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Example sentences for "kind"

Lexicographically close words:
kimonos; kin; kina; kinaesthetic; kincob; kinda; kinde; kindely; kinder; kindergarten
  1. Would you advise people to come to God as they are, with their unfeeling, treacherous, hard hearts--with any kind of heart?

  2. There are hundreds here very anxious to know they are safe in the Kingdom; but they think they have not the right kind of feeling.

  3. This friend of mine feels as though he has a kind of mission to follow me; and whenever he gets a chance he comes in with the thunders of Sinai.

  4. You would advise them, then, to trust in the Lord, whether they have the right kind of feeling or not?

  5. There are some who say they do not know that they have the right kind of faith.

  6. God does not ask us if we have the right kind of faith.

  7. These being secured to me by an Act which I had previously got passed, were a kind of an estate; and as they wore, I could repair and re-touch them, so that in some particulars they became better than when first engraved.

  8. With respect to the kind opinion you are pleased to entertain of me and my performances, I sincerely return you thanks.

  9. The horse is led by a vulgar drayman, whose locks being so dishevelled as to form a kind of glory, are inscribed, "Lines of beauty.

  10. France, ever aping the magnificence of other nations, has in its turn assumed a foppish kind of splendour sufficient to dazzle the eyes of neighbouring states, and draw vast sums of money from this country.

  11. Being at that time very weak, and in a kind of slow fever, it could not but seize on a feeling mind.

  12. You were so kind as to say you would touch up the Doctor if I would send it to town.

  13. For one thing, I found it hard to realise, owing to the climate and surroundings, that it was really Christmas; for another, everybody was so kind and hospitable that one could not help feeling merry and jolly.

  14. What particular kind of scent it was, I do not know.

  15. The place is, in fact, a little island of civilisation set in a wilderness of savagery, the new station house there, Schomburgk considers, being the finest and handsomest building of its kind in the whole interior of Africa.

  16. It was pitiful to see some of them, with babes at their breasts, digging out the ore with a curious kind of hoe-shaped tool.

  17. But we also utilised this, our second stay in Mangu, to photograph some of the kind best described as semi-dramatic.

  18. Alas, my pride in this respect, and on this occasion, was of the kind that goes before a fall.

  19. Presently, I got another kind of shock, an unpleasant one.

  20. His great fault was that he would use tinned stuff whenever possible, even when other fresh food of the same kind was available.

  21. The fact of the matter is that a tent in the tropics is not at all a desirable kind of dwelling-place.

  22. The sand, fortunately, was soft, and the floundering kind of stumble my horse made resulted, so far as I was concerned, in a subsidence rather than a fall.

  23. It is a fact, too, that a certain kind of cowardice requires a certain kind of courage.

  24. It is the kind of country that is known out here as "yam-field country"; for the following reason.

  25. They said the same about south Korea--about Viet-Nam, about Lebanon.

  26. The walls are of immense thickness, and on the face of each, near the top, where the ashlar-work has not been destroyed, a kind of arcade ornament may still be discerned.

  27. This feat, which was no doubt performed by a kind of ventriloquism, is also mentioned by Casaubon.

  28. Another part was used for the purposes of an Independent church, the first of the kind in the town, and which would appear to have been set up without “waiting for a civil sanction.

  29. In sooth very kind offices were done to thee in thy family by the Trojans.

  30. The most ancient hymn of this kind on record is that in the first book of Samuel, xviii.

  31. Then indeed they descended to the ground, and [their friends] rejoicing, saluted them with the right hand and kind expressions.

  32. So that, grieved at heart, I bewail at the same time thee and myself, unhappy; for there is not any other in wide Troy kind and friendly to me; but all abhor me.

  33. Our army is much more open to this kind of favoritism and political partiality, than that of almost any of the governments of Europe, which we have been accustomed to regard as aristocratic and wholly unfriendly to real merit.

  34. Operations of this kind carried on in the night, are most likely to succeed.

  35. Battles of this kind may partake of the mixed character of offensive and defensive actions, or they may be of the nature of a surprise to both armies.

  36. In a word, by adopting the maxim, that the enemy must be made to pay for whatever he gains, it disputes with him every inch of ground, and if at last it yields to him a victory, it is of that kind which calls forth only his sighs.

