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Example sentences for "consider"

Lexicographically close words:
conserved; conserver; conservers; conserves; conserving; considera; considerable; considerably; consideracion; considerate
  1. Marboeuf, to whom I shall ever consider myself as under great obligations, His invitation was given in so kind and cordial a manner, that I willingly accepted of it.

  2. If we consider you one way, you are the tallest, and if we consider you another way, you are the thickest man alive.

  3. Consider the consequence of your choice, not only to yourselves in particular, but to the island in general.

  4. But I consider this infidel rage as but a temporary mode of the human understanding, and am well persuaded that e'er long we shall return to a more calm philosophy.

  5. Everything I admit has a life, but I do not consider old age decay any more than I think exuberant youth immature childhood; death may be only arrested development and life itself an exhausted convention.

  6. The first duty of the Abbot will be to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the removal of hideous monuments which disfigure the edifice: nothing prior to 1700 coming under its consideration.

  7. The Professor realised that he must act cautiously, and consider his position quietly.

  8. As said before, we do not contemplate these institutions as mere places of refuge; we do not consider the attempt and the hope of cure relinquished in their wards, but that the means of treatment are diligently persevered with.

  9. The future provision for the insane forms an important chapter, which, in order to consider the several schemes proposed, is divided into several sections, viz.

  10. For our own part, we consider also that it would be to the interests both of patients and rate-payers to elevate the position of the medical superintendents of asylums, and to pay them liberally.

  11. I hope you will kindly consider this as a visit,' said one of them to his neighbour, with his head just above the water.

  12. Kenneth Matheson very kindly said, 'I know you will consider it sacrilege my pressing you to come to Highcliffe whilst I am its tenant'--which I allowed to be the case!

  13. Consider how cheap a kindness it is not to speak ill: it only requires silence,' is an exhortation of Bishop Tillotson.

  14. He says people may consider it a terrible thing for a Bishop to be drawn hither and thither by these passions, but then it is assuredly a fine thing to have them well under control.

  15. I cannot understand how people can consider such a mere commemorative service 'a thing to live by,' as they call it; and all the transubstantiation idea is to me too truly horrible.

  16. Oh, certainly,' said the neighbour, 'and I hope you will kindly consider this as a visit returned.

  17. Then I am all the more glad that we have taken you, for we shall probably soon be at war with England, and then you will make your sketches useful to your Government; so you will consider yourself under arrest.

  18. The neighbours are very kindly beginning to consider me 'the hermit of Holmhurst,' and come to visit me in my cell, especially on Tuesdays, without expecting me to go to them.

  19. I have had a pleasant visit of three days to Cobham, and felt much inclined to accede to Lord and Lady Darnley's wish at the end, that I would consider my visit just begun, and stay another three days.

  20. Consider the Manor your home and Kit's until she is perfectly well again.

  21. For which the teachers consider themselves lucky.

  22. We've heard of this shop opening and we consider it an A-1 opportunity for us, and it will give us a great deal of pleasure to put in some cameras for you on very satisfactory terms.

  23. He was under no obligation to consent to or even to consider seriously any terms which the Spaniards might offer, so that he had nothing to lose by such a proceeding, and it was barely possible that he might gain valuable information.

  24. Let us consider first the interests and sentiments of Spain at this great crisis in her affairs.

  25. Under no circumstances would the Spanish government so much as consider the sale of the island at any price whatever.

  26. Sympathizers with his expedition refused to consider it a failure.

  27. We, the laborers, do not ignore the value of nationality, but at the present moment consider it of secondary moment.

  28. Nevertheless, if we consider the matter calmly, it must be confessed that the Pope had some grounds for thinking that he might make these appointments without any danger of deeply offending this country.

  29. On this the Archduke John pulled out his watch and said, 'Prince, in half an hour we must give an answer to the people, and we have not yet begun to consider what we shall say to them.

  30. We first had to consider what steps we should take to form a competent Court.

  31. The Whigs, who really are a party, and, though in a state of great insubordination, do generally consider themselves one army and under one chief, do not at all like the idea of treating with the Peelites on anything like equal terms.

  32. These are new and very bad symptoms, and it is impossible not to feel alarm when we consider the vast amount of the population as compared with any repressive power we possess.

  33. Clarendon told him he did not consider it as such, as a country like France could always provide everything very quickly, but that he thought there were other causes operating in the direction of peace.

  34. Napier, however, took twelve hours to consider of it, and the Duke told me he did not at all like it.

  35. The Prelates all said they should like to take time to consider their opinions, and then to give them in writing.

  36. If you choose to disgrace your family and disappoint my expectations, consider yourself entirely cut off from me, that's all.

  37. I have no time to consider them, no space in my brain for them, no memory that such things, or anything outside of what I am describing, exists even.

  38. I consider I have your word that you will not write, nor hear from her, directly or indirectly, within this year?

  39. Have I time to consider then whether the British public like the word night-shirt, and whether it would not be safer to put Tomkins into a dressing-gown?

