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Example sentences for "lead"

Lexicographically close words:
leab; leabe; leached; leaches; leaching; leade; leaded; leaden; leader; leaderless
  1. In allusion to this thought Gregory Nazianzen remarks, "The Good Shepherd will at one time give his sheep rest, and at another time lead and direct them, with his staff seldom, more generally with his pipe.

  2. Three berceaux of orange-trees lead straight away from the paved terrace on which the salon windows open, to another terrace overhanging the beach and the sea.

  3. Get up she must; dress herself and me in the twinkling of an eye; and go upon whatsoever dance I choose to lead her.

  4. You shall soon see,' he answered, and proceeded to lead me through one crooked street after another, until we found ourselves in front of a palace, at whose door a military watch was posted.

  5. Thus it was that Blanka took the offered arm without a misgiving, and suffered the cobbler to lead her up the steep stairway to the little attic chamber that served her friend for both sleeping-room and studio.

  6. And he had answered them: "I will lead you to a heavenly kingdom, and will free all mankind.

  7. It was Manasseh's desire to lead his bride home without giving her cause for one moment of disquiet on the way.

  8. The Croatians and Serbs, under the lead of Ban Jellachich and other imperial officers, joined in the revolt.

  9. And tell me, did not this man come to you and tell you how a shameless creature in woman's form was to steal into your house, and, under the pretext of rescuing your wife and sister, lead them away to misery and dishonour?

  10. Manasseh was to lead the horses up, one at a time, and stable them in the rude courtyard, while Blanka was instructed to sit on a stone and arrange her flowers and feed her poultry.

  11. Men are naturally friends of peace, and there is more than one symptom to lead me to believe that the American people are generally weary of war.

  12. It is the glory and the misfortune of France to always lead the van in the march of civilization, without having the wit to profit by the discoveries and the sagacious boldness of her children.

  13. I assure you that my friends and I will lead them a fine dance; they shall drink the cup to the very lees," wrote Voltaire to D'Alembert.

  14. The covert hostility which often betrayed itself by acts of aggression was destined ere long to lead to open war.

  15. Bussy every day to attack us," says Sir Thomas Munro, "offering to land the greater part of his crews and to lead them himself to deliver the assault upon our camp.

  16. All this would not have been much, but it was to lead to a great deal more.

  17. Or keep on amidst these fields and hedgerows, which would lead us home by a rather nearer way, but without chance of a lift?

  18. Don't you let the young Pells lead you into mischief.

  19. It is not much in itself, you may say, but it was to lead to lasting events.

  20. Cathy had no bad acquaintance to lead her astray," he resumed.

  21. We did lead the children into mischief, and she complained of that.

  22. Believing that these stories were not without foundation, Charlevoix reported two plans as likely to lead to the coveted discovery.

  23. Hard by their lodges, which stood near the Missouri, the brothers buried a plate of lead graven with the royal arms, and raised a pile of stones in honor of the Governor of Canada.

  24. Leave was given him to work the copper and lead mines, but not to trade in beaver-skins.

  25. The red lines contain mercury and lead suggesting a mixture of vermilion and red lead.

  26. Iron and lead were found in an area of writing on the left foot.

  27. Analysis by the Conservation Laboratory shows that the lancet is made of brass composed of 70% copper and 30% zinc plated with a tin-lead alloy.

  28. She felt a sort of resentment toward him, and this lead her once or twice to make a remark designed "to take him down off the high horse" that she imagined (on no grounds whatever) that he had mounted.

  29. Now, only the stark black boughs creaked in the wind; here and there one stubborn brown leaf still clung to a twig, but you could see the whole lead grey sky clearly, and the irregular outlines of glistening roofs.

  30. And we can lead Dinah off from the road and hitch her to a tree.

  31. The old lady began by a plaintive little discourse on Jane's shortcomings, and on the future disasters that they would most certainly lead to.

  32. Mrs. Lambert holding a twin with each hand, lead the way along a shady path that skirted the bank of a meandering stream.

  33. The shade and freshness of the woods on that hot day were not to be resisted, and Paul turned into them, following a soft, weed-grown road that lead along a little tributary of the mill-stream.

  34. The other was busy going through the motions in heavily accented Spanish broadly emphasizing common words that lead to nods and ballyhoo, those expected currencies of behavior.

  35. A breakthrough in the use of colour lead to the hey day of romanticism and preparation for neo-impressionism.

  36. Moreover, in order to cover your retreat, I swear by Allah that I will lead the Germans on a false scent across the mountains to the east.

  37. They traversed valley after valley, the guide selecting the route, as it seemed, by some kind of natural instinct similar to that which will lead a cat to find its way across unknown country.

  38. In spite of this hurricane of lead and steel, time and again shots sounded from the fort; but the great wave came on, overwhelming and irresistible.

  39. This time it is you and I who lead the chase.

  40. Your object is not to prove a true conclusion but to show your opponent that his premisses lead to false conclusions.

