.

  13. Howd thee tongue, I say," he cried, hammering away at his anvil, to drown my words in noise.

  14. Set o' Lonnoners trying to get howd o' wucks, and me and my mates wean't hev 'em.

  15. Howd hard theer," he cried in his shrill voice.

  16. I'm not a man to go on wi' fullishness; but brass is brass, and a hard thing to get howd on.

  17. Efter a while I gat agate once more, an' I'd ommost finished my row of potates when my fork gat howd o' summat big.

  18. Nay, it were a potate reight enough, an' I were fair capped when I'd getten howd on it wi' my two hands.

  19. Howd on a bit,' said Amos, still holding the minister by the lapel of his coat.

  20. Howd your tongue, lass, or you'll make me mad," cried Tom.

  21. Howd thee tongue, theer," said one of the men, who seemed to take a leading part.

  22. Howd your tongue, lass; I shall tell him.

  23. Howd thee tongue, and see," he cried sternly.

  24. Hearing her gasp, a woman in the crowd cried out: "Howd t' heathen!

  25. Folk sayn so," replied Bess; "boh I'd leyther howd my tung about it.

  26. HOWD Paul Bunyan was the logging industry; not, to be sure, as it is found in Forest Service Reports or in profit and loss statements, but rather as it burned in the bones of the true North Woods lumberjack.

  27. Aw will howd eawt as lung as aw can; but, yo know, what'll barely keep one alive 'll clem two.

  28. Howd your tongue, Willie," said his mother, mildly.

  29. I'll howd by chutch till t' last, say what thou will!

  30. When I'm down theer, and can howd out no more, thou mun do thy worst.

  31. Howd thy tongue, lass," said Jock, in a deep growl, and his strong will mastered hers.

  32. There ain't every servant of t' owd church like me, and I'll howd my own unto the last.

  33. Howd thy noise," he growled, and once more she shrunk cowering from his fierce eyes.

  34. I hadna th' money to buy, an' it seemt loike I could howd out.

  35. Howd thy tongue, mother," said Bess, but the words were not ungently spoken, notwithstanding their bluntness.

  36. Ea lad, ther's some i' that pewter sithee--tak howd an sup.

  37. Why mucky watter 'll sleck as weel as clean, give us howd of a pailful o' swill.

  38. Howd a minit,' he sed, as he emptied his pint, then he went away wi' her.

  39. Attempting to cross a busy thoroughfare in front of a moving omnibus with an impetuous friend, the cautious Lancashire man will say: "Nay, howd on!

  40. Let me get a good howd on him," said the wheelwright; and with one foot in the boat he passed his great arm under the constable and lifted him out as tenderly as if he had been a child.

  41. Nay, if thou'rt going to play tricks, lad, I shall howd my hand.

  42. There, I've got howd o' the pole, and one leg hooked under the thwart.

  43. Yow take howd o' this one, young Tom Tallington," said Dave; and the lad prepared to hook the line as the punt was carefully urged forward.

  44. Get howd o' the pole, mester," shouted Warren from the other boat.

  45. Howd hard a minute till I've made fast here.

  46. Jacob'll howd the light, and I'll see if I can't mend the hole.

  47. Ay, I heerd what he said; a whole heap o' bad words till I checked him, and let him feel he'd best howd his tongue.

  48. You get well howd o' the band while young squire untwisses the hook.

  49. Now, squire, I mun lean ower thee to get howd o' the pole.

  50. I give the hankycher a good tighten up, and that hot him, so that he had to howd his tongue.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "howd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.