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Example sentences for "above the"

  • Bukawai stooped and placed his ear above the ape-man's heart.

  • And now, above the pain of his injured arm and the hurt to his pride, rose a still stronger desire to come close and inspect the new-born son of Taug.

  • Tarzan laughed aloud and came closer above the head of the pachyderm.

  • Above the arch of the porch are heavy stone courses, now draped with vegetation, showing three large windows with cross-bar sashes.

  • He had gone to Brown's and stood there not more than half an hour before one of the bosses noticed his form towering above the rest, and signaled to him.

  • Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering?

  • Louisville and the fort were just above the head of the Falls, and the little town of Clarksville, which Clark had founded, at the foot of them.

  • Some of her words came to me, shrilly, above the noise.

  • Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side.

  • Another thing: if they were a small party, they would probably seek to surprise us by coming out of the cane into the creek bed above the bend, and stalk down the creek.

  • There, too, above the poop of yonder nief, you see the towers of Saint Croix and of Pey Berland.

  • Thunders of applause from the English soldiers, as well as from the citizens and peasants, showed how far the love of brave and knightly deeds could rise above the rivalries of race.

  • The castle was theirs, and the roaring flames were spurting through the windows and flickering high above the turrets on two sides of the quadrangle.

  • Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.

  • Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth.

  • Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth: 107:7.

  • Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.

  • The house had a carved balcony on the garden side, above the door, and also on the front toward the courtyard, and around the middle windows.

  • The adventurous Huron raised his head above the shelter of the canoe, and, while it glided swiftly down the stream, he waved his hand, and gave forth the shout, which was the known signal of success.

  • Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortur'd Above the felon or what trespass else.

  • I thought as much; he would be above the clouds.

  • Swinging like a bob upon a mad pendulum he swung far out and back again, turning and twisting three thousand feet above the surface of Barsoom, and then, at last, the thing he had hoped for occurred.

  • The tower rose some fifty feet above the roof of the adjacent part of the palace, comprising five levels or floors with windows looking in every direction.

  • In a year it will be ready; but it must be examined often in the meantime and the liquid kept above the level of its crown.

  • Miss Temple is very good and very clever; she is above the rest, because she knows far more than they do.

  • And then they called out to him that she was on the roof, where she was standing, waving her arms, above the battlements, and shouting out till they could hear her a mile off: I saw her and heard her with my own eyes.

  • Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge.

  • The trial by battle was established in all criminal cases which affected the life, or limb, or honor, of any person; and in all civil transactions, of or above the value of one mark of silver.

  • With an increase of authority and of force, he resumed the conquest of Calabria, and soon aspired to a rank that should raise him forever above the heads of his equals.

  • The distribution of the early rocks suggests that there was comparatively little dry land showing above the surface of the Archaean ocean.

  • It is enough for us that the Carboniferous land rises high above the surface of the ocean over the earth generally.

  • WHEN HOPE WAS DEAD In a small upstairs room in the Rue de Charonne, above the shop of Lucas the old-clothes dealer, Marguerite sat with Sir Andrew Ffoulkes.

  • It will have been gathered from what has been already stated that the balloonist is commonly in much uncertainty as to his precise course when he is above the clouds, or when unable from darkness to see the earth beneath him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "above the" 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:
    above everything; above ground; above mentioned; above stated; above the; above them; caustic potassa; equal distances; fiery furnace; half tablespoons; hundred eyes; inch square; less hairy; making machine; might bring; might fall; none note; not make; opinion that; other sciences; perfecting holiness; seventh century; single night; tender notes; undertake the; work miracles