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Lexicographically close words:
rears; rearward; reascend; reascended; reascending; reasonable; reasonableness; reasonably; reasone; reasoned
  1. This remedy was immediately applied, and I had no reason to regret it.

  2. Its full solubility and rapid assimilation are the reason that it can be used without injury, but it must be taken largely diluted.

  3. Far more potent is the part played by Bacillinum in non-tuberculous pulmonary affections, for the simple reason that the struggle is with a less redoubtable opponent.

  4. I will now give my reason for choosing Bromine as a combination.

  5. The briefest examination of the lizard's anatomy makes it clear why it has been with reason suspected to be poisonous, and why it poisons with so much difficulty.

  6. There is reason to believe that Cactus grandiflora, or Spigelia are often given in affections of the heart, where Fagopyrum, if given, would accomplish better results.

  7. There is another reason why these California remedies should become a part of our armamentarium.

  8. From what I knew of the surgeon, I was very sure he could not give me any intelligent reason for his prescription.

  9. I went on with the tincture until no more sand appeared in the urine, and I had every reason to suppose that the deposit of sand was completely removed.

  10. For this reason Viscum is more often applicable in the colder season than in summer, or at time when gouty or rheumatic affections or pains are usually aggravated.

  11. Whether this be true or not, we know there are certain diseases, which, so far as we are aware, are incurable, for the simple reason that we know of no remedy that will control the abnormal conditions.

  12. I have reason to believe they must have sworn eternal friendship, after the manner of the modern Germans.

  13. Mrs. General Tracy was one of those obstinate, yet superficial characters, whom no reason can convince that they are wrong, no power can oblige to confess themselves mistaken.

  14. BUT Mrs. Tracy had the best reason for believing her intelligence was true, and she could see very little cause for regarding it as dreadful.

  15. We have guessed and guessed what your motive can be in concealing the truth from Mrs Willis, and we all unanimously vote that you are a dear old martyr, and that you have some admirable reason for keeping back the truth.

  16. She had found them successful, and, during her thirty years' experience, had never seen reason to alter them.

  17. She has not refused to confess to you from any stubbornness, but from, the simple reason that she has nothing to confess.

  18. Then she would tell her pupils what she considered the reason of this.

  19. Mrs Willis certainly gave the girls no reason to come to this conclusion; she was consistently kind to Annie, and had apparently quite restored her to her old place in her favour.

  20. Dora made no reply: she kept her reason to herself.

  21. More than once the girls had entered the room in the morning to find some favourite's furniture removed and her little possessions taken carefully down from the walls, the girl herself alone knowing the reason for this sudden change.

  22. This was a very good stroke of business, and Mr. Clement had fair reason to congratulate himself on his successful enterprise.

  23. When Ben Jonson called the newspaper 'a weekly cheat to draw money,' and ridiculed the growing taste for news, he had some reason for satirising the journalism of the period.

  24. Instead therefore of being displeased with the Emblem, our Party have great Reason to be vain on this Occasion, nor do I think there can be a greater Comparison than of a Protestant Jacobite to an Ass, or one more to the Honour of the former.

  25. I tried to conceal the fact as well as I could, giving sometimes one reason for her absence, and sometimes another.

  26. The printing-press was, of course, not idle during the rule of Cromwell, but its productions were narrowly watched, and there is reason to suppose the newspapers were to a great extent under the influence of the party in power.

  27. The editor has no reason to complain of the want of public encouragement, for the sale of this series has exceeded that of its predecessor in 1845.

  28. The reason of the fight was, the Swedish ships wore flags, viz.

  29. The miser hates something accidental to himself, but not for that reason does he hate himself: thus a sick man hates his sickness for the very reason that he loves himself.

  30. The figurative reason for circumcision was that it foreshadowed the removal of corruption, which was to be brought about by Christ, and will be perfectly fulfilled in the eighth age, which is the age of those who rise from the dead.

  31. Objection 1: It would seem that the members of the body do not obey reason as to their acts.

  32. Further, the end is the reason for willing the means, just as light is the reason of seeing colors.

  33. Now it is manifest that human virtues perfect man according as it is natural for him to be moved by his reason in his interior and exterior actions.

