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Example sentences for "leads"

Lexicographically close words:
leadeth; leadin; leading; leadings; leadless; leadsman; leadsmen; leady; leaf; leafage
  1. Unobservant of each other, they reached the Via Crucis, which leads up to S.

  2. I'm afraid all this talk leads to nothing.

  3. A great staircase leads up from floor to floor.

  4. Then," said he, "what leads you to believe that I have seen Mrs. Elgar?

  5. A lad leads him through the village by a rope fastened to his foot, while the rest dance about, blow their trumpets, and whistle.

  6. But analogy leads us to conjecture that in both countries the myth may have been recited, if not acted, as an incantation, for the purpose I have indicated.

  7. In their opinion the falling star is especially a war-god who marches at the head of the host and leads it to victory, riding like Castor and Pollux on horseback.

  8. And this leads us to his last and most important purchase, that of the Castle and Park of Wardour, on 4 July, 1 Edward VI.

  9. A short leisurely stroll from the station leads us by the great shrine dedicated to the Bacchus of our modern Briton, and we halt in front of the gate opening to the path leading to the north porch of the large church immediately before us.

  10. Our foot crosses the porch threshold, and with intuitive direction leads us at once to the east end of the south aisle, where some apparently well-preserved old oak screen-work, partition off what we rightly divine was the Broke Chantry.

  11. As we steadily climb the gentle but continual ascent that leads to the old tinners' town, a grand and varied prospect surrounds us.

  12. From Toddington and our musing over his collateral descendants, our story finally leads us back to the giant Knight himself, and the solemn grandeur of Salisbury Cathedral.

  13. On hot summer afternoons you may see colored boys and girls and men and women crowded in an ill-ventilated hall, giving ear to a fervid exhortation that leads the speaker, at the sentence's end, to mop his swarthy face.

  14. The feeling for rhythm, for melodious sound, that leads the Negro to use majestic words of which he has not always mastered the meaning, leads him also to musical expression.

  15. Such a selfish and unpatriotic attitude, not unknown perhaps to white voters, leads some of our writers and reformers to doubt the value of universal manhood suffrage.

  16. It is ruinous, like all fine things, in the things it leads to.

  17. Every power that has no counterpoise, no autocratic control, leads to abuses and folly.

  18. The stinginess of the State--or of Parliament--leads to many disasters and to much corruption.

  19. His financial scheme bore that stamp of talent which leads prodigals and men in love into the quagmires where so many disasters await them.

  20. While Lisbeth kept Wenceslas Steinbock in thraldom in his garret, he was on the thorny road trodden by all these great men, which leads to the Alpine heights of glory.

  21. The winner of the trick leads next by playing his highest trump, and in this way the game goes on until all the three tricks are taken.

  22. Should no player declare Nap, the one declaring to take the highest number of tricks leads off.

  23. The stand player, as he is called, then plays against every one else; he leads the game, and his first card decides what suit shall be trumps.

  24. The performer by his speech or his acting leads the audience to expect to hear sounds as from a given quarter, and the sounds being heard as from an unknown quarter are believed to be from the quarter indicated.

  25. The winner of one trick also leads on for the next, and thus the playing proceeds until all five tricks are won.

  26. When your adversary leads that suit, you win two tricks perforce.

  27. Ride on, ride on, thy second leads Across the lonely heath, Where gibbets tell of darksome deeds, And culprits swing beneath.

  28. There are some instances when it is polite to win your adversaries' leads with the highest of a sequence, if you can do it without deceiving your partner; by so doing you make your opponents wonder what has become of the lower honours.

  29. When your partner leads a high card, however, the case is different.

  30. Wine deceives the minds of those that drink it, and it exalts men above themselves, and leads them into acts that in any other moment they would shrink from, leaving them more stupid than the animals.

  31. What I mean is this, that he who seeks the incorruptible crown starts out with words of love on his lips to persuade men to love God, and finding that men do not heed him he begins to hate them, and hate leads on into persecution.

  32. In the cenoby, he said, men do not think, they only read, but in the fields a shepherd need never lose sight of the thought that leads him.