  37. Personal comforts of every kind are greatly increased, and placed within the reach of the humbler classes; while at the same time the "appliances of art are made to minister to the demands of elegant taste, and a higher moral culture.

  38. This great king introduced, about the same time, a new and lighter kind of artillery, made of sheet iron and leather.

  39. The Americans, therefore, had no obstacles of this kind to overcome on three of their lines of operation; and, when Scott had reduced Vera Cruz, his line of march was open to the capital.

  40. But in the immediate vicinity of the enemy, or in a country whose inhabitants are hostile or insurrectionary, precautions of this kind should always be resorted to.

  41. A few examples of this kind of justice will soon restore discipline to the army, and pacify the inhabitants of the country occupied.

  42. In 1572 Valturus proposed to throw, with a kind of mortar, "globes of copper filled with powder.

  43. The earth is thrown up on the side towards the place besieged, so as to form a kind of parapet to cover the men in the trench.

  44. This was very kind of him, considering the way in which he had been treated!

  45. The people of the village gradually found out how she managed, and how fast her property was increasing, and they entertained for her a great deal of that kind of respect which worldly prosperity always commands.

  46. This was, however, partly his father's fault, who never gave him any kind and friendly instruction, and always treated him with a great degree of sternness and severity.

  47. Mary Erskine received her in a very kind and cordial manner.

  48. But his kind and playful co-operator, nature, would always take up the work where he left it, and begin at once to beautify it with her rich and luxuriant verdure.

  49. There's an expression of great malice and humour in her physiognomy, and a kind of devil-may-care haughtiness in the poise of her head.

  50. Marietta, the kind soul, noticing his despondency, sought in divers artless ways to cheer him.

  51. Yes," it asserted boldly; "the kind of men who build villas and plant cornfields must be classified as natural forces.

  52. Beatrice was seated under the white awning, at the terrace-end, doing some kind of needlework.

  53. In that way he was able to spend long delightful hours alone with her every day, in a kind of metaphysical intimacy.

  54. If you are, it's a mighty quiet kind of notoriety, let me tell you, and a mighty cold kind of warmth.

  55. He could only utter a kind of half-choked "Oh?

  56. That would have had the effect of making her a kind of involuntary particeps criminis.

  57. There is also, perhaps," laughed Peter, "a kind of intangible sense of a liberty taken.

  58. At the same time he was filled with a kind of exultancy.

  59. It'll be kind of hard to take in the meantime, though, but if you can take it, I can.

  60. They tried to get some kind of salable cargo for each one, without depriving themselves of what they needed for themselves.

  61. A girl can punch any kind of a button a man can, and a lot of them knew what buttons to punch, and why.

  62. There was no telling what kind of taps there might be on the screen his father was using; he couldn't risk telling him about Shanlee, or about the last computation which Merlin had made.

  63. I'd like to, but I'm afraid I'm going to be kind of busy.

  64. He wasn't used to this kind of drinking, and he wanted to stay sober enough to talk sense until he'd told them what he had to.

  65. You don't get this kind of hunting in a bank, either.

  66. Now let's see what kind of a mess we're in here.

  67. I never had the kind of a partner I have now.

  68. And then when Wade joined you and Father, I thought he was either helping you put over some kind of a swindle or else he'd started believing in Merlin himself.

  69. If you expect to get any kind of a gang together, at least a third of them will be girls.

  70. And the armor; you can take her through any kind of radiation.

  71. The Liberals on Terra had been full of that kind of talk, which was why only four out of ten of last year's graduating class at Armed Forces Academy had been able to get active commissions.

  72. He's some kind of a clergyman, from over Morven way.

  73. Mr. Mayor, do you think you could set up some kind of a public-works program here in Litchfield?

  74. His mother, however, regarded the engineer's daughter with badly concealed hostility, and seemed to doubt that Sylvie was the kind of girl she wanted her son getting involved with.

  75. The author begs to acknowledge the kind suggestions and assistance of Rafael Joseffy, Vladimir de Pachmann, Moriz Rosenthal, Jaraslow de Zielinski, Edwin W.

  76. Count Gallenberg, the lessee of the famous Karnthnerthor Theatre, was kind to him, and the publisher Haslinger treated him politely.

