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Example sentences for "but are"

  • The holy "daunces" at Seville are under Papal disapproval, but are to be kept up, it is said, till the peculiar dresses used in them are worn out.

  • As civilisation advances, those animals still perform their beneficent functions, but are looked on as gods in disguise.

  • The Gauchos differ in their opinion, whether the Jaguar is good eating, but are unanimous in saying that cat is excellent.

  • For, according to the Tartar customs, the courts of princes and nobles are never dissolved at their deaths, but are kept up under the government of one of his wives, to whom the gifts are continued which used to be given to their lords.

  • No Jews are permitted to dwell in the city, but are obliged to reside in Pera, on the other side of the sea of Sophia, and are not even allowed to come to the city, except in boats, for the sake of commerce.

  • The inhabitants of Kathay are exceedingly skilful and ingenious in all works of art and in manufactures, but are of a very timorous disposition.

  • The people are Mahometans, and not warlike, but are skilful in various articles of manufacture.

  • The five lower pairs, called the false ribs, are not directly joined to the breastbone, but are connected, with the exception of the last two, with each other and with the last true ribs by cartilages.

  • Poultry and game have usually a small proportion of fat, but are rich in phosphates and are valued for their flavor.

  • The larger of these, called the thyroid, from a supposed resemblance to a shield, consists of two extended wings which join in front, but are separated by a wide interval behind.

  • The salamanders have, like lizards, an elongated body, four feet, and a long tail, but are destitute of scales.

  • The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body.

  • They are allied to the petrels, but are larger.

  • This is the way with women; when they take up a fri'ndship, they do nothing by halves, but are as willing to part with their property as if it had no value in their eyes.

  • Giants like Hurry may do for grenadiers, but are of little account as lovers.

  • Is it not often said that there are as many forms of laws as there are governments, and that they have no concern either with any one virtue or with all virtue, but are relative to the will of the government?

  • These are not formally announced, but are scattered up and down, to be observed by the reflective reader for himself.

  • They were all originally entire when imbedded, but are most of them now crushed, flattened, and distorted by pressure; they must have been accumulated, says Dr.

  • These and the like propositions we may assent to, as highly probable, but are not, I fear, in this state capable of knowing.

  • There are creatures in the world that have shapes like ours, but are hairy, and want language and reason.

  • They are seldom found on the lower, or recent river terrace, but are common on the upper terrace, and are often built upon the high bluffs bordering the streams, where a wide stretch of country is exposed to view.

  • The ornaments are not stucco-work, but are sculptured in bas-relief.

  • They are not only inferior in finish to the Indian specimens, but are of different material.

  • They are of the same general character as those already described, but are "more rich, elaborate, and complicated.

  • Molluscs and Brachiopods and small fishes fill the list, but are of little instructiveness for us, except that they show a general advance of species.

  • As in the case of the Ungulates, we find many strange side-branches which flourished for a time, but are unknown to-day.

  • Smaller Horsetails (sometimes of a great size, but generally of the modern type) and Club-mosses remain, but are not a conspicuous feature in the landscape.

  • We realise, moreover, that the Divine Commands, so far as we recognise any such commands, are not external to us, but are manifested in our own deliberate reason and will.

  • The market is plentifully supplied with meats, fowls, and vegetables, and likewise with other articles, which may be tidbits to an African stomach, but are not to be met with in our bills of fare.

  • They might be kept comfortable if kept in repair, but are mostly in a wretched state, although thronged with occupants.

  • But, if there be a wife and children, they must have houses and a thousand other comforts, which are not only expensive and difficult to obtain, but are clogs to keep the missionary down to one spot.

  • In the fish the marginal fins not only extend to the base of the tail, but are broader at the posterior end than elsewhere, whereas in other Flat-fishes the posterior part of the marginal fins are the narrowest parts.

  • Scientifically, of course, they are not at all necessary or universal features of the female sex, but are peculiar to the mammalian class of Vertebrates in which they have been evolved.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but are" 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:
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