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Example sentences for "stile"

Lexicographically close words:
stigmatized; stigmatizes; stigmatizing; stik; stil; stiled; stilet; stiletto; stilettoes; still
  1. And at present I suppose you'll be found somewhere about that same stile every evening?

  2. Why have you never been to the stile again?

  3. He gave way therefore to a movement of friendliness for this working daughter of the people, and joined her on the other side of the stile in token of his approval.

  4. When Willoughby gained the ridge from which they had just scattered, he came in sight of a woman sitting on a stile at the further end of the field.

  5. The cattle are much in the same stile with their drivers, meagre, stunted, and ill equipt.

  6. The spark did not like the stile I used, and behaved with abundance of mettle.

  7. His horse was exactly in the stile of its rider; a resurrection of dry bones, which (as we afterwards learned) he valued exceedingly, as the only present he had ever received in his life.

  8. Her conversation was flat, her stile mean, and her expression embarrassed -- In a word, her character was totally insipid.

  9. Over the last stile he had stayed a moment to help the younger girl, and as he did so Kate whispered a word in his ear.

  10. Then there was another stile on reaching which he withdrew his arm and stood facing her with his back leaning against it.

  11. She tripped over the stile with a light step and again walked on rapidly.

  12. They were now at a rough stile which enabled him to come close up to her and help her.

  13. They had by this time passed through a couple of fields which formed part of the model farm, and had come to a stile leading into a large meadow.

  14. At the stile she insisted on using her own hand for the custody of her dress.

  15. Come, dear; let us get over the stile and go on for another field, or we shall never get round the park.

  16. She was walking slowly, and apparently did not see him in the shadow, so that when she stopped a moment with her hand upon the stile he could, although he felt the presumption of it, look at her steadily.

  17. The girl descended the stile before she looked at him, and then there was a suggestion of stiffness in her attitude, for the speech, which seemed to imply something of the nature of an appointment, was not a tactful one.

  18. Let me help you always," he said, keeping her hands in his after he had aided her to jump from the stile to the ground.

  19. I will go as far as the big oak with him, and then I shall turn back, and I shall come in by the stile opposite the church gate, and through the garden.

  20. He much profanes whom violent heats do move 125 To stile his wandring rage of passion, Love: Love that imparts in every thing delight, Is fain'd, which only tempts mans appetite.

  21. Not that I shall be mine owne officer, And hate with hate againe retaliate; But thou wilt lose the stile of conquerour, If I, thy conquest, perish by thy hate.

  22. Who ever writes of Thee, and in a stile Unworthy such a Theme, does but revile Thy precious Dust, and wake a learned Spirit 25 Which may revenge his Rapes upon thy Merit.

  23. I can write enough in the stile (sic) of Rotterdam, to tell you plainly, in one word that I expect returns of all the London news.

  24. Without another word I rushed down the narrow lane which led to a distant farm, then coming to a stile I jumped over it into a field.

  25. I could dimly see the footpath by the hedgerow, so I ran noiselessly along it, until I reached the end of the field, then I stood upon the stile and listened.

  26. Jumping over a stile I made my way towards her, and seeing me coming she stood up and curtsied.

  27. I wonder what sort of a hell it would be, going round and round on endless rounds of golf--with a real Colonel Bogey sitting on the stile and watching.

  28. I reached the low stile on the brow of the hill: at that moment I heard steps behind me.

  29. The uniform stile of tragedies is one reason why they affect so little.

  30. Like a judicious painter she endeavours to preserve a certain unity of stile and colouring in her pieces.

  31. Minnie was over like a sportive thistledown blown by roving breeze; scarcely had she stepped on the other side of the stile when a little girl followed her, passed, and stopped beside Mr. Skaife.

  32. There was a long silence; Miles still grasped his arm till it fell from that clasp at last, powerless to hold it--they were near the stile leading into the lane where Mary's cottage was situated.

  33. In each case the woman is shading her head by a parasol, and the dress of the man is somewhat similar in the two, but the idea of a young man courting a young woman at a country stile is of great antiquity.

  34. In each case a young man and a young woman are standing beside one another close to a stile or fence.

  35. It is ridiculous to be frightened," she thought, remembering that there were a stile and one or two gates into the lane: "he has probably come to see the steward or some of the people at the house.

