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Example sentences for "yon"

Lexicographically close words:
yolden; yolk; yolks; yoman; yomen; yond; yondah; yondeh; yonder; yone
  1. Upon second thought, I will mention another image: And, fronting the bright west, yon oak entwines Its darkening boughs and leaves, in stronger lines.

  2. Not to him Did Nature's fair varieties exist, He never saw the sun's delightful beams, Save when through yon high bars he poured A sad and broken splendour.

  3. Mary says, A my swete husbond, wolde ye telle to me What tre is yon standynge upon yon hylle?

  4. Now, my spouse, I pray yow to be hold How ye cheryes growyn upon yon tre, For to have yr of ryght fayn I wold, And it plesyd yow to labor so mech for me.

  5. Turne ageyn, husbond, and beholde yon tre, How yt it blomyght now so swetly.

  6. The Scandinavians were the first to land.

  7. Very different from those of the other army, they no longer had anything Scandinavian or Germanic about them; and thus they stood a chance of furnishing the Anglo-Saxons with the graft they needed.

  8. William, by a series of ingenious ideas, secured the victory.

  9. It was less a fusion than an absorption, for the natives were much more numerous than the settlers.

  10. Now, that's jist what that lassie over yon has done fer me.

  11. But jist wait till ye see 'em look upon yon ruins, an' ye'll see how fer their religion goes.

  12. Most of the men are down yon searchin' the shore, but it's so dark I'm afraid they can do very little.

  13. Fountain, on my light guitar I'll play the strain to thee, And while I watch yon laughing star, The words will come to me.

  14. Should make yon willows with their hanging locks Dusk sybils, mutt'ring sorrows to the air?

  15. The roses clamb'ring round yon marble Pan, Wave like red banners floating o'er the dead?

  16. Did I read i’ yon papers o’ yours ’at you’ve had a foreman’s job?

  17. I came to seek a job with you, and when I heard you sack yon ninny I knew I’d come in the nick of time.

  18. You shall give me what you gave yon other chap, and if I don’t satisfy you, you can sack me, same as you did him.

  19. Interpreting the master’s hesitation as a sign of wavering he went on in a firm but studiously respectful voice: “I’ll do a job whilst yon chap’s planning it out.

  20. I don’t believe a word on’t, and I’ll break yon Jack Pearce his neck for him!

  21. At the same time, to show that they were not seeking to elude payment of the servicio they agreed on September 7th to levy it, at the same time begging Charles to release Prat.

  22. Thus a revulsion had taken place in favor of the proscribed race which threatened to undo the work of Vicente Ferrer and the Conversos.

  23. One element in this was the influence enjoyed by the royal physician Jacob Aben-Nuñez on whom was conferred the office of Rabb Mayor.

  24. After the reduction of Toledo by starvation, in 930, they become less prominent and gradually merge into the Moslem population.

  25. To quarrel with me, yon shall hear him shriek: Don't say I gave no warning: up and down He shall be trolled and chorused through the town.

  26. I afford thee hire, A labourer at my farm?

  27. And now the swains arrived, Driving their charge, which fast they soon enclosed Within their customary penns, and loud The hubbub was of swine prison'd within.

  28. He said; they, titt'ring, on each other gazed.

  29. He, plucking forth the spike From his burnt socket, mad with anguish, cast The implement all bloody far away.

  30. I cannot but approve Thy narrative, nor hast thou utter'd aught Unseemly, or that needs excuse.

  31. So spake the Goddess, and with nimble pace Led on, whose footsteps he, as quick, pursued.

  32. Thus yelling to alarm the peaceful ear Of night, and break our slumbers?

  33. Oh were I yon violet On which she is walking; Oh were I yon small bird To which she is talking; Or yon rose in her hand, With its ripe ruddy blossom; Or some pure gentle thought To be blest with her bosom.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beyond; farther; further; theory; ulterior


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    yonder hill; yonder town