  34. But right reason in regard to the very end of a virtue has no other goodness than the goodness of that virtue, in so far as the goodness of the reason is participated in each virtue.

  35. First, by reason of their suitableness or unsuitableness to nature.

  36. Consequently there can be no will in those things that lack reason and intellect, since they cannot apprehend the universal; but they have a natural appetite or a sensitive appetite, determinate to some particular good.

  37. Whether we consider human reason as perfected in its natural perfection, or as perfected by the theological virtues, it does not know all things, nor all possible things.

  38. Objection 1: It would seem that sin is not aggravated by reason of the condition of the person against whom it is committed.

  39. So in regard to shape, or heat, or cold, a man is not said to be well or ill disposed, except by reason of a relation to the nature of a thing, with regard to its suitability or unsuitability.

  40. It is in this way that passion draws the reason to judge in particular, against the knowledge which it has in general.

  41. The literal reason for the sanctification of the tabernacle and vessels was that they might be treated with greater reverence, being deputed, as it were, to the divine worship by this consecration.

  42. By reason of the fact that the Canadians had suffered great losses at the first battle of Ypres, our order to leave England came at an hour's notice, but the regiment to a man was extremely anxious to get over, and get busy.

  43. That was the reason the Huns drove them back.

  44. But men never were so created and born, so far as we have any record of them, and by analogy we have no reason to suppose that they ever will be.

  45. There they both are at the bottom, grinding away as hard as they can; and that's the reason why the sea is so salt!

  46. They have been seen in that place by a great multitude of our people, who have heard the story from themselves, for they retain their speech and reason as before.

  47. The first reason was, that his father had been a good man in his time; the second, that he was a good man himself; and the third, that he came of the best blood in the nation.

  48. She had soon ample reason for repenting of her false policy.

  49. It was her last vituperative attempt, and perhaps for that reason was invested with a certain degree of sublimity.

  50. The reason never has been explained satisfactorily; but the fact was such.

  51. Reason enough there has been till now, ever since Madison's administration went out in 1817, for very strict secrecy, the secrecy of honor itself, among the gentlemen of the navy who have had Nolan in successive charge.

  52. I urged and pressed this upon Southard, and I have reason to think that other officers did the same thing.

  53. I have reason to think, from some investigations I made in the Naval Archives when I was attached to the Bureau of Construction, that every official report relating to him was burned when Ross burned the public buildings at Washington.

  54. My memory for names and people is good, and the reader will see, as he goes on, that I had reason enough to remember Philip Nolan.

  55. At first many are apt to think that smoke is in its nature and of itself specifically lighter than air, and rises in it for the same reason that cork rises in water.

  56. And neither of them seemed to think dealing with smugglers a practice, that an honest man (provided he got his goods cheap) had the least reason to be ashamed of.

  57. The reason is, that in these cases the pores all close at once, the cold is shut out, and the heat within augmented, as we soon after feel by the glowing of the flesh and skin.

  58. I do not know that the reason has hitherto been given.

  59. What is the reason that men of the greatest knowledge not the most happy?

  60. Your first question, What is the reason the water at this place, though cold at the spring, becomes warm by pumping?

  61. There is reason to believe that the presence of the senior General was due to a desire to restrain the impetuosity of his subordinate.

  62. Sidenote: His reason for deciding against the railway through Jacobsdal.

  63. These three places are, by reason of local considerations such as dock and repair accommodation, railway service and tidal conditions, the most suitable for such work, and with few exceptions the embarking was done in those districts.

  64. The isolation of this hill was doubtless the reason why it was not occupied by the Boers.

  65. After the engagement of the 28th November, Lord Methuen had reason to believe that the Boers would make their next stand at Spytfontein, twelve miles south of Kimberley.

  66. Yet the Boers had reason to fear this combination against them.

  67. The reason of the selection of the forward slope during these was that when the battles began the two opposed artilleries were engaged against one another.

  68. For this reason we must, in firm faith in the help of our faithful and beloved God, be on our guard against such action.

  69. When, indeed, the earth was their dominion, there was no reason for their remaining restricted to a forest residence, as they have been since the larger races took possession of the open country.