  77. Brodzinski is quoted as saying that in its primitive form the Mazurek is only a kind of Krakowiak, "less lively, less sautillant.

  78. They carefully cultivate dances calling for a kind of grace which is almost beyond the reach of art.

  79. He was as a rule a kind and patient teacher, and where talent was displayed his interest trebled.

  80. Here is the same kind of saccharine melody that makes mawkish the trio in the "Marche Funebre.

  81. The country is swarming with troops of one kind or another," said the miller; "and a man must have his wits about him who would get through it.

  82. It is not well to hide a kind thought from me, Mildred.

  83. As we propose to bear him company, we will, for the present, leave the family in the parlor to the enjoyment of the kind communion that had already nursed up a mutual affection between the hostess and her guests.

  84. She was a lady of a kind and gentle aspect, apparently advanced beyond the middle period of life; and her features, somewhat emaciated, gave a sign of feeble health.

  85. The present position of Mildred, notwithstanding the kind sympathy with which every one regarded her, was one that wrought severely upon her feelings.

  86. I will go along, and maybe it will be a comfort to her, to have some woman-kind beside her.

  87. Use and necessity are kind nursing-mothers to our nature, and do not often fail to endow us with the qualities proper to the fortune they shape out for us.

  88. Then may a kind and merciful Heaven shield you!

  89. My good and kind mother--God knows how she would bear any heavy accident.

  90. He gave us all sorts of ill usage, knowing that we wa'n't allowed to give him the kind of payment that such an oncomfortable fellow desarved to get.

  91. Could my ardent wish but be accomplished, she should be placed in safety, assured of ample and kind protection.

  92. As, however, my subsequent experiences may discover a treatment so kind and exceptional as to appear almost incredible, I must only ask the reader to credit me with the veracity that my previous frankness entitles me to expect.

  93. I had the run of the building, with a kind of general instruction to brush everything and everybody, up stairs and down stairs, and in the warder’s chamber.

  94. He was connected with the stores, and could get more done in an hour than one of the blustering kind in a week.

  95. A kind friend expressed great sympathy for me, but feared I must make up my mind to this degrading punishment.

  96. These cleaners eat up everything; indeed, so fat do they often become that it is a kind of unwritten rule that when they have increased a stone in weight they revert to prison life.

  97. It is best to prepare quite an amount of these different fillings while you are at it, as they will keep indefinitely without drying out, if put in a small jar of some kind with a tight cover on it.

  98. Of course you may use any kind of nut on these if you have not the ones mentioned, but the green and white make a very pretty combination.

  99. If you have a large stone platter, you can use that for nearly every kind of candy in this book; but buy a slab by all means if you can.

  100. Almost any size or kind of a piece of marble will do.

  101. Opera fudge, cut into squares and coated with chocolate, is much nicer than the other kind of fudge.

  102. You can also use your own judgment about the kind of nuts or fruit you like, but we simply tell you to use candied fruit and nuts together as that seems to be the most popular.

  103. If you should be unable to procure any other kind of chocolate, you could use the ordinary bitter baking chocolate, sweetened somewhat with XXXX sugar, but do not use it if you can possibly avoid doing so.

  104. You may also use any kind of nuts or candied fruit you have, in the same manner, but black walnuts are considered the best by the majority of persons.

  105. Then take it off the fire, stir in the vanilla and any kind of nuts you desire, and scrape it out of the kettle on a greased slab, between bars, as directed for making vanilla caramels.

  106. Only coating chocolate should be used for candy making because it is stronger in flavor and imparts a delicate taste such as no other kind does.

  107. This is done in cornstarch, the same kind as you use for cooking purposes, as that does not stick to the candy in the least.

  108. Blest be this kind Retreat, this 'lone Occasion, That lends a short Cessation to my Torments, And gives me leave to vent my Sighs and Tears.

  109. Tell me, said he, my Bellemante, Will you be kind to your Charmante?

  110. Alcippus, 'tis not kind to doubt me still, Is this a present for a Man I hate?

  111. Chearer of Age, Youth's kind Unrest, And half the Heaven of the blest.

  112. Let murmuring Lovers no longer repine, But their Hearts and their Voices advance; Let the Nymphs and the Swains in the kind Chorus join, And the Satyrs and Fauns in a Dance.

