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Example sentences for "all the"

  • In that one act he retrieved himself, and when he is called to face his Maker may it outweigh in the balance, all the sins he has committed.

  • He has taught old Maggie, at the pastorate there, to cook like the mother of all the Delmonicos.

  • All the same I'm afraid of them," said Alice, as if argument were exhausted.

  • Dead darkness lay on all the landscape, dead darkness added its own hush to the hushing dust on all the roads.

  • Of all the days of my life, I never saw him.

  • There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.

  • Then, all the good you bring to him, all the relief, all the happiness you bring to him, begin.

  • There was soon but one person left of all the crowd, and he, with his hat under his arm and his snuff-box in his hand, slowly passed among the mirrors on his way out.

  • Schmidt and Momulla and two others alone remained alive of all the company of the Cowrie, for they had found sanctuary in the forecastle.

  • All the balance of that night the ape-man swung rapidly through the upper and middle terraces of the forest.

  • All the time he listened intently for any sound which might indicate that the sailor or another were approaching his cabin; but none came to interrupt his work.

  • Good gracious, Mr. Holmes, do you mean to tell me that, all the time I was talking to Bannister in this room, we had the man prisoner if we had only known it?

  • All the baggage we took off with him was one tin box.

  • I had every reason to suppose that this Abe Slaney was an American, since Abe is an American contraction, and since a letter from America had been the starting-point of all the trouble.

  • Esdr 5:35 All the ministers of the temple, and the sons of the servants of Solomon, were three hundred seventy and two.

  • Esdr 2:14 So all the vessels of gold and of silver, which were carried away, were five thousand four hundred threescore and nine.

  • IV Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all the lore of old men, In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labors.

  • All the balance of the day Abdul caught glimpses of the horsemen in their rear.

  • There was nothing in all the village he could not have had for the asking.

  • All the balance of the day Wilson sat glaring at Clayton, in his eyes the gleam of insanity.

  • I want always to remember him kindly, but I fear that I am too much of a wild beast yet to be trusted too long with the man who stands between me and the one person in all the world I want.

  • It is quite easy to distinguish the parts due to the two collaborators, and to see that George Sand wrote nearly all the book.

  • It is the identical suffering which Rene, Obermann and Lara had been repeating to all the echoes.

  • The contrast made her realize all the beauties of nature, and, on her return, she probably understood her own familiar scenery, and enjoyed it all the more.

  • She had a great deal of natural wit, a liveliness peculiar to the native of the faubourgs, all the impudence of the street arab, and a veritable talent of mimicry.

  • With a whole sky-full of worlds on His hands to manage, I'm not believing that He has time to look down on ours, and pick you out of all the millions of us sinners, and set a special kind of torture to eating you.

  • Each one would give to all the others a handsome graduation present.

  • Don't you get the idea into your head that a fool thing you call pride is going to cut us out of all the pleasure we have in life beside ourselves.

  • I'd rather have a fine little man like you than all the turkeys in the country.

  • It seems incredible that you could have reviled me so, and yet have cared for me all the time.

  • The Thorians alone of all the races of Pellucidar ride the lidi, for nowhere else than beside the dark country are they found.

  • It will be all the same to us in the end, David," replied Perry.

  • All our work undone, all the work---- What are these Martians?

  • If I had fully realised the meaning of all the things I had seen I should have immediately worked my way round through Byfleet to Street Cobham, and so gone back to rejoin my wife at Leatherhead.

  • There were lights in all the houses on the common side of the three villages, and the people there kept awake till dawn.

  • All the shipping in the world seemed going Londonward in those days.

  • All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a fashion in barracks and hospitals.

  • All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly.

  • And then he opened a trunk full of jewels, all the jewels of the cathedral of Embrun, which the thieves had given him.

  • The chambers were paved in red bricks, which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds.

  • They say it's the biggest in all the country.

  • All the time I was a boy we had a mortgage hanging over us.

  • All the same, the neighbors will be having a say about it before long.

  • It's bad if all the members of a family think alike.

  • That's what the Crows said, but he cured their horses, all the same.

  • I did wish the fool would think to beat a tin pan, and beat it all the time, but he never did, and it was the still places between the whoops that was making the trouble for me.

  • I traveled nights, and hid daytimes and slept, and the bag of bread and meat I carried from home lasted me all the way, and I had a-plenty.

  • All the streets and lanes was just mud; they warn't nothing else BUT mud --mud as black as tar and nigh about a foot deep in some places, and two or three inches deep in ALL the places.

  • Of all the deeds of my life, I love the least to think of this, and whether it were the act of a man or a traitor I will not ask.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "all 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:
    advertising matter; all cases; all his; all such; all that; all the; alliance with; allied forms; allied species; alliterative verse; allow him; allow himself; allow myself; allow the; allow them; allowed them; allowing the; alluvial soil; edged sword; great religious; middle class; neutral commerce; not able; shew thyself; special care; with the result that