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Example sentences for "better still"

  • Better still, this later Jeanne said openly at Versailles--dared she say otherwise?

  • Better still," exclaimed Jean, "I will give you the title of countess.

  • The grassy stretches between Rye and its sea-shore were exactly suited to long afternoons of this kind, and with a friend, better still a nephew or niece, to walk with him, such was the occupation he preferred to any other.

  • Organization in a Modern Store I like to think of modern business as a huge, great single machine; or better still, a group of little machines gathered together and functioning as one.

  • Better still, she would make a definite appointment for him for the next morning.

  • If you want to communicate with me on the subject, address Poste restante, Leipzig, or, better still, to the care of Y.

  • If every one would follow the inner voice of his heart as you do, or, better still, if every one had a heart for such a voice as you have, things would soon be changed.

  • Give me your blessing, or, better still, give me your assistance.

  • If you say that you are not even asleep, it is as much as to say that you have not even the consolation of being able to sleep; or, better still, it is precisely the same as telling me that you are getting bored to death.

  • Here is a sketch of the one in which San Carlo Borromeo was born, but the one on the floor beneath is better still.

  • Better still if you will sing, my nightingale!

  • Did you mean that to be a good joke, or was it better still by coming out unintentionally?

  • Better still, let me ask her to send an invitation for both of you.

  • Or, better still, seeing that the attack is bound to come, I propose that we wait only till the light gets stronger.

  • And ye've got as good cause, better still, ter shoot the ruffian when next yer set eyes on him," exclaimed Tom.

  • To this end hot poultices, or, better still, hot baths, should be resorted to.

  • We thus continue to advise a hot antiseptic poultice, or, better still, a bath.

  • We did not need persuasion to believe all he said--the opinion chimed in with our own wishes, and, better still, was verified to the very letter by a glorious afternoon.

  • Intense passions are, happily, never of long duration, and, better still, they are always the precursors of calm.

  • Better still, they could be pulled out more easily, and without the necessity of being taken out of their envelopes.

  • He was at this time rather a prosperous young fellow, himself owner of his boat--nay, better still, he had two boats.

  • Better still, I could also stand erect, for the two boxes now communicated with each other, and it was full six feet from the bottom of the one to the top of the other.

  • To get rid of what cannot be flung outside, by hanging it on the ceiling, is not bad to begin with; but to use it for making a work of art is better still.

  • Better still, she sets about browsing the vine-leaf which I have given her for her consolation.

  • Fortune is as good as red gold, but a new charming story would be better still," thought the man; but he could not find it here.

  • Any uneven ends of hair that remain can afterwards be trimmed off with a pair of scissors; or, better still, by a pair of sheep shears.

  • Barley ought certainly always to be crushed, or, better still, parched, and turned into "adarwah.

  • It has to be boiled to a jelly before use, or, better still, soak it in cold water for some hours until soft, and then boil it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "better still" 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:
    better class; better come; better for; better future; better idea; better knowledge; better place; better plan; better quality; better resurrection; better right; better still; better suited; better system; better than; better then; better things; better understood; better view; better word; better world; farmyard manure; found plenty; ordinary cases; perhaps better; whom alone