  113. To judge against me then wou'd be Ill-Nature, For Men are kind to those they're like in Feature.

  114. An apple John is usually explained as being a kind of apple said to keep two years and to be in perfection when shrivelled and withered, cf.

  115. Expressing all the kind concern Love cou'd inspire, for the Punishment my Father has inflicted on me, for entertaining him at my Window last night.

  116. My Gentlewoman--she's monstrous kind of the sudden.

  117. Some kind assisting Deity, for ought I know.

  118. If the allusion here is to such a kind of apple Sir Feeble's phrase is singularly inept, as may perhaps be intended to be the case.

  119. I have placed this entrance here as by his first speech Bellmour obviously overhears Leticia's words, 'Blest be this kind Retreat'.

  120. Be pleasant to repeat your Story, to tell me by what kind degrees you cozen'd me.

  121. As soon as Lawrence had gone, he told me that the secretary suspected him of having warned the chaplain, since that individual had never been near the ambassador's and no document of any kind was found upon him.

  122. Bragadin to be kind enough to send me a pair of fur boots for the winter, as my cell was high enough for me to stand upright and to walk up and down.

  123. Her husband would make fine game of her when he came back; but God bless her for her kind heart and benevolent stupidity.

  124. I uttered these words in a kind of transport.

  125. A prisoner of my kind has no business to open his mouth before his judge, except to answer questions.

  126. He was pleased to say that, believing in God and His works, he was persuaded his nails had been given him to procure the only solace he was capable of in the kind of fury with which he was tormented.

  127. Three weeks ago I observed that there was a kind of cabal between four or five notables of the town of Isola, where I live.

  128. I had suffered from a kind of rash, which as it came off had left some red spots on my arms, and occasionally caused me some irritation.

  129. He was kind enough to tell me that he did not expect to see me, as he did not believe my promise to rejoin him was made in good faith.

  130. I was thoroughly perplexed, and was beginning to lose courage, when an incident of the simplest and most natural kind came to my aid and fortified my resolution.

  131. The same kind of thing happened to me at Constantinople, when I was complaining of a cold in the head in the presence of a Turk, who was thinking, I could see, that a dog of a Christian was not worthy of such a blessing.

  132. I left at an early hour, impatient to see what kind of an answer the minister had sent me.

  133. I put myself, in fact, to a kind of torture unknown to the tyrants of all ages.

  134. Fronting the Palais is the Place d’Armes, with its shops and houses arranged in a kind of horse-shoe curve.

  135. Throughout all this terrible scene the kind priest kept bawling aloud with all his might consolation to the dying man.

  136. The rocks produce nearly every kind of metal, one of the best cements, and many beautiful crystals and marbles, of which the black variety of Beaumont is the most celebrated.

  137. Commerce, and, having passed through a doorway, enters a kind of park and ascends by the right side of the Furon.

  138. The establishment, which has every kind of apparatus for administering the water, is situated in a park extending to the Loire, where fair rod-fishing may be had.

  139. At the end, in a kind of chapel, are two Madonnas on the wall by Fra.

  140. Standing apart at the base of the hill is St. Croix, dedicated in 1019, consisting of four semicircular sides, crowned with semidomes projecting from a square tower crowned with a kind of pyramid spire.

  141. At the fairs, besides every kind of country produce, girls and grown-up women offer their hair for sale.

  142. On the tower and south transept is the same kind of rude mosaic which ornaments the church of Issoire.

  143. Round the point, in a warm nook among the hills, is the hospital of St. Mandrier, with 1200 beds, one of the most important establishments of this kind in France.

  144. The male and female are known respectively as Boar and Sow, to carry out the idea that they are a lesser kind of pig.

  145. That slight pause gave the Rat a chance--a very poor one, but he tumbled in a stupid, drunken kind of way towards the hedge, to which the Weasel had been trying to drag him.

  146. Some years ago an interesting account appeared in The Field of an Otter whelp that had been mothered by an Otter-hound, afterwards hunting its own kind with the pack.

  147. Our old friend, Miss Susan Hopley, told us that she once unwittingly partook of a much larger kind in the United States, and innocently remarked, "What a pity to kill such very young chickens!

