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Example sentences for "cause"

Lexicographically close words:
causally; causam; causas; causation; causative; caused; causedst; causeless; causelessly; causer
  1. Air the cellar frequently; do not let refuse vegetables accumulate, or any thing that would be likely to cause sickness.

  2. Wet a cloth with hot water and wrap it round the neck of the bottle; this will cause the glass to expand, and the neck will be enlarged so as to allow of the stopper to be withdrawn, without any trouble.

  3. You should be careful to use linen rags about a burn, as cotton rags cause irritation.

  4. It afforded us no small consolation, however, to reflect that we had no further cause to apprehend danger from icebergs or rocks, and that the post afforded us greater comfort as to living and accommodation than we had been led to expect.

  5. Admitting this to have been the case, it contributes to confirm the theory of that distinguished philosopher, Sir Charles Lyell, as to the cause of the changes that have taken place in the climate of the northern regions.

  6. When the blood of their servants was shed without cause or provocation, as frequently happened when they first encountered the fierce savage, they punished the aggressors as the law of God allows, demanding "blood for blood.

  7. The cause of his death was an affection of the heart.

  8. To what cause then are we to ascribe the present scarcity?

  9. Gallantry seems to be the main cause of quarrels among them.

  10. I do not mean to affirm that this decrease arises from the Hudson's Bay Company's treatment of them; but, from whatever cause arising, it is quite certain they have greatly decreased.

  11. They might have been really ill; but the beastly manner in which they had been gorging themselves for the past two days being well known to be the cause of their illness, no one felt disposed to pity them.

  12. Those who disliked either the Spaniard or the old church had good cause to fear.

  13. This was sufficient to cause inquiry to be made for the two men in question who were soon identified as the above mentioned Milsom and Fowler.

  14. The rarity of gaol deliveries was a proximate cause of the overcrowding.

  15. Hocker was so overcome, feeling himself the principal cause of the tragedy, that he rushed to a slaughter-house in Hampstead and purposely stained his clothes with blood.

  16. Jaques at once cast about for some one whom he might through a third party cause to be arrested, brought to the Fleet on a sham action, and whom he would assist to escape.

  17. The presence, however, of a small amount of aqueous vapor would at once cause an explosion to occur.

  18. Thus, a true understanding of the general nature of gastric juice was finally arrived at, and the cause of its digestive power was rightfully attributed to the presence of the ferment pepsin and the dilute acid.

  19. Moreover, this altered condition of the blood may be the real cause of the increased transudation, or secretion of lymph so conspicuous after the injection of peptone.

  20. A puff of wind or the fluttering of a bird’s wing is the catalytic force which has given the signal for, and which is the cause of the wide-spread disaster.

  21. Still, many observations failed to show the presence of an acid fluid in the stomach, and it was not until Tiedemann and Gmelin’s[2] masterly researches were published that the cause of this discrepancy was made clear.

  22. The motive for doing so would have to be confessed and would cause much misapprehension.

  23. From the following letter it looks as if the retirement of the hapless British Representative at Tunis was intended as a peace offering to the cause of Anglo-French joint action in Egypt.

  24. The position in which Gordon now found himself in Khartoum began to cause Her Majesty's Government serious misgivings, and many expedients were suggested for relieving Ministers from their embarrassment.

  25. This critical situation and the possibility of a conflict between England and Russia, far from giving satisfaction to the French, afforded them just cause for anxiety.

  26. But I do see that confidence in the duration of the present institutions is diminishing, and that, as a cause or a consequence, dissatisfaction and disquietude are increasing.

  27. The riot at the Lyons railway station seems to have done Boulangism harm even among the ultra-Radicals, and to have been the main cause of Boulanger's having been thrown over by Radical speakers in the Chamber yesterday.

  28. But beyond this I know no cause of quarrel.

  29. England is very popular here at this moment, and the Prince of Wales's visit has been a principal cause of this, but the French have no intention to fight with us or for us.

  30. As in them, the religion of love is reduced to a theology; no subtlety, no fluctuation of fancy or passion is left unregistered, alike in their lighter and their graver moods.

  31. Some further account of the erotic epigrams, which are about four-fifths of the whole number, is given above.

  32. In one view these are the commonplaces of literature; yet they are none the less the expression of the profoundest thought of mankind.

  33. The inscription placed by Androtion over the yet empty tomb, which he has built for himself and his wife and children, expresses that placid acceptance which finds no cause of complaint with life.

  34. A slight torsion or twist is given to the gold spring to cause it to bend with a true curvature in the act of allowing the discharging pallet to pass back after unlocking.

