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Example sentences for "adds"

Lexicographically close words:
addressees; addressers; addresses; addressing; addrest; adduce; adduced; adduces; adducing; adduction
  1. Malalas lived at Antioch, which adds some weight to his statement.

  2. Westcott adds the 'ff' to my reference, but I presume it is taken from note 4, where the reference is given to 'p.

  3. Mr. Sanday adds in a note here: "This may perhaps be called the current explanation of the name.

  4. It isn't much of a church, but it attracts visitors to the town, and so adds to its revenue.

  5. The cabs roll along the stony pavements with a dead, metallic sound that adds to the general dreariness.

  6. Mademoiselle Blanche not only performs the original feat of the sincerely mourned Zhoubert, but adds to it one so much more dangerous as to make hers seem insignificant and commonplace.

  7. He adds that he was a herdsman and a planter of sycamores: "Jehovah took me from following the flock, and said to me; Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.

  8. The drill and subdivisions of duties are so perfect," adds a close observer, "that the alternations are high pressure and sudden collapse.

  9. I have not been able to find," adds Mr. Hill, "that even Germany has produced a single work which affects to furnish more than a sketch or outline of postal history.

  10. Letter-carriers," adds the old chronicler, "gather them each hour and take them to the grand office in their respective circuits.

  11. For Space and Time are the outward conditions with which it is concerned, and it adds thereto abstract ideas, the product of its own nature.

  12. Man, by his recollection, makes the past a part of the present, and his foreknowledge adds the future thereto, thereby uniting the three in one.

  13. Avicenna also explains the nature of petrifying or incrusting waters, and mentions aerolites, out of one of which a sword-blade was made, but he adds that the metal was too brittle to be of any use.

  14. The wonder-worker who prepares to exhibit his phantasmagoria upon the wall, knows well how much it adds to the delusion to have all lights extinguished save that which is in his own dark lantern.

  15. Antoninus his "History of the Romans under the Empire," adds his testimony to that of the cloud of witnesses who have trumpeted the great Imperator's praise.

  16. Nor is he contented with repeating to God the terms of his engagement, but he adds a couple of clauses which strike him as being important, and as having been omitted.

  17. Our text adds a little word which takes all the sadness out of them.

  18. Here he adds that his maternal grandmother was sister to Queen Victoria.

  19. When asked to repeat these countries, he omits some of them and adds others.

  20. Spanish pavans are certainly mentioned by Ben Jonson in the Alchymist, and by Brantôme in his Dames illustres, who adds that he had seen it danced by Francis I.

  21. Thus in The Canterbury tales, the Sompnour describes one of his friars as having "a scrippe and tipped staf," and he adds that "His felaw had a staf tipped with horn.

  22. He adds that this mode of dancing fell into disuse, as it was found to bring on gouty complaints.

  23. Nashe, in his Have with you to Saffron Walden, has most extravagantly deduced it from Pandora; and he adds that Sir Philip Sidney fetches it from Plautus.

  24. When Margaret adds that this tune "goes without a burden," she does not mean that it never had words to it, but only that it wanted a very common appendage to the ballads of that time.

  25. Boccaccio adds that others were of opinion that he had a ship called Pegasus.

  26. Mr. Malone has partly explained coted, by marked, but has apparently missed the sense of it here when he adds written down.

  27. That adds about one-half to two-thirds more to the cost of the property he is trying to buy.

  28. And, as you will observe, there is a school just around the corner, which adds greatly to the value of the property.

  29. Shaharastani adds that they were the most hostile of God's creatures to the Zamzami Magians.

  30. Ibn Khallikan adds that "Mihyar and Mirzawaith are both Persian names.

  31. He adds that the personal pronouns show it to be a true Digger Indian tongue.

  32. Scouler adds that the Umpqua “appear to belong to this Family, although their language is rather more remote from the Kalapooiah than the Yamkallie is.

  33. He adds that “This latter name may perhaps be considered as proper to give to the family, should it be held one.

  34. In Chapter XXII of this volume the author gives a brief synopsis of the Indian tribes east of the Mississippi, under a linguistic classification, and adds a brief account of the character and methods of Indian languages.

  35. Next morning, adds this authority, Léonard Bourdon 'presented the gendarme who had fired at Robespierre to the notice of the Convention.

  36. You know with how great a pleasure I have always visited your country; the prospect of doing so again affords always a true gratification to me, and your kind and hospitable invitation greatly adds to the pleasure I may thus anticipate.

