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Example sentences for "option"

Lexicographically close words:
optimistically; optimists; optimo; optimum; optimus; optional; options; opulence; opulent; opulus
  1. Standhartncr, to make sure of the furniture I had left in the house, sold it to a Viennese agent, with the option of re-purchase.

  2. As I had no other prospect for a long time to come but one of complete helplessness, I had no option but to leave the representation of my claim for compensation to the kindly care of my royal patroness.

  3. Had that Bill succeeded, the Irish would have been for fourteen years in the enjoyment of a full option for both the languages.

  4. When it is a general education that you are thinking of, every scheme of option is imperfect that does not provide for such three-sided cultivation of our reasoning powers.

  5. To sawah landholders only will the option of pari or rice deliveries be given.

  6. It was at my option to decide whether or not you were a stranger whom I could safely admit.

  7. If the option to pay had been exercised, of course, the loss would be on the buyer.

  8. A voidable contract is one which is good until the option of avoiding it is availed of by the party who has the option.

  9. Suppose now that an option for a piece of land was given by the owner.

  10. The term option indicates a right which exists up to a certain point; beyond that point there is no right.

  11. It is his option whether he will foreclose the mortgage, as a means of collecting his claim, or whether he will get judgment on the debt, and seek to collect that judgment in the same way that an ordinary judgment creditor would.

  12. Suppose an option is given by telephone to one who, just before the option expires, tries to get a connection by phone to accept and is unable to do so, and ten minutes after the time has expired a connection is secured?

  13. Let us change the character of the option a little.

  14. You may leave to the option of Lieutenant-Colonel Stevens to proceed or not, as he may think proper; his family is in peculiar circumstances, and he left it with the expectation of being absent for a short time.

  15. But it was well known that the mortal offence was the breaking that rule whose very first forfeit was five dollars, "Or discharge at the option of," etc.

  16. Most of these rules ended with, "Or discharge at the option of the manager.

  17. A reporter after a matinee one day followed me up the avenue, trying hard to get me to explain its meaning; but I was anxious not to be "discharged at the option of the manager," and declined to explain.

  18. The difficulties, however, which beset such liberty of option were obvious, and the opponents of the bill did not fail to make the most of them.

  19. For a hundred and fifty years after the first breach with Rome, it may be said that private judgment was most frequently considered in connection with a power of option between different Church communions.

  20. The local option law in our three towns has resulted in a continual no-license majority for about twenty-five years in Wawayanda; occasional no-license in Greenville and Minisink.

  21. Under the local option law there have been no licenses for hotels issued in Wawayanda for the past twenty-five years.

  22. Whenever fines are not paid, the convicted party should be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor at the rate of one-half day for each dollar of the fine imposed; and a sentence at hard labor should be the first option of the court!

  23. There are times and causes in which the good citizen has no option but to render service.

  24. The reasons why we need to strive for protection can be expressed in figures and percentages; and it seems to me that they leave the American people no option but to protect!

  25. Lieutenant Silva was given the option of a court-martial or of exchanging into a sloop of war.

  26. Had the farce continued a day or two longer, he would have had the disagreeable option forced upon him, either of being seriously ill, or of returning instanter to excellent health.

  27. The quantity of a paper currency not convertible into the metals at the option of the holder can be arbitrarily fixed, especially if the issuer is the sovereign power of the state.

  28. As an inducement to officers and soldiers of the English Army to re-enlist for the Irish service, high pay was promised, with an option of taking part of it in the valuable form of Irish lands.

  29. On the contrary, they were resolved that the King should still have the option of agreeing with them; they modified them in some points to suit him; and they were willing that the whole world should know what they were.

  30. Do not even implicate the State so far in the future of Religion as to indicate to the subjects any form of Church as esteemed the best, or any range of option among Churches as presumably the safest.

  31. Cards exposed in giving cards to non-dealer, he has option of taking them or of having next cards; dealer exposing his own cards, no penalty.

  32. Player naming one suit and leading another, adversary has option of requiring suit named to be led.

  33. I paid young Lone Wolf a ten dollar option on it while I looked round to see how I could raise enough to pay him a fair price.

  34. Of course, I didn't really think Lone Wolf knew what an option was, but Marshall and the Indian Agent and Levine and all the rest knew what I was trying to do, so I thought they'd keep their hands off.

  35. The resolves gave the option to lines of the respective States, and not to the officers individually in those lines, to accept or refuse the commutation.

  36. Why, it might be they would be kept there until Maurice had been to see Priscilla, and coaxed her to give him an option on the property; which would really be too bad.

  37. That may be the case," Jack admitted, "though I hardly think a shrewd man like Dangerfield would go quite so far until he had actually secured the option from his aunt.

  38. I was in Cortez when Lars Anderson made his first discovery here, and I had an option on all this property.

  39. With his option signed and the task squarely confronting him, he realized with fresh force its bigness and the weight of responsibility that rested upon his shoulders.

  40. The closing of the option required several weeks, of course, but the outcome was that even before mid-winter arrived O'Neil found himself in the position he had longed to occupy.

  41. I can't raise enough, but I have signed an option to sell the road if the bridge is built by next spring.

  42. Days passed, a week or more; then he was compelled to relinquish his option on the steamship line he had partly purchased, and to sacrifice all that had been paid in on the enterprise.

  43. Pay the two thousand to Hilliard for the option on 'The Rosie Posie Girl' until January first, and tell him I am going to produce it in November.

  44. In all the cases aforementioned where it is specified that in consequence of a foul stroke the player's opponent shall have the option either of playing at the balls as they are, or causing them to be replaced by the marker.

  45. He has, however, the option of several other moves, the most important of which seems to be P.

  46. Should a player take one of his own men with another, his adversary has the option of obliging him to move either.

  47. It shall also be at his option to take the lead himself or compel his opponent to lead.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "option" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alternative; call; choice; discretion; election; option; pick; pleasure; preemption; preference; put; refusal; right; say; selection; straddle; strap; strip; suffrage; voice; volition