  35. In this case the impulse of the balance would cause the tooth to slightly retrograde and the watch would go but would lack a good motion.

  36. To afford the necessary vibrations a spring is fitted, usually of a helical form, so disposed as to cause the balance to vibrate in arcs back and forth in equal time, provided these arcs are of equal extent.

  37. Selecting a jewel which just fits the fork, we can set it as regards its relation to the staff so it will cause the pitch circle of the jewel pin to coincide with either of dotted circles a or a', Fig.

  38. Again, such a change might cause the jewel pin to strike the horn of the fork, as indicated at the dotted line m, Fig.

  39. From the calamity of shipwreck no one can say that he may at all times remain free; and whilst he is now providing only for the safety of others, a day may come which will render the cause his own.

  40. It is a cause which extends from the palace to the cottage, in which politics and party cannot have any share, and which addresses itself with equal force to all the best feelings of every class in the state.

  41. To insure order and promptitude on these occasions, where the least delay or indecision may cause the loss of all opportunity of acting with effect, a previous and, as far as practicable, a permanent arrangement should be formed.

  42. The clergy of every class will, no doubt, be foremost in the cause of humanity.

  43. Local associations cannot call forth the energy which such a cause demands at our hands; they are only partial benefits, whilst the great evil remains unredressed.

  44. The war was not the only cause of the necessity of Mademoiselle Simone's opposition to antiphonal Gregorian singing.

  45. Where the pursuit of pleasure is king, there is no pity for the moneyless courtier, whatever the cause of his change of fortune.

  46. They cause imagination to run riot in history.

  47. As unhesitatingly as his predecessors had always done, Prince Albert espoused the cause of France in 1914; his son fought through the war in the French army.

  48. By his art he caused them to desist from their sport, and with authority demanded what was the cause of this novel appearance.

  49. In these instances Dunstan seemed to be engaged in the cause of religion, and might be considered as a zealous, though mistaken, advocate of Christian simplicity and purity.

  50. She can arrest the headlong stream, and cause the stars to return back in their orbits.

  51. He said that he repeatedly received a divine premonition of dangers impending over himself and others; and considerable pains have been taken to ascertain the cause and author of these premonitions.

  52. Three successive synods were held on the subject; and the cause of nature it is said would have prevailed, had not Dunstan and his confederates called in the influence of miracles to their aid.

  53. Among other extraordinary productions he formed a man of clay, of such exquisite workmanship, as to have wanted nothing but a living soul to cause him to be acknowledged as the paragon of the world.

  54. In the mean time the obscurity of the oracles was of inexpressible service to the cause of superstition.

  55. The first cause of his being thus called in question was the envy of his rival preachers, whose fame was eclipsed by his superior talents.

  56. Alexander the Great in a subsequent age undertook the same journey with his army, that he might cause himself to be acknowledged for the son of the God, under which character he was in all due form recognised.

  57. Whereupon, crying out that she was the cause of all these woes, she made a noose of the purple garment wherewith she was clad, and hanged herself from a beam of the roof.

  58. Nor could any of the Trojans find him, or they would have given him up; for they hated him like death, as the cause of all their sufferings.

  59. Him will I cause to fall into a deep sleep and hide in Cythera or Idalium, and do thou for one night take upon thee his likeness.

  60. But Antinous, who was the cause of all, lies dead; it was he who lead us on, hoping that he might take your kingdom for himself.

  61. But the death of others will cause us briefer grief, if thou, dear Hector, art not slain.

  62. Whether it was that the imagination of King Midas threw a yellow tinge over everything, or whatever the cause might be, he could not help fancying that the smile with which the stranger regarded him had a kind of golden radiance in it.

  63. Save thy brother, if thou canst, from death; or cause that they break this covenant.

  64. Once embarked, however, he set himself to work in the common cause of the heroes, and was soon as ingenious as Palamedes in rousing laggard warriors.

  65. If I have been the cause of your death, I am indeed unhappy.

  66. They would soon have cause enough to hate this suit of theirs!

  67. And others say that she asked for their shields having the purpose to betray them, and for this cause was slain.

  68. But he had taken refuge with his own people, and the Trojans had to take up his cause against the hostile fleet that was coming across the sea.

  69. And home at last went fair Helen, the cause of all this sorrow, eager to be forgiven by her husband, King Menelaus.

  70. Three months later Mackenzie argued his client's cause before the Court of Appeals in Albany, but Horton had served nearly six months of his sentence before that tribunal decided he had been legally convicted.

