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Example sentences for "copy"

Lexicographically close words:
copulate; copulating; copulation; copulative; copulatory; copybook; copybooks; copye; copyhold; copyholder
  1. One copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.

  2. On this occasion, however, I promoted him on the spot, and forwarded a copy of my order to the War Department, asking that my act might be confirmed and Chamberlain's name sent to the Senate for confirmation without any delay.

  3. General Sherman furnished a copy himself to General Badeau, who printed it in his history of my campaigns.

  4. The original was then transcribed by General Parker upon official headed paper and a copy furnished General Lee.

  5. I put the information of what was being done for the relief of Knoxville into writing, and directed that in some way or other it must be secretly managed so as to have a copy of this fall into the hands of General Longstreet.

  6. A glance at the copy placed in our hands has enabled us to indicate its nature.

  7. One series illustrates Swiss history; and the Kapellbrücke has the pictorial life of the Saint of the town; while the Mile Bridge exhibits a quaint and rough copy of the famous "Dance of Death.

  8. I have been sorry ever since that I did not copy the whole of it.

  9. Twenty minutes later the reporter returned, sat down at his desk, and began to rattle off copy on his typewriter.

  10. But the copy he wrote Of a five dollar note Was so good he is now in Sing Sing.

  11. Then he sold me a second-hand gasoline launch and a copy of 'Venetian Life,' by W.

  12. Without the least hesitation the clerk reached for a copy of Parkman's "A Half Century of Conflict.

  13. In Naples and Bologna it was publicly burned, and in Modena a professor of the University who was found to have a copy in his possession was fined and removed from his chair.

  14. These volumes were already in Odo's hands, and a manuscript copy of the Odes to Free America was being circulated among the liberals in Pianura, and had been brought to his notice by Andreoni.

  15. Casts of the Vatican busts stood against the walls and a niche at one end of the library contained a marble copy of the Apollo Belvedere.

  16. But, if you came hither to dispute, why do you not carry on your argument with mildness and good manners, according to the copy which is set you by the European Bonza?

  17. You shall behold them, neither altered, nor in that confusion which they are in other authors; but faithfully translated from the copy of a manuscript extant in the archives of Goa.

  18. In the copy which her husband's stenographer prepared, the original was reduced fully a third.

  19. The copy of the Press he bought contained the account of the accident in Snoqualmie Pass.

  20. His mind ran back from this final, elaborated copy to the first rough draft Weatherbee had shown him one night at the beginning of that interminable winter they had passed together in the Alaska solitudes.

  21. I have here, gentlemen, a copy of the Alaska record showing the transfer of David Weatherbee's interest in the Aurora mine to Hollis Tisdale; it bears the signature of his wife.

  22. There was a silence, during which Mr. Bromley thoughtfully folded his copy and placed it in his pocket-book.

  23. The chief gave one look at my bunch of copy and warned me, for the last time, the paper wasn't publishing any novels.

  24. Had he then sought her at her hotel, ostensibly to present her with a copy of the newspaper in which those illustrations were published, and so ingratiated himself far enough in her favor to gather another story from her?

  25. He told me one of the ladies on board--he did not mention her name--who read his copy later, offered to dispose of it for him.

  26. Perhaps I shall ask you to copy the exercise questions too.

  27. She told me to take Macaulay as a model, but I can no more copy other people's ways of writing than I could improve my features by staring at the Venus de Medici.

  28. Maisie won't even copy her exercise questions; she always relies on me.

  29. It you doubt it procure from the clerk of your County Court a copy of the public laws of 1883 and read the fifteen pages relating to drainage.

  30. They have but few opportunities of hearing good preaching, but I have never entered more than three or four cabins where I did not see a copy of the Bible.

  31. Soon after, in a private meeting of some principal barons at London, he showed them a copy of Henry I.

  32. Since the first publication of this history, Lord Lyttelton has published a copy of the treaty between Henry and Lewis, by which it appears, if there was no secret article, that Henry was not guilty of any fraud in this transaction.

  33. An American writes a book, he sends a copy to England, where it is published in March complying with the terms of our own copyright law, as to the entries and notices, the same work is published here in April.

  34. The Master when he Came a Board brought three Spanish papers which he declared to be one a copy of his Commission, the 2d.

  35. Such were the uncertainties of transatlantic correspondence that letters were often sent in duplicate, as here, where a copy of the letter of June 10 is enclosed in that of July 17.

