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Example sentences for "upon some"

  • Our friend Mr. Simon was to be taken in upon some composition.

  • Here, upon some pretext, Miss Grant left me one day alone with Miss Ramsay.

  • If we keep together, we make but the ae line of it; if we gang separate, we make twae of them: the more likelihood to stave in upon some of these gentry of yours.

  • A remark is a saying or brief statement, oral or written, commonly made without much premeditation; a comment is an explanatory or critical remark, as upon some passage in a literary work or some act or speech in common life.

  • Entrance is also used figuratively for setting out upon some career, or becoming a member of some organization; as, we speak of one's entrance upon college life, or of entrance into the ministry.

  • A note upon some passage in a book is briefer and less elaborate than a comment.

  • I sat with him and his wife a great while talking, and she is [a] pretty woman, never yet with child, and methinks looks as if her mouth watered now and then upon some of her boys.

  • Up and to my office, and there we sat a very full board all the morning upon some accounts of Mr. Gauden's.

  • Upon some of the provincials he conferred full Roman citizenship, and upon others Latin rights (see p.

  • The public prints have been occupied upon the subject for a few days, and I know of but one but what condemns it upon some ground or other.

  • If upon some occasions, therefore, it has animated them to actions of magnanimity which could not well have been expected from them, we should not wonder if, upon others, it has prompted them to exploits of somewhat a different nature.

  • Upon some of these terra-cottas the sun is even surrounded by four [symbol: swastika], which again form a cross by their position round it.

  • These people were not so well clad as the first, whose servants or labourers they seemed to be; for, upon some words he spoke, they went to reap the corn in the field where I lay.

  • I was going on to tell him of another sort of people, who get their livelihood by attending the sick, having, upon some occasions, informed his honour that many of my crew had died of diseases.

  • He does not give pardon and the rest, as a king might give pardon and honours, a thousand miles off, bestowing it by a mere word, upon some criminal, but He gives all that He gives because He gives Himself.

  • If, then, we consider the reason for the introduction of the miracle into the Gospel, we may be saved from the necessity of dwelling, except very lightly, upon some of the preliminary details which preceded the actual cure.

  • He used to hang about Marshall in his life, upon some enterprise of secrecy; and now he takes possession and leadership in his affairs, and sets the man's son aside.

  • He had come, as he believed, upon some service of the state.

  • Every contract, I believe, upon some theory of the law, is a triangular affair with the State a party.

  • Rub off, upon some lumps of the sugar before crushing it, the yellow rind of several fresh lemons, and squeeze the lemon-juice among the crushed sugar.

  • Upon some of the largest lumps rub off the yellow rind of three large ripe lemons that have been previously rolled under your hand, on a table, to increase the juice.

  • Soon after my Charge, as to the Fortifications, was pretty well over, I obtain'd Leave of the Governor to be absent for a Fortnight, upon some Affairs of my own at Valencia.

  • But stopping at Campilio, a little Town in our Way, his Lordship had Information of a most barbarous Fact committed that very Morning by the Spaniards, at a small Villa, about a League distant, upon some English Soldiers.


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


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another caste; but for; early dinner; heard voices; particular proposition; upon account; upon another; upon earth; upon either; upon entering; upon examination; upon her; upon him; upon his; upon inquiry; upon occasion; upon one; upon receipt; upon reflection; upon some; upon the; upon their; upon them; upon this; upon what; upon which