  37. This adds greatly to the illusion, as it looks as if it could not be produced by a mirror.

  38. In either case he sings through a speaking trumpet, which adds to the effect.

  39. The penetrating odor of the coffee is soon experienced by the audience, and it adds considerably to the effect.

  40. At any other time," adds he, "had you desired to open it, you had sooner broken it.

  41. To add to the effect, wands are used to extend the reach in the direction of the lines of the arms, and the greater control thus obtainable adds immensely to the effect.

  42. The visitor never imagines that it is an electric lamp, and naturally thinks that it would be impossible for a kerosene lamp to be inverted without disaster, so that this adds to the deception materially.

  43. Almost three times the amount of the emulsion precipitated is required, and this, even when methylated spirit is used, adds considerably to the expense.

  44. A shaggy pony sometimes adds to the interest of the landscape, or diversifies the appearance of a shooting party.

  45. The winding and wooded course of the Ewe adds much to its liveliness, the bright reaches glittering as they emerge from among the trees and rocks through which the river forces its way.

  46. The map does not of course prove that this church existed before the Reformation, but it adds to the probability that it did so.

  47. With a south-east wind and a cloudless sky, the mountain ranges are often rendered marvellously imposing by a silvery haze, which apparently enhances their magnitude and adds mystery to their forms.

  48. So he trims and adjusts his wares, adds a touch or two of colour and what else he accounts necessary to heighten their air of authenticity, to dissemble any peeping spuriousness.

  49. And his flight adds colour to the versions of the affair that were afforded the world by Cesare and his father.

  50. To this he adds the ubiquitous story of King Ferrante's bursting into tears at the news--"though never before known to weep for the death of his own children.

  51. He adds that they swell up by the imbibition of albuminous substances, and by this very swelling die and slowly degenerate.

  52. The deposition of fat in the cells adds to the gross size of the organ, and hence the inferior margin extends below the border of the ribs to a degree determined by the amount of increase in its substance.

  53. The peritoneal complication is not only a serious addition to the sufferings experienced by the patient, but it adds to the difficulties of a diagnosis.

  54. Occasionally, the occurrence of thrombosis of the portal vein adds an embarrassing and dangerous complication.

  55. Profuse hemorrhage adds to the gravity of the diagnosis.

  56. The danger of perforation adds additional gravity to the prognosis, for life may be suddenly lost by this accident.

  57. Even suppuration adds little gravity to the prognosis, the structure of the organ being but little favorable to accumulations of purulent material.

  58. Treatment of the mother--as of the father in cases where he is at fault--very greatly modifies the whole problem and adds immensely to the chances that the child will not be infected.

  59. Hydrocyanic acid adds to its sedative qualities, or when pain is present, with diarrhoea, opium in some form may be added.

  60. It adds infinite joy to the possessing of old tapestries, and converts museum visits into a keen chase for the elusive but fascinating figures of the past.

  61. In outdoor scenes the frank disregard of the probable adds the charm of audacity.

  62. The colouring of these tapestries seems to us strong, but it is not a strength of tone that offends, rather it adds force to the subject.

  63. An old tapestry is of such value that mere association with it adds to the market price of newer work.

  64. He adds again, however, that this would be but a manner of speaking, and that there is nothing in reality but a certain current of existence and an antagonistic current, whence all the evolution of life.

  65. He adds that "faith is the next step after self-surrender, or even the accompaniment of it.

  66. He adds that "herewith is the problem (of a 'second gospel' in the New Testament) pushed back in time from Paul to the earliest disciples of Jesus.

  67. She then adds in illustration the following story:— “There was at Rouen at this time a man who taught a new philosophy which attracted the curious.

  68. He adds the pounded fangs of the Labarri and the Counacouchi snakes; and the last ingredient is red pepper.

  69. He also adds the juices of a bitter root and of two bulbous plants.

  70. The addition of loading adds to the weight without increasing the strength, as it has no binding properties.

  71. Starch was one of the earliest materials used for sizing paper, and is used considerably in addition to other materials, as it adds a hard, tinny character desired by the trade on certain grades.

  72. A less Numerical Letter, set before a greater, takes away from the greater so many as the letter stands for; but being set after the greater, adds so many to it as the letter stands for.

  73. It fills a public station with suitable abilities, and adds a lustre to those who are in possession of them.


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