  36. That was the disrespectiv stile in which they referred to me.

  37. The happy marrid man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children.

  38. I axed them if that was ginerally the stile among thieves in that country, to which they also made no reply, but said I was arrested as a Spy, and must go to Montgomry in iuns.

  39. She remained standing on the inner side of the stile by which the field was entered, and kept her gaze on the point where the lane turned.

  40. She was reading as she walked, and continued to do so the whole way to the stile which led into the Castle Hill.

  41. She meant at first to go no further than the stile into the lane, and there Wilfrid held out his hand.

  42. The women on the stile were laughing, Patricia frankly, uncontrollably, Aurora nervously, looking at Steve as he came up with a queer little anxious wrinkle between her eyebrows.

  43. Steve glanced at her quickly, joyfully, but her head was lowered and she was already down the steps of the stile and walking along the road toward the adjoining meadow.

  44. The women by this time had reached a convenient stile and were perched upon it shouting.

  45. The change difficulty was chronic, and mutually most exasperating; it was over that stile the men were always helping each other or helping me, with never a trace of the irritation I felt myself.

  46. We squeezed through a gap in the sand-bags, a gap exactly like a stile in a stone fence, and from our feet the bleak road rose with a wild effect into the wintry sunset.

  47. While he was debating this matter with his conscience, leaning against a stile that interrupted a path to the town, Leonard Fairfield was startled by an exclamation.

  48. So saying, the tinker slid his panniers on the ground, gave a grunt of release and satisfaction, and seated himself with great composure on the stile from which Leonard had retreated.

  49. They came to the orchard wall, where there was a stile which led in the direction of Oaklands.

  50. What a romp he would have, and even the stile would not be half bad.

  51. They were at the stile now, and Hugh John helped Cissy over.

  52. He continued to look at Cissy Carter standing with the stile between them.

  53. And for the first time her eyes met his with a quaintly questioning look, which somehow carried in it a reminiscence of the stile and the ivy bush.

  54. And he skipped down the stile on the other side, and whistled a little, cutting gaily in the air with his cane as he went.

  55. He paused for a moment, looking at the pretty stile which led a little pathway across the fields to the wooded hollow by the river, where the ruin stands.

  56. Two old white stone, fluted piers, once a doorway, now tufted with grass, and stained and worn by time, and the stile built up between.

  57. Tom was over the stile and starting for the house; the wagon was spinning up the road for the village, and we was all bunched in the front door.

  58. I went down to the front garden and clumb over the stile where you go through the high board fence.

  59. I went around and clumb over the back stile by the ash-hopper, and started for the kitchen.

  60. They had come up from the quarry and stood around the stile awhile, and then went on around the garden fence.

  61. Leicester bowed himself away, and fully fifteen minutes before the appointed time left the Hall to wait in the cold at the stile for Dorothy.

  62. Guild and the servant assisted Sir George to rise, and the three started down the hill toward the stile where Dorothy was standing.

  63. Jennie Faxton, who had been on guard while John and Dorothy were at the gate, at Dorothy's suggestion stood on top of the stile where she could easily be seen by Sir George when he approached.

  64. Then she climbed over the wall at the stile back of the terrace and took her way up Bowling Green Hill toward the gate.

  65. Matters have come to a pretty pass when a maiden cannot speak with her sweetheart at the stile without he is set upon and beaten as if he were a hedgehog.

  66. Doll," said Sir George, "I thought you were at the stile with a man.

  67. He had an intimate friend, likewise stone blind, a dexterous card player, who knows every gate and stile far and near throughout the country.

  68. It was at that very stile I first saw her.

  69. They were approaching the turn-stile at the cross-roads, memorable for the weary watchings of Lady Hurstmonceux.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archway; balustrade; banister; bulkhead; companion; door; doorpost; doorway; gate; gatepost; gateway; hatch; incline; jamb; landing; lintel; mullion; porch; portal; post; postern; pylon; ramp; scuttle; signpost; stairway; stanchion; standard; steps; stile; threshold; tollgate; trap; turnpike; turnstile; upright