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Example sentences for "but much"

  • The sentiment is well expressed by Plato, but much better by Solomon than him.

  • This construction is translated into English, and other modern tongues, sometimes literally, or nearly so, but much oftener, by a nominative and a finite verb.

  • The sentiment is well expressed by Plato, but much better by Solomon.

  • But much is also due to the wonderful separateness which Rome retains in the mind.

  • But much of my enjoyment of it I ascribe to my friend Eddy.

  • While I had mine, a female of the same species, but much larger, was shewn at Bartholomew-fair, London.

  • On its summit is an ancient Catholic Chapel, built in form of a cross, but much resembling a dilapidated barn: read some justly-flattering epitaphs to the Grace family, not badly written.

  • Nothing of Marianne then or now, for that matter, in the dry lady personally; but much to remind him of his own case in the way she had taken over the two little girls, much as Marianne had taken over Bob.

  • But much of her friend's analyses and insights had been so much unqualified Sordello to her, and had left her brain spinning.

  • A second Silesian school, but much inferior to that of Opitz, was founded by Hoffmanswaldau and Lohenstein.

  • But much of it is confirmed by the Christian Scriptures, and much is also obligatory by the law of nature.

  • You lose not only all the time when duty is omitted, but much of the time in which you perform it, while you rid no work, and do it as if you did it not.

  • God looketh not only nor principally at the external part of the work, but much more to the heart of him that doth it; nor at the length of time, but at the sincerity and diligence of his servants.

  • Thus he spoke: but much-enduring, noble Ulysses heard him not, but passed by to the hollow ships of the Greeks.

  • Some grief shows much of love, / But much of grief shows still more want of wit.

  • It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.

  • Non multa, sed multum=--Not many things, but much.

  • It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but much juggling; for the world cannot be governed without it.

  • Our government at home, and its officers abroad, have always had a dread of complications in China, but much as they have studied to steer clear of them, they have step by step been sucked in, and the end is not yet.

  • The Imperial government has been tamed into granting us a treaty advantageous to us, but much more so to China herself.

  • In the morning we inquired for our patient and found him well, but much inclined to remain in his shell till the north wind was over.

  • In Guntu-gulu we met with another marmot of nearly similar habits, but much larger.

  • The peptones are used in part to supply the nitrogenous waste of tissue, but much of the albuminoid matter is broken up in the liver into glycogen and urea, the latter of which is excreted by the kidneys as waste matter.

  • His stomach was still greatly disturbed, so that he retained no food, yet there was no green vomit, but much flatulency.

  • Just behind the neck of the gall-bladder the duct makes an angle somewhat abrupt, and here also its folds project into the canal, so that at this point the stone is apt to lodge; but much depends on the size and shape of the calculus.

  • The old fighting passion may have gone; but much of the quickness, the shrewdness and the humour remains, together with the determination of each man to have if possible his own way and, whether possible or not, his own say.

  • Cosimo's original building was smaller; but much of it remains untouched.

  • Had an old copy of this still pretty and touching, but much disordered, ballad been saved, we should perhaps have had a story like this.

  • Another version of this double ballad, but much corrupted in the second part, was known to G['e]rard de Nerval.

  • Huxley is not even now regarded as an orthodox man, but much of the former prejudice has given way.

  • But much do I marvel, Sir, how the damsel durst enter there, for it is the most marvellous place that is, and the damsel is of right great beauty; natheless she cometh thither oftentimes alone into the chapel.

  • Lady," saith the King, "At your pleasure be it, but much dread I that nought shall come of it save evil only.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but much" 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:
    but always; but being; but little; but nothing; but now; but see; but surely; but the greatest part; but they were not; but they were too; but they would not; but too; but went; but when they came; but will; but your; butter them; buttered baking; buttered dish; buttered gridiron; buttonhole stitch; butyric acid; might perhaps; properly understood; safe custody; will not hang myself