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Example sentences for "mighty"

Lexicographically close words:
mightily; mightiness; mightinesse; mights; mightst; miglia; migliore; mignonette; migraine; migrant
  1. But though all this was toil and trouble for the miserable lords and ladies of the creation, it was delight for the masters and mistresses of the mighty element around them.

  2. Six months afterwards, the new work on Spain by Ensign Epaulet or Tedious Twaddle, Esquire, issues forth, borne on a mighty blast of puffery, from the laboratory of some fashionable publisher.

  3. His work remains to this day the standard one on American birds--a mighty monument to the ideals of its maker.

  4. It shows a high level of achievement, but no mighty peaks.

  5. He is like a little brook making beautiful some meadow or strip of woodland; but only mighty rivers reach the ocean.

  6. She was christened the "Clermont," and soon afterwards made a trip up the Hudson to Albany, to the astonishment of the people living along the banks of that mighty river.

  7. They rule whole cities and a mighty army.

  8. At this thought, the words came into his mind, "And they sank like lead in the mighty waters," and his hair stood on end at the idea of such a death.

  9. Berel had drawn his Tallis over his head, and started reciting with earnestness and enthusiasm: "We will express the mighty holiness of this Day, For it is tremendous and awful!

  10. And in those days the old people went about with a secret whispering, that if there should arise a tenth generation of the mighty ones, a new thing, please God, would come to pass among Jews.

  11. The front room, where a red lamp was burning in front of the icons, smelt of wormwood and perspiration, and some one with mighty lungs was snoring behind a partition.

  12. Seems he's mighty sweet on you; make the most of it while he's after you.

  13. You'll find some mighty solid business men in the ranks out there, and then on down to the humblest occupations.

  14. But it's mighty different when the people from one end of the State to the other are howling economy and saying that all expenses must go to bed-rock or they'll know the reason why.

  15. They turn down and postpone some mighty good plans to advance the progress of the State.

  16. A mighty shout arose from the assembled students and Foster and Hawley both of whom were usually so self-contained ran out and threw their arms about the neck of their classmate.

  17. There'll be a big crowd out, and the Alden alumni are mighty strong around town there too, and they'll be out in bunches.

  18. From the lowest step he was about to move when another mighty shout went up from the assembly and Peter John looked helplessly about him as if he were convinced that his doom was sealed and for him there was to be no escape.

  19. I'm mighty glad to see you," said Will impulsively.

  20. There's one thing I'm mighty glad of for Peter John's sake.

  21. Of course I'm glad to get my 'W' and I was mighty sorry not to get my numerals.

  22. Even the mighty Baker was ignored in the fresh excitement and instantly a crowd of students started in pursuit of the fleeing freshman.

  23. It's a mighty comfortable way of looking at things, that's all I have to say.

  24. He saw the first tentative efforts of that mighty factor steam to transport more swiftly.

  25. For a hundred years a mighty pageant has been passing before him.

  26. But terrific although the tempest was on land, it was still more tremendous on the mighty ocean.

  27. Nevertheless, so quick was he, and so frightfully did he fling about the mighty weapon, that although Jack struck him almost every blow, the strokes had to be delivered so quickly that they wanted force to be very effectual.

  28. They had faithfully completed the mighty work which their Creator had given them to do, and they were now all dead.

  29. Down goes Cass, Weightman is the standing member; and the agitation of a thousand passions, a suppressed shudder and an under-growl, moves the mighty multitude like an earthquake.

  30. But the Italian of the Renaissance had to bear the first mighty surging of a new age.

  31. The human spirit had taken a mighty step towards the consciousness of its own secret life.

  32. How mighty must have been the soul which dwelt side by side with this narrow intellect!

  33. From a poet of such fame and such mighty gifts we would gladly receive something better than the adventures of Orlando.

  34. Ruins of mighty arches and colonnades, half hid in plane-trees, laurels, cypresses and brushwood, figure in his pages.

  35. In them Ezzelino is spoken of with the awe which all mighty impressions leave behind them.

  36. Mighty events like the Reformation elude, as respects their details, their outbreak and their development, the deductions of the philosophers, however clearly the necessity of them as a whole may be demonstrated.

  37. The rest of Europe was free either to repel or else partly or wholly to accept the mighty impulse which came forth from Italy.

  38. When daylight came a mighty river was flowing where yesterday there was only dry land.

  39. On either side of the mighty river was dense jungle, extending far inland.

  40. At both places skeletons of mighty chiefs and all-powerful warriors have been ruthlessly torn from their places of sepulture by the plough, and many other relics have been exhumed.

