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Example sentences for "not easy"

  • It is not easy to express the benevolence and tenderness with which they embraced us, and the concern they showed at seeing us worn away with hunger, labour, and weariness, our clothes tattered, and our feet bloody.

  • It is not easy to describe the mind of crowds with exactness, because its organisation varies not only according to race and composition, but also according to the nature and intensity of the exciting causes to which crowds are subjected.

  • It is not easy to say as yet what will one day be evolved from this necessarily somewhat chaotic period.

  • Contagion is a phenomenon of which it is easy to establish the presence, but that it is not easy to explain.

  • I'm not easy in my mind when I see him leaving you mistress here to do just what you like.

  • While I am occupied in confessing my weakness and my errors, it is only right to add that, dearly as I still loved my unhappy, misguided husband, there was one little fault of his which I found it not easy to forgive.

  • It is not easy to help you to understand a woman who doesn't understand herself," he answered.

  • To establish the unanimity of such various data, or to find out whether they have such unanimity, is not easy.

  • It need not, of course, be urged that the certainty of a belief will be much endangered if too much value is sanguinely set on such and similar gestures, when their observation is not easy.

  • If we find direct contradiction with regard to associations, the way out is not easy.

  • It is not easy to define the nature or extent of their privileges.

  • It is not easy at this time to comprehend the impulse given to Europe by the discovery of America.

  • How a man should say only Richard, it is not easy to imagine.

  • DEAR SIR,--It is so long since I heard any thing from you, that I am not easy about it; write something to me next post.

  • We all KNOW what light is; but it is not easy to TELL what it is.

  • Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy.

  • Robertson's excellent historical works, in the ardour of contest, than expressed his real and decided opinion; for it is not easy to suppose, that he should so widely differ from the rest of the literary world.

  • How they are different is not easy to explain.

  • How an analysis of industrial capitalism, with its underlying pragmatic structure reflected in literacy, can anticipate phenomena pertinent to the post-industrial, and reflected in illiteracy, is not easy to explain.

  • It is not easy to immediately realize the pervasiveness of mediation and its effects on human activity and self-constitution.

  • The meaning of this paradoxical situation is not easy to clarify.

  • The question as to what form of government should be adopted by any country is not easy to decide.

  • When anyone has a habit, be it injurious or otherwise, it is not easy to persuade him to abandon it.

  • The topics discussed are nearly always the same, and it is not easy to speak at one of these gatherings without going over the same ground as that covered on previous occasions.

  • From what causes, and by what gradations, their feelings underwent a change, it is not easy to determine.

  • Public law would have been subverted from the foundations; national enmities would have been inflamed to a degree of rage which happily it is not easy for us to conceive; cordial peace would have been impossible.

  • It is not easy to understand how any man who had sat in free and powerful deliberative assemblies could condescend to bear a part in such a mummery.

  • It is not easy to give a notion of his conduct in the Convention, without using those emphatic terms, guillotinade, noyade, fusillade, mitraillade.

  • It is not easy to settle the order of precedence among his vices, but we are inclined to think that his baseness was, on the whole, a rarer and more marvellous thing than his cruelty.

  • The literary production of our day seems, and no doubt is, more various than that of any other, and it is not easy to fix upon its leading tendency.

  • Henderson found it not easy to select topics equally interesting to Mrs. Delancy and Mrs. Blunt, and finally fell into geographical information to the latter about Mexico and Honduras.

  • But it is not easy to name an age that has cherished more delusions than ours, or been more superstitious, or more credulous, more eager to run after quackery.

  • Why, at the bottom of the matter, a narrow 'a' should be a disgrace it is not easy to see, but it needs no reason if fashion or authority condemns it.

  • It is not uncommon that a book owes its notoriety and sale to its title, and it is not easy to find a title that will attract attention without being too sensational.

  • Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides.

  • It is not easy to ascertain with precision what is the present amount of debt due by the United States; nor probably has any tolerably accurate guess been yet given of the amount to which it may be extended during the present war.

  • In common life it is not easy to arrange the circumstances of a divorce between man and wife, all whose belongings and associations have for many years been in common.

  • But it is not easy to appreciate the intrinsic value of flattery and metaphor.

  • It was the wish of Gratian to bestow the purple as the reward of virtue; but, at the age of nineteen, it is not easy for a prince, educated in the supreme rank, to understand the true characters of his ministers and generals.

  • Footnote 89: It is not easy to determine how far the ingenuity of Cyril might be assisted by some natural appearances of a solar halo.

  • It is well, go on with your work; but you have just seen that it is not easy to deceive William Douglas.

  • The elopement caused a great deal of indignation, and it's not easy to get fanatics to listen to common sense.

  • But whether these letters are counterfeit or not is not easy to determine.

  • In fine, it is not easy to determine what is the truth.

  • It is not easy to suppose that on such occasions the master would do more than laugh; yet, if tradition may be credited, he often struggled hard to force or surprise the garrison.

  • You must listen to my story patiently, Greif, for it is not easy to tell, and it is not easy to hear.

  • What her thoughts would have been like had she known all that had happened, it is not easy to say.

  • It is a strange old custom of which it is not easy to discover the origin, though the meaning is clear enough.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not easy" 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:
    covered mountains; different orders; hundred other; not alone; not difficult; not exist; not found; not indeed; not know what you; not love; not mean; not merely; not much; not need; not simply; not wishing; not worthy; not you; notary public; note here; note that; nothing came; nothing further; nothing more; nothing should; notwithstanding the