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Example sentences for "nice"

Lexicographically close words:
niblick; nibong; nibs; nibus; nica; nicee; nicely; niceness; nicer; nicest
  1. The house wren is a plucky little fellow, and as he likes the same kind of places the English sparrow wants, they often quarrel over a box or a nice snug hole.

  2. So when the bird fathers and mothers come in the spring the first thing they do is to find good places and build nice cradles, for they are very fond of their little ones.

  3. One spring a wren chose a nice bird-box on his place, and held it ready for the expected bride.

  4. The stranger settled upon a hanging basket as nice to build in.

  5. Her choice is for nice soft mullein leaves, which she pulls to pieces.

  6. Another of these birds in Ohio, looking about for something nice and soft to line her nest, pitched upon a gentleman's hair.

  7. He took pity on the hungry baby, and brought him a nice worm, which he took very gladly.

  8. It is very pretty when fresh, but it soon gets soiled, and then it is not nice to look at or to handle.

  9. At once the birds saw how nice it would be to have a roof over their heads.

  10. The thing he liked best was butter, and when he was ready to wipe his bill after eating, as birds do, he found the coat-sleeve of the master soft and nice for the purpose.

  11. It is said that Izaak Walton waved a hand obscurely toward the stream where he had made a catch, but could not be cornered to a nice direction, lest his pool be overrun.

  12. Is it best to go roundabout, or forward with such a nice compound of innocence, boldness and modesty as shall satisfy the beast?

  13. That's very nice and pretty, and makes you look ten times as handsome as ever.

  14. I never liked him, but he was always flattering me and saying nice things.

  15. Nice way to speak of my own brother, sir.

  16. It's very nice and pretty, and makes a man fonder of you, and that's why you do it, I know!

  17. Nice refined revenge your people have had for the insult and contempt they have met with.

  18. The old man is a thorough gentleman, and the girl is ladylike and nice enough.

  19. You see how nice and gentle I am with you, dear.

  20. Master's a dear, good gentleman, and always been nice and kind.

  21. Of course; and a nice diabolical scheme they have hatched between them.

  22. She proved to be nice enough to make Clive Reed lie wakeful still, with his mind running upon her pale, care-marked face, and begin to wonder who the man might be who troubled her rest.

  23. I've been down and found out all about him and his nice little ways.

  24. Such acts only prove him to be either more nice than wise, or less nice than foolish; unless we argue him to be, as many do, a secret secessionist.

  25. And that word he carries about as a hen carries a boiled potato--something too big to swallow but nice to peck at.

  26. Peter the Graybeard; 'you'll have a nice time of it when you get home.

  27. We have also an old play entitled The nice wanton.

  28. The historian Stowe, in recording an accident that happened to one Mary Breame in the year 1583, says that she "had beene accused by her husband to bee a nice woman of her body.

  29. These would consequently be of greater importance to a nice player at the game of shovel-board, and induce him, especially if an opulent man, to procure them at a price far beyond their original value.

  30. On the whole, we have here a proof that Shakspeare has not observed that nice discrimination of character in his clowns for which some have given him credit.

  31. We are so nice and friendly with our real selves.

  32. Folks," she said, "let us keep our nice little surprises to ourselves for a while, like miserly creatures.

  33. The kinds passed out to nice girls like me were sad travesties.

  34. I'm sure you're just a nice girl besides being a splendid nurse.

  35. Don't you remember the nice story about the old woman who went to market her eggs for to sell?

  36. Such and such things were for nice little girls like me!

  37. You must have some nice little dogma and with your mind fixed on that you go forward.

  38. The old woman began to whisper hurriedly "I know nice young men .

  39. Yes, do you see what a nice design it is?

  40. It is a very nice room on the lower floor, with windows facing the south, and a separate entrance from the hall.

  41. Men, overloaded with a large estate, May spill their treasure in a nice conceit: The rich may be polite; but, oh!

  42. Absence of mind Brabantio turns to fame, Learns to mistake, nor knows his brother’s name; Has words and thoughts in nice disorder set, And takes a memorandum to forget.

  43. Not that she need be tied so very closely down; We might stand higher than some others, rather; A nice estate was left us by my father, A house and garden not far out of town.

  44. Can a brave man do more or less Than with nice conscientiousness To exercise the calling he inherits?

  45. Nice carpet, Bagshot," said my uncle, "nice and soft.

  46. It may be very nice as you put it, but engagements end as well as begin," I insisted.

  47. It is not nice to be mocked at even when you are in the right; a blatant cad is like a rhinoceros, and admits of no parleying, only since you must not kill him you are obliged to keep out of his way.

