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Example sentences for "among the"

  • When it was time for Bretty to be paid, Paul went in among the crowd.

  • She held her fingers very still among the strings of the bag, his fingers touching; and the place was golden as a vision.

  • Two collieries, among the fields, waved their small white plumes of steam.

  • He loved being out in the country, among the bushes.

  • Night came wonderfully there, among the throng of dark tree-trunks.

  • Sir 27:12 If thou be among the indiscreet, observe the time; but be continually among men of understanding.

  • Mac 4:58 Thus was there very great gladness among the people, for that the reproach of the heathen was put away.

  • On these sides many small states bordered with the principality, Gerolstein, an extinct grand duchy, among the number.

  • One real runaway slave, among the rest, whom I helped to forward toward the north star.

  • I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding.

  • I had just sunk my head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by a straggling troop of men and boys, and I among the foremost, for I had leaped the brook.

  • There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last.

  • And then his eyes wandered about among the throng of ladies, nobles and soldiers standing uncovered and with bowed heads about him.

  • So Brus took the gold zecchins and De Vac the key, and the little prince played happily among the flowers of his royal father's garden, and all were satisfied; which was as it should have been.

  • Among the navigators of Palos was one Martin Alonzo Pinzon, the head of a family of wealth, members of which were celebrated for their adventurous expeditions.

  • A storm was coming up, and the soldier lad took refuge among the ruins.

  • Sometimes it was behind the tray in his cage, or among the books on the shelf.

  • Riding in among the fugitives he endeavored to rally and restore them to order.

  • The children danced about with their pretty toys; no one looked at the Tree except the old nurse, who peeped in among the branches; but it was only to see if there was a fig or an apple that had been forgotten.

  • He was known at that time as one of the best hunters and bravest warriors among the Sioux in British America, where he still lives, for to this day we have failed to persuade him to return to the United States.

  • I was scarcely over three years old when I stood one morning just outside our buffalo-skin teepee, with my little bow and arrows in my hand, and gazed up among the trees.

  • They have been and are still among the bravest of our tribe.

  • Among the lookers-on was his grandmother.

  • Up to this time Jingling Thunder had been among the foremost in the battle, and had engaged in several close encounters.

  • Among the rest, how vile, how gross, how absurd did every pleasant thing look!

  • I thought that SHE also must have written something on her tombstone, and now running without any fear among the half-open coffins, among the corpses and skeletons, I went toward her, sure that I should find her immediately.

  • Among the theories of the anatomist of "Madame Bovary," there are two which appear without ceasing in his Correspondence, under one form or another, and these are the ones which are most strongly evident in the art of De Maupassant.

  • Per capita GDP of $9,600 is among the highest in the Third World, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements domestic production.

  • External debt, on a per capita basis, is among the world's highest.

  • Among the branches of the trees at the edge of the clearing, a score or more monkeys chattered and scolded as the loud snorts of the angry beast sent them scurrying affrightedly to the upper terraces.

  • And Sheeta, the panther, saw that the she-ape had left her cub alone among the grasses.

  • Only half the original rope was there, the balance having been carried off by the angry cat as he bounded away through the jungle with the noose still about his savage neck and the loose end dragging among the underbrush.

  • Restlessly they moved here and there among the branches of trees, watching Numa of the skies at his deadly feast, and listening for the coming of Taug with Tarzan.

  • In the arbour he laid his head on the table, among the implements of Elnora's loved work, and gulped down dry sobs he could not restrain.

  • So Elnora uttered the first cry, as she softly lifted branches and peered among the grasses.

  • Look closely, and you can see the great dome up among the clouds.

  • Posing as 'Velvet Coat' among the slums, he did no good to himself.

  • Much the same has to be said of most of what are problem-plays--several of Ibsen's among the rest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "among 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:
    adding half; among animals; among birds; among many; among other; among others; among primitive; among savages; among those; among which; among whom; among world; amongst many; amongst other; amongst the; amongst them; amongst whom; baby brother; clear profit; little turn; once took; quitted the; realized what; secret vice; shall explain; yonder hill