  70. There is no reason to believe that the individual initiative is wanting.

  71. The recorded instances of displays of reason in the dog, man's constant companion, are innumerable.

  72. And will it be further asserted that the Deity placed similar stumbling-blocks to the human reason in the embryo, in order to deceive those who should extend their researches to this low level?

  73. There is, however, some reason to believe, as we shall show later on, that the arm of this animal was longer and the leg shorter than in man himself, their comparative length perhaps not differing greatly from that of the chimpanzee.

  74. There is every reason to believe that this is the rudiment of a membrane which is fully developed in many animals, and is especially useful to birds, the nictitating membrane, or third eyelid.

  75. There is very good reason to believe that the man-ape was highly social, if we may judge from what we find in all races of men, and all grades, from the savage to the civilized.

  76. Men and women "fall in love"; they do not reason themselves into affection.

  77. With these bonds reason has nothing to do.

  78. And there is good reason to believe that it continued into the age of bronze, for the small size of the handles of bronze weapons show they must have been intended for men with small hands.

  79. A sudden vision comes to me of one of the first far-away ape-men who tried to use reason instead of instinct as a guide for his conduct.

  80. The reason will be that the race will so need these discoveries.

  81. Reason would have plausibly said, "it's by virtue of feverish toil that you have become what you are.

  82. Reason is seldom or never the ruler: it is the servant of instinct.

  83. For this reason height was of primary importance and speed was quite a secondary consideration, owing to the low velocity of prevailing winds in that country.

  84. The envelope, however, consumed an enormous amount gas and for this reason the ship was deflated and struck off the list of active ships.

  85. For this reason weight was saved in every possible manner, to increase the height of the "ceiling.

  86. In the case of the rigids, however, for some occult reason the old system of numbering was persisted in.

  87. There is no sound reason for believing that the world has passed into a period of assured peace outside the limits of Europe.

  88. Hence, despite an immense immigration, we have lagged far behind in the work of completing our internal development, and for that reason have not yet felt the outward impulse that now markedly characterizes the European peoples.

  89. For the very reason that war is in the main an evil, an unnatural state, but yet at times unavoidable, the demands upon warriors, when average men, are exceptionally exacting.

  90. For this reason personal property, not embarked in commercial venture, is respected in civilized maritime war.

  91. Just because you are bored to death," Dalton told her, "is no reason why you should accuse me of it.

  92. Was it beyond the bounds of reason that some day he could make Becky love him?

  93. There is no reason why we should put it off; Georgie.

  94. The wild young trees are generally transplanted into the desired positions, and then grafted from the cultivated species, but there is no reason why they should not be grafted in situ.

  95. It appeared to me that the decay of the trees was a sufficient reason for the inferiority of the silkworms.

  96. There is no reason for the neglect of olive-planting, but I observed an absence of such cultivation which must have prevailed during several centuries, even during the Venetian rule.

  97. There is no reason why officials should be condemned to the purgatory of such a station when Cyprus possesses superior positions where the great business of the future will be conducted.

  98. At the same time that the produce of Cyprus is now a unsuitable to the English market, there is no reason why it should be excluded at a future time, when scientific culture shall have enhanced the quality.

  99. If the seasons of Cyprus have undergone a change since the forests have been destroyed, I can see no reason for the innumerable vestiges of ancient water-works throughout the country.

  100. There is no reason why the wild olive should not be grafted in its natural position the same as the caroub.

  101. If these badly-made wines have founded an important trade, there is every reason to expect a corresponding extension when scientific principles shall have resulted in a superior quality.

  102. In noticing the solitary meal of the Maldivian islander, another reason may be alleged for this misanthropical repast.

  103. They had not the good sense of old Montaigne, who gives the reason why he gave over gaming.

  104. Paschal, historiographer of France, had a reason for these ingenious inventions; he continually announced such titles, that his pension for writing on the history of France might not be stopped.

  105. The baffled Sheba had one more reason to be astonished at the wisdom of Solomon.

  106. No reason is assigned for this prohibition.

  107. Though so small, this stream in the time of a flood spreads itself over the neighbouring fields; for this reason Philip the Second built a bridge eleven hundred feet long!

