After a considerable pause he added, "I answer for it he'd never miss half a crown out of all that silver.
If I'm not mistaken, here comes Talbot to answer for himself.
I to answer for my butter and cream, or anything at all?
One comfort is, I have not the blood of a fellow-creature to answer for.
The consequence of any carelessness or neglect in the fitting and securing of the rigging, will be felt now; and this danger, if we escape it, ought to remind us how much we have to answer for if we neglect our duty.
Now, I'll answer for it, if I pull his right ear he will offer me his left.
All I want to do is to get Father M'Grath to go to the old devil of a mother, and I'll answer for it, he'll frighten her into swearing anything.
But it was pretty that, being a Protestant, a man stood by and was my proxy to answer for me.
How many poor souls hath Bonner to answer for, think you, and several filthy blind priests?
I can blame you as you blame me; and if I have to answer for some of your most filthy actions, you have to answer for some of mine.
How many souls do you think Balaam, with his deceit, will have to answer for?
They shall see, that they, many of them it is to be feared, will have whole towns to answer for; whole cities to answer for.
If she takes the railway, I answer for it we shall know where she goes.
Two days later, the storm that had been gathering for weeks past burst on us--we were cited to appear before the council to answer foran infraction of the Rules.
I answer for finding a person who will look after her delicately and discreetly.
So I send her in effigy (without her knowledge) to answer for herself.
The pleasantest letter they ever had from her, I'll answer for it, was the letter in which she solemnly took leave of them in this world forever.
I knew him when he was a boy and I'll answer for it, he won't trouble you any more.
I remember Thackeray's story of his asking some simple question of a royal or semi-royal personage whom he met in the courtyard of an hotel, which question his Highness did not answer, but called a subordinate to answer for him.
But the penetrating, perturbing quality of the voices of many of our Northern women has a great deal to answer for in the way of determining love and friendship.
What "the Board" does is the act of nobody, and nobody can be made to answer for it.
The United States constitution and most of the State constitutions declare that no person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense, except a minor one, "unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand jury.
If he ruins your majesty, it will not be without enriching himself, I answer for it.
Do what you please, monsieur; only I warn you, you will have to answer for it.
The butcheress will fell him like a Kerry ox, and I may have his blood to answer for, and his discomfiture to feel for, in addition to my own miseries.
Arnold about the Old Testament:--I thought I must have meant, "But who is to answer for Arnold?
At hand; he'll be here in a minute, I'll answer for't.
Read it out; a wondrous nostrum, I'll answer for it.
Very well; the Horse and the Lion shall answer for it at the quarter sessions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "answer for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
