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Example sentences for "and for"

  • All the horrible stories we had heard of Indian cruelty flashed into our minds, and for a moment we were dumb with terror.

  • He rose quickly, with the effect of a half-closed jack-knife that is suddenly opened, and for an instant stood looking down upon me.

  • Our cow died, and for an entire winter we went without milk.

  • She had conceived an equal dislike for Lillah Harrison and her work in the Deptford Road, and for Evelyn M.

  • For an old woman of her age she was very restless, and for one of her clear, quick mind she was unusually perplexed.

  • They sat down, and for a few minutes Helen was too much under the influence of dancing to speak.

  • A yellow light flashed across the blue window, and for a second they saw the green trees outside.

  • The fables were in the first instance only narrated by Aesop, and for a long time were handed down by the uncertain channel of oral tradition.

  • This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me more watchful, lest under these unexpected favors to myself, you have some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my master's injury.

  • It seemed to be an equal fight, and for a time no one could tell how the contest would end.

  • However, I am not at all afraid for myself, but I am anxious for you, Mother, and for my uncles.

  • This was a severe blow to me, and for a long time I could not be consoled.

  • You see, I was ashamed to proclaim myself a medicine man, being so young; and for this I am punished.

  • Only twice in my life have I been really frightened, and for an instant lost my presence of mind.

  • She knelt beside the coffin, covered her face with her hands, and for a time the room was silent as a tomb.

  • Even its position terrestrially is one of the elements of a new interest, and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there, Oak went again into the plantation.

  • Oak suddenly remembered that eight months before this time he had been fighting against fire in the same spot as desperately as he was fighting against water now -- and for a futile love of the same woman.

  • An immense conviction had come over him--abruptly, then and there--and for a moment he held his breath.

  • Bernard faced quickly about again, and for an instant the two men looked at each other.

  • I was fair, and for a woman not unvaliant, and that was enough.

  • Yet amidst that sea should ye perish belike, were it not for the wisdom gathered by a few; and they are dead now save for the Book, and for me, who read it unto you.

  • Yea, and for me also thou mightest say a word also, when thou becomest right great; for have I not brought thee a good bowl of wine?

  • His tears brake out again at that word, for he was but young, and for a while there was a lull in the strife that had beset his days.

  • And for my part I tell thee, that though she is verily as fair as Venus (God save us) yet is she as chaste as Agnes, as wise as Katherine, and as humble and meek as Dorothy.

  • The black read the order, and for a moment eyed us with evident suspicion.

  • I could not guess what his decision might be, and for hours I sat fretting over the outcome of the matter.

  • I had just disarmed a huge fellow who had given me a desperate struggle, and for a moment the blacks stood back for a breathing spell.

  • She thinks ever of you, my father, and all Helium mourns with her and for her.

  • Here is my hand upon your shoulder, John Carter, and my word that Sab Than shall go out at the point of my sword for the sake of my love for Helium, for Dejah Thoris, and for you.

  • Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

  • Nephi 20:9 9 Nevertheless, for my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain from thee, that I cut thee not off.

  • Nephi 14:6 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and a covert from storm and from rain.

  • He soon grew to love me, and for thirty-nine days we spent as pleasant an existence as could be expected underground.

  • So once more I was quite alone, and for a whole month I walked daily over the island, seeking for some chance of escape.

  • You see they've been used to such grand things, and for them to come down to a little poky house like that--it breaks my heart to think of it.

  • And for height, they are as near a match as I care about.

  • Diamond seated himself on the other side, and for a while was enraptured with the colour of the air inside the cave.

  • He began to feel his way about the place, and for a while went wandering up and down.

  • And for a while even to-morrow's breakfast will be a problematical affair.

  • At bottom I am a creature of the most moderate aspirations, as you always complained; and for my part, Fate must in reason demand her applause of posterity rather than of me.

  • Let us concede it is still possible for me to find another heiress, and for you to marry Remon; let us grant it the only outcome of our common-sense!

  • Sometimes it falls straight and heavy, till the air is full of the delicate gray shading, and for half a foot above the ground there is a haze from the rebound of a million tiny globules.

  • I read the note over and over again; and for all my dilemma, I could not help laughing at the mingled meanness and stupidity of the thing.

  • I applied for several steamship lines, and for at least a dozen house surgeonships; but there is as much competition for a miserable post with a hundred a year as if it were the Viceroyship of India.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "and for" 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:
    almost entirely; and all; and came; and fell; and fro; and from; and gave; and let; and said; and take; and that; and the; and they; and took; and when; caught the; crossing himself; for just; frequent intervals; leave the; les enfants; many miles; rare intervals; subsistence crops; through them; till finally