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Example sentences for "puts"

Lexicographically close words:
putrescible; putrid; putridity; putrified; putrifying; putt; putte; putted; puttee; puttees
  1. The preparation of the latter for death has a grandeur which puts to shame the same scene in Dryden, and serves to support the interest during the whole fifth act, although Antony has died in the conclusion of the fourth.

  2. She, softly sighing, begs delay, And with her hand puts his away; Now out aloud for help she cries, And now despairing shuts her eyes.

  3. As one writer very aptly puts it, John Brown was both the one and the other.

  4. The hat, as Mr. Sala humorously puts it, resembles an inverted coal scuttle or bucket without handles, and pierced by many holes.

  5. As one writer puts it, the beauties and exhibitions of this geyser are as far superior to those of all the others as the light of the sun seems to that of the moon.

  6. When a man loses heavily the whole camp knows it in a few minutes, and not infrequently the wife rushes in and puts a stop to the stake by driving her chief away.

  7. Then again there would be the darkness which, as Milton puts it, could be felt, and the feeling of solitude was almost intolerable.

  8. He always puts on his velvet coat instead of dressing when something's gone wrong.

  9. Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

  10. Self-love then does not constitute this or that to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

  11. The true host puts an end to the banquet when his guests are feeling at their best.

  12. We might use the word "tradition" instead of "the people," for this it is which puts the feeling and tone of mind of the multitude into the form of history.

  13. While I tell this story, I feel as happy as a sculptor when he puts down his hammer and gazes at his finished work.

  14. Sanday puts it, the Bible is, at once, both human and Divine; not less Divine because thoroughly human, and not less human because essentially Divine.

  15. Newman puts it: "The Holy Church throughout all the world is manifest and acts through what is called in each country, the Church Visible".

  16. Doddridge puts it, in his Sacramental Ave:-- Hail!

  17. We congratulate him; and, to evince his satisfaction, he nimbly reverses the number by marking 36 and then puts it right again by scraping 63.

  18. A trifle disturbs them, confuses them, puts them off.

  19. It cares but little for the human value of the occurrence and puts the vision of a number in a lottery in the same plane as the most dramatic death.

  20. Osty puts it, "the medium can interpret each of them from beginning to end, as though he were in communication with the far-off entity.

  21. Not unseldom, the number is reversed: 47, for instance, becomes 74; but he puts it right without demur when asked.

  22. Seeing that he is examining the Bills she puts up her hands and seizes them.

  23. The avidity of the treasury puts fresh restraints upon industry.

  24. This puts both of us in a very bad light.

  25. But remember, these are war times; the man is a fiend, and he puts no restraint upon his desires.

  26. He puts the matter thus: Warburton enters Minerva's Sacrifice and The Forc'd Lady as above.

  27. He puts them to their whisper,"(429) reminds us of The Roman Actor.

  28. Indeed, the bad use to which he puts his great talent is often enough to make angels weep.

  29. With this love in his heart, a man puts on at least the vision robes of the seer, if not the singing robes of the poet.

  30. The beings of Greek, mythology are idealized and etherealized by the new souls which he puts into them, making them think his thoughts and say his words.

  31. There is yet a higher and more sustained influence exercised by nature, and that takes effect when she puts a man into that mood or condition in which thoughts come of themselves.

  32. Talkin' about that trip among the Adirondacks, puts me in mind of an adventer I had with a bull moose, on one occasion among them.

  33. He never neglects their warnin', but puts out about the quickest, whenever they notify him that there's an enemy about.

  34. The hillsides about these lakes," remarked the Doctor, "must be superlatively beautiful in the fall, when the forest puts on its autumnal foliage.

  35. So she takes possession of the little thing, and with a hand guided by experience and the instincts of affection, puts its things on in a Christian and comfortable way.

  36. But this Belgian woman's account puts a different face on things.

  37. As Onno Klopp unsparingly demolishes German scribblers, so van der Haeghen puts down the Belgian dabblers in history.

  38. It then puts forth from each side an arm-like branch, which grows rapidly, and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hardening as it went.

  39. Thiers puts in a note: "It was through a false indication given {14} by a contemporary manuscript that I before mentioned MM.

  40. The learned prelate puts us at once on reading acquaintance with the work of M.

  41. Every one else he puts far, far behind, like the beasts following Noah into the Ark.

  42. He lights the fire and puts everything shipshape, and then leaves me in peace till morning.

  43. On shore they say that a certain steamer puts to sea every night and watches passing vessels.

  44. This seems to be in ridicule of the following elegant expression which Shadwell puts in the mouth of a fine lady: "Such a fellow as he deserves to be tossed in a blanket.

  45. Burnet therefore candidly puts the reader upon his guard against this predominant foible, and expressly warns him to receive what he advances with some grains of allowance.

  46. The grim logician puts them in a fright; 'Tis easier far to flourish than to fight.

  47. Dryden here puts into the mouth of the Panther some of the severe language which Stillingfleet had held towards him in the ardour of controversy.

  48. This puts me in mind of a passage told me by one present.

  49. Tis pittie of him: I feare the trust Othello puts him in, On some odde time of his infirmitie Will shake this Island Mont.

  50. Marry before your Ladyship, I grant, She puts her tongue a little in her heart, And chides with thinking aemil.

  51. Tis only Waters that puts all these things into your head, Charles, and I shall let him know my opinion on the subject when I see him!

  52. The wife puts her hand under the husband’s elbow, and pushes him up on the rock.

  53. Several times in the book Chesterton puts aside tempting lines of thought with the remark that he intends to develop them later--in one of the unwritten books that he always felt were so much better than those he actually wrote.

  54. So the day goes, full of eerie publishers and elfin clerks, till he returns and again puts things inside him, and then sits down and makes men in his own head and writes down all that they said and did.

  55. The Frenchman and the Irishman understand the rapier of biting satire as does not the Englishman: for direct abuse of anyone, no matter how richly merited, nearly always puts the Englishman on the side of the man who is being abused.

  56. Father O'Connor had tried to persuade him, as he neatly puts it, to "begin to print on handmade paper with gilt edges.

  57. The average Englishman puts his cross on a ballot-paper as he takes off his hat to the King--and would take it off if there were no ballot-papers.

  58. He puts a cottager's earnings, working part-time for a farmer, at about 10 sh.

  59. When that particular fashion in caps of liberty has gone out, they have nothing to fall back on but the feeling which Swinburne himself puts into the mouth of the pagan on the day when Constantine issued the proclamation.

  60. When searching for ants about a house, the animal puts out its tongue and licks the ants into its mouth from around the posts on which the houses are raised a little above the ground.

  61. The great posturer must put a good deal of himself into his postures, just as the great painter puts a good deal of himself into his pictures.

  62. As Finlay puts it: "To nobody did the Greeks ever unmask their selfishness and self-deceit so candidly.

  63. A leading incident in both journeys was, as Byron bluntly puts it, "a passion for a married woman.

  64. Its possession by us would, in my judgment, result in the capture of Atlanta, and give us the fruits of victory, although the destruction of Hood's army was the real object to be desired.

  65. On the 7th of May the storm subsided, and we put to sea, Mr. Chase to the south, on his proposed tour as far as New Orleans, and I for James River.

  66. He wall "ell-ell-deed" by Oxford, as he quaintly puts it in his letters to his children.

  67. Every now and again, too, he puts in a bit of real information which helps to make his marvels seem true, so that sometimes we cannot be sure what is truth and what is fable.

  68. He either fears his fate too much Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch, To win or lose it all.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.