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Example sentences for "premises"

Lexicographically close words:
premiers; premiership; premio; premise; premised; premising; premiss; premisses; premissis; premit
  1. Thomas Smith, and his son in 1721, left a house adjoining the school premises in trust for the habitation of a schoolmaster.

  2. The school premises erected in 1712 by means of the subscriptions to which allusion was just now made, was long one of the glories of Kensington.

  3. A watch will be kept on the premises in case the car is claimed, which is very unlikely, I fancy.

  4. Renaud was certainly on the premises at the time she was there.

  5. Ten to one he could have done that without having visited the premises at all.

  6. He looked after all of old Mr. Marshall's insurance interests, and the alterations in the business premises of Marshall & Belden seemed to furnish him with such a pretext.

  7. It was clearly the newly acquired premises of the enterprising Messrs.

  8. But the shops go on from generation to generation with the old names over the front, and in many cases with the family of the new generation living on the premises in the good old way.

  9. They entered Caterham's almost simultaneously, without noticing that the hoarding which had been built about the next door premises while a plate-glass front of noble design was being set in its place had been removed.

  10. Viewed as a critique upon life, the Mandragola is feeble, because the premises are false; and these same false premises regarding the main forces of society, render the logic of the Principe inconsequent.

  11. Therefore, though his reasoning, whether we examine the Mandragola or the Principe, seems irrefragable on the premises from which he starts, it is an unconvincing chain of sophisms.

  12. We may judge his premises insufficient, his conclusions false; but we cannot mistake the positive quality of his mind in the midst of a rhetorical and artistic generation.

  13. And from the row I had getting into the premises I judge that you're at your old tricks.

  14. Alone on the estate I could lodge in the garage without any loss of dignity, but with an aunt on the premises my status would be decidedly uncomfortable.

  15. And yet from the moment I reached the gates of these premises things have happened!

  16. Logically speaking, here are most narrow premises for the widest possible conclusion.

  17. Here is an obvious extension of the conclusion, which the premises do not warrant.

  18. He was a solicitor, and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new premises were ready.

  19. It was difficult to realize as we looked at the line of fine shops and stately business premises that they really abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square which we had just quitted.

  20. Deck's first move on coming back to Chattanooga was to have a search made of the premises occupied by the relative of Totterly.

  21. Having overcome the only inhabitant of the house, the cavalrymen made an inspection of the premises and found over a score of boxes and barrels, filled with provisions intended for a Confederate force encamped in the vicinity of Rover.

  22. The most diligent search of the premises and the plantation contiguous was immediately made, and a dispatch without delay was sent off to Ovingdean, in the hopes that tidings might be heard of her there; but all was fruitless.

  23. The premises there were very narrow and contracted, till August, 1858, when the present commodious structure was erected.

  24. It removed to the present premises in 1853.

  25. The premises here referred to are 35, King's road, those in the occupation of Mr. Ridley, boot and shoe maker.

  26. The premises are now the residence and establishment of Dr.

  27. The Town Council are bound in justice to the ratepayers to appropriate the premises to purposes for which little or no provision is made.

  28. We had better inspect the premises first, and examine the servants afterwards.

  29. In 1741 the premises were sold by Lacy to Messrs.

  30. Formerly there was a much more numerous clan of these "teinturiers" in the Rue de Robec--but they have of late sought more capacious premises in the fauxbourgs de St. Hilaire and de Martainville.

  31. Note that I have italicized in the quotation certain admissions of Webster, which, in case his premises should be disproved, concede the cause to his adversary.

  32. And we may say that this great argument of Calhoun, demolishing as it does the premises of Webster, was really irrelevant, for it did not support his own proposition.

  33. The three were close to the Crocker premises by this time.

  34. Anyway, he keeps a wicked looking dog and goes around the premises with a shotgun.

  35. He published it in Grey Street, afterwards in St. Nicholas' Buildings, and then in Stephenson Place, on premises now known as the Chronicle Buildings.

  36. Another time he was asked by persons whom he was willing to aid, to buy some premises for them, as they would be prejudiced at the auction if they appeared in person.

  37. Yet these Christian officers, acting under the eye of an opulent rector in the wealthiest capital in the world, seized clocks and bales of paper on the premises of heretics, in the name of the Church!

  38. The nature and efficacy of the natural reason consists in deducing and proving the unknown from the known, or in carrying premises to their legitimate conclusions; and these are the very processes which our method desiderates.

  39. One might easily show from the same premises that the power and efficiency, of nature are in themselves the Divine power and efficiency, and that the Divine power is the very essence of God, but this I gladly pass over for the present.

  40. Chapter VIII Mr. Pumblechook's premises in the High Street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a cornchandler and seedsman should be.

  41. Even this retreat he owed only to the fog and to the hurry of the moment, and to the difficulty of approaching the premises by the rear.

  42. On a Friday, suppose, he is expelled through the main entrance: on the Friday following he re-enters upon the forbidden premises through a clandestine entrance.

  43. Meantime the clock struck eleven; the company broke up; the door of entrance was nearly closed; and at this moment of general dispersion the situation of the five inmates left upon the premises was precisely this: the three elders, viz.

  44. Mr. Williams had now been upon the premises for perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes; and in that space of time he had dispatched, in a style satisfactory to himself, a considerable amount of business.

  45. A brick wall, nine or ten feet high, divided his own back premises from those of Marr.

  46. Meantime the crowd had thoroughly searched the premises of Williamson.

  47. I am at this moment, with all the imprudence natural to poets, expending nobody knows what, in embellishing my premises, or rather the premises of my neighbour Courtenay, which is more poetical still.

  48. In the meantime I amuse myself as well as I can, thrumming old Homer's lyre, and turning the premises upside down.

  49. I am a stranger to this sort of knowledge, but the opinion is a strong confirmation that, from all the premises before him, he judged the head to be that of Milton.

  50. Though not losing a second, he took every precaution to remain unseen, and, to the best of his belief, gained an inclosed yard at the back of Siddle's premises without having attracted attention.

  51. The rope and iron staple, I understand, were taken from the premises of a man who lets boats for hire on the dam quarter of a mile away," he said casually.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "premises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; area; belt; clue; confines; corridor; country; data; datum; department; district; division; documentation; environs; exhibit; fact; facts; ground; grounds; hinterland; indication; land; manifestation; mark; milieu; neighborhood; part; parts; place; precincts; premise; premises; proof; purlieus; quarter; reasoning; salient; section; sign; soil; space; symptom; terrain; territory; token; vicinity