  36. Footnote 1: From the manuscripts of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, a copy having been kindly furnished by the Rev.

  37. For Drawing and making an Index and Abstract of the Process and Copy 1.

  38. Since the above Copy of our Last have recd.

  39. William Buckner at York Town who are to take a Copy hereof, and Dispatch it as Directed and Each Colonel or Chief officer is also to take a Copy hereof and dispatch it as Directed.

  40. True Copy from the Original vote Book belonging to the Hawk Privateer.

  41. Bellomont, and endorsed, "Copy of a Memorial of Mr. Campbell who had been sent by the Earl of Bellomont to Captain Kidd, about what Kidd had said to him.

  42. For a Copy of a long Allegation in Acts from the Adverse proctor 10.

  43. A true Copy as one file in the Case Patd.

  44. A copy of The Referee, fresh as fruit new-dropped from the bough, lay in the hall at the front door.

  45. She had an open copy of Home Notes in one hand.

  46. There is but one quite perfect copy of the first edition of this book known, and this fortunately is in the British Museum.

  47. They copy the original prints in exact facsimile, and, looking at them, one cannot but wonder at the high state of perfection to which the art of wood-engraving had attained nearly four hundred years ago.

  48. We are enabled to give a much-reduced copy of a 'Flight into Egypt,' which in the original is nearly twenty-four inches in length.

  49. It is often called the Mazarine Bible, because a copy was discovered, with notes written in it by the illuminator, in the library of Cardinal Mazarin.

  50. On New Year's Day 1815 Bewick presented him with a copy of his 'History of British Birds' in two volumes, which he always showed to his friends with much pride.

  51. The only known copy of this book, which is in the Wolfenbuettel Library, was taken away by the French under Napoleon's orders and added to the Bibliotheque Nationale; it was restored at the surrender of Paris in 1815.

  52. We give a much reduced copy of the frontispiece, which is without doubt the best example of wood-engraving of the fifteenth century.

  53. I inclose you a copy of my orders, which will, I am satisfied, accomplish my purpose perfectly.

  54. I also send you a copy of General Garrard's report of the breaking of the railroad toward Augusta.

  55. Here is to-day's copy of The Times, my dear: you can take this with you to read.

  56. She had not found the copy of the day's Times particularly interesting.

  57. He was away for a couple of hours, returning with a copy of the Daily Mail and the information that there were no letters for me at the post-office.

  58. He found out too that there was a copy of the plans in the office, and--well, you can guess the rest.

  59. Lowering his copy of the Times, he looked up at me over the top of his gold-rimmed spectacles.

  60. Tom bought a copy of the Baltimore "The Sun," and went into one of the larger rooms resorted to by travellers and loafers, and sat down.

  61. He therefore spent eight or nine days in telegraphing, from the early proofs, a copy of the address of the Chautauqua Synod to Brannan, and asked Brannan if he were not willing to have his name signed to it when it was printed.

  62. Carter has a good copy of the Cruikshank.

  63. This is unfortunately no longer forthcoming, having probably been destroyed or lost with the rest of the Jaffna records; and there is no copy in the Archives at Colombo.

  64. A copy of these is among the Archives in Colombo.

  65. We cannot therefore very well furnish such a list of lands as regards Jaffnapatam, because the Company does not possess any, but if desired a copy of the new Land Thombo (which will consist of several reams of imperial paper) could be sent.

  66. In relation to God this Logos or Son was a copy of the original, and as such inferior to that.

  67. The consequence is that the proposition, being different from a judgment arising after a judgment, and remaining an imperfect copy of judgment, is only a superficial evidence of its real nature.

  68. Facsimile of a portion of a contemporary copy of a letter by Francis Bacon, dated 1595.

  69. A copy of the play without any author's name was printed in 1597, omitting the story of the deposition of Richard II.

  70. In addition to these three plays, there is a fourth evidence of the way in which the Clown who had purchased a coat of arms was regarded, in a pamphlet or tract of which only one copy is known to exist.

  71. A copy of Vigenere's book will be found in the present writer's Baconian library, for he knew by the ornaments and by the other marks that Bacon must have had a hand in its production.

  72. There is only a single copy in existence, which used to be in Earl Spencer's library at Althorp but is now in the Rylands; Library at Manchester.

