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Example sentences for "carry the"

  • About 2 o'clock orders came to carry the line at the foot of the ridge, attacking at a signal of six guns.

  • While we were examining the body inside the house, the battle was progressing outside, and many shots struck the building, which I feared would take fire; so I ordered Captains Steele and Gile to carry the body to Marietta.

  • He was accordingly detailed to carry the news.

  • Exasperated by this bold feat, the enemy soon attempted to carry the fortress by assault; five of them leaping upon the walls and thrusting their guns through the loop-holes.

  • But when she received the order to carry the letter to the commander-in-chief, her long cherished misgivings became at last a certainty.

  • Theirs is a lofty destiny--lofty because as wives and mothers they are to carry the shrine of civilization into the wilderness, and build upon the desert and waste places the structure of a new civil and social state.

  • Oh, yes; he comes across with something now and then, but we'll probably have to carry the bulk of it until after the wedding.

  • Whilst the others were putting the ladders away he assisted Bert to carry the paint-pots and buckets into the paint shop, and while there he filled a small medicine bottle he had brought with him for the purpose, with turpentine from the tank.

  • Sometimes he could scarcely manage to carry the pots of paint to the jobs; his feet were so hot and sore.

  • Eventually it was arranged that they were to carry the parcel in turns, Elsie to have first innings.

  • Lord Rosebery suggested that the best way would be for me to go in the special train which was to carry the Prince of Wales.

  • It is true that I had said I might stop at any moment, but after one or two numbers it seemed as if there were an informal pledge to carry the series on, as in former cases, until I had completed my dozen instalments.

  • The attack was made on the 27th, and failed to carry the enemy's works, though our troops were able to hold positions close to the ditch and to intrench themselves on a new line there.

  • The columns were to move silently and swiftly without firing and endeavor to carry the parapet by the bayonet.

  • Standing as a unit among yourselves, You can, directly and indirectly, bribe enough of our men to carry the day, as you could on the open proposition to establish a monarchy.

  • Apparently the weight was too heavy for Jesus, and the pace could be quickened by making the first man who could be laid hold of help to carry the load.

  • They are but the cups that carry the wine, the flowers whose chalices bear the honey, the ladders by which the soul may climb to God Himself, the rafts upon which the precious treasure may be floated into our hearts.

  • But such pain of shrinking nerves is to be borne, and to be courted, if we are wise, rather than to carry the hand or the eye that led astray unmutilated into total destruction.

  • I will free one of them if he promise upon his knightly word to carry the letter to the gland master.

  • He also said that apart from her order, and his natural inclination for war, he was urged by the desire, in case of emergency, to carry the news to Spychow at once.

  • The question now was to find a messenger, who would be zealous enough to carry the letter as soon as possible and return immediately with the answer.

  • The knight Zbyszko of Bogdaniec, after whom I carry the spear, sent me, because being injured by the bison, he could not come himself.

  • On his way past his cottage Jack stopped to see how his father was, and also to report that he had been commissioned, at least temporarily, to carry the mail.

  • And you'll be needed to carry the mail," a man replied.

  • Now, Sunger, we'll show 'em what we can do when we carry the mail!

  • Lomax's cavalry, then in the Luray Valley, was ordered to join the right of Gordon on the field of battle, while Rosser was to carry the crossing of Cedar Creek on the Back road and attack Custer.

  • The Government was unable to carry the sale of the Church forests, the Chamber did not succeed in its project of confiscation.

  • Barricades were erected; a conflict took place in the streets; and the troops, unable to carry the city by assault, retired to the outskirts and kept up a desultory attack for several days.

  • The populace of Madrid was inflamed by the report that Godoy was about to carry the King to a distance, in order to prolong the misgovernment which the French had determined to overthrow.

  • If it is not my portion to meet thee in this life then let me ever feel that I have missed thy sight--let me not forget for a moment, let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours.

  • But she was not asked to carry the train of Maria de' Medici, and yet Maria de' Medici had a right to every honor, because she was a mother.

  • A messenger had been sent to carry the news to the Emperor, who was much affected by hearing it.

  • As I see it, it is up to us to carry the torch of Flanders fields into the field of our industries right here in our own home town.


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