  148. Pursued by his three Skye terriers "she took refuge in a corner of the rocks, where, perched in a kind of recess out of reach of her enemies, she stood with her hair bristled out, and spitting and growling like a common cat.

  149. On arrival at the coast it will seek some bat-haunted cave that has been favoured by its kind for generations, and will work the shallow waters for flat fish, bass, crabs, and mussels.

  150. The cubs taken young are easily tamed, and in response to kind treatment show a considerable amount of attachment to their owners.

  151. Though it shows by its preferences that its natural role is that of grain thief, it will eat any kind of human food and much besides: in a word, it is omnivorous.

  152. In describing the teeth in any species a simple formula is adopted which shows at a glance the number of each kind in one side of each jaw.

  153. Sentiment overwhelmed her; it was a new kind of pleasure.

  154. It began to occur to him, by degrees, that his own personal importance among his kind might be due, in part, to his fortune.

  155. The presence of their own kind in such numbers confused them; overwhelmed, they found no voices to answer the call of happiness.

  156. He fumbled around in his clothing for a moment and presently jerked a pistol free--one of the automatic kind with rubber butt and blued barrel.

  157. You get one of those kind of things every day!

  158. Geraldine Seagrave had had time enough to discover, during the past winter, that her old playfellow was not at all the kind of man he appeared to be.

  159. You've turned into a different kind of girl.

  160. I have had some measure of success and I have made about every kind of mistake there is to make.

  161. I have had the same kind of follies, fears, and fires my twenty-one-year-old reader has.

  162. That ain't the kind of hell I referred to, Two-Bits.

  163. In kind of bad with some of the boys over trouble he's had.

  164. He can bury it deeply from those who do not know him but to his own kind it is ever near the surface.

  165. You know how he used to be, Dad, kind of a bully, always lookin' for trouble.

  166. You want the primitive, go-and-get-it kind, the kind that takes and keeps.

  167. She ain't our kind of a woman an' the good Lord alone knows what notions she'll have, but she'll get busy!

  168. I don't seem to care much about any kind of success but I'm afflicted like everybody else: I'm a human being, and every one of us likes to pick on the faults he finds in others that correspond to his own faults.

  169. If that man's a sample of the kind you've got here, you're a nest of skunks.

  170. You're the kind that gets men into trouble, but maybe you're .

  171. That's kind of you, but I'm afraid you'll have to drink alone.

  172. It was one of those influences at work, the kind you've only felt.

  173. I didn't know anybody could be kind to me like she's been.

  174. I know how kind you have been to father," she said.

  175. The old man, in his own communications with her, had always been kind and forbearing.

  176. And in these moments Souchey was with her, busy in the dying man's room; and there were gentle kind words spoken between him and Nina--as would be natural between such persons at such a time.

  177. They were kind enough to suggest that if I would merely break my word to you, they would tell me how I could get the title-deeds of the houses, and thus have the power of turning your father out into the street.

  178. But she knew that he had known her, and she almost felt that she had found a friend who would be kind to her.

  179. But the kind man kept the necklace, I suppose.

  180. The doctor took Nina by the hand, and put his own hand upon her soft tresses, and spoke kind words to console her.

  181. A man always promises that when he wants a girl to be kind to him.

  182. There was no Christian now who would say a kind word to her.

  183. There is no one there but mother, and she is kind and gracious.

  184. If it had been any kind of a Christian, I could understand it.

  185. I am sure we have meant to be kind to her," said Ziska.

  186. He should not do so, for I am endeavouring to be kind to him.

  187. But Deacon Dobbins' folks seemed to be all waked up on the subject of religion, and they proposed we should turn it into a kind of a conference meetin'; so they never went home till after ten o'clock.

  188. How kind of our parents, after eight months' hard study, to send us to this delightful place!

  189. For nearly a week, Doctor, I've had the worst kind of a narvous head-ache; it has been so bad sometimes that I thought my head would bust open.

  190. Then, gazing over the side, to see What kind of a bottom this shoal might be, They saw, in the shadow that lay to the lee, A sight that filled them with horror!