  33. The pursuit of a corruptible crown as well as the pursuit of an incorruptible crown leads us to sin.

  34. We crossed it and followed the path and under the cliffs till we came to the road that leads to Jerusalem.

  35. Leaving the rough road that leads from Susa over the lower heights to Modane, we took a steep by-path that ran in serpentine wanderings over rocks and through woods of fir and pine.

  36. That will be your first stage upon that long, straight road which leads to Siberia.

  37. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

  38. Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.

  39. Where no other circumstance limits the loss of head to be assigned to a given length of main, a consideration of the safety of the main from fracture by hydraulic shock leads to a limitation of the velocity of flow.

  40. The increase of volume and section of the river leads to a decrease of slope; for the larger the section the less slope is necessary to ensure a given velocity.

  41. It leads to the conclusion that, however air changes its state, the internal work done is proportional to the change of temperature.

  42. The latter reason leads him to call attention to the beauty perceived in universal truths, in the operations of general causes and in moral principles and actions.

  43. The expression has, in fact, the fault of most metaphorical terms: it leads to an exaggeration of the truth which it is intended to suggest.

  44. Such an argument, however, leads to a wholly untenable conclusion, and may be easily exposed in its hypocritical evasion of the real question.

  45. It will be the same as I proceed south through South Carolina and Georgia, and I shall expect to retain no man beyond the by-road or cow-path that leads to his house.

  46. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

  47. XXXVI White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

  48. The hall--the entrance to which finds room for a magnificently carved oak cabinet--is very much like the gangway of a ship which leads to the saloon cabins.

  49. In the deep glen that leads from Kilkhampton to the sea is the site of Stowe House, built by John, Earl of Bath, in 1680.

  50. This leads one to suspect that her territory stretched originally along the coast a good way past Loe Pool.

  51. Physical suffering is worth while if it leads to heroism and faith.

  52. Faith, if it be true faith, leads to works.

  53. The personal appeal with which the preceding section closed leads Paul to speak of the plans which he has for the comfort and help of the readers.

  54. Presumptuous reliance upon human wisdom comes from knowledge that ignores part of the facts; true science leads to humility.

  55. In its extreme form, this way of thinking leads to the hermit ideal, to the belief that the less a man has to do with his fellow men the more he has to do with God.

  56. A sense of indebtedness to the race that has given us Homer, Euripides and Plato leads us to treat all Greeks kindly--with more kindness than those critics show them whose acquaintance with them has been less in literature and more in life.

  57. My soul was taught of God, and I understood that while Greek literature (ta men) leads to condemnation, this ends our slavery in the world and rescues us from rulers manifold and ten thousand tyrants.

  58. Finsen has shown that inflammation of the skin caused by chemical or violet light leads to contraction of the red corpuscles.

  59. Hence, the importance of the imagination as a requisite for scientific discovery, which leads Professor Pearson to regard Darwin and Faraday as superior in this quality to the best of the poets and novelists.

  60. He leads them hither and thither about his place until they have lost their senses.

  61. This sort of training leads very early to a genuine desire to serve and to do for others.

  62. The chief leads the chase, and by the time they come alongside the band, the different speed of the horses has brought them into a single file or line.

  63. From this area a passage leads between the eastern outer wall and the one-story houses, to the caral or cavy-yard, which occupies the remainder of the space within the walls.

  64. This road leads to Constantia, famed for the delicious wine to which it gives its name.

  65. What evidence does exist upon the subject leads us to form a conclusion directly opposite; and we beg to draw the attention of our readers to the following tables.

  66. Miss Mitford's critical taste leads her to an especial preference of what is distinct and intelligible in all the departments of literature.

  67. Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

  68. His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

  69. The inward fast consists in that godly sorrow which leads us to bewail and detest our sins and to abstain from committing them.

  70. A further movement within the nucleus leads to an arrangement of the broken loops in two groups (F), the position of the open ends of the broken loops being reversed as compared with what previously obtained.

  71. We know that, in the lifetime of the individual, increased use of structures leads to an increase of their functional efficiency; while, on the other hand, disuse leads to atrophy.

  72. Now against this doctrine of the law of battle, and the consequences to which it leads in the superior fighting powers of male animals, no objection has been raised in any quarter.

  73. But now we're on his trail again, let's see the place it leads to.

  74. One thing leads to another in talk, and it was not long till it became plain that our hostess was in no sort of sympathy with the voodoo.


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