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Example sentences for "carry out"

  • On the voyage home Dalton had decided upon that policy which he afterward sought to carry out.

  • Mrs. Dudleigh's threats to inform against him were easy to make, yet not so easy to carry out.

  • It seems to me that you are trying to carry out a most extraordinary course of action toward me.

  • He represented to the Elector his hesitation about employing the power of the state to carry out a manifestly unjust measure.

  • And then he motioned to the amanuensis to carry out, without further delay, the command he had given him.

  • His translations, more masterly than those of Friedrich, carry out Herder's demand for complete absorption and re-creation.

  • Tell him it is my cousin's wish, the Prince's, Which I have pledged myself to carry out.

  • XVI In order actively to carry out a thing in the dream world, I must resolve upon it betimes and definitely determine upon the plan.

  • In order to be able to carry out anything I should have to "make a name," as it is called.

  • And talk as little as possible, but do, act, carry out.

  • The grass never has time to grow under that young woman's feet if she's an idea to carry out, I will say that for her.

  • She had some little plans of her own to carry out, which a wet day rather favoured than otherwise.

  • Let me be, my brothers; I have the thane's word to carry out.

  • There are yet men who will carry out what he planned ere he died.

  • Neither of these things troubled me any longer, and I looked past them, in such wise that he might see that I meant him to obey me, even as one will look at a sullen thrall who delays to carry out an order given.

  • That's all right, Frank, but it takes a pretty smart man to carry out a part like he's doing.

  • Your ideas are all right, Andy, but the only trouble is they are too strong for a couple of boys to carry out.

  • Some more ladies had fainted, and it had even been necessary to carry out a gentleman who had been overcome by the cruel heat.

  • Are you now unwilling to carry out my desires, remain here, and act as we have decided, when all is over?

  • He, Vignon, was honest certainly, but of all these reforms he had only been able to carry out a few insignificant ones, for he had found himself hampered by a thousand obstacles.

  • Now that the small cloud of misunderstanding had passed from the clear sky of our friendship, we were one again in confidence, as we had been before the Philae eavesdropping: and I knew the plan he meant to carry out at the Sirdar's ball.

  • There was some troublesome business I had to carry out in Cairo.

  • The greater part of my goods I gave to the temple, and yet retained a considerable sum, for I should need money to carry out my quest, and after I had accomplished it I should hand over what remained for the benefit of the poor.

  • Your comrades have confessed that there were twenty-five of you hired to carry out this, and that you received a hundred francs each.

  • The day I am one and twenty I hope to carry out my intentions.

  • Although my resolution was abandoned, this may be the best place to record the efforts of more doughty souls to carry out Tolstoy's conclusions.

  • He must have been the victim of mesmeric influence not to see through their vile knavery in pleading poverty when they were asked to carry out an act of common humanity.

  • Florence refused to lay down her arms and begged me not to carry out my plan before your new attitude in the case was confirmed by deeds.

  • And, in a house guarded by the police, in a room watched night and day, how were they able to carry out such a piece of work without being seen or heard?

  • All the way down the Rue Royale and across the Place de la Concorde he kept blurting out words of revenge and threats which he was itching to carry out.

  • The advantage of bringing up more men for attack than can be gathered for defense is not less obvious, but will be found more difficult to carry out.

  • Next to the Knight the Queen is most frequently in a position to carry out a double attack.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carry out" 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:
    also shown; carry arms; carry burdens; carry him; carry out; carry the; carry their; carry through; carrying capacity; certain lines; common impulse; each meeting; good master; great ascetic; grew older; home consumption; international traffic; leave thee; passing events; readily propagated; spectral evidence; take pictures; textual criticism; took position; under favourable; why hast thou forsaken