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Example sentences for "careful"

Lexicographically close words:
career; careered; careering; careers; carefree; carefull; carefully; carefulness; careles; carelesly
  1. By some careful questions I gained confirmation from the friar.

  2. Now let us look at these bye-laws and see how careful we must be when we go to the great city of golf, and for what we may be fined a pound or lodged in a Fifeshire gaol for a full fortnight, during which our game might go to rack and ruin.

  3. A careful but timid hand is discernible, betraying traces of a copyist of another's designs, rather than of an original invention.

  4. By a careful study of condensation with every regard for legibility it has been found possible to bring the entire body of Browning's work into a single volume, and to equip the edition with the requisite apparatus.

  5. A great hand, careful lest it crush, Startled him on the shoulder: up he stared, And over him, who stood but Herakles!

  6. The lips, compressed a little, came forward too, Careful for a whole world of sin and pain.

  7. Koehne has presented the results of a careful study of the distribution of cherries in Mitt.

  8. Probably many of these seedling trees are efficient pollenizers, though the value of any particular seedling can be determined only by experiment or very careful observation.

  9. This success is due to careful compliance with two main guiding rules, founded on the nature of cherry wood: (1) Keep the scions dry until used.

  10. It by no means detracts from the value of the method employed that the results of the investigations of these two careful students of the fabric do not accord with one another.

  11. In addition to the changed form of the bases, careful observers can detect proofs of later work in the capitals of the shafts in the triforium.

  12. Many of the main arches remain, and the details of the ornamentation and mouldings will repay careful study.

  13. Very numerous indications of this can be seen by careful observers.

  14. The carving on the =Pulpit= and =Throne= will repay careful study.

  15. He will be careful of Mr. Thrale and Hester whom he does love--and he won't strangle me, I suppose.

  16. I kissed him, and said how good he was to be so careful of himself.

  17. Lamson therefore had made the poisoning of this boy a careful and particular study.

  18. It went even further, for it was proved that no footprints of a fifth man were anywhere visible on any other part of the field, although the most careful search had been made.

  19. If two shells are selected, the one of wood and the other with a paper skin and deck, as has been described, of the same dimensions and equally stiff, careful experiment proves that the wooden one will be thirty per cent.

  20. They were married; careful cultivation ripened the talents which nature had bestowed, and Melesigenes soon surpassed his schoolfellows in every attainment, and, when older, rivalled his preceptor in wisdom.

  21. Take back the tray to Mother, and be careful as you don't break the glasses on it.

  22. But suppose you was just to ask her what she's got wrapped so careful in that there paper in her hand.

  23. And you, Jess, upstairs with these clean curtains and lay them careful on the bed.

  24. If you go careful and don't drop it in the snow may be as I'll wrap my big shawl around of you, Dorry, what's hanging behind the door.

  25. I never knowed you so careful of a poor wretch afore, Millie.

  26. Jacques gave them each a careful dram, and lighted at the fire a dipped candle.

  27. They dared scarcely breathe, but watched along the level of the sward, careful not to rear a feature above the dull leaves.

  28. It is obvious to the most superficial observer that there are divisions or varieties in the Human Family, commonly called Races; but the most careful explorations of Science leave the number uncertain.

  29. It was the result of a careful examination of the national debt in its details, especially in the light of the national credit.

  30. I have before me two letters in which he records his convictions, which are perhaps more weighty because the result of most careful consideration, when age had furnished experience and tempered the judgment.

  31. If I differ from them in details, it is because after careful consideration it seems to me that in some particulars their system may be improved.

  32. This opinion was given after careful examination of the statutes, and was reaffirmed by him at different times.

  33. It will be for her, on a careful review of the case, to determine what reparation to offer; it will be for the American people, on a careful review of the case, to determine what reparation to require.

  34. Well, you and Beth must be careful not to get into mischief.

  35. I shall be very careful in its nourishing.

  36. The reader cannot, however, be too careful to avoid those made of coloured gutta percha, which, unfortunately, rapidly become very brittle by age.

  37. A careful housewife or servant will soon completely destroy them.

  38. By condensing the bituminous vapours which are given off during the process, about 3% of tar may be obtained from common coal, and from some strong coal, by careful treatment fully 10% of its weight.

  39. Bring the hind and fore legs close to the body towards the head, run a skewer through each, fix the head between the shoulders by means of another skewer, and be careful to leave the ears on.

  40. By digesting alcoholic extract of mezereon in ether for some days with agitation, reducing the tincture to 1-4th by careful distillation, and evaporating the residuum by a gentle heat to the consistence of an extract.

  41. Careful observations with the thermometer were taken before each operation.

  42. Old travellers, when compelled to bivouac during the season in which they are troublesome, are very careful to keep close on the 'lee' of these fires.

  43. Go, then, but be careful not to lose yourself.

  44. Then, my boy, if you are really dying of hunger, eat two fine slices of your pride, and be careful not to get indigestion.

  45. He was arrested, and a careful investigation was instituted; but nothing either to exculpate or inculpate him transpired, and after some months of imprisonment, he was liberated.