  108. For this extravagant custom a curious reason has been alleged.

  109. The best reason that could be given for wearing the longest and largest beard of any Englishman was that of a worthy clergyman in Elizabeth's reign, "that no act of his life might be unworthy of the gravity of his appearance.

  110. Satirists, if they escape the scourges of the law, have reason to dread the cane of the satirised.

  111. She replies, that though she has reason to justify herself, she will not venture to plead her cause, as she is apt to speak too much, or to omit what should be said.

  112. The king of Quiterva calls himself the great lion; and for this reason lions are there so much respected, that they are not allowed to kill them, but at certain royal huntings.

  113. It is for this reason that I caused it to be served to you, for it is a kind of meat which you very much liked.

  114. The idlers who had followed to the spot by reason of the tragedy were all gone now.

  115. The first reason was that he was married, and it would be wrong.

  116. After converting me to your views on so many things, to find you suddenly turn to the right-about like this--for no reason whatever, confounding all you have formerly said through sentiment merely!

  117. I was in error--I cannot reason with you.

  118. As he had made up his mind to do this before he had written to his friend, there had not been much reason for writing to the latter at all.

  119. A keener regard attached to the prelates, by reason of his own former hopes.

  120. A short reflection told him that this proved nothing, a natural delicacy being as ample a reason for silence as any degree of blameworthiness.

  121. He waited till a small boy came from the school--one evidently allowed out before hours for some reason or other.

  122. Well--if you've got any sound reason for marrying her again, do it now in God's name!

  123. It is your weakness--a sick fancy, without reason or meaning!

  124. In his bewilderment Phillotson entered the adjacent cathedral, just now in a direly dismantled state by reason of the repairs.

  125. It was for quite some other reason that she didn't like my patron-saints.

  126. The danger would come when the schooner passed outside and drew near to the blockading fleet; and that was the reason Jack had thought it best to disguise her.

  127. Marcy thought he had good reason to feel light-hearted, for was he not getting the better of the secret enemies of whom he and his mother had stood so much in fear?

  128. I knew why you bumped up against me, and that was the reason I didn't get mad at it," answered Marcy.

  129. If she hadn't been warned by somebody, what was the reason she began dodging the minute she saw us?

  130. He say Marse Jack gone on a rebel boat, an' I know in reason dat ain't so.

  131. But for some reason or other it doesn't suit him to have me at home with mother; and that makes me think that there's going to be an attempt made to steal the money she has hidden in the cellar wall.

  132. But they say that you are for the Union, and that the only reason you shipped on Beardsley's schooner was because you had to.

  133. And the reason our papers didn't speak of it is because we don't want the Yankees to be on the watch for him when he comes back," continued the citizen.

  134. If the attempt to drive the overseer from the place was made and resulted in failure, it would probably lead to some vigorous action on the part of Colonel Shelby and his friends; and that was the reason Jack did not tell Marcy of it.

  135. He must have a reliable ally in the house--some one who was in a position to hear and see everything that was said and done by the inmates, who must not, of course, be given reason for believing that they were watched.

  136. The reason I haven't enlisted is because I thought that perhaps you would bring me a favorable word from Captain Beardsley.

  137. Well, there's one comfort: Beardsley is not a brave man, and he'll make haste to lay the schooner up the minute he has reason to believe that it is growing dangerous outside.

  138. For the very good reason that there will be no one there who has a right to blow it.

  139. Authors with synthetic minds will more naturally reason from causes to effects; and authors with analytic minds will more naturally reason from effects to causes.

  140. The reason why most allegorical figures are ineffective is that, although they are typical, they are not at the same time individual.

  141. But there can be no general rule; because, although in the process of pure reason all men rightly minded think alike, each man differs from every other in the process of emotion.

  142. But there is no absolutely necessary reason why it should stand at the end, or, as is more frequently the case, at a point about three quarters through the story.

  143. He is the only actual person entirely typical of eighteenth-century America; and that is the main reason why, as an exhibition of character, his autobiography is just as profitable a book as the master-works of fiction.

