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Example sentences for "dole"

Lexicographically close words:
dol; dolce; dolcezza; dolci; doldrums; doled; doleful; dolefull; dolefully; dolerite
  1. Dole was, nevertheless, compelled to do it.

  2. Dole anticipated that troubles were likely to ensue at any moment.

  3. Footnote 175: Dole was from Illinois also, from Edgar County; Coffin was from Indiana [Indian Office Miscellaneous Records, no.

  4. It soon revealed itself, however, and was hostile to the whole project that Dole had set his heart upon.

  5. Adjutant Dole came here promptly to do his duty--but in the absence of his Col.

  6. Sidenote: Physical Severity of Mediaeval Life] The morning dole is a regular feature at St. Aliquis, as at every other castle and monastery.

  7. Every aperture was then built up except a narrow chink to admit air, a little light, and a small dole of food from her relatives.

  8. Torment great and grievous dole Hath the thankless heart mid you; But the man of piteous soul Finds much honour in our crew: Love for loving is the due That prevents this penitence.

  9. What time desire hath o'er the soul such sway That reason finds nor place nor puissance here, Men oft do laugh at what should claim a tear, And over grievous dole are seeming gay.

  10. When I consider What great creation and what dole of honour Flies where you bid it, I find that she which late Was in my nobler thoughts most base is now The praised of the King; who, so ennobled, Is as 'twere born so.

  11. It was your pre-surmise That in the dole of blows your son might drop.

  12. Yonder they lie; the poor old man, their father, making such pitiful dole over them that all the beholders take his part with weeping.

  13. But mark, poor knight, What dreadful dole is here!

  14. Mars, Apollo, Saturn, Phoebus, and Neptune are more chary of their bounties and dole them out to their favourites only but I confine my favours to none.

  15. When the poor are to be relieved, the officers appointed to dole out public charity assemble and eat upon it.

  16. There are several interesting brasses and memorials in the church and outside on the north side will be seen an old dole table for the distribution of alms.

  17. To the average tourist the chief interest seems to be the dole of bread and beer which must be given to whoever claims it until the two loaves and two gallons of liquor are exhausted.

  18. I winne that ladyes love, For dole now I mun dye.

  19. As she sped down yon high high hill, She gaed wi' dole and sorrow, And in the den spied ten slain men, 55 On the dowie banks of Yarrow.

  20. He brought us mair trouble than help, wot I weel; O dole for the ill beginnin' o't!

  21. Clear as the note of a bird, yet melancholy as the distant dole of a vesper-bell, arose the sound of that sweet voice from the wood.

  22. Had so much treasure not been wasted on these vanities of bright colour and carved stone, our dole to the poor of Christ might have been fourfold, and they filled with good things.

  23. Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways, Balking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise.

  24. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

  25. The first day he failed to get favourable signs at the sacrifice, and never a dole of rations did he make to the soldiers.

  26. The other bade them measure out the supplies, "Pray, dole them out.

  27. No, 'tis a fast to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto the hungry soul.

  28. As she sped down yon high high hill, She gaed wi' dole and sorrow, And in the den spyed ten slain men, On the dowie banks of Yarrow.

  29. To visit the sick, to comfort the dying, to dole out broth at the convent gate, is well, but it offers no remedy for the cause behind poverty and blind remediable suffering.

  30. Many times he had given the scanty dole of food he received from the monastery to the poor.

  31. On Saturday, once or twice a month, the old master, before the war, used to dole out bacon and meal to his Negroes.

  32. Some women appear to better advantage after marriage and Maria Dole is one of them," he said in a very decided manner to his sister after having been engaged in a long conversation with the newly-made wife.

  33. The wedding ceremony of John Hanford and Maria Dole having been performed the evening previous to their departure, they traveled in company with the bridal pair.

  34. The torments of famine are all forgotten; our thoughts are concentrated with fevered expectation upon the longed-for moment when Curtis shall dole out the scanty measure of lukewarm water that makes up our ration.

  35. She welcomed Thor also when she found out who he was; but she sent away the wicked old grandmother, that she might not hear, for Thor's name was not dear to the race of giants, to so many of whom he had brought dole and death.

  36. As you know, it was Loki who was Thor's bitterest enemy; and for many months he had been awaiting the chance to repay the Thunder Lord for the dole which Thor had brought upon him at the time of the dwarf's gifts to Asgard.

  37. For it seemed that the quartermaster-sergeant had docked his rations by an ounce or two, a difference that made itself noted in so slender a dole and a convalescent's appetite.

  38. Probably the payment of the half dole by the fishermen at Lowestoft to the same sacred use, is as antient as that at Yarmouth.

  39. This custom of allowing the vicar half a dole is a very antient one, but how long it has subsisted at Lowestoft is uncertain.

  40. The alternative, namely, to treat the family as a whole, means to place it in the General Mixed Workhouse, or merely to give it a dole of Outdoor Relief.

  41. The alternative, namely, to treat the family as a whole, means to place it in the General Mixed Poorhouse, or merely to give it a dole of Outdoor Relief.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; ace; adjunct; administer; administration; affliction; afford; aid; alimony; allot; allotment; allow; allowance; anguish; annuity; assistance; atom; award; bestow; bit; bite; bounty; budget; care; charity; chunk; collection; commission; communicate; component; confer; contingent; contribution; cut; deal; destiny; detachment; detail; disburse; dispensation; dispense; disperse; dispersion; disposal; dispose; disposition; distribute; distribution; dividend; division; dole; donate; donation; dot; dram; dribble; driblet; dwarf; end; extend; farthing; fate; fellowship; fraction; fragment; gift; give; grain; grant; granule; grief; groat; hair; half; handful; heap; heartache; heartbreak; help; helping; impart; installment; interest; iota; issue; item; jot; lavish; little; lot; measure; meed; mess; mete; minim; minimum; minutiae; misfortune; mishap; mite; modicum; moiety; molecule; mote; nutshell; offer; offering; offertory; ounce; parcel; part; particle; particular; pass; pebble; pension; percentage; piece; pinch; pittance; point; portion; pour; present; proffer; proportion; quadrant; quantum; quarter; quota; rain; ration; regret; relief; remainder; render; sample; scholarship; scruple; section; sector; segment; serve; share; shower; slice; slip; snow; sorrow; speck; spoon; spot; stake; stipend; stock; subdivision; subgroup; subscription; subsidy; subvention; support; tender; tithe; tittle; tragedy; vouchsafe; welfare; whit; woe; yield