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Example sentences for "change the"

  • I have a young birkie," said the Lord Keeper, willing to change the tone of the conversation, "of much the same turn.

  • Faustina sat leaning her head upon Corona's shoulder, while Giovanni looked out of the window into the dark streets, his rage boiling within him, and all the hotter because he was powerless to change the course of events.

  • So all this riot and revolution has meant something after all," added San Giacinto to change the subject "Garibaldi has taken Monte Rotondo, I hear to-day.

  • He made this remark to change the subject, and glanced at the book the young girl still held in her hand.

  • Once old Saracinesca mentioned Gouache, but both Corona and Giovanni hastened to change the subject.

  • When Somerset had been in his turn destroyed, his destroyer received the support of Cranmer in a wicked attempt to change the course of the succession.

  • But, as the two Houses did not choose to change the dynasty, it was necessary that they should do directly what at the Revolution was done indirectly.

  • They wished to bring the King into a situation which might render it necessary for him to grant their just and wise demands, but not to subvert the constitution or to change the dynasty.

  • Change the structure of the sentence; substitute one synonym for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.

  • Miss Tox, who had experience of her fair friend, and knew that under the pressure of any slight fatigue or vexation she was prone to a discursive kind of irritability, availed herself of the pause, to change the subject.

  • Brothers," he said in his deep voice, "a stranger has come among us, a beast of curious form who is a great magician and is able to change the shapes of men or beasts at his will.

  • However, if I transformed myself into a tree, I would always remain a tree, because then I could not utter the magic word to change the transformation.

  • Mark how the apostle seems to change the person.

  • But I don't want to change the balance of the constitution, and I don't think Grey would.

  • She wrote it over three times, not because she wished to change the wording, but because her hand was unusually uncertain, and she could not bear that Mr. Casaubon should think her handwriting bad and illegible.

  • Four years had been sufficient to change the face of the township.

  • And now that we have settled the fate of the world, gentlemen, let us change the subject.

  • I went to the Bishop of Grenoble and asked him to change the cure.

  • So you work at the chateau, then," said he, finally, to change the conversation.

  • Madame de Bergenheim, when these remarks and various others of a similar nature came up, tried to change the conversation, but she felt an antipathy for her husband bordering upon aversion.

  • But," she continued, in order to change the conversation, "how fine you look!

  • Pierre saw that Boris wished to change the subject, and being of the same mind he began explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the Boulogne expedition.

  • If we had had only peasants to fight, we should not have let the enemy come so far," said he with a sense of shame and wishing to change the subject.

  • Pierre saw that the count was much upset and tried to change the subject, but the count returned to his troubles.

  • I told him to change the course, and to go by starboard, to see if the brigantine would follow us, but she immediately imitated our manoeuvre.

  • I pretended not to understand what he was alluding to, and to change the subject of conversation I asked him how he intended to occupy his time in Venice until his military appointment gave him serious duties to perform.

  • The marquis, who was no lover of dissimulation, began to laugh, and the countess, fearing he would cover her with ridicule, hastened to change the conversation.

  • She observed my new ring, and in order to change the subject of conversation she praised M.

  • It ran as follows: "I went to the bank to change the piece of gold you gave me.

  • All the novelist need do would be to change the clothes of his characters.

  • No more pernicious notion ever obtained lodgment in society than the common one that to "rise in the world" is necessarily to change the "condition.

  • And likewise, it would be a very simple matter to change the yield of corn in Georgia from eleven bushels per acre and have it read one hundred and ten bushels.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "change 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:
    change direction; change from; change horses; change the; change their; changed conditions; changed from; changed habits; changed himself; changed horses; changed voice; early start; has been; having passed; heavy iron; idea that; never did; other night; paid little; potassium nitrate; scanty supply; thine enemy; this conception; thus used; two inches; when heated