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Example sentences for "neglects"

Lexicographically close words:
neglected; neglecters; neglecteth; neglectful; neglecting; negli; neglige; negligee; negligence; negligences
  1. It was free to the man to have done his duty by his family, without the law--the moment he neglects his duty, he becomes amenable to it.

  2. Appearing in that paper, which had come to be considered as the familiar of the President, and the part in relation to the slights and neglects being felt to be true, it could not escape the serious attention of those to whom it referred.

  3. Further than this, it neglects a factor in evolution as necessary to it as is adaptation to environment--the element, namely, of variation.

  4. If after this explanation she neglects herself she must blame herself, she will at least have no[119] cause to harbor any resentment against her physician who has done all any physician is called upon to do under the circumstances.

  5. Maria Teresa hears that the Dauphiness neglects her German Visitors.

  6. He neglects his proposition and attempts to excite the feelings of his audience to such an extent as to render them incapable of forming a dispassionate judgment upon the matter in hand.

  7. In fact, a good brief is so essential a part of a good argument that a student who neglects to draw the first is bound to meet failure in the second.

  8. The woman who is ill-disposed is not only incapacitated for her duties, but, in her desire to please and to have pleasure, she neglects dull domestic cares.

  9. But the truth is, there have been few women so dependent for happiness upon human love, so eager for the support of their fellow-beings, and so keenly alive to neglects and slights.

  10. The parent therefore who neglects to keep children at school we account guilty of sin, and of grievous sin, if the neglect be notable.

  11. No man omits precaution, quite neglects Secrecy, safety, schemes not how retreat, Having schemed he might advance.

  12. His geology neglects the æons of gradual stratification; it is not the slow stupendous upheaval of continents, but the volcanic uprush of the molten ore among the rocks, which renew the ancient rapture of the Paracelsian God.

  13. The mother who neglects her own needs through attending to the wants of her children will suffer equally with the silly girl who starves herself in order to keep her figure slim.

  14. The individual who neglects to secure the requisite amount of sleep is committing a crime against himself, for which he will have to pay the penalty sooner or later.

  15. He knows, even in his schooldays, that if he eats too much pastry or sweets, or neglects to change his clothes if he gets a wetting, he will have to suffer for it.

  16. Many a man who reaches after grand results overlooks and neglects the little events.

  17. It was a grand rest and a pleasing finale to the hardships of the wedding journey for these heroic women, and Mrs. Whitman, in her diary, never a day neglects to remember her kind benefactors.

  18. If a father, he neglects the children and wife for whom he has promised to provide; leaves them cold and hungry while he commits sin with the means that would make them comfortable.

  19. If she neglects these fortunate visitors they will not feel it; if she bows low to them and neglects the others, she betrays that she is a snob.

  20. The athlete who neglects his work, grows up with a poorly furnished mind and an untrained judgment.

  21. On the whole it is better that a boy who neglects this duty should go on neglecting it, than that those who come should feel that their presence is noted with approval or the reverse.

  22. Classic art concerns itself only with the former; it purposely effaces, neglects or subordinates the latter.

  23. Having forgotten the public, it also neglects its subordinates; after being separated from the nation it separates itself from its own adherents.

  24. If he is an avaricious man, he neglects his oath.

  25. That is false in which there is evidently a lie; in this manner:--"That man cannot be wise who neglects money.

  26. Why does the opponent, while he neglects what is plainly written, bring forward what is not written anywhere?

  27. Jonathan said, "Whoso fulfils the Torah in the midst of poverty shall in the end fulfil it in the midst of wealth; and whoso neglects the Torah in the midst of wealth shall in the end neglect it in the midst of poverty.

  28. Hence the sages say, "Whoso engages in much gossip with woman brings evil upon himself, neglects the study of the Torah, and will in the end inherit gehinnom.

  29. Things have changed now, and for the better, as they have at most of the Universities; but we are dealing with the generation of manufacturers of my age who were largely responsible for the neglects now in question.

  30. A man commencing to write on science or religion who neglects the work of earlier writers places himself in the position of the first students of the subject and very naturally will make the same mistakes as they made.

  31. In vain does any one expect substantial enjoyment, who despises or neglects religion; while he who possesses it can never be miserable.


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