  71. I liked him then for some of the enemies he made, and perhaps my enthusiasm was always more for the cause than the man.

  72. Half a dozen times I have seen him lose control of himself, but, awful though his passion was, it always rose in some cause that made me think the better of him as a man.

  73. I did not investigate Clancy's experience in that cause celebre, although I saw reminiscence in his eye.

  74. Meanwhile we can both make further investigations and the cause of Justice will not suffer.

  75. The final cause of this contest among the males seems to be that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

  76. That unknown cause Mr. Butler boldly declares to be the will of the organism itself.

  77. If he does not treat natural selection as a cause of variation, the 'Origin of Species' will turn out to have no raison d'être.

  78. We are profoundly ignorant of the cause of each slight variation or individual difference.

  79. The cause is in my hair,--for eight months it has not been combed.

  80. We seized it immediately with our tweezers; seeing which, the Lama objected to the experiment, alleging that we were going to cause the death of a living being.

  81. You," exclaimed he, frantically, "you only are the cause of this misfortune!

  82. And now I must turn to another and more alarming cause for my frankness to you.

  83. Now, although our good friends down below, are very sensitive upon the subject, we have no hesitation in saying that the cause generally assigned is the true one, viz.

  84. He asked the cause of this, and extracted from his companion the unwilling confession, that over that spot he was attacked by certain uncontrollable sensations, which he always felt where human bodies had been buried.

  85. Such being the case, it may cause our readers some surprise, on referring to the heading of this paper, to find it termed a chapter on gambling.

  86. Indeed, it has ever been a passion with your Frenchmen to cause a scene when dying: they would not give a "thank you" to cut their throats in private.

  87. I know not the views of the governor in thus summoning me before him, but conscience tells me I have no cause for fear.

  88. But surely the incomprehensibility of natural effects is no reason for assigning to them a cause that is still more incomprehensible than any of those within our cognisance.

  89. One cause of the moral corruption of France in the closing years of the old régime was undoubtedly the lax and shifting interpretations, by which the Jesuit directors had softened the rigour of general moral principles.

  90. It is only in the moral region that we ought to seek the true cause of inequality of intellect.

  91. Martin quotes is the 147th, and in it the sombre words of his quotation follow this:--"Let the people never see royal blood flow for any cause whatever.

  92. While Good Words made his name known, and helped the cause he had so deeply at heart, his relations with the queen and the royal family strengthened yet further his position in the country.

  93. The distinction between magic and religion is to be sought not in the sympathetic character of the former, nor in any supposed necessary sequence of cause and effect, nor yet in its maleficent character.

  94. At least forty days' notice of the meeting must be given, and the cause thereof specified.

  95. The most natural cause to which to attribute the difference between the results for different epochs in Table XLVI.

  96. Thus the cause to which magnetic disturbances are due seems in many cases to be persistent in one direction for a considerable time.

  97. If you want to cause sickness, you pierce the eye and blindness results; or you pierce the waist and the stomach gets sick.

  98. His Congressional district was naturally Democratic, and its boundaries were changed two or three times by Democratic legislatures for the purpose of so grouping Democratic strongholds as to cause his defeat.

  99. With good cause she boasteth Herself in deep riddles Above all the Skalds Skilful to be.

  100. The Cossseans were plunderers, from whose raids Media suffered constant annoyance; but they were at no time of sufficient strength to cause any serious fear.

  101. Ctesias declared the cause of the capture to have been the destruction of the city wall by an unexpected rise of the river.

  102. Like the Hebrew, they often closely resembled one another, and a slight defect in the stone will cause one to be mistaken for another.

  103. In spring and early summer the stream receives enormous accessions from the spring rains and the melting of the snows, which produce floods that often cause great damage to the lands and villages along the valley.

  104. Another quite distinct cause may also have helped to bring about the result above indicated.

  105. When the Captain was gone, I tried to sound my father as to the cause of so sudden a departure.

  106. Here is a catastrophe for the Two Britannic Excellencies, and the Cause of Freedom!

  107. Belleisle again may, if he pleases, call his the Cause of Sovereignty.

  108. That were to me the 'Cause of Liberty;' and any the smallest contribution towards that kind of 'Liberty' were a sacred thing!

  109. There was no good soldiering on the part of the French except by gleams here and there; bad soldiering for the most part, and the cause was radically bad.

  110. For the common cause he accomplished nearly nothing by this Moravian Expedition.

  111. This Breslau Adventure, which had yielded Friedrich so important an acquisition, was furthermore the cause of ending these Strehlen inactivities, and of recommencing field operations.

