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Example sentences for "dependant"

Lexicographically close words:
depe; depend; dependability; dependable; dependance; dependants; depended; dependence; dependencies; dependency
  1. The active, self-reliant Englishman is notoriously the most dependant soldier in Europe.

  2. But now that he was gone, and she had no one left to look too, her lonely and self-dependant position was felt severely, and the tears she could not restrain, fell unheeded.

  3. Every home was visited and no dependant needed to be in distress or want--S.

  4. It secured vast numbers more of women in every town and village who visited every dependant and looked after them.

  5. The whole arterial system would appear, by the experiments of Haller, to be irritable by no other stimulus, and the motions of the heart and alimentary canal are certainly in some measure dependant on the same cause.

  6. A Judiciary, dependant on the will of the King, had proved itself the most oppressive of all tools in the hands of that magistrate.

  7. He has made [our] judges dependant on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

  8. This done, a most abundant market for our oil will be opened by this country, and one which will be absolutely dependant on us; for they have little expectation themselves of establishing a successful whale-fishery.

  9. Alciston is a little hamlet under the east slope of Firle Beacon, practically no more than a farm house, a church, and dependant cottages.

  10. The rebellion of the officers had destroyed their authority, the stores were exhausted, discipline relaxed, and those who had exacted the most servile homage, were themselves dependant for impunity on the royal clemency.

  11. The reports of their conduct appear to have been hastily collected; often dependant on testimony which would never be received elsewhere, unless strongly corroborated.

  12. No power is more dependant on care and cultivation for its vigour: but none varies more from the very beginning.

  13. Could they doubt for a moment, while seeing you, and seeing the style of all about you, that I am something more than the poor hopeless dependant of Mrs. Barnaby?

  14. It shall not be the poor dependant of anybody that this noble-hearted Colonel Hubert shall come to woo.

  15. The well was built by the present owner, and formerly the inhabitants were dependant entirely upon the well at Tabi, six miles distant!

  16. The rancho had no well, and was entirely dependant on that of Chack, three miles distant.

  17. The whole rancho of Chack was entirely dependant upon it, and in the dry season the rancho of Schawill, three miles distant.

  18. The reader will observe that, fifteen or sixteen years after the foundation of Merida, Mani had the same pre-eminence of position as when Tutul Xiu went up with his dependant caciques to make submission to the Spaniards.

  19. The family of Mark Heathcote, the lowest dependant included, saw these strangers depart with great inward satisfaction.

  20. A Dumpling Eater, is a Dependant on the Court, or, in a Word, any one who will rather pocket an Affront than be angry at a Tip in Time.

  21. The fate of these two unfortunate men, hitherto but little dependant on each other, was henceforth associated, until the existence of both was closed on the scaffold.

  22. It is her whose soul clings to yours, and vibrates but in harmony with it; whose happiness, whose every emotion, more than entirely dependant on yours, are exchanged for them.

  23. When you come here you must exert all your abilities in finance, to make me no longer dependant upon the bounty of friends; or rather, I should say, your bounty, for you are the only person I have borrowed money of.

  24. To my surprise she was not to be seen anywhere, and I began to get anxious about our supply of water for the horses, as we were entirely dependant upon her for it.

  25. My lord, your cousin, took a fancy to me, said he would make my fortune, has kept me as his dependant till fortune has passed by me, and now refuses me my due.

  26. She, once the mistress of millions, besought me to send the remainder to her little daughter, whom she had left a dependant on a rich family in a distant town.

  27. In the first place, their trade was a factitious one, not founded upon or tending in any degree to promote the real production of Great Britain, but avowedly rendering us dependant to a dangerous degree upon foreign supplies.

  28. This power is lodged in the parliament; and we are as much dependant on Great-Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another.

  29. Here he must have it tried before dependant judges, being the men who granted the writ.

  30. And the spirit of tyranny, of which nations are as susceptible as individuals, had animated the English extremely to exert their superiority over their dependant state.

  31. If we would keep them still dependant upon their mother country, and in some respects subservient to their views and welfare, let us make it their interest always to be so.

  32. For we know, that sheriffs in almost every colony on this continent, are totally dependant on the crown; and packing of juries has been frequently practiced even in the capital of the British empire.

  33. Perhaps the nature of the necessities of the dependant states, caused by the policy of a governing one, for her own benefit, may be elucidated by a fact mentioned in history.

  34. Individuals may be dependant on ministers, if they please.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dependant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.