  40. We are to consider this language as rather expressive of anxiety, that of anger; yet, perhaps, it may be admitted to contain a mixture of both.

  41. They consider all their children in the light of property, exposing them to sale as they would their cattle, and too often obtain large sums from the agents of despotism and depravity.

  42. Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

  43. Consider the impressive appeal of the apostle: "Only let your conversation be as becometh the gospel of Christ.

  44. Then your best plan would undoubtedly be to consider yourself and work for a time simply as an ordinary assistant-master.

  45. One meets so few young men nowadays who consider anybody except themselves.

  46. It was no time to consider the etiquette of the ballroom.

  47. It is no part of our purpose to consider these tribes, as, over and above the influence of contiguous examples, they constitute no part of the evidence affecting the general question of the plan of removal.

  48. When we consider the effects which our own humble efforts as inhabitants of a distant post have produced in this labor of humanity, have we not every encouragement to persevere?

  49. The Indians were frequently brought to consider the subject, which was one that increased its importance with years.

  50. We consider the Pilgrims as the embodiment of the true ancient Teutonic type.

  51. General councils, or conventions, not exact in the period of their occurrence, consider and decide all general questions.

  52. He promised, however, to consider seriously the means he might have of ultimately relieving them from the pressure of the Register, and, in the mean time, offered to take 300 sets of the stock on hand.

  53. As soon as a volume was printed, Ballantyne conveyed it to Constable, who did not for a moment doubt from what pen it proceeded, but took a few days to consider of the matter, and then offered L700 for the copyright.

  54. David Hume, and every lawyer here whom I have spoken to, consider the demand as illegal.

  55. I shall always consider it as the proudest incident of my life that his Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, whose taste in literature is so highly distinguished, should have thought of naming me to the situation of poet laureate.

  56. In point of emolument, everybody knows that I sacrifice much money by withholding my name; and what should I gain by it, that any human being has a right to consider as an unfair advantage?

  57. Will your Grace consider whether you can do what I propose, in conscience and safety, and favor me with your answer?

  58. I consider myself fortunate in having a neighbour of your experience, and if you will let me I shall come to you for advice often.

  59. Not a sound passed my lips as I got back to shore, somehow, and, weak from loss of blood, sank down to consider how to get rid of the leeches.

  60. Macpherson and Fripp, it stated, were booking guests for the remainder of the season and urged those who had a taste for the Great Outdoors to consider what they had to offer.

  61. She would learn that to be singled out by him for special attention meant something, and he did not consider himself a conceited man either.

  62. You tell Canby that when he makes me a decent offer I'll consider it.

  63. There is no other way of getting it to her that I consider safe.

  64. I may be thought inhuman by some of the people who read these memoirs, but I dare swear that none will consider me a fool.

  65. The wisdom of this course will be apparent to you, when you consider that you have already confessed to a confused impression of me in your mind!

  66. I have myself to consider as well as the cause.

  67. I consider that I do quite enough for the cause as it is.

  68. I began to consider what further step I should take in my campaign to elucidate the mystery surrounding that strange brotherhood.

  69. You will be asked to provide the means of accepting the invitation of the Italian Government to take part in an approaching conference to consider the adoption of a universal prime meridian from which to reckon longitude and time.

  70. At night they halted on the edge of woods so far from the nearest farm house that Prescott did not consider it necessary to hunt up the owner and ask permission.

  71. But I don't make that claim because I consider myself ever likely to be one of the great ones.

  72. But just stop to consider this point," Prescott urged, and started on a new, cynical line of argument.

  73. I think, without boasting, we may consider ourselves the six most valuable candidates for Gridley High School football this year," Prescott declared.

  74. Most naval men consider it a species of treason to regard the defeat as due to any thing but extraordinary ill fortune.

  75. Exactly as any outsider must consider Warrington's attack on the British brig Nautilus in 1815, as a piece of needless cruelty; so any outsider must consider Hilyar as having most treacherously broken faith with Porter.

  76. Three blanks occur, and we consider it rather creditable to Captains John Shaw, Daniel S.

  77. In the first place, I consider our original and greatest error was in attempting to regain the anchorage; being greatly superior in sailing powers we should have borne up and run before the wind.

  78. Footnote: Some of my countrymen will consider this but scant approbation, to which the answer must be that a history is not a panegyric.

  79. A simple application of the rule of three shows that even if I accepted James' figures, I would be obliged to consider the Macedonian as of about 1,185 tons, to make her correspond with the system I had adopted for the American ships.

  80. But it is a mistake to consider these cases as representing the average; an ordinary privateer was, naturally enough, no match for a British regular cruiser of equal force.

  81. To consider his work in connection with modern illustration is to speak of contrasts.

  82. Character illustration is then a subject within a subject, and if it be impossible to consider it without overseeing the limitations, yet a different point of view gives a different order of impressions.