  48. In that way, George, I get a really very nice expression indeed.

  49. It would not be nice for a caterpillar if he knew he was going to rip up all along his back in a minute or so.

  50. They have a nice eye to detect shades of vassalage.

  51. That's a nice way for a woman to speak to her eldest brother!

  52. You have made a nice fool of yoursel', David Callendar!

  53. Do you take me for a dog, to be chained up and tantalized with nice bits, and hardly allowed to whine for them?

  54. Miss Flaxman was a nice young lady," squeaked the Master.

  55. You daren't even take your hat off till I make you; and now you see how nice it is to ride with your hat off.

  56. I am very glad you are so happy with that nice Mr. Fitzalan of yours.

  57. I was so flattered at being made up to by anyone or anything who seemed to tell me I was a nice person, that I let him go on and hunt for rats all over me, till at last his master interposed in beautiful English, and then we talked.

  58. In case he got tired of it, what he had already written might make "a very nice finished sketch for a magazine.

  59. I expect she's had a nice fortnight of it!

  60. I enjoyed myself, and I took a nice rise out of that disagreeable Miss Peel.

  61. Lucy Marsh and I had a long talk over her that night, and we put our heads together to concoct a nice little bit of punishment for her.

  62. He has loved her for a long time, I am sure, but she is never nice to him.

  63. I have some nice things, and they'll go very cheap; so there's a chance for you all, girls.

  64. It was not convenient for any of my own special friends to come with me, so I thought I'd play Prissie a nice little trick.

  65. Only I think it would be nice to put you up to our little rules, would it not?

  66. Oh, it is nice to think of seeing Prissie so soon," murmured Katie in an ecstasy.

  67. I have not felt right for a week, and am worse to-day, but I daresay a drive in this nice frosty air will set me up.

  68. It was a new trunk, and had a nice canvas covering over it.

  69. Twenty-seven seminarists were to be ordained next day, and the Bishop of Nice besought his fellow prelate to examine them.

  70. Nice people do not furnish their homes in that way.

  71. He was real mild mannered, and he had a nice smile, and the big girls liked him.

  72. It was a nice point; for on occasion a goal thrown from the foul line counts one.

  73. We had a nice colt from old Peggy last year, and two weeks ago it was stolen.

  74. They all had something nice to say to her.

  75. Agnew had observed--was not naturally unkind, and had other qualities that, properly trained and moulded, would have made her a very nice girl indeed.

  76. Your father could easy pay for as nice a party as was ever given on the Hill.

  77. You're not fit to play with nice girls, anyway.

  78. But I tell you when I saw the books with the things he had said and wrote all brought together nice and neat, and one after another, I just took to that.

  79. Lord Robert is such a beautiful shape, that pleased me too; the perfect lines of things always give me a nice emotion.

  80. One was quite a nice old thing, and at the end began paying me compliments.

  81. I told him I did not think it was at all nice or respectful of him to talk so--that I found such love revolting.

  82. I do love that look, with a tiny waist and nice shoulders, and looking as if he were as lithe as a snake, and yet could break pokers in half like Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre.

  83. I am going to see that he has a nice tea," and I looked back at Mr. Carruthers over my shoulder.

  84. Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please.

  85. I read in a book all about it; it is being nice looking and having nothing to live on, and getting a pleasant time out of life--and I intend to do that!

  86. No; it was just said to say something nice when I was leaving, and he will be as horrid as Mr. Carruthers.

  87. When one sees them half resting on his cheek it makes one feel it would be nice to put out the tip of one's finger and touch them.

  88. I am not engaged to you, and cannot be until your family consent and are nice to me," I said.

  89. Oh, if I had a big house, and were rich, I would have lovely parties, with all sorts of nice people, because I wanted to give them a good time and laugh myself.

  90. I felt I wanted to be good and nice directly.

  91. Silly people think it so nice and easy to govern, and so hard to obey.

  92. You were always a kind creature," she said, "and it is nice to be home again.

  93. It's a nice little spot you have here," she said, with a sigh.

  94. It must be nice to live in a town, where there are dry pavements, and people, and shops.

  95. It will be nice to have a little dog of my own," she said.

  96. There is a nice dry one on the upper road.

  97. It would be nice to see her in this house.

  98. Think of her having to depend on Susan for society--nice as Susan is!

  99. She had made up such a nice fire in my room.

  100. It would be a nice little place for a woman and a child.

  101. But afterward they took to him, because they found that he was a nice man, and they asked him to come and eat with them.

