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Example sentences for "but without"

  • I found myself free, with gold and jewels, but without my trunk.

  • I heard a young abbe telling aloud, but without bitterness, a story, which attacked in a most direct manner the justice of His Holiness.

  • There was but one bed in the room where supper had been served, and another in a small closet leading out of the room, but without a door.

  • Heyward lent his attention for a single moment to his companion, but without replying, he again turned toward those who just then interested him more.

  • As Uncas thus replied, he pointed with his finger toward the solitary Huron, but without deigning to bestow any other notice on so unworthy an object.

  • He came quite opposite to me from the other corner of the coach, brushed one of his large furry cuffs across my eyes (but without hurting me), and showed me that it was wet.

  • After much ado, he opens them, but without appearing to see his visitors or any other objects.

  • Mr. Bucket with a steadfast look, but without loss of temper.

  • I could not afford such a sum, and tried to beat them down, but without effect; for they said, they had it in their power to detain us here a whole month, and they could get us bullied at every stage by the officers of the stations.

  • I questioned him to try if the word had any trace of a Christian meaning--for instance, a corruption of Jesu--but without success.

  • She stirred in her sleep and murmured my name, but without waking.

  • The hands were white, but without delicacy; the feet did not bespeak the woman of quality.

  • How he had found grace in the eyes of the minister, he did not know; but without doubt M.

  • She joined her hands with a suppliant air, but without venturing to speak a word.

  • A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

  • He remained sitting there, with his arms hanging down, vaguely trying to discover some means to set matters straight, but without success.

  • I remained standing motionless and furious, but without venturing to face scandal and ridicule, and the steamboat started.

  • The farmer consented to try it, but without success; so they said to each other: "Perhaps there are some secret ways?

  • He had foreseen a struggle, but without certainty of the form Amy's opposition would take.

  • Confidence between them there was none; Yule addressed his daughter in a grave, cold, civil tone, and Marian replied gently, but without tenderness.

  • Jasper observed her, but without rising; he looked at his sisters in a hesitating way.

  • Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without taking it.

  • He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes.

  • But without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very precious.

  • Something was expected; even the children were strangely still, and whenever one of the pet birds strayed in at the open door, uttering a little plaintive note, it was chased out again, but without a sound.

  • You have returned," he answered, but without moving.

  • I went to my hammock and slept, but without undressing.

  • I cried; but without replying he walked on, and I followed.

  • She was a smart, neat, bright little woman, with a good deal of cap and a good deal of stocking, and she struck into the conversation with several laughing nods of her head, but without looking up from her work.

  • She approached fearfully, and threw her arms around him, but without speaking.

  • Beatrice observed this remarkable phenomenon and crossed herself, sadly, but without surprise; nor did she therefore hesitate to arrange the fatal flower in her bosom.

  • He now knelt by his wife's side, watching her earnestly, but without alarm; for he was confident in his science, and felt that he could draw a magic circle round her within which no evil might intrude.

  • She had thrust it there after filling it with tobacco, but without stooping to light it at the hearth, where indeed there was no appearance of a fire having been kindled that morning.

  • The sentinels at the castle gate, seeing him running and out of breath, and believing he belonged to the rebels, fired their muskets after him, but without effect.

  • In every Roman Catholic town which Gustavus took, he opened the churches to the Protestant people, but without retaliating on the Papists the cruelties which they had practised on the former.

  • His purpose was to bestow a brilliant reward upon the duke, but without detriment to himself.

  • The race was free, but without status, without leaders, without property, and without education.

  • Several states, among them South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana, advertised for laborers and established labor bureaus, but without avail.

  • In protest against extravagant and corrupt expenditures, taxpayers' conventions were held in every state, but without effect.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but without" 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 all; but all the same; but also; but always; but even; but have eternal life; but her eyes were; but how; but look; but never; but not; but perhaps; but remember; but she could not; but suddenly; but the next instant; but those; but upon; but very; but what; but which; but why; but will; buttered toast; buttonhole stitch; poor man