  112. The beggar there," said her husband, "has joys of his own which seem to him great, and cause him as much pleasure as a king would find in the magnificence of his palace.

  113. It was a wisdom owl, which continually knocked its head against the tree, but he was unable to say with certainty whether its head or the hollow trunk of the tree was the cause of the noise.

  114. John kissed him many times and told him he must not go, he must remain with him, for he was the cause of all his good fortune.

  115. Joy reigned through the whole house, as well as in the stork's nest; although there the chief cause was really the good food, especially the quantities of frogs, which seemed to spring out of the ground in swarms.

  116. Shall we go there and see what the cause of it is?

  117. She could get no bread for me, and I felt quite grieved to the heart that I should be cause of so much trouble to another, and be treated as a cast-off coin.

  118. And she had more real cause for fear than they have, for I might have gnawed through the tree on which her life depended.

  119. It would make your forehead hot, cause your pulse to beat with agitation, and conjure up dreams which would appear realities.

  120. If even a tiny spark had remained it might set fire to something, and cause great damage.

  121. One spoke of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking became the black cause of enmity between them, and at last they parted.

  122. One of them wished to go home and try on her ball dress, for this very dress and the ball were the cause of her being confirmed this time, otherwise she would not have been allowed to go.

  123. As for allowing that there could be any fault in our workmanship, that our inexperienced joinery can have been the cause of the shanty's premature decay, that, even Old Colonial says, is ridiculous.

  124. It is good that we should cause them so to marry.

  125. We hope, by this concentrated drive, to kill as many pigs as possible, and to cause the rest of them to retire beyond the narrow space between the rivers; then the whole of our block will be free from them for some time to come.

  126. The blow-fly will cause its disagreeable offspring to take part in every meal.

  127. The cause of all the uproar and excitement is seen among the spreading and massive roots of the rata; it is a boar, one of the largest any of us ever saw, and he is now "bailed up" below the great tree.

  128. Fences must be strongly and closely put up to keep them out, and they must be continually examined and carefully repaired when necessary; for one rotten stake in a fence has often been the cause of a loss of great magnitude.

  129. Mysterious dangers, not to be explained, are darkly hinted at, in order that cause may be shown for their attendance.

  130. After all, we have no great cause for complaint.

  131. The defects of the Lily do not cause us any annoyance, on this occasion of our first voyage aboard of her.

  132. They make us feel at home in the house very speedily, and cause us to forget that we are paying lodgers.

  133. There is one garment that has been the cause of introducing "hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness" among us.

  134. My idea is, he is going to cause us trouble if he can.

  135. Here the matter was dropped, but Dick had good cause to remember this conversation later on.

  136. That will cause another delay, and maybe Mrs. Stanhope will get sick of him.

  137. Desiring speedy judgment in a cause respecting a horse.

  138. The admiral shall give an order for payment of the salaries due to them all till that day, with letters of recommendation to their Catholic majesties to cause them to be paid.

  139. The admiral therefore requested these three men to repair to the town and cause a chaplain to come to the hermitage to say mass for them.

  140. Nothing was omitted in this letter which seemed calculated to establish our cause at court, and my name was signed to it along with the rest.

  141. That is both snuff up a certain powder named cobaba by the nose, which intoxicates them and makes them speak incoherently, which they say is talking with the cemis, who tell them the cause of the sickness.


  142. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplish; achieve; act; action; activity; agency; agent; ambition; antecedent; aspiration; author; base; basis; bear; because; beget; being; bind; bottom; breed; brew; bring; call; calling; campaign; case; cause; commitment; compel; conceive; consideration; considering; constrain; contract; create; crusade; deed; determinant; determinative; drive; effect; effectuate; element; elicit; enforce; engender; engineer; entail; enterprise; establish; etiology; evince; evoke; excite; excuse; execute; explanation; factor; faith; father; for; force; found; foundation; generate; get; give; goal; ground; grounds; hatch; have; ideal; impel; implement; inaugurate; induce; inspiration; inspire; intention; interest; issue; lawsuit; lead; lifework; litigation; lodestar; mainspring; make; matter; motivate; motive; movement; necessity; now; obligation; occasion; originate; part; perform; principle; proceedings; procure; produce; prompt; prosecution; provocation; provoke; raise; realize; reason; restrain; right; rise; root; sake; score; seed; side; since; sire; source; spawn; spring; stimulus; subject; substance; suit; tie; touch; vocation; warrant; whereas; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cause and; cause death; cause the; cause thee; cause them; cause they; caused him; caused himself; caused the; caused them