  102. Thus I parted from pretty San Francisco, and the nice Indians there, who had believed in me in spite of the wickedness the Mexicans had attributed to me.

  103. However this might be, it was certain that the Mexicans of Eastern Sonora were a nice class of people.

  104. It has two nice fat young, which the Tarahumares consider a great delicacy.

  105. They were very nice and sweet, and he gave one to the Coyote and said, "Here, Brother Coyote, take this nice mouthful.

  106. He came on a good horse, had a nice blanket over his shoulder, wore a sombrero and a good sabre.

  107. When the weather is nice the fire may be made outside the house; but usually it is built inside on the ordinary fireplace.

  108. They bring articles of silk and wool, wooden spoons, needles and thread, and do nice embroidery work, and make or mend garments.

  109. In the family of the good priest lived a little Indian orphan girl, about five years old, as nice and sweet a child as one might wish to see.

  110. With the dances is always connected the sacrifice of an animal; the greater portion of the meat is eaten by the people themselves, who, beside, bring forth all kinds of nice food, the best they have.

  111. Nice pictures, them," he added, sweeping a candle round.

  112. Too bad the prodigal should resemble Satan Sanderson, the fashionable parish rector who waves his arms so gracefully in the pulpit, and preaches such nice little sermons!

  113. You'd better go up to the sanatorium, Hugh, and give her a nice sweet kiss for it!

  114. This nice little lady's come to live with us," said the young woman.

  115. And you'll say we've been very good to you, won't you, and what a nice little lady we said you was?

  116. Maggie thought it would make a very nice heaven to sit by the pool in that way, and never be scolded.

  117. And the donkey'll carry you as nice as can be--you'll see.

  118. We've got nothing nice for a lady to eat," said the old woman, in her coaxing tone.

  119. I think Philip Wakem seems a nice boy, Tom," she said, when they went out of the study together into the garden.

  120. Why, what a nice little lady you are, to be sure!


  121. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accurate; advantageous; affable; affectionate; agog; agreeable; alert; ambrosial; amiable; amicable; appreciative; appropriate; apt; assiduous; attentive; auspicious; aware; becoming; befitting; beneficial; benevolent; benign; blissful; bonny; braw; brotherly; capital; careful; cheerful; cheery; choose; circumstantial; civilized; close; cogent; comely; commendable; compassionate; compatible; complaisant; concentrated; condign; congenial; conscientious; conscious; constant; conventional; cordial; correct; critical; cultivated; cultured; dainty; decent; decorous; delectable; delicate; delicious; delightful; demanding; demure; desirable; detailed; differential; diligent; direct; discriminating; distinctive; distinguishing; done; due; dulcet; earnest; elegant; enjoyable; estimable; even; exact; exacting; excellent; exigent; expedient; express; exquisite; fair; faithful; famous; fastidious; favorable; felicitous; fine; finicky; fit; fitting; fraternal; full; fussy; genial; good; goodly; graceful; gracious; grand; grateful; gratifying; gusty; hairline; happy; harmonious; healthy; heedful; helpful; honeyed; human; humane; impeccable; inerrant; infallible; intense; intent; juicy; kind; kindhearted; kindly; kosher; laudable; legalistic; likable; lovely; loving; luscious; lush; mathematical; mellifluous; mellow; meticulous; microscopic; mincing; mindful; minute; modest; narrow; nectarous; nice; niggling; noble; normal; normative; observant; palatable; particular; picayune; pinpoint; pleasant; pleasing; pleasurable; polished; precious; precise; prim; profitable; proper; punctilious; punctual; refined; regal; regardful; religious; respectable; rewarding; right; righteous; rightful; rigid; rigorous; royal; sapid; satisfying; savory; scientific; scrumptious; scrupulous; seemly; selective; sensitive; severe; skillful; sophisticated; sound; special; specific; splendid; square; squeamish; strict; subtle; succulent; suitable; sweet; sympathetic; tactful; tasty; tender; tenderhearted; toothsome; undeviating; unerring; useful; valid; virtuous; warm; warmhearted; watchful; welcome


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    nice brown; nice colour; nice girl; nice little; nice point; nice sort; nice thing; nice things; nice time; nice young; nicely browned