  191. But you've got such a kind look about you--as if you'd understand.

  192. I should like to be kind to him--for my own sake.

  193. I think it is rather kind of them to take me without references, don't you?

  194. It was kind of you to come round to the sing-song last night," he said, after a pause.

  195. He had been very kind to them both during the brief hour that he had spent with them, and the memory of it still lingered warmly in Juliet's heart.

  196. She had never been other than kind to him ever since.

  197. Green stood facing her, his look as kind as her own.

  198. Men," she said, "it is very kind of you to cheer me, but you will never do it again.

  199. Well, it's awfully kind of you if you do, but it isn't true.

  200. You know you've no right to ask any woman to share a burden of that kind with you.

  201. She's been too kind to him, unluckily for her, and now he dogs her footsteps whenever he gets a chance.

  202. It isn't fair to inflict him on people--even on anyone as kind as yourself--in that state.

  203. It's so good to have you--kind to me for once.

  204. Green sat and watched, a kind of stern pity replacing the unyielding mastery of his look.

  205. The Wit, too, as Swift sufficiently proved, could be a consummate master of that kind of writing on occasion, and Gulliver probably showed something to Crusoe.

  206. The more enlightened clergy had, of course, been engaged in the direct controversy, and had adopted a kind of mild common-sense rationalism which implied complete indifference to the dogmatic disputes of the preceding century.

  207. But, without attacking these large problems, I shall be content to say that I do not see that any such sweeping conclusions can be made as to the kind of changes in literary forms with which we shall be concerned.

  208. I need not speak of its shortcomings; didactic poetry of that kind is dreary enough, and the smart couplets often offend one's taste.

  209. The natural result, in fact, was the development of a new kind of literature, which was the most characteristic innovation of the period.

  210. He has, indeed, a kind of lurking regard for the rough vigour of the Shakespearian epoch; his patriotic prejudices pluck at him at intervals, and suggest that Marlborough's countrymen ought not quite to accept the yoke of the French Academy.

  211. There is a kind of literary interregnum, though not a corresponding stagnation of speculative and political energy.

  212. The answer, in fact, to the problem which I have just stated, is that the only kind of poetry that was congenial to his environment was satire--if satire can be called poetry.

  213. That means that he received a kind of commission from the upper class to execute the translation.

  214. I will confess that the last time I read Clarissa Harlowe it affected me with a kind of disgust.

  215. To say the truth, literature seems to me to be a kind of by-product.


  216. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kind" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodating; advantageous; affable; affectionate; agreeable; altruistic; amiable; amicable; auspicious; beneficent; beneficial; benevolent; benign; blood; bonny; brand; braw; breed; brood; brotherly; capital; cast; category; character; characteristic; charitable; chivalrous; clan; class; cogent; color; commendable; compassionate; complaisant; complexion; compliant; composition; conciliatory; congenial; considerate; constitution; cooperative; cut; decent; denomination; description; designation; diathesis; disposition; elegant; estimable; ethos; excellent; expedient; fair; family; famous; fatherly; favorable; feather; fiber; fine; flattering; folk; forbearing; forgiving; form; frame; fraternal; friendly; generous; genial; genius; genre; gens; gentle; genus; good; goodly; gracious; grain; grand; habit; harmonious; healthy; helpful; house; hue; human; humane; humor; ilk; indulgent; kidney; kin; kind; kindhearted; kindly; label; large; laudable; lenient; line; lineage; lot; loving; magnanimous; make; makeup; manner; mark; maternal; merciful; mild; model; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; nation; nature; neighborly; neighbourly; nice; noble; number; obliging; order; patient; peaceable; people; permissive; persuasion; phylum; physique; pleasant; profitable; property; propitious; providential; quality; race; range; rate; regal; royal; school; sept; shape; sisterly; skillful; sociable; soft; sort; sound; sparing; species; spirit; splendid; stamp; stem; stirps; stock; strain; streak; stripe; style; sweet; sympathetic; system; temper; temperament; tendency; tender; tenderhearted; tenor; thoughtful; tolerant; tone; totem; tribe; type; useful; valid; variety; vein; version; virtuous; warm; warmhearted; way


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    kind and; kind enough; kind friend; kind friends; kind heart; kind master; kind permission; kind reader; kind reception; kind regards; kind treatment; kind word; kind words; kinder guess; kindest regards; kindled against; kindling wood; kindly smile; kindly tone