  41. Reader, this was a little over twenty-six years ago; and the jubilee was over a packet capable of accomplishing the mighty task of carrying some forty or fifty passengers at the rate of about four miles an hour.

  42. The thing was no longer a joke, and I seized the piece of dog entrail and put it in my mouth, in hopes of spitting it out; but they watched me so close that by one mighty effort I managed to swallow it.

  43. Your Board-school boys and girls are all cursed with notions; they are too big for their jackets, too high for their station; they have no respect for squire or parson, and they are too high and mighty to do honest work.

  44. The high-and-mighty airs some of you people take on are simply outrageous.

  45. And what is the end of this mighty tongue-war?

  46. Little body with a mighty heart;' there is the Queen's allusion, in 'Henry VI.

  47. Go where you will in the East, and you see traces of its mighty influence.

  48. Its mighty and lordly metropolitan had the exclusive right of crowning the king.

  49. No one man represents that mighty movement.

  50. More calm is the imposing façade, with its mighty towers and lofty spires, tapering like a pyramid, with its round oriel window rich in beautiful tracery, and its wide portal with sculptured saints and martyrs.

  51. I know of no great movement of blind forces so pregnant with mighty consequences.

  52. Orthodoxy was still supreme before such mighty intellects as Anselm, Bernard, and Thomas Aquinas, but it was assailed.

  53. I need not point to the successive conquests of the Saracens with such a mighty stimulus.

  54. He was ambitious; he would become a mighty spiritual potentate.

  55. What mighty consequences were the result of it!

  56. We are amazed that intellectual giants, equal to the old Greeks in acuteness and logical powers, could waste their time on the frivolous questions and dialectical subtilties to which they devoted their mighty powers.

  57. Is this the mighty Frank Merriwell, of whom we have heard so much?

  58. But, seriously, doesn't it seem to you a great waste of energy for a mighty little return to go panting up that mountain, trying to beat a lot of other fellows who haven't any more sense than you?

  59. Wal, that's what I call a mighty slim sort of a hunt," declared Gallup, in disgust.

  60. He's mighty queer, and I don't understand him now, for all that I have known him so long.

  61. The captain's powerful fingers then fell like a mighty trap on his little closed hand, and he was hurried off to the vessel, where he was employed in the capacity of "powder-monkey.

  62. They are one and all as proud of this success, and each as boastful of his prowess, as though a mighty battle had been fought and won.

  63. Here, at the water-parting between these two large watercourses, was the tomb of the great founder of these mighty nations, Darud bin Ismail, and an excavated tumulus.

  64. He believed in His limitless power and, for the first time, felt a dawning hope that the Mighty Lord who had created heaven and earth would find ways and means to save His chosen people from the thousands of the Egyptian hosts.

  65. You were a Hebrew, and yet became a mighty chief among the Egyptians ere you obeyed Miriam's summons.

  66. I can hear him raise his voice loudly and angrily against his own dear son; but if you close your ears even to his warning, the people will follow your summons instead of God's, and you will rule the Hebrews as a mighty man.

  67. I relied upon His help when I entered the palace of the mighty king.

  68. To the northwest of her home lay the mighty country of Russia, still almost savage, but of enormous size and of unknown strength.

  69. There seemed only one thing left to her, ambition, tremendous ambition, such as had made Peter the Great and Elizabeth mighty conquerors and rulers of Russia.

  70. Even as they admitted the infidels they looked defiance at them from under the manifold snowy folds of their mighty turbans.

  71. Though Babbitt admired this savant, and appreciated Sidney Finkelstein as "a mighty smart buyer and a good liberal spender," it was to Vergil Gunch that he turned with enthusiasm.

  72. Sixteen complete strangers called him "George," and three men took him into corners to confide, "Mighty glad you had the courage to stand up and give the Profession a real boost.

  73. Well now, Orville is a mighty up-and-coming fellow!

  74. Just played with the Bunch, and called down Clarence Drum about being such a high-and-mighty sodger.

  75. Yes, it's one mighty fine spring day, but nights still cold.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mighty" 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:
    mighty arms; mighty army; mighty blow; mighty chief; mighty fine; mighty glad; mighty good; mighty great; mighty hand; mighty hard; mighty hero; mighty host; mighty hunter; mighty king; mighty lord; mighty merry; mighty monarch; mighty nice; mighty nigh; mighty power; mighty pretty; mighty shout; mighty sight; mighty warrior; mighty well; mighty wind