Thus science teaches us that we are but an infinitesimal portion of a great whole, that stretches out on every side of us, and above and below us, infinite in its complications, and which infinite wisdom alone can comprehend.
It is the tenure by which we hold of Heaven, without which we are but outlaws, that cannot claim protection.
The promises, therefore, are but to encourage the coming sinner to come to Jesus Christ, and not to rest in them, short of salvation by him.
So all other beams of the divine character, bright as their light is, are but dim as compared with the sevenfold lustre of the light that shines from the gentle loving-kindness of the heart of Christ.
We are but following in the steps of history and prophecy, and of Christ and His Apostles, and of that last vision of the Apocalypse.
Besides alms-giving and resorting to the pagodas, some fervent laymen practise abstinence and fasting to a certain extent; these, however, are but few.
The deep human knowledge, the great pageants of Shakespeare's kings and queens, are but "glories of our blood and state .
All other things which may be still connected with religious life and reasoning, are but a misty veil.
The invulnerability of the Monitors, and the peculiar arrangement by which this important end is obtained, are but one of the items necessary to make up the complete efficiency of war steamers.
Even religion and morality, in their highest excellence, are but, so far as society is concerned, developments and demonstrations of cultivated taste.
These all are simple emotions, and all, moreover, are but so many forms of joy and sorrow, varying as the objects vary which give rise to them.
This is the essential condition of sensation in any case, and the several senses, so called, are but so many variations in the mode of manifesting this excitability.
Before and After, when applied to such Subjects, are but allegories, which the Sense or Imagination supplies to the Understanding.
All his other works in the world, all the beauty of the creatures, the succession of ages, and the things that come to pass in them, are butas the border to this as the mainpiece.
Yet those whom pride and dullness join to blind, To narrow cares and narrow space confined, Though with big titles each his fellow greets, Are but to wits, as scavengers to streets.
We are but as the little children of creation, but because we know sin and redemption, we lead the chorus of heaven.
For all our feelings and emotions are but variable, and to build confidence upon them is to build a heavy building upon quicksand; the very weight of it drives out the foundations.
These Tabernacles of Holiness, these Primal Mirrors which reflect the light of unfading glory, are but expressions of Him Who is the Invisible of the Invisibles.
Ye are but paupers in need of God; but God is the All-Possessing, the All-Praised.
The first means that all things are but creations of the imagination of one's mind.
Compressibility and Expansibility, sometimes mentioned as "properties," are but results of Porosity.
The writer thinks that a little consideration will show us that the same rule operates in all of the above cases, and that "Conduction" and "Convection" are but forms of Radiation.
All the material of the physical bodies, of men, animals and plants, are but forms of Plasm.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are but" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
