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Example sentences for "there are"

  • There are no purple passages in machine toil.

  • There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers.

  • We will make the ceremony for ourselves, and for witnesses, there are sufficient in waiting.

  • And besides, if there are names to be in every one's mouth, they should be the names of the Gods.

  • There are not, my lord, and I who know them all by heart tell you so.

  • There are cave-bears and cave-tigers in small numbers, to be sure, and some river-horses and great snakes.

  • There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs.

  • There are two of them, the fifth and the ninth, from which some excisions are necessary; but in the main I hope that they may be reproduced as they stand.

  • There are a hundred and twenty thousand folk in this town, all shrieking for advice, and there isn't a doctor who knows a rhubarb pill from a calculus.

  • There are, perhaps, fifty bottles to put up, with pills, ointment, etc.

  • There are no grounds for believing that this particular method of communication is adequate, or even that the agents which produce it are veracious.

  • There are so many little things, like common-sense, to be considered.

  • There are many of this sect in England, as we all know; and we hear much silly chatter of Elixirs and Philosopher's Stones in connection with them.

  • There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter.

  • Among ants, as among bees, there are neuter or working ants, besides the males and females; the former are without wings.

  • In America, there are no admiralty courts distinct from others, but admiralty jurisdiction is vested in the district courts of the United States, subject to revision by the circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States.

  • Thus in treason, there are no abettors or accessories, but all are held to be principals or accomplices.

  • There are times in each of the stories of the first volume when the simplicity lapses, and the effect is as of a weak and uninstructed touch.

  • There are no cloud-flung shadows to obscure the way.

  • There are babies a plenty, and one half-witted girl.

  • There are no signs here, but the ground is iron hard, and one would not expect them.

  • There are at least six words of the message which have escaped us; but what remains--'Stand by us for God's sake!

  • There are only those three capable of playing so bold a game--there are Oberstein, La Rothiere, and Eduardo Lucas.

  • There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania," I answered.

  • Besides, there are one or two details which are not finished off, and it is one of those cases which are worth working out to the very end.

  • There are thousands of them in Hungary and Transylvania, who are almost outside all law.

  • They lead from the town to the church, there are hundreds of them, I do not know how many, and they wind up in a delicate curve.

  • But we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or 'wynds', as they call them in Scotland.

  • There are walks, with seats beside them, through the churchyard, and people go and sit there all day long looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze.

  • There are peculiarities in this case which make it desirable to revive my recollection of everything that happened in the house, on the evening of Miss Verinder's birthday.

  • There are probably no two men in existence on whom the drug acts in exactly the same manner.

  • There are circumstances in connexion with it that tell against me.

  • If it was anywhere but in India I wouldn't worry, but they say the snakes out there are terrible.

  • There are lots of things you wouldn't dare say before everybody," averred Dora.

  • Now, there are lots of good live towns down on the Santa Fe, and everybody down there is musical.

  • Well, there are passages in life when that fierce, stubborn self-assertion will stand its ground after the nobler feeling is overwhelmed and beaten under.

  • But when you look at it another way, there are a lot of halfway people in this world who help the winners win, and the failers fail.

  • There are half a dozen teachers that I should think--However, you know what you want.

  • Better make for your cave where there are blankets.

  • There are millions of men in the world, and this curse falls on--George!

  • I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South.

  • There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces about it, and occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.

  • If there are any to whom it is no interruption to acquire these things, and who know how to use them when acquired, I relinquish to them the pursuit.

  • True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him.

  • This trunk has got to be shut and locked--there are no two ways about it.

  • There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

  • There are a perfect host of Clarksons and Wilberforces* risen up among us on that subject, most edifying to hear and behold.

  • Ay, sir, there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure.

  • He does well to commend it himself; there are no tongues else for's turn.

  • When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

  • There are only 144 US embassies, since some nations have US ambassadors accredited to them, but no physical US mission exists.

  • Literacy: There are no universal definitions and standards of literacy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "there are" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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