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Example sentences for "sentences"

Lexicographically close words:
sentation; sente; sented; sentence; sentenced; sentencia; sentencing; sentent; sententia; sententiae
  1. It must be understood that, though several sentences were spoken, not thirty seconds had elapsed after he had struck the water before the order to heave the ship to was given.

  2. While the fever lay upon him he spoke in bits of sentences about the Nazarene, mysterious, divine!

  3. His remarks were not intended for other ears, but were the half-audible, broken sentences of an intense mind.

  4. He was a man of ideas, and the opening sentences of the speech were already occurring to him.

  5. Any other sister would be very glad at such a time--" These were the hurried and broken sentences with which the culprit sought to stave off the coming wrath.

  6. Cicero claims that the pontifical as well as the augural books state that the right of appeal from the regal sentences had been recognized (De Re Publica, 11.

  7. States depended, in large measure, for the execution of their judicial sentences in cases of manslaughter and treason, upon foreign murderers and traitors.

  8. These profound sentences are the epitaph, not only of imitative poetry, but also of such eclectic art as the Caracci instituted.

  9. Where he pitched his camp, he summoned the local magistrates, swore them to obedience, and obtained assurance of their willingness to execute such sentences as he might pronounce.

  10. He saw a light, and heard a voice, and had sentences like the above put into his mind.

  11. It contains some thirty sentences of the length of an average verse in the Bible, and is in pure Hebrew.

  12. He slightly noticed Tracy; and Fitzurse said a few unrecorded sentences to him, which ended with "God help you!

  13. We kept ourselves to short sentences of small-talk, and were punctual to our time.

  14. During that day she thought many times of the sentences that had been read to her out of that plain-looking, much-worn Bible on Dr.

  15. There hovered over Marion's mind, while these last sentences were being spoken, words something like these: "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth from all sin.

  16. After writing these sentences she found herself leaving her desk and walking up and down the room to relieve herself.

  17. A dozen unconscious sentences placed it before his mental vision.

  18. Execution of the Sentences of the Secret Tribunal.

  19. The reporters were enjoined to write the decisions and sentences which were given by the court "in large letters, and far apart, so that they might be more easily read.

  20. The reporter was ordered to draw attention to any point of difficulty arising in a suit, and the execution of sentences or judgments was entrusted to the ushers of the court.

  21. They may pronounce any sentence, even that of death; only their final sentences must be passed unanimously.

  22. A very large proportion of the prisoners receive practical instruction in manual training and are fitted to earn honest livings when their sentences expire.

  23. The sentences of the tribal ward courts, from which no appeal is taken to the court of first instance, may be modified or remitted by the provincial governor after a review of the case.

  24. A few more sentences introduce to us the old soothsayer Tiresias--for whom, at the instigation of Creon, Oedipus had sent.

  25. Not that Aeschylus, like Euripides, deals in didactic sentences and oracular aphorisms.

  26. But then we should remember that in their sentences the cart is always put before the horse, and so needs only to be pushed, not pulled along.

  27. His sentences must all be turned inside out.

  28. As if to mark beyond a doubt the insignificance of the part man plays in their thought, sentences are usually subjectless.

  29. He made his frequent sentences very emphatic.

  30. On the whole, it was the same Emerson--he stumbled at a quotation as he always did; but his thoughts were such as only Emerson could have thought, and the sentences had the Emersonian pithiness.

  31. It was impossible to see any thread of connection; but it always was so--the oracular sentences made the charm.

  32. In such a state the country continued for several months, when even Haynau, a few days before being removed from his post, began to loathe his work, and to sign pardons as carelessly as he had hitherto subscribed sentences of death.

  33. What great ruler can be named who has not committed errors much more serious than the penning of a few sentences of turgid nonsense?

  34. Spanish, yet, thanks to Esperanto, he was able to translate the sentences in that language in our February number.

  35. Are we to consider therefore that Spanish resembles Esperanto more closely than Italian, or has some other friend, equally ignorant of that tongue, been able to translate the Italian sentences on page 57?

  36. It must have been transient spleen which dictated such sentences as these:-- "Tickler.

  37. At the end of that time, a voice spoke at the door some guttural sentences in the Barolong language.

  38. The very consecutiveness and coherency of the sentences seemed all but incredible under such awful circumstances.

  39. Some sort of order must be imperceptibly if not unconsciously maintained, or the sentences clash in general conversation.

  40. He ignores his conversational partners; he breaks into their sentences with his own speech before they have their words well out of their mouths.

  41. Cometstern (Erfurt, 1589), in which the above sentences of Luther are printed on the title page as epigraphs.

  42. For the pithy sentences regarding the conduct of the majority in the synods toward Dr.

  43. He found one of his daughter's exercise books, in which were certain expressions and sentences that startled him.

  44. It's as incoherent a collection of sentences as was ever scrawled by a poor tortured soul.

  45. Pardon the not very clever comparison, but while your face is so ungraciously averted, I'm glad if I can even patch my sentences together, without making any pretensions to style.

  46. I had not opened it since so many incomprehensible, threatening and condemnatory sentences perplexed my heart and then threw it back upon itself.


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