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Example sentences for "contract"

Lexicographically close words:
contrabands; contrabass; contraception; contraceptive; contraceptives; contracted; contractile; contractility; contracting; contraction
  1. Resolved, That this government can recognize the right of one person to the services of another only upon bona-fide contract made and entered into, and equally binding on both parties.

  2. The contract between my mother and Mrs. Whitman was, that I was to continue my studies with Mrs. Whitman, and take part with her in the instruction and care of the children.

  3. She moved her buttocks, and after a few violent thrusts I felt her parts contract on my piercer and she pumped the sperm from my testicles at the same moment that she herself discharged profusely.

  4. This motion became more rapid, and soon the lips of Olivia's glorious con seemed to contract and embrace Horace's staff closely.

  5. I moved my finger with such extreme rapidity I could feel her vagina beginning to contract on my finger; she wiggled herself to and fro.

  6. If it wasn't for the contract I have for the soldiers' barracks and the sergeant's good word, I wouldn't go anear it.

  7. That contract for the soldiers gives me a great deal to attend to.

  8. Once, he agreed to build a house for a peasant in exchange for the peasant's soul; but if the house were not finished before cockcrow, the contract was to be null and void.

  9. Browne succeeded him, and, as the contract for the new church had already been made, he carefully attended to its erection.

  10. This contract was fulfilled at least in part, and many of the cents struck under it are to be found in the cabinets of collectors.

  11. The next year a contract was made with James Jarvis of New Haven to strike off three hundred tons of these coins.

  12. The desire for a system of contract is sure to arise, and in an Empire the efficient contractor is more likely to be found in the central state than in any of its dependencies.

  13. They're having such an exasperating time with the contract this week!

  14. For instance, on a contract like this one in Iowa, the engineers must act as paymasters, each for his division.

  15. That's why this contract will be a two-year job, and a stiff job at that.

  16. Rod and the captain were talking of the contract and of its prospects.

  17. As Ned said, the contract had never shown such team-work.

  18. The work is a huge drainage contract in western Illinois.

  19. Well, because they're the only kind that any company can depend upon to have nerve enough and grit enough to swing such a forlorn hope of a contract through.

  20. For that contract has struggled with mighty serious difficulties, so far.

  21. He's so rapt over his miserable old contract that he is not giving me one thought," Marian sulked to herself.

  22. There is the contract camp, the whole plant!

  23. Beginning upon the first day of June, 1912, you will be transferred to the post of assistant superintendent on a large drainage contract in northern Iowa.

  24. As you know, the contract provides that the inspector must look over every yard of excavation and approve it before it can be considered as actually done.

  25. Hallowell and I had nothing but bad luck on this contract until two weeks ago, when Locke and Crosby came on their inspection tour," Ned went on serenely.

  26. And this is Mammy Easter, who came all the way from Norfolk with me, to take care of the babies, so that I could live here on the contract with Ned.

  27. When it comes to handling the mass of rough-and-ready labor that the contract employs, I am confident that your father's son will show the needed judgment and authority.

  28. And he pulled out a contract made in the name of a world-famed tenor, and dotted over with tens of hundreds of pounds as a field is with daisies.

  29. Nancy, Bemolle, and Fraeulein read the contract over very carefully, while the impresario drank claret and smoked cigarettes.

  30. I have a contract with the biggest star singer in Europe to sign here to-day.

  31. Here was a contract in duplicate ready for them to sign.

  32. A contract was drawn up, running for five years, giving Owen a salary, and also a percentage after sales mounted above a certain sum.

  33. He organized the Keystone Bridge Works, and took a contract to build a railroad-bridge across the Ohio River.

  34. Kittson had the government contract for carrying the mails, and managed, with the help of trading in furs and loading up with merchandise on his own account, to make considerable money.

  35. They struggled on, trying to live up to their contract with Pratt, but soon their surplus was wiped out, and they found themselves in debt to Pratt to the tune of several thousand dollars.

  36. In 1846, by express contract with the Trustees, Mr. Cocke became Principal and Steward of the Seminary without stipulated salary.

  37. They dwarf your souls, they contract your minds.

  38. Only about forty per cent of all animals bitten by a mad dog contract the disease.

  39. The condition of the mucous membrane of the air tube after an attack of this disease, makes it very easy for the person to contract inflammation of that part and have in consequence laryngitis, bronchitis, or pneumonia.

  40. The child screams sharply; the cry comes suddenly and returns every few minutes; he draws up his legs and feet; the muscles of his face contract and he has other signs of pain.

  41. All children exposed to the disease do not contract the disease.

  42. Sickly persons, or those having bad colds, influenza bronchitis or pneumonia or any general weakness are much more liable to contract tuberculosis than a perfectly well or robust person.

