Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "warns"

Lexicographically close words:
warners; warneth; warning; warningly; warnings; warnt; warnyd; warnyng; warp; warpath
  1. Somebody warns Beethoven in a public place not to speak so loud, as everybody is listening.

  2. The mother warns her that there are so many traps for decent girls, and she answers that she is not afraid and that she will be on the lookout.

  3. The reformer might object that he gives not only information, but depicts the dangers and warns against the ruinous effects.

  4. My paper warns me that it is time to assure you of the esteem and respect with which I have the honor to be, dear Sir, your most obedient humble servant.

  5. My paper warns me it is time to recommend myself to the friendly recollection of Mrs. Wythe, of Colonel Tagliaferro and his family, and particularly of Mr. R.

  6. A sheep which desires to hear the voice of his shepherd is not so easily led astray; and if he has one who warns continually at his side, can scarcely be criminal.

  7. The Pope carefully warns his legates against submitting to this pretension.

  8. Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state, into which it shews us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing, as the event of which it warns us is at less distance.

  9. Her perfervid rhetoric pictures him as a charming prince, handsome, wealthy, yet very lonesome, who warns persons in advance that he is not what he seems and that they would do well to avoid him.

  10. They are free to leave him and go to heaven if they like,--he only warns them that they will find it tiresome.

  11. The Ménagier also warns against running up long bills on credit.

  12. He warns his wife to bid Master John always to take the peaceable ones and always to bargain with them beforehand as to the pay for which they will do the work.

  13. A voice warns them that night approaches, and, hearing her friends returning, Sakuntala urges the king to conceal himself in the bushes.

  14. Cupid chides her for being sad and dissatisfied even amid his caresses and he again warns her against her scheming sisters; whereat she goes so far as to threaten to kill herself unless he allows her to receive her sisters.

  15. Murr, a German missionary, warns us that assertions as to the girls being consulted must always be accepted with great caution.

  16. One night he informs her that her two sisters, who are unhappily married, are trying to find her, and he warns her seriously not to heed them in any way, should they succeed in their efforts.

  17. When his companion warns him that the queen might surprise them, the king answers: When the elephant sees the lotos leaves He fears no crocodile.

  18. He warns them that an absolute trust in the praesentia Numinis is delusive; a trust, cherished like theirs independently of the condition of its justification, viz.

  19. Nature herself appears to have planted in our bosoms a kind of instinct, which warns us from it, and a prejudice against all those who so degrade themselves.

  20. For my own part," said the prince de Soubise, "I shall not think of separating from so agreeable a party till daylight warns me hence.

  21. The Lord distinctly warns His servants against any such supposition.

  22. It ever warns us of danger to which the body is liable.

  23. A peculiar instinct warns him of the necessity of food; he seeks and seizes the things which he knows are necessary to satisfy his wants; he eats, renovates himself, and thus during his life passes through the whole career assigned to him.

  24. This illusion warns the inhabitants to beware of fire, and the friendly demon, while he terrifies those who see him, puts by his coming the ignorant on their guard.

  25. She advises him to aid the Peries, warns him of the dangers he has to encounter, and discloses his proper line of action.

  26. Is it for nothing that He warns us against the example of the priest and Levite, who saw the wounded traveller, but passed by on the other side?

  27. I do not forget that our Lord warns us against the example of the Pharisees, who for pretence made long prayers, and commands us, when we pray, not to use vain repetitions.

  28. A prolonged blast of her siren warns the military officers that the first transport is about to cast off, and the movement of the troops is accelerated to a hurried rush and the withdrawal of the gangways.

  29. A sudden deep rumble from within the sinking ship warns the destroyer captain to go ahead.

  30. Instead of being dreaded by seamen, it ought to be looked upon as their friend, for it seems to know long before they do when a storm is approaching, and by its piercing cry and mode of flight warns them of the coming danger.

  31. When he is fast, he may sound under it, and come up on the other side; but instinct warns him not to come up so as to strike his head against it.

  32. Jesus Warns His Disciples that they will Forsake Him.

  33. In language which for clearness of expression and simplicity of illustration cannot be excelled, he warns Dives not to mistake the real nature of the reverence paid to the symbol of our redemption.

  34. Moreover, he warns us that here he speaks the truth,[293] but in fact it is only here he is a liar.

  35. He warns her, but she refuses to follow his advice, the result being that what he had dreamed really happened.

  36. The candle is flickering away its little life in uncertain flashes, and the quiet that surrounds us, warns us of like repose.

  37. With the wide world I dwell in, is a thing Which warns me with its stillness to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring: This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

  38. It is against a moral peril of even more terrible character that St. Peter warns the Churches; and the contrast is most instructive which is pictured in the two words by which he defines error and stedfastness.

  39. While he warns the elders against the assumption of lordship over their charges, the Apostle adds a precept which, if it be followed, will abate all tendency to seek such lordship.

  40. St. Paul also warns against giving "heed to fables, which minister questionings rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith" (1 Tim.

  41. St. Peter would not keep the Jewish converts under the burden of the Law, but he warns them against their besetting danger: as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  42. His large experience of young ladies warns him that they will tell each other what he thinks of them, when they retire for the night; and he is careful on these occasions to say something that will bear repetition.

  43. Mrs. Ellmother warns me to expect this, that, and the other.


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