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Example sentences for "respond"

Lexicographically close words:
respited; resplendence; resplendency; resplendent; resplendently; responde; responded; respondendum; respondent; respondents
  1. The teacher smiled to see such a little fellow respond so readily, and he said to Nat, "Did you ever speak a piece?

  2. Much that has been said I can most cordially respond to, while some of the arguments upon the affirmative do not appear to me legitimate or just.

  3. This was possible, for my feelings now were hardly those of pleasure, even to-day depths were stirred within me, which must respond with a tension akin to pain.

  4. I don't expect you to respond to it," I concluded, with a sob.

  5. That calls for the creative imagination, and few have been accustomed to respond to that call.

  6. And if those who have power and leisure now, and freedom to respond to imaginative appeals, cannot be won to the idea of collective self-development, then the whole of humanity cannot be won to that.

  7. No wonder that he was disinclined to respond to any courtesies.

  8. He addresses me several times with great bonhomie and I respond with nervous monosyllables.

  9. Several times I catch our guest's frank eyes, watching me with inquiring wonder, as I respond with brief and low-voiced hurry to some of my parent's friendly and fatherly queries as to the disposition of my day.

  10. She had failed to respond to this invitation merely because it was a little queer and imaginative--she, whose birthright it was to nourish imagination!

  11. Her surface could always respond to his without contempt, though all her deeper being might be yearning to help him.

  12. The grace that is working in your heart to make you wish that return is an evidence of his love for yon, dear mother; only continue to respond to it, and all will be well.

  13. We are Catholics, Eugene; we know that a vocation is something real; that not to respond to it is to endanger salvation, is to risk the abstraction of that grace which is of all treasures the most valuable.

  14. Color reactions to which most of the common plant proteins respond are the following ones: (a) Biuret Reaction.

  15. Tissues which respond to nerve, or brain, control are, of course, not found in plants.

  16. All enzymes do not respond alike to the action of the same electrolyte, however.

  17. No other condition than that of a colloidal gel could respond in this way to changes in water content.

  18. A hundred ingenious little thefts respond to the mother's desire.

  19. Were these opposites in perfect harmony, they would respond to and complete each other.

  20. The bright minds respond to her appeal, as half-kindled coals glow beneath a strong and sudden breath.

  21. It must be coaxed and coerced, and then it will respond lavishly.

  22. Pure Anglo-Saxon was a forcible language, but it lacked the wealth of expression and the flexibility necessary to respond to the most delicate touches of the master-musicians who were to come.

  23. But Kitty did not so quickly respond to orders.

  24. Occasionally they spoke, and their manner and words were kindly, but King and Midget could not bring themselves to respond in the same way.

  25. How shall we respond to these gracious words of His Majesty?

  26. To respond to this attack, the Russian big guns were putting out red tongues at us in front, and from behind their warships were coming to shatter our backs.

  27. Paradoxical as it may sound, it is the eagerness of young India to respond to our educational call that has led to the breakdown of the system in some of the most important functions of education.

  28. Is not this an opportunity for the Government of India to respond to the Gaekwar's invitation and depart for once from their traditional policy of laisser faire?

  29. There is very little doubt that the Government of India would be disposed to respond to it speedily and heartily on the lines I have already briefly indicated.

  30. The jury respond to his appeal to their religious prejudices, and I get one farthing damages.

  31. A microscopic examination of the eye indicates that it is constructed so as to respond to waves.

  32. Such an instrument, however, cannot respond to as slight a current as those previously described, since they must consume some energy in both field and armature.

  33. We now found that the coherer would respond when the spark coil was operated several feet away.

  34. But while this is happening C is being tapped by B, and is ready to respond to each wave.

  35. She had been primed and, when she had refused to respond to this treatment, the pet valves were opened and the wheel rolled over several times to sweep out the cylinders.

  36. When the floor wires were connected to the water pipes the coherer would respond when the spark coil was operated in a neighbouring house.

  37. We now found that the coherer would respond when the spark coil was operated in the farthest part of the room.

  38. A careful examination of the internal ear shows us that it is constructed so as to respond to such air waves.

  39. As yet, however, it would not respond when the spark coil was more than one foot away.

  40. Whenever we used this to respond to ether waves the click of the relay suggested the telegraph sounder.

  41. And all hearts respond to the truth of that saying, This is not solitude; for sympathy can people our solitude with a crowd.

  42. The solitary student is not alone, when he feels that human hearts will respond to the truths which he is preparing to address to them.

  43. The boards of guardians outside the Metropolis failed, we believe everywhere, to respond to the invitations of the Central Authority to provide similar accommodation for infectious diseases.

  44. He was conscious that he loved the boy less, and always tried to be fair; but the boy felt it, and did not respond with a smile to his father's chilly smile.

  45. And she could not but respond with a smile--not to his words, but to the love in his eyes.

  46. The hand did not respond to her pressure, but the face of Mademoiselle Varenka glowed with a soft, glad, though rather mournful smile, that showed large but handsome teeth.

  47. Yes, she's very tall," Darya Alexandrovna answered shortly, surprised herself that she should respond so coolly about her children.

  48. And among the first to respond to the bugle call and line up behind "Old Glory" have been the sons and grandsons of that staunch line of Gray--the men who followed Lee.

  49. Young Foch was one of the first to respond to this appeal.

  50. You should emphasize for your listeners those aspects of the subject which they will most respond to or most need to hear, whether or not the phases be such as you would emphasize with other auditors.

  51. Do you think words will not respond to cordiality like this?

  52. When the deeper appeal of Arles came to her, that new world in which one went clean through the exteriorities of modern life, how she would respond to it!


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