  41. For the effect of God's presence is simply to lead to the development of "form" in an already existing "matter.

  42. Fully thought out, such a view would lead to the conclusion that in the end the simple ultimate matter of all individual things is one and the same throughout the universe, and has absolutely no definite structure at all.

  43. When all was ready, he put Josey in with the woman, and let Isaiah lead his horse behind.

  44. I wouldn't lead him over there," said Oliver.

  45. As soon as Isaiah had taken the horse out, Jonas told him to lead him around behind the sleigh, while he turned the shafts over back against the dasher, and then he brought the oxen up in front of the sleigh.

  46. Jonas had given them no instructions about this; and they found it much more difficult than the walls, on account of the small, low door, which they had to make, to lead from one apartment into the other.

  47. Copper and iron are hard and elastic; but as lead is neither hard nor yet elastic, it is not sonorous.

  48. Black lead radiates heat more freely than any other known substance.

  49. I'm against this war, and against the annexation we all know it will lead to.

  50. And that didn't lead you to avow what you'd done?

  51. Doors opposite each other lead to the maid's workroom, and to a corridor.

  52. Doors on either side lead to other rooms.

  53. I welcome any change that will lead to something better.

  54. His eyes are fixed on the double-doors that lead into the dining-room.

  55. We are the machine; its brains and sinews; it is for us to lead and to determine what is to be done, and to do it without fear or favour.

  56. It's got a bit o' my lead soldered on to it.

  57. Still, as he could not help owning to himself, they had no clew that was likely to lead to success.

  58. He wanted some one to lead the way, and he was willing to follow.

  59. Sequoia latinized from Sequoiah, a Cherokee Indian; washingtoniana, in honor of George Washington.

  60. Its uses for handles and oars determined by combination of strength, lightness and elasticity.

  61. It gives the conclusions of Thorndike, Judd, Bagley, Dewey and others, and illustrates them so they serve the teacher as a basis for evaluating the manual and industrial arts.

  62. There was such a fellow at Ingolstadt; he was proof both against lead and steel.

  63. Sir Duncan, however, speedily endeavoured to lead back the conversation to the subject of his present errand to the castle of Darnlinvarach.

  64. Marquis, who did not know how far Sir Dugald's enthusiasm might lead him; "consider our brave fellows themselves will have but a hasty burial.

  65. I trust it will lead to a speedy peace between the two branches of the English nation, perhaps to a general peace; and that our happiness may be an introduction to that of the world at large.

  66. I have a thousand compliments and good wishes to present to you from friends in England, where, males and females, I am sure you have at least so many, that your own remembrance will lead you to individuals of your old acquaintance.

  67. The word completed Over’s horror, but as he hastily rejoined the party, now voluble in the Room of the Two Sisters, he despatched Rothe and the Spanish artist for the police, and then with little ceremony ordered Miss Holmes to lead the way.

  68. I mean, of course, unless you have a definite idea that it is going to lead to something?

  69. Catalina, warned by her recent interview, uttered a few of the flowery amenities that should lead up to any request in Spain.

  70. Then he ran out switching his tail and hunting through the yard for Viggo's trail, and when he noticed that it didn't lead to the school he knew he might follow.

  71. They are angels disguised which have flown before us all the way to lead us home.

  72. When we all went upon the platform, some one proposed that the clergymen should lead the way out of the little waiting-room in which we bald-headed ones and superlatively wise were assembled.

  73. At that time Boston Neck, as it was, and is still called, was the only connection between the town and the main-land, and the road over Boston Neck did not lead to Concord.

  74. It may lead to such delicacies, and probably will do so.

  75. Lead mines are the glory of Dubuque, and very large sums of money have been made from them.

  76. I may perhaps be allowed to hope that the discomfiture of these worthy legislators may lead to some improvement in the thoroughfare.

  77. The lodes have been so rich with lead that the speculators have been content to take out the metal that was easily reached, and to go off in search of fresh ground when disturbed by water.

  78. The Protestant Episcopalians muster strong in all the great cities, and I fancy that they would be regarded as taking the lead of the other religious denominations in New York.

  79. The stairs which ascend out of St. Peter's portico into the first hall, are rarely contrived for ease; these lead into the hall of Gregory XIII.

  80. Here we dined, and I with my black lead pen took the prospect.

  81. He does not feel this will lead to either her happiness or that of .

  82. Are you one of those who helped lead him astray?

  83. Oh, be thou his Father, and lead him even as thou hast led me.

  84. Don't you take part in the Wednesday meetings every evening, and lead three out of four of the Saturday evening ones, and speak in the Young Men's Association meetings every month?

  85. The road was very similar in its character to the one which she ought to have taken, so that there was nothing in the appearances around her to lead her to suppose that she was wrong.

  86. It must be very good, indeed, to lead such a man as Mr. Keep to offer to lend me money, of his own accord.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lead acetate; lead astray; lead glass; lead ores; lead pencil; lead pencils; lead pipe; lead poisoning; lead the; lead thee; lead them; leading article; leading lady; leading member; leading part; leads them