  46. The insertion or origin, whichever one chooses to call it, of these cords at the groin, is somewhat irregular and sometimes so rudimentary that it cannot be found upon a most careful and tedious dissection.

  47. This statement and warning a close and careful observer clearly appreciates.

  48. This would be simply a reflex sign of a general debilitated condition, and to mistake all these for ovarian disease and to make it an excuse for their removal, is not warranted by careful observation.

  49. A more thorough familiarity with these bodies, and careful microscopic examinations, can distinguish nothing in the nature of structure within them.

  50. In surgical operations and puerperal conditions in which infection has been positively excluded, by careful antiseptic measures, pelvic cellulitis is impossible.

  51. This may seem, at first sight, an easy matter to determine, but a more careful inquiry will show the complexity.

  52. The next step will naturally be to make such a careful examination of all the surrounding tissues and organs, for the purpose of ferreting out the real cause.

  53. In May, 1890, I was consulted, but a most careful examination revealed nothing which I could assign as a cause and upon which to base a hopeful treatment.

  54. Men, as a rule, are neither cleanly nor careful in their habits, and approach their wives without any thought of serious consequences in their sexual relations.

  55. A careful study of this plate will permanently fix the anatomy in the reader’s mind.

  56. Thin and light shoes must be avoided in cold and damp weather; in fact, there is nothing that women should be more careful about than too light and low shoes which do not keep the feet warm.

  57. Bennett’s work, which is now forty-six years ago, there have been many careful and clever observers in this field of pathology, but there is yet to appear a successful contradiction of the truth of his inflammatory doctrine.

  58. They were never, moreover, more particular and careful in respect to their personal appearance than when they were going into battle.

  59. He had been making, he said, a careful calculation of the amount of it, with a view of determining how much he could offer to contribute in aid of the Persian campaign.

  60. It has everywhere, in its propaganda and circulars, spoken of "an international auxiliary language," and has been careful not to prejudge in any way the question as to which shall be adopted.

  61. English people must be particularly careful to make them sufficiently full.

  62. Strict discipline, involving careful and continuous oversight, would be necessary to the maintenance of order amongst so large a number of people, many of whom had hitherto lived a wild and licentious life.

  63. He has been a careful saving man, who has never borrowed a penny in his life, and does not know where to turn in his emergency.

  64. But what seems utterly indefensible is the careful precautions which are taken to render it impossible for the unemployed Casual to resume promptly after his night's rest the search for work.

  65. After careful examination and close cross-questioning of the Out-of-Works, whom we have already registered at our Labour Bureau, we find that at least sixty per cent.

  66. No doubt some embankments are of material that would baffle the cultivating skill at a Chinese or the careful husbandry of a Swiss mountaineer; but these are exceptions.

  67. We shall be careful not to sell the goods so manufactured at less than the market prices.

  68. It must therefore be worthy not only of a careful consideration but of persevering trial.

  69. One of them writes some careful notes for me.

  70. The Lady Superintendent selects for it specially steady and careful women or girls, who are paid at time-and-a-quarter rate.

  71. Willoughby, not only for his careful criticism of this study during its preparation, and for the helpful suggestions by which he has attempted to correct some of its obvious deficiencies, but especially for his kindly inspiration at all times.

  72. Earl Russell, in refusing the request of the owners for intervention by Great Britain, said in part: "A careful perusal .

  73. The decision should be based upon a careful examination of the evidence which is submitted to the court, and not presumed from the fact that the political power has exercised the belligerent right of visit, search and detention.

  74. As for the minister himself, he has never complained of me, and, indeed, I have always been careful to treat him equally well with the rest of his colleagues.

  75. Some of those nobles whom the empress had expressly named she had treated with careful distinction, and had even danced with them, though they were not men of the very highest character.

  76. Marie Antoinette had evidently become less careful in regulating her expenses, till she was awakened by the discovery of a crime which she herself imputed to her own carelessness in such matters.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "careful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accurate; agog; alert; anxious; assiduous; attentive; aware; calculating; canny; careful; cautious; ceremonious; chary; circumspect; close; concentrated; conscientious; conscious; conservative; considerate; correct; curious; deliberate; delicate; diligent; discreet; discriminating; earnest; economic; economical; economizing; enlightened; exact; faithful; fastidious; finicky; forehanded; frugal; gingerly; good; guarded; heedful; hesitant; intense; intent; judicial; judicious; laborious; leery; loving; measured; methodical; meticulous; mindful; minute; narrow; nice; niggling; noncommittal; observant; painful; parsimonious; particular; pawky; politic; precise; protective; provident; prudent; punctilious; punctual; reflective; regardful; religious; reluctant; rigid; safe; saving; scrimping; scrupulous; solicitous; spare; sparing; strict; studious; suspicious; tactful; tender; tentative; thorough; thoughtful; thrifty; true; uncommunicative; uneasy; unenterprising; vigilant; wary; watchful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    careful attention; careful consideration; careful examination; careful not; careful selection; careful study; carefully avoided; carefully considered; carefully removed; carefully studied; carefully watched