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Example sentences for "out for"

  • Ata was on the look-out for him, and came a little way along the path to meet him.

  • Tell him that our home cries out for him.

  • He told me of the long hours he spent walking about the Boulevard de la Madeleine on the look-out for Englishmen, preferably the worse for liquor, who desired to see things which the law forbade.

  • I'm going to let you find it out for yourself.

  • But I'm going to let you find it out for yourself.

  • He isn't out for pleasure, that's certain.

  • If Cherry would do--for Felix said he would take Fulbert and me out for a jolly long walk, to see the icicles at Bold's Hatch.

  • They are on the look-out for us," the first lieutenant said.

  • If any father, godfather, clergyman, or schoolmaster is on the look-out for a good book to give as a present to a boy who is worth his salt, this is the book we would recommend.

  • Please yourself, Watkins; tell the two hands forward to keep a bright look-out for lights.

  • Now let's cruise around and see if Patrick Henry is singin' out for liberty or death.

  • I'd feel better if I knew somebody was lookin' out for me.

  • The boys have had it out for two or three Fourth of July Antiques and Horribles' parades; 'twon't last for many more by the looks of it.

  • When he is you can help his wife look out for him.

  • Toward noon (while Benjamin happened to be out for a little while) the housekeeper announced the arrival of another strange visitor at the gate of the villa.

  • There is one man who must know where she is--or who could find it out for you," he said.

  • No one has told me about it; I found it out for myself.

  • Ernest asked whether Miss Maitland in the top back was also looking out for a situation, and was told she was wanting an engagement as a milliner.

  • She had written to Ernest to say she was coming and he was of course on the look- out for her.

  • Why, it might die of cold if we are not on the look-out for it.

  • Mrs Jupp, the landlady, told Ernest that these were brothers and cousins of Miss Snow's, and that she was herself looking out for a situation as a governess, but at present had an engagement as an actress at the Drury Lane Theatre.

  • I was good, I could figure it out for them, I did figure it out for them, then we went to work on the house.

  • They asked me if I was good at math and could I figure it out for them.

  • That afternoon they took Don Quixote out for a stroll, not in his armour but in street costume, with a surcoat of tawny cloth upon him, that at that season would have made ice itself sweat.

  • It contained a party of provincial `Arrys and `Arriets, out for a moonlight sail.

  • Oh," interrupting herself, "there is Dinah on the look-out for us.

  • Templeton let out to Leah the other day that she could have married a dozen times over if she had wished to do so, only she vowed she was cut out for an old maid.

  • And the ladies from the Wood House are going to take me out for drives--my, won't that be 'eavenly!

  • Ah, there's Dinah on the look-out for us.

  • And when you're well enough to go out for a ride--what larks!

  • We looked forward to the day when I should go out for a ride, as we had once looked forward to the day of my apprenticeship.

  • And that is her boat, which has been sent to the light to keep a look-out for us.

  • Mademoiselle," cried Savarin, angrily, "find it out for yourself.

  • That bird of prey fancies every other bird looking out for pigeons.

  • In a few days the offer of an engagement arrived, was accepted, and Duval and his daughter set out for Cheltenham.

  • He used to take me out for walks on the hill and round the farm.

  • This monkey feeds also partly on fruit, but is incessantly on the look-out for insects, examining the crevices in trees and withered leaves, seizing the largest beetles and munching them up with great relish.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "out for" 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:
    adore thee; come hame; courage and; everything will; exempt from; good instance; greater speed; high station; hours after; make any; many peoples; mass meeting; out and; out for; out here; out the; out with; outer layer; outer margin; outpost duty; outside the; outstretched hand; outward appearance; outward bound; outward objects; outward seeming