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Example sentences for "with little"

  • As soon as it was over, it began again, with little change, save that it grew more distinct, till she could see Don John's white face in the moonlight as he lay dead on the pavement of the corridor.

  • Before me lay a dim, dark, indistinct scene, with little specks of light twinkling here and there in the night, but whether on sea or shore I could not tell.

  • She asked me to go up to the parlor on the second floor, and I went alone, with little expectation of finding Mrs. Foster there, unless Johanna was there also, in which case I was to appear as a stranger to her.

  • I could see nothing but wet flag-stones, with little pools of water lodging in every hollow, in which the rain-drops splashed heavily whenever the storm grew more in earnest.

  • The filth of the houses was washed down into them by pipes, with little cisterns at each story, and under almost every window.

  • I slept a few hours, but I have learned in camps to do with little rest.

  • The countrymen who were making for the West were upon the other hand men in the prime of life, with little or no baggage.

  • Ann Yearsley's tragedy, which had just been represented, with little success, at the Bath and Bristol theatres.

  • The force of the newspaper is expended in extending these facilities, with little regard to discriminating selection.

  • It is a body that seventy millions of people ought to take care of with little difficulty.

  • Is her life set to the note of display, of color and show, with little sweetness, or to that retiring modesty which needs a little encouragement before it fully reveals its beauty and its perfume?

  • Regarded simply as a work of art, it may be said that the novel should be an expression of the genius of its writer conscientiously applied to a study of the facts of life and of human nature, with little reference to the audience.

  • It is now submitted to an enlightened public, with little desire on the part of the Author, than its general utility.

  • These are our principal feet, not only because they are oftenest used, but because each kind, with little or no mixture, forms a distinct order of numbers, having a peculiar rhythm.

  • The reader will find it, with little or no change, in Smith's New Grammar, p.

  • The castle itself is an immense mud building, rising to the height of eighty or ninety feet, with little battlements on the walls, and at a distance really looks warlike.

  • It yields, with little culture, various descriptions of grain and vegetables; but its wealth consists chiefly in large gardens of dates, baskets of which fruit form here the standard of value.

  • And then, friend as to slipping by these foolish creatures who make such bright fires on the public highway, truly, with little Peter's assistance, we can do it with great ease.

  • Alone, friend, with little Peter to be our guide, and Providence our hope and our stay.

  • When a day is fixed upon, the women prepare a great quantity of taroba, and the monotonous jingle is kept up, with little intermission, night and day, until the stimulating beverage is finished.

  • They have been, with little alteration, his companions through life.

  • It must be very interesting," said Miss Triscoe, with little interest in the way she said it.

  • Gentlemen, what I have said of the benefits of the Constitution to your city might be said, with little change, in respect to every other part of the country.

  • The poems consist of strophes of six or eight lines each, with little of the alliteration by which the Scalds were afterwards distinguished.

  • Richmond, though no longer of paramount importance, was no less firmly held than Petersburg, and along the whole long line fighting went on with little interruption.

  • In 1716 there was acted, with little success, Addison's comedy of The Drummer, or the Haunted House.

  • Of these the first three include multicellular plants, some of them of great size; the last three are unicellular organisms, with little in common with the rest excepting the possession of a brown colouring matter.

  • At Dort, the Rhine comes in with little promise of the noble stream it is in the highlands.

  • I can see Duncan bareheaded, with little John in his arms, the child waving the envelope which I had put in his hand as I stepped into the carriage, and which was still unopened.

  • Duncan, with little John on his knee, asked a blessing, and Polly poured out the tea, and we all did justice to the meal.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "with little" 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:
    active business; descriptive poetry; hurry back; quiet corner; seen anywhere; short walk; single consonant; union among; with equal; with her; with him; with its; with orders; with other; with others; with reference; with sudden; with tears; with the; with water; with your; without any; without being; without speaking; without waiting; without which