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Example sentences for "assistants"

Lexicographically close words:
assises; assist; assistance; assistances; assistant; assiste; assisted; assister; assisting; assists
  1. Having considerable means of his own, he served the university without salary, and carried on his explorations mostly at his own cost, paying large sums to assistants and for other items in the work.

  2. He relieved suffering, he preached and he taught all who would listen to him; he required his assistants to learn Arabic and he acquired it himself.

  3. In 1587, at Valencia, we hear that the messenger and portero served as assistants and the Suprema ordered the work to be entrusted to a confidential familiar.

  4. The service was read in a hurried and commonplace manner to about thirty individuals, most of whom seemed to be the necessary assistants at the ceremonies.

  5. These assistants also see that each applicant has the correct papers in his hand, and that three of them are waiting in line to facilitate the steady flow of the human current.

  6. Assistants hand out numbers like those used for the Paris auto-busses, not given however for priority, but for undesirability; the least desirable getting in first so that we may be the sooner rid of them.

  7. Our assistants here could work better if they knew what they were doing.

  8. Claude Lavalle was having his difficulties, and he wished fervently that his assistants could have been sent up on the shuttle with him.

  9. Dennis Deventer had been training his assistants and lieutenants the whole year at movable butts.

  10. Assistants and siccan cattle werena sae common to come at then as now--when ye send a telegram in the morning, and the laddie is down on the six train wi' his baggie.

  11. Medhurst, a missionary of the London Missionary Society, in Java, described it, in reporting a visit made to the Dayaks of Borneo, by one of his assistants together with a missionary of the Rhenish Missionary Society.

  12. One of the female assistants takes the two goblets .

  13. The assistants laughed as he said this, and we soon had too great a reason to know to what he alluded.

  14. Sancho led the way with a torch in his hand; and his assistants followed, holding us tightly by the arms, as if we would have tried to escape from them.

  15. At last we heard footsteps approaching the cell; the door was opened, and Sancho and his two assistants appeared.

  16. In addition to them the people chose two ædiles, to be their assistants in the matter of documents.

  17. They beat their assistants and shattered their fasces and made the prætors themselves submit to investigation on every pretext, great and small.

  18. She received it with her arms crossed on her breast, while all the assistants said “Amen”!

  19. Neither Betsey nor her assistants were allowed to appear, and Patrick had orders to speak only when he was spoken to, and not on any account to mention Mr. Rowan’s name.

  20. With a few assistants he then proceeded to dig a tunnel across the breadth of the yard.

  21. XXXVI The TENTH, in writing, on his back displayed The Lion, who that Beast is seen to hold By both his ears, and him so well has bayed, That thither troop assistants manifold.

  22. And it was those students who worked as his assistants who came to know the fine fibre of the man.

  23. His assistants had to do a great deal of reminding after he came back that week, and they never knew until afterwards that his abstraction was caused by something quite different from germs.

  24. It was the old story of over-enthusiastic amateur assistants who persisted in giving unsolicited aid when the airship was being taken from the aerodrome.

  25. Within an hour the Indians were devoting themselves to a filling supper and a little later Colonel Howell and his assistants made a hasty meal of tinned roast mutton, pickles, Indian bannock, and tea.

  26. We have received a number, it is true, but unless there is a marked increase to-morrow, I may safely reduce my force of assistants by one half.

  27. Colonel Hazard sat at his desk, his assistants ranged about a long table behind him.

  28. Of his wisdom in selecting and trusting assistants and subordinates, the list of their names is a very sufficient evidence.

  29. The generals select their aides and assistants from the staff corps, or from either of the four arms of service.

  30. At a sign from the doctor, the four assistants began to blow through the tubes with all their might.

  31. The four assistants being disturbed by, the sudden start of Rodin, it was necessary to begin again.

  32. Reverend father," said Baleinier to d'Aigrigny, "are you capable of acting as one of my assistants in the operation?

  33. These had under them assistants and laborers of every sort, and all were subject to the authority of a superintendent or steward (vilicus), who had been put in charge of the estate by the master.

  34. The body was carried away, and the marks of the slaughter obliterated or concealed with such ready dexterity, as showed that the case was not altogether so uncommon, as to paralyze the assistants and officers of Saladin's household.

  35. Assistants in the Cooking Department and Sewing Room: Malinda A.

  36. A change in her assistants had taken place in November previous and she writes: "Miss Haymaker before leaving had miserable health and I have had a hard time since my return.

  37. Shoals, assistants in the cooking and farming departments, and Solomon Buchanan, a volunteer student accompanist and general helper.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assistants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.