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Example sentences for "are often"

  • All parts of the plant are poisonous; the seeds, which are contained in pods, are often eaten by children.

  • Poisonous fungi have an offensive smell and bitter taste, are often of a bright colour, and soon become pulpy.

  • Incised wounds of the walls are not of necessity dangerous; but severe blows, by causing fracture of the bones and internal injuries, are often fatal.

  • The schools are open, as a general rule, only to those able and fitted to be educated, and the mentally and physically disqualified are often rejected.

  • Sympathy of the heart is a tie ten-fold stronger than sympathy of the head; people may think alike, and hate each other; while those who feel together, are often led to adopt the same opinions.

  • Small spheres of protoplasm, apparently quite free, are often driven by the current round the cells; and filaments attached to the central masses are swayed to and fro, as if struggling to escape.

  • As I felt much difficulty in understanding how such minute and weak animals, as are often captured, could force their way into the bladders, I tried many experiments to ascertain how this was effected.

  • We are often perplexed to decide how the names of some of our eminent men ought to be written; and we find that they are even now written diversely.

  • He tells us that "the sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.

  • Opportunities of service, slothfully or faintheartedly neglected, are often withdrawn.

  • We are often tempted to think, as he did, that a divine intervention will come in between our evil deeds and their natural results.

  • We are often told, too, that the Jehovah of the Old Testament is a stern and repellent God, and the religion of the Old Testament is gloomy and servile.

  • Opuntias, or prickly pears, are often grown as border plants through the summer.

  • This and the common wild chicory are often dug in the fall, the leaves cut off, the roots packed in sand in a cellar and watered until a new growth of leaves starts.

  • Home-made soaps and good laundry soaps, like Ivory soap, are often as effective as whale-oil soap.

  • Even rather large trees, as bearing peach trees, are often baled up in this way, or sometimes with corn fodder, although the results in the protection of fruit-buds are not often very satisfactory.

  • The circumstance is of itself a mere trifle, but it is exactly by such trifles that we are often enabled to form a true estimate of people's real characters.

  • Fogs and mists are very common; the hills and eminences, nay, even whole tracts of country, are often enveloped in impenetrable gloom, and the whole atmosphere loaded with damp vapours.

  • Her legs are somewhat longer than those of a worker; the two posterior ones, and the under surface, are often of a bright copper color.

  • If our movements among them are slow, cautious, humble, and respectful, we are often let to pass unmolested, having manifested a becoming deportment.

  • In these vivid scenes we are often so completely converted into spectators, that a great poetical contemporary of our country thinks that even his dreams should not pass away unnoticed, and keeps what he calls a register of nocturnals.

  • The impressions from our exterior sensations are often suspended by great mental excitement.

  • The intellectual faculties, the latest to decline, are often vigorous in the decrepitude of age.

  • It is not therefore surprising if we are often erroneous in the conception we form of the personal character of a distant author.

  • Aspiration, design, endeavor, purpose, referring to the mental acts by which the aim is attained, are often used as interchangeable with aim.

  • That which covers may also defend or protect; thus, troops interposed between some portion of their own army and the enemy are often called a covering party.

  • Castigate and chastise refer strictly to corporal punishment, tho both are somewhat archaic; correct and punish are often used as euphemisms in preference to either.

  • Roam and rove are often purposeless, and always without definite aim.

  • Footnote 5: X and j are often interchangeable in Spanish.

  • Near the lines of the railroads the progeny of Mexican women--Anglo-Saxon in type--are often seen!

  • The books which constitute the library are often curious, and there is much that receives its monetary value on account of its antiquity and rarity.

  • Among these games, or rather the apparatus for playing them, are often curios, for they are quite different to and often more decorative than those used in playing similar games to-day.

  • Some automatisms refuse to be controlled by the will, and both they and it are often overworked.

  • But the time comes when parents are often shocked at the lack of respect suddenly shown by the child.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are often" 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:
    are able; are about; are but; are called; are found; are now; are often; are only; are said; are the; are the best known; are they; are those; are told; are very; are you; areca nuts; clay soil; international affairs; libero arbitrio; offer sacrifices; one year; single stone; square deal; three hundred thousand dollars; wheat bran