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Example sentences for "not the"

  • You speak as if it were done for the convenience of the consumer--not the pride of the producer," I suggested.

  • That is not the kind of high romantic love you spoke of, surely?

  • Jeff had a following, if I may call it that, of the more sentimental--though that's not the word I want.

  • It is not the fashion to say so, but I confess I admire her more than her sister.

  • She distrusted the past, if not the present.

  • THAT is not the work of an exterior impulse, the whole of it is mine and personal; for I originated the project.

  • Pride of profession is one of the boniest bones in existence, if not the boniest.

  • These are the sort of men that a woman could worship with all her soul, and yet be the greater, not the less, on account of her love, honored by all the world as the inspirer of noble deeds.

  • It was the shot-gun, not the rifle, which I had taken!

  • I've never been able to convince a single human being that appetite is not the sign of health, and yielding to it the way to health.

  • It serves to show not only why the Workingmen's League was growing like a plague of gypsy moth, but also why Victor Dorn was not the man to be conquered by passion.

  • He looked at her--not the look of a man at a woman, but the look of a busy person at one who is about to show cause for having asked for a portion of his valuable time.

  • We must rather adopt Mr. Crawford's views, and make the performance, not the theatre, our object.

  • He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared they had never heard from any lips that could profit them.

  • The consequences are plain enough, and this is not the time to criticise the whole Code.

  • Our civil code is not the Koran; it is not wrong to examine it.

  • If he is not the proprietor of the field, if he is only a tenant, he pays the proprietor for the productive service of this tool.

  • And, to confess my frailty, to my shame, Somewhat I find within, if not the same, Too like the sparkles of my former flame.

  • She knew perfectly well that what makes a house sad or gay, warm or icy-cold is not the outlook on to the surrounding country, but the soul of those who inhabit it and who have fashioned it in their own image.

  • All the cripples of Bohemian life prove to us that genius is not the outcome of that kind of life, but that, on the contrary, such life is apt to paralyze talent.

  • This God is not the God of Jacob, nor of Pascal, nor even of Voltaire.

  • Born to wealth, she regrets that she is not the daughter or the mother of workingmen.

  • He is not the clerk, he is not the landlord; he ranks above the clerk, and represents the landlord, who is seldom seen.

  • This dignity and these knightly graces suggest the tournament, not the prize-fight.

  • What he needed was the love of a very few; not the admiration, or even the respect, of the unknown many.

  • She has passed her active years, and I consider that it is not the past of American Letters which is at stake, but the future.

  • I am not the kind to repeat what has been said to me in the emotion of Love.

  • And I had the key of the library door and my trusty weapon under a cushion, loaded--the weapon, of course, not the key.

  • But I daresay that was unusualy lucky and not the sort of thing to look forward to.

  • Besides, the little old man is not the papa.

  • But it is not the sort of expression I care for.

  • But your voice condemns you; I always wondered at it; it 's not the voice of a conqueror!

  • There can be no question, however, that Samuel Adams was one of the first, if not the first, of American political leaders to deny the legislative power of parliament and to desire and advocate separation from the mother country.

  • His life is not the kind of thing one would like to put into the hands of young people; rather, one would do one's utmost to keep it from their knowledge, as a red flag of adventure and disintegrating influence in life.

  • But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest.

  • This is not the moment to dilate on that mighty place of education, which was the favourite school of Dickens and of Balzac, and turns out yearly many inglorious masters in the Science of the Aspects of Life.

  • Why, that is to write poetry, and of a high, if not the highest, order.

  • What we are looking at is not the boyhood of free thought; it is the old age and ultimate dissolution of free thought.

  • The thief compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them.

  • A bullet is quite as round as the world, but it is not the world.

  • If mere size proves that man is not the image of God, then a whale may be the image of God; a somewhat formless image; what one might call an impressionist portrait.

  • Remember, however, that to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not the" 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:
    amusing incident; humid winters; not even; not exactly; not fear; not having; not love; not mistaken; not pretend; not simply; not wholly; not worthy; not you; noted that; nothing else but the; nothing had; nothing left; nothing like; nothing loath; nothing loth; nothing should; nothing was; nothing worth; only party; religious duties; she didn