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Example sentences for "lean upon"

  • It is very well to have friends to lean upon, but it is not always well to lean upon one's friends.

  • But she had declined to lean upon him at all.

  • Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon, Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.

  • It much would please him That of his fortunes you should make a staff To lean upon.

  • The poor heart craves something of the creature to lean upon, something that the eye can see.

  • Let us only trust Him, use Him, lean upon Him.

  • Both Lady Poole and Marjorie during that time had come insensibly to lean upon him, and to ask his advice about this or that.

  • Kind as her mother was, Marjorie felt that there was nobody now left to lean upon, to confide in.

  • In all the world she seemed to have no one to confide in, no one to lean upon, no one who would give her courage and hope for the black and impenetrable future.

  • He appears to have gone up rather with Abram than with God, and the consequence was that, when he parted with Abram, he had nothing to lean upon.

  • Lord, then let me entreat of you to behold Him shedding His precious blood to wash you from your sins, and learn to confide in Him, to lean upon Him, to rejoice in Him, and IN HIM ALONE.

  • Every child that could, was doing its best to get a bit of her dress to touch, or a finger of her hand to hold, or an inch of her chair to lean upon.

  • Don't rob me, Polly, of the right she gave me, that of being a 'near friend to lean upon.

  • It is that, on that blessed night when your mother asked me to come and live under her roof, she said she should be glad to feel that in any sudden emergency you and she would, have a near friend to lean upon.

  • How shall I walk onward in life's difficult ways, without my mother's arm to lean upon?

  • But he had a clear-seeing, honest mind to throw light upon his way, and a young and vigorous arm to lean upon in his hour of weakness and trial.

  • You have another arm to lean upon,' I ventured to suggest.

  • Custom, however sacred, is not equivalent to actionable right, and a person who has nothing but custom to lean upon is supposed to be at the will and mercy of his lord and of base or servile condition.

  • XIX And this delightful Herb whose tender Green Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean-- Ah, lean upon it lightly!

  • XXV And this delightful Herb whose living Green Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean-- Ah, lean upon it lightly!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lean upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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