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Example sentences for "bate"

Lexicographically close words:
bataillons; batalla; batayle; batch; batches; bateau; bateaux; bated; bateliers; batell
  1. I am indebted to Mr. Bate for the statement from Dr.

  2. In a curious Bornean crab, which inhabits sponges, Mr. Bate could always distinguish the sexes by the male not having the epidermis so much rubbed off.

  3. With respect to colour which so often differs in the two sexes of animals belonging to the higher classes, Mr. Spence Bate does not know of any well-marked instances with our British crustaceans.

  4. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Spence Bate for nearly all the above statements with respect to the chelae of the higher crustaceans.

  5. They can't bate you," asseverated Conlon promptly.

  6. Hasn't Teetotallism bate you in your own argument?

  7. I'd not be brow-bate into anything," observed Donovan.

  8. Sir, the people Must have their voices; neither will they bate One jot of ceremony.

  9. You do yourselves much wrong; You bate too much of your own merits.

  10. Yes, good faith, ev'ry dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple.

  11. Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness.

  12. A sigh of relief went up from our officers and men as they beheld the mission half accomplished, when suddenly Bate was seen to throw up his hands and fall headlong.

  13. At once Captain Bate of the Actæon volunteered for the dangerous mission, Captain Mann of the Engineers accompanying him.

  14. And here John Bate suggests an experimental apparatus on a small scale, which the Marquis would be almost certain to test, and in so doing to vary the construction and application.

  15. The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core.

  16. These measures were of equal capacity, but the bate served for liquids, and the ephi for dry things.

  17. The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.

  18. Plaise your honor, he abused, and assaulted, and bate me until I didn't know for a time whether I was alive or dead.

  19. Bate wouldn't be 'alf so spry at his years if he 'adn't bin wantin' to marry me any time this fourteen year back.

  20. It was almost the only amusement she had now, and any moment might bring the wire for which Adam Bate and the housekeeper at Cwmfaernog had been calling in vain these two days past.

  21. Not with Bate comin' into his dinner wantin' comfort.

  22. They will not find any one at Cwmfaernog, whatever," said Isaac Edwards at his door, "for Martha Bate and her husband went for a jaunt the day before yesterday.

  23. Not a whit, not a whit; I cannot spare them a jot; I cannot bate them an ace.

  24. I, reverencing the people, did not bate My reverence of their deed and oracle, Nor vainly prate Of better and of worse Against the great conclusion of their will.

  25. Do so," said the bishop, "but know that if you bate your promise, the sentence of excommunication will strike solemnly and fearfully all the doers and abetters of this wrong.

  26. We two never mate again, unless you comes down our wai, and us han't got a man to bate e, now I be off the play.

  27. Of all the impudence I ever heerd in my whole life, you bate it out, clear and clane!

  28. The expression, "to bate with the wind," is well understood in the language of falconry, with which Shakespeare was familiar.

  29. To bate the dogs with," I replied, attuning my speech to his as best I could.

  30. George Bate gives a quaint and striking picture of what followed.

  31. Mr. Bate made him a still more coveted present--a microscope, with which he could examine several minute animals, too small to be looked at by the naked eye.

  32. Those villains, Shuffle and Screw, have sarved me with another bate ticket: and a pretty figure too.

  33. But there was wan battle that bate all--do ye know what I'm goin' te tell ye?


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abate; abrade; abstract; alleviate; allow; attenuate; bar; bate; blunt; consume; corrode; crumble; curtail; cut; debar; decline; decrease; deduct; depreciate; detract; dilute; diminish; discount; disparage; disqualify; dive; drain; drop; dull; dwindle; ease; ebb; eliminate; erode; except; exclude; extenuate; extract; fall; impair; languish; lessen; loose; loosen; mitigate; plummet; plunge; purify; rebate; recede; reduce; refine; refund; relax; remit; remove; repress; retrench; sag; shave; shorten; shrink; sink; slack; slacken; slake; subside; subtract; taper; thin; turn; unbend; wane; waste; weaken; wear; weed; withdraw