  43. There are reasons why everyone who is bitten does not contract the disease.

  44. The pupil is small and the light does not make it contract readily.

  45. Catterick Church, Yorkshire, and the contract entered into A.

  46. So perhaps it was only the sun that made her brows contract just the tiniest bit at the same instant that she discovered Djor Kantos sitting in earnest conversation with Olvia Marthis, daughter of the Jed of Hastor.

  47. Tara felt the muscles of her heart contract with the apprehension that had been growing upon her as the coils of Fate settled more closely about her and no sign came from Turan.

  48. Another king, Sin-sum-lisir, is mentioned in a contract dated at Nippur in his accession year.

  49. The forms of the names and the lengths of the several reigns have been confirmed by contemporary monuments, especially by the numerous contract tablets.

  50. After all, Harriet was but a girl, and had not thought very deeply of all that the contract implied between Sidney and herself.

  51. The viscount will propose a marriage-contract instead of a mortgage, and the doctor will make the husband settle on his jewel of a girl the sum he has now paid to secure the alliance.

  52. Columbus preserved, amid so many material and minute cares, which freeze the soul and contract the character, a profound and poetic sentiment of the grandeur of nature.

  53. In the month of February following, Argall, aided by a small land force under Captain Edward Brewster, attacked the chief of the Warraskoyacks for a breach of contract and burned two of his towns.

  54. By the terms of the contract he says that he was to be admiral for life, and “in the renewing of their Letters pattents so to be nominated.

  55. In wet weather the leaves of the Cinquefoil contract and bend over the flower, forming, as it were, a little tent to cover it--an apt emblem of an affectionate mother protecting her child.

  56. No contract can now be made with them, except such as shall be negotiated before the time of offering or afterwards, and the power of the Postmaster-general to pay them high prices is, practically, without limitation.

  57. He had no idea of making a contract with these thousand banks for the reception of their notes.

  58. Is not the distribution part of the contract as well as the payment?

  59. It was a contract between new parties--between the United States and their creditors.

  60. Consistently with common honesty, can we put the consideration money of the contract into the hands of those who we know are about to defraud the people who trusted them?

  61. If the muscle contract now, evidently the water will be squeezed through any opening in the bladder.

  62. Who attested the contract for the marriage of Evangeline and Gabriel?

  63. Why does the muscle contract when that something reaches it?

  64. There were so many turpentine camps, or places where contract labor was used to get out valuable wood, or other products, that a complete inquiry would take a long time.

  65. What he signed was a contract to work in one of the many camps in the wilds of the interior.

  66. I don't mind mixing up with some men, but those contract laborers are pretty bad.

  67. They were just going to leave, when the agent he come in with the rent contract for us to sign.

  68. Mr. Armstrong unlocked a safe, and took from it the contract in regard to the patent.

  69. I will try my best to make him sign the papers on those terms," he said, and carried them away to his own den, where he forged the name of Stephen Trimble to both contract and check.

  70. The contract for the new invention was returned to Mr. Armstrong at the same time with the estimates of the different mechanics for the improvements of Rickett's Court.

  71. He brought a lot of queer fellows here under contract to work for him, Italians, or Greeks, or some sort of foreigners.

  72. Whether official, contractor or working-man, they owed job or contract to the influence that Barry seemed to exercise in the councils of the city.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contract" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviate; abridge; abstract; accord; acquire; affair; agree; agreement; apprentice; arrangement; attempt; attenuate; bag; bang; bar; bargain; barricade; bind; blackjack; bolt; bond; bridge; business; button; capture; cartel; catch; charter; choke; circumscribe; clap; clip; close; collapse; come; commit; commitment; compact; compress; compromise; concentrate; condense; confine; consolidate; consortium; constrict; contain; contract; convention; corral; covenant; cover; cramp; crop; curtail; cut; deal; decrease; deed; derive; diminish; dock; draw; dwindle; earn; effort; engage; engagement; enterprise; epitomize; erupt; farm; fasten; flex; fold; foreshorten; form; gain; game; gather; get; guaranty; harvest; incur; instrument; invite; key; knit; latch; limit; lock; make; match; narrow; negotiate; net; nip; obligate; obligation; obtain; occlude; operation; overdose; pact; padlock; pick; plan; pledge; plight; plumb; poll; procure; program; project; promise; proposition; protocol; prune; pucker; purse; reap; recapitulate; recognizance; reduce; restrict; retrench; run; sack; score; seal; secure; shave; shear; shorten; shrink; shrivel; shut; sicken; sign; slam; snap; snub; solidify; squeeze; stipulate; stipulation; straiten; strangle; stunt; summarize; take; taper; task; telescope; transaction; treaty; trim; troth; truncate; understanding; undertake; undertaking; venture; welcome; win; wither; work; wrinkle; zipper