  83. In this connection one may consider those draughtsmen who illustrate modern wonder-books with Zankiwanks, Krabs and Wallypugs.

  84. Mr. Selwyn Image and Mr. Herbert Horne can hardly be included among book illustrators, so in this connection one may not stop to consider the decorative strength of their ideal in art.

  85. However, here one need not consider this, for the decorative illustrator has usually literature to illustrate, and a commission to be beautiful and imaginative in his work.

  86. What remains for us here to consider is the achievement of the early designers and woodcutters in the field of Decorative and Character Illustrations with which Miss Sketchley deals in her first and third chapters.

  87. None can doubt this, save such as either consider not rightly the nature of things, or are incapable of comprehending the force of any reasoning.

  88. Sidenote: She now begins, I own, to look unkindly on you; but if you consider the number of your blessings, you must confess that you are still happy.

  89. Sidenote: The multitude doth not consider this.

  90. Add respect to sufficiency and power, and consider all three as one and the same thing.

  91. Sidenote: Upon the whole, then, none of those enjoyments which thou didst consider as thy own did ever properly belong to thee.

  92. Sidenote: But now consider wherein this felicity resides.

  93. Sidenote: If you consider the infinite space of eternity you will have no reason to rejoice in this supposition.

  94. Sidenote: Consider how great is the impotence of the wicked.

  95. Sidenote: They consider only the gratification of their lusts, they think there is happiness in the liberty of doing evil and in exemption from punishment.

  96. Sidenote: But consider how small and void of weight is that glory.

  97. It is scarcely surprising that Harrison Ainsworth should have secured to himself a very wide popularity, when we consider how happily he has chosen his themes.

  98. This translation of Ranke we consider to be very superior to any other in the English language.

  99. In our time every one expected to see sport entirely destroyed by railroads; but we were mistaken, and have lived to consider them almost an essential auxiliary of a good hunting district.

  100. I am now about to use my understanding for the first time, and consider the step which, with well-advised purpose and with the help of God, I have already taken, and which is my highest happiness?

  101. I consider the conduct of the bishop and council to be arbitrary and illegal," he continued.

  102. This document they now intended to present to the king, as they were willing to enter into any treaty with the spiritual Lord of the town, which their sovereign might consider just and reasonable.

  103. In the name of the Danish clergy, I solemnly protest against the interdict; but in thus protesting against it, I consider that I in nowise encroach on the churches freedom, or attack you, most learned archbishop!

  104. As far as I understand you, you seem to consider yourself not only as the lord and master of nature, but of Deity itself: such discourse sounds to me like the greatest and most presumptuous madness.

  105. The judge bid them consider of it again; but still they brought in their verdict Not guilty.

  106. Her executors accordingly waited on the doctor, and acquainted him with the conditions of the will; who being very much surprised at such a request, desired them to call again, and he would consider of it.

  107. Love is a distracted attention: from contemplation Of one's self one turns to consider one's dream.

  108. By the way, dear reader, did you ever happen to consider the possibility that you are a lunatic, and perhaps confined in an asylum?

  109. He goes on to say that most people consider the Introductory Epistles--that to Canto V.

  110. Scott's answer was, 'I consider the capacity to labour as part of the happiness I have enjoyed.

  111. I consider the imputation as chiefly an invention to justify modern intolerance.

  112. What fruit we do grow is good, and pays well on account of its earliness, but I do not consider that this State will ever be able to compete with the South in the growth of the cherry.


  113. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consider" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    account; acknowledge; adjudicate; admire; admit; agitate; air; allow; analyze; ascertain; assess; assume; balance; believe; brood; calculate; canvass; care; chew; class; compare; concede; conceive; conclude; consider; consult; contemplate; controvert; count; credit; daresay; debate; deduce; deem; deliberate; digest; discount; discourse; discuss; disregard; divine; dream; entertain; equate; esteem; estimate; examine; expect; eye; fancy; feel; figure; find; flirt; gather; grant; guess; handle; hear; heed; hold; imagine; infer; investigate; judge; let; look; maintain; meditate; mind; muse; note; observe; opiate; opine; perceive; perpend; place; play; ponder; prefigure; presume; presuppose; purpose; puzzle; rap; reason; reckon; reflect; regard; relax; repute; respect; review; revolve; ruminate; say; scrupulous; see; sense; sift; speculate; study; suppose; surmise; suspect; take; talk; think; traverse; treasury; treat; turn; understand; ventilate; view; waive; weigh


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    consider myself; consider that; consider them; consider whether; considerable amount; considerable body; considerable depth; considerable difficulty; considerable distances; considerable elevation; considerable importance; considerable length; considerable numbers; considerable period; considerable portion; considerable share; considerable sum; considerable thickness; considerable time; considerable town; considerable variation; considered merely; considered them; considering everything; considering that; considering the