  73. Bacon's Crest from the Binding of a Presentation Copy of the Novum Organum, 1620.

  74. Francis Bacon's Crest, from the binding of a presentation copy of his "Novum Organum," published in 1620.

  75. Facsimile of a Contemporary Copy of a Letter of Francis Bacon.

  76. The copy so specially printed is bound with Rosicrucian emblems outside.

  77. I have been at the trouble of writing a copy of it: which I enclose, that you may not mistake your cue.

  78. My mother promises to show me the copy of her letter to you, and your reply to it; which latter she has but just told me of.

  79. Jack, all this is but a copy of my countenance, drawn to evade thy malice!

  80. The boy on the ferry-boat, who cajoles us into buying a copy of Le Moniteur containing last month's news, has the address of a true though diminutive Frenchman.

  81. I would wager he has a copy of Burns in his sporran, and has quoted him half a dozen times to the grim Celt who is walking with him.

  82. By nightfall I had finished and checked the copy which with the original I hid in my robe when the green-robed waiting maid summoned me to eat.

  83. So he talked on, and while he did so went to an iron chest that he unlocked, and thence drew out a parchment roll which he bade me take to my workroom and copy there.

  84. The party who sends us $20 for a club of eight copies (all sent at one time) will be entitled to a copy for one year *free*.

  85. For $10 we will send four copies for one year to one address, or each copy to a separate address.

  86. For $20 we will send eight copies to one address, or each copy to a separate address.

  87. For $5 we will send two copies for one year to one address, or each copy to a separate address.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; abstraction; act; adopt; affect; altarpiece; alternate; alternative; analogy; ape; approach; appropriate; approximate; arrangement; article; assume; autograph; backup; beat; blueprint; borrow; burlesque; carbon; cartoon; chalk; change; changeling; chart; chorus; clone; collage; collection; color; companion; compare; comparison; composition; copy; correspond; counterfeit; crib; critique; cyclorama; daub; delineate; delineation; depict; deputy; design; diagram; diptych; ditto; document; doodle; double; draft; draught; draughtsman; draughty; draw; drawing; dummy; dupe; duplicate; duplication; echo; edit; edition; effigy; elaboration; elevation; enact; engraving; engross; equal; equivalent; essay; evoke; exchange; exclusive; extract; facsimile; fake; favor; fellow; fiction; figure; follow; forge; forgery; fresco; ghost; graph; hatch; holograph; hymnal; icon; idol; illumination; illustration; image; imitate; imitation; impersonate; imposture; impression; infringe; inscribe; issue; iteration; knock; letter; library; libretto; lift; likeness; limn; literature; makeshift; manuscript; masquerade; match; mate; matter; metaphor; microfilm; mimeograph; mimic; miniature; mirror; mirroring; mock; model; monkey; mosaic; mural; music; near; nonfiction; notation; number; opera; opus; original; outline; paint; panorama; pantomime; paper; parallel; paraphrase; parchment; parody; parrot; part; pattern; pen; pencil; perform; personate; personnel; phony; photograph; picture; piece; pirate; play; plot; poem; portrait; portray; print; printing; production; profile; projection; proxy; quadruplicate; quote; rebirth; rebuild; rebuilding; recapitulation; recension; recital; reconstitute; reconstruct; reconstruction; record; recounting; redouble; reestablish; reflect; reflection; refound; regenerate; regeneration; regurgitate; rehearsal; reincarnate; reissue; reiteration; relief; remake; remaking; renascence; renew; renovate; renovation; reorganization; reorganize; repeat; repetition; replacement; replica; represent; representation; representative; reprint; reproduce; reproduction; resemblance; resemble; reserves; reshape; restoration; restore; restructure; resume; resurrect; resurrection; review; revise; revision; revival; revive; rewrite; ringer; rough; rubbing; same; scoop; score; scratch; scribe; scrip; script; scroll; secondary; seem; selfsame; semblance; series; shade; shadow; sham; sign; similitude; simulacrum; simulate; skeleton; sketch; songster; spare; spit; stat; steal; stencil; story; sub; substitute; substitution; suggest; summary; surrogate; symbol; synonym; table; tableau; take; tapestry; text; tint; token; trace; tracing; transcribe; transcript; transcription; travesty; triplicate; triptych; twin; type; typescript; understudy; version; vicar; volume; work; write; writing