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Example sentences for "read from"

  • Then Julia continued to read from Brenda's letter.

  • They seemed to think that it gave them an air of distinction, and Concetta was especially delighted to read from a written list: "Bed not made until ten o'clock Monday.

  • We have had great fun in choosing the books we thought they might like to read from my collections, and from the old-fashioned bookcases in Madame Du Launy's library.

  • I read from page 70: "Joining with rebels freely and voluntarily in any act of rebellion is levying war against the King; and this, too, though the party was not privy to their intent.

  • And there is a principle in criminal law which says--I read from section 238 of Bishop's Criminal Law, vol.

  • If any one cares to know what the teaching was which the writer in the "Church Quarterly" was intending to reproduce, he is invited to read from p.

  • I read from Bignon, author of the civil and diplomatic history of France during the consulate and the first years of the empire; written at the testamentary request of the Emperor himself.

  • Read from page 1008 of the record and there you will find what the Court said about these very petitions: "I shall take the responsibility of dispensing with the reading of petitions when there is no point made with regard to them.

  • I read from page 2646: I tried not to remember anything of this.

  • I don’t know whether under the circumstances I am at liberty to read from it or not.

  • If I do read from it I suggest that the defendants’ counsel will all get the complete text of it—I mean of what I read into the transcript.

  • The decision of the court upon these questions was read from a written document.

  • I read from a contribution she has made to one of our leading public prints.

  • I read from Story on the Constitution, volume 1st, commencing at Sec.

  • She saw at once that the lines which she had translated were only fragmentary portions that happened to read from left to right.

  • Begin at that cross, read from right to left for seventeen letters, and what do you find?

  • Read from "The Simple Cobler of Aggawam" for any evidence of Nathaniel Ward's residence in America; decide on the degree to which the work is English and the degree to which it is colonial.

  • Read from three to six of Longfellow's ballads and compare them with a similar number by Tennyson or Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Whittier.

  • Read from Lever's Charles O'Malley and from Burke's speech on the impeachment of Warren Hastings.

  • Read from any of these, and also a story in Little Classics called The Fairy Finder, by Samuel Lover.

  • Read from Stories of Old Greece, by Emma R.

  • Read from "The Germans in Colonial Times," by Lucy F.

  • Read from this, and also from her short poems.

  • Read from "Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times," by Sidney G.

  • The twenty hands pointing to the right, with a knife placed over them, in the middle of the pages, which mean nothing more than that these parts of the Venus year are to be read from left to right.

  • The first row should be read from top to bottom, and then the second in the same order.

  • But in order to obtain equal periods of time, the left column should first be read from top to bottom and the following ones should be treated in the same way.

  • These illustrations will probably satisfy any one that the black numerals in these lines denote the intervals between the days indicated by the symbols and that the series so far examined are to be read from left to right.

  • Yet, strange as it may appear, the days and numerals in this division are to be read from right to left, while all the other numeral series of these four plates are to be read as usual, from left to right.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "read from" 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:
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