  144. This is another reason why the short-story, as opposed to the novel, belongs to youth rather than to age.

  145. The reason why sequels to great novels have rarely been successful is that it has been impossible for the author in the second volume to sustain a climacteric rise of interest from the level where he left off in the first.

  146. For this reason the dénouement shows usually a more hurried movement than the nouement--one event treading on another's heels.

  147. The "Don Quixote" of Cervantes is indubitably one of the very greatest novels in all literature, for the reason that it contains so vast a world.

  148. The reason is that great fictitious characters are typical of their class, to an extent rarely to be noticed in any actual member of the class they typify.

  149. When we think inductively, we reason from the particular to the general; and when we think deductively, the process proceeds in the reverse direction and we reason from the general to the particular.

  150. What is the logical reason for this usual position?

  151. For there is no inherent reason why a novel may not be written in verse.

  152. Surely all novelists, whether realistic or romantic, try to show men what they are--what else can be their reason for embodying in imagined facts the truths of human life?

  153. There seemed to be no valid reason why it should land at a remote farmhouse.

  154. There was a reason why the young airman was able to make so sturdy a resistance.

  155. I reason it out just as I said at the first, that whoever stole the Comet planned to hide it where we couldn’t find it.

  156. It’s number seven, I have every reason to believe,” said Dave, when they started up again.

  157. Well, I have reason to believe that he is mixed up with this affair.

  158. It's the being forced against my will and my reason to come on this accursed journey, which something tells me will become more and more accursed as we go on, that is driving me to distraction.

  159. My reason tells me that this place is only a commonplace moor, yet it seems like a Valley of Bones haunted by malignant spirits who have lured us here to our destruction.

  160. So long as your ideas are about myself, I have no reason to object to them," said Mrs. Becker, smiling.

  161. That is rather a reason for our remaining where we are.

  162. So he would, and it is for that reason I hope he will be able to show by the log that I was seized with cholera, tied up in a sack, and duly thrown overboard with a four-pound shot for ballast.

  163. What reason have you for supposing that the Nelson may not return with colonists?

  164. These rods are only useful in protecting buildings, and then to nothing more than double the area of their length; it is for this last reason that roofs of public buildings have them projecting in all directions.

  165. You speak of hills, whilst we know that water naturally, by reason of its weight and fluidity; seeks to secrete itself in the lowest beds of the earth.

  166. Besides, should the Nelson not reappear, that is no reason why another accident may not drive another ship upon the coast that will be more fortunate; what has happened to-day may surely happen again to-morrow.

  167. A foolish pledge, given in a moment of thoughtlessness is often obstinately adhered to in spite of reason and argument.

  168. My mother is laboring under a malady, which there is every reason to fear is cancer.

  169. The reason of this is, that we cannot feel warm till we have been cold, and vice versâ.

  170. I do not see any particular reason why Peter should not be a lawyer," said Jack.

  171. There might have been a reason for the death of Mary Wolston--who knows?

  172. There is reason in what you say," observed Willis, scratching his ear.

  173. For a like reason the al fresco dinner of this day had a charm that no such feast had been observed to possess before.

  174. Indeed, there is but one reason I could ever conceive for a person not eating; and that is, when, like poor Count Ugolino and his family, he can get nothing to eat!

  175. King, elected in 1852, by reason of ill health never entered upon the discharge of the duties of his office.

  176. A Western member, who had just been defeated upon a proposed amendment to an appropriation bill, by reason of a fatal point of order raised by the chairman, promptly exclaimed, "I move to strike out Holman and insert Cannon.

  177. But I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  178. In closing the protracted and exciting debate just prior to the passage of the bill in the Senate, he said: "There is another reason why I desire to see this principle recognized as a rule of action in all time to come.

  179. As the Old State Bank was about to expire by reason of limitation, the General Assembly passed a bill extending its corporate life fifteen years.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    reason alone; reason and; reason for; reason from; reason itself; reason upon; reason whatever; reason whereof; reason why; reasonable amount; reasonable being; reasonable cause; reasonable creature; reasonable doubt; reasonable price; reasonable profit; reasonable rates; reasonable terms; reasonable time; reasoning from