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Example sentences for "son"

Lexicographically close words:
somtimes; somtyme; somtymes; somuch; somwhat; sonant; sonar; sonat; sonata; sonatas
  1. This is the root of the alarming conviction that Phillis is changing into Biddy, whose fit epithet is not neat-handed.

  2. It was pleasant to look around and mark the famous men and the accomplished women gathering quietly in the same city where they used to gather to hear him a quarter of a century before.

  3. Then came a volume containing the discourses.

  4. And so season after season, year after year, she carries her sympathy, her hope, her steady faith to all the pioneers.

  5. Granted; but if a man surrounds himself with it, and forces it upon your attention, you have a right not only to ask such questions, but to expect answers.

  6. Here was Junius turned gentleman and transfixing a State with satire.

  7. We can have him once in three or four seasons," said the committees.

  8. Honestus was such a man: in the truest sense a patriot in feeling, yet he confessed that he had hitherto neglected his political duties, but declared that henceforth he would lose no opportunity of correcting his conduct.

  9. The speculators in tickets were not troublesome, because all the tickets had been long sold.

  10. They were, and they are, the middle-men between him and the public.

  11. The power of one man is not easily traced in its channels and details, but it is marked upon the whole.

  12. Herr Faust trills on, but you see the sombre field and the desperate battle and the glorious cause.

  13. He is beyond redeeming, or Thy Son had died Not wholly to this loss.

  14. Thy Son Was a price all too great even had the world been won.

  15. What was the true tale, think Thee, of Thy Son that died?

  16. The pickpocket on his way out elbowed the gentlewoman who had an erring son and sought our aid to restore him to grace.

  17. Even for the son of a Baptist minister you have done pretty well.

  18. Now, this husband of hers was a wretched fellow--the son of a neighbor--who never got beyond being a waiter in a railroad station.

  19. Even young Frank, best and most satisfying of babies, was the son of Zachary; would, when he grew out of babyhood, contain alien blood.

  20. Oh, I do pray wi' all my heart that my poor lill son may find favor in the Lord's eyes and become a child of grace to preach the Word and confound the Gentiles.

  21. Oh, dear Lord, give me strength to heal the blindness of my family and make my poor lill son a sword in the side of unbelievers.

  22. The son of Outalissi stated that several times, at the approach of night, he fancied he saw the shades of Atala and Father Aubry rise out of the misty twilight.

  23. I replied, 'I am called Chactas, son of Outalissi, son of Miscou, who have taken more than a hundred scalps from the heroes of the Muscogulges.

  24. I exclaimed, 'behold your son burying your daughter!

  25. Take courage, son of Outalissi; do not murmur against your destiny.

  26. According to the Indian custom, the woman desired to dry the body of her son upon the branches of a tree before taking it away to the tomb of its ancestors.

  27. My father, Outalissi, son of Miscou, drank out of the skulls of your most famous warriors; you will not draw a sigh from my breast.

  28. Illustration: 107] Chactas, son of Outalissi the Natchez, related this story to Rene the European.

  29. Before the couch of her son stood Catherine de Medicis.

  30. Can a son think thus of a mother who has ever loved him?

  31. The flourishing Academies at Florence, Naples, and Rome became the models of academies in other countries.

  32. Advertising on a small scale is a practice as old as commerce; but modern advertising on a large scale cannot be dated further back than 1785, when the Times was founded.

  33. Debra Tabor, about 30 miles east of Lake Dembea, was his chief residence.

  34. They are divided into several tribes, among whom the Suliotes are partly of Greek origin.

  35. Cereals (except wheat) and other crops succeed well, and the number of acres under cultivation is nearly double that of any other Scottish county.

  36. Italy, province of Molise, famous for the excellence of its copper wares.

  37. The number of academicians is now limited to forty-two, among whom are two engravers.

  38. The two foundations existed as separate universities, both having the right of conferring degrees, till 1860, when they were united and incorporated into one university, the University of Aberdeen.

  39. The worship of Adonis, which arose in Phoenicia, was afterwards widely spread round the Mediterranean.

  40. It was necessary that the vessel should get into deep water before the experiment could be made; and with the utmost agitation this pious son awaited news of the result.

  41. This vast difference in security is due to two great principles,--that of primogeniture as between son and son, and of hereditary succession as between a son and every other pretender.

  42. God and his Son except, Created thing nought valued she nor shunned.

  43. So perished the eldest and sole surviving son of the great Marcus Antoninus; and the crown passed into the momentary possession of two old men, who reigned in succession each for a few weeks.

  44. Galerius submitted with a bad grace; but Maxentius, a reputed son of Maximian, was roused by emulation with Constantine to assume the purple; and being joined by his father, they jointly attacked and destroyed Severus.

  45. His son Numerian succeeded to the rank of emperor by the choice of the army.

  46. All we know of it is, from the singing of their chorus; and that too is so uncertain, that in some of their plays we have reason to conjecture they sung more than five times.

  47. It is generally allowed, that pilgrims introduced these devout spectacles.

  48. The war at hand appears with more affright, And rises every moment to the sight.

  49. Aristotle indeed divides the integral parts of a play into four.

  50. At the full stretch of both his hands, he drew, And almost joined, the horns of the tough yew.

  51. Sublimely seated, he surveys from far The fields, the camp, the fortune of the war, And all the inferior world.

  52. She broke out in praise To God, that helped her in her widowhood.

  53. Elector of Bavaria, introduced into Germany were totally overthrown at Blenheim by the English army under the Duke of Marlborough, and the Austrian under Prince Eugene, a son of a younger branch of the house of Savoy.

  54. His son Philip, the new Duke of Burgundy, viewing the dauphin as guilty of his death, went over with all his forces to Henry V.

  55. Philip, Count of Valois, son to a brother of Philip IV.

  56. This had not saved his head under the Reign of Terror, and his son had been obliged to flee and lead a wandering life, at one time gaining his livelihood by teaching mathematics at a school in Switzerland.

  57. John died in 1364, before his ransom was paid, and his son mounted the throne as Charles V.

  58. Louis tried, by stirring up her subjects, to force her into a marriage with his son Charles; but she threw herself on the protection of the house of Austria, and marrying Maximilian, son of the Emperor Frederick III.

  59. This Charles, eldest son of John, obtained by purchase the imperial fief of Vienne, of which the counts had always been called Dauphins, a title thenceforth borne by the heir apparent of the kingdom.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "son" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boy; brethren; brother; bud; child; cousin; daughter; descendant; father; heiress; lad; mother; nephew; niece; offspring; relative; scion; sister; son; stripling; uncle


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    son and; son fils; son oeuvre; son temps; song somewhere; sont les; sont pas; sont point