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Example sentences for "doles"

Lexicographically close words:
doled; doleful; dolefull; dolefully; dolerite; dolet; dolichocephalic; dolichocephaly; doling; doll
  1. They was others in the town, come lately, and mostly in the factory, that was the same way: the Bettses and the Doles and the Haskitts and the Hennings.

  2. There was dozens of little houses--the Marshalls and the Betts’s and the Rickers’s and the Hennings and the Doles and the Haskitts, and I donno who all.

  3. And so on during all the while we was discussing the Doles and the Hennings and the Bettses and the rest.

  4. As a result, they took little Ike from the Doles and put him into another family, the Winslows, who were very kind to him.

  5. Mrs. Frost had long been indignant as to the way the Doles were treating the boy; she gladly took him in and cared for him, while I hurried on with the eyestone.

  6. The Prison has destroyed the husband's sense of duty to his wife: he will not, if he can, work for his family; he lives upon such doles as he can extract from his family or hers.

  7. There are a few doles and charities; but these amount to no more than about L100 a year, say, two pounds a week or six shillings a day.

  8. Rome was by no means the only city in which doles of free corn were made and free spectacular exhibitions given.

  9. From the story "Just Mary" by Pearl Doles Bell.

  10. How comes it that they are so ready to receive as a matter of course the doles of food provided for them?

  11. For them no automatic gas meter grudgingly doles out its niggardly pennyworths of gas.

  12. Travellers either called for doles in passing, or required supper, bed and breakfast.

  13. An endowment of penny doles was provided by Lady Maud Courtenay in Exeter, namely thirteen pence annually for twenty years “to xiii pore men of Symon Grendon is hous” (1464).

  14. Doles are often distributed in the churchyard.

  15. The church is not a natural source of relief when it becomes a general relief agency, giving inadequate doles to large numbers of dependents.

  16. Let the British taxpayer note that, and let him note also that the Conservative Party will find the ways and means for these bribes and doles not by taxes on the wealthy, but by taxes on the food of the people.

  17. That is to say, the policy of bribes and doles is to continue at the expense of the British taxpayer.

  18. A michel fier he ſag, and an brigt, gliden ðor twen ðo doles rigt.

  19. And quanne ðe fader were grauen, two doles of ereward riche auen.

  20. And ðor a duue and a turtul ok 944 Sat up on-rum til heuene he tok, And of ðo doles kep he nam Greedy fowls fell upon the carcases.

  21. Logs and huckleberries are the crops produced on this savage river, the only things the sparse population can depend upon for a living, and the fine blueberries bring them the scant doles of ready money they ever see.

  22. To the eastward of the village is the beautiful church, not long ago built from the pious doles of the faithful, a massive and elaborate granite building.

  23. I then came up to the division line and moved by the left flank to the support of General Colquitt, whose men were resting in line of battle on the field General Doles had won.

  24. Brisk firing was soon heard upon our front and left, indicating that General Doles had encountered the foe.

  25. My brigade was placed perpendicular to the plank-road, the left resting on the road, General Doles on my right and Colonel (E.

  26. When a slave was made free, he had the privilege of a Roman born, which was to have a share in the donatives, or doles of bread, &c.

  27. After breakfast I strolled about the common and in Doles Wood, on the down above the village, listening to the birds, and on my way back encountered a tramp whose singular appearance produced a deep impression on my mind.

  28. At noon, in the brilliant sunshine, as I came loiteringly down the long slope from Doles Wood to the village, he overtook me.

  29. Three times he got doles of cargo at good stiff freights at points where few other men would have dreamed of looking.

  30. Under other acts doles have been applied to education and to allotments.

  31. Of the endowments for parish doles very many may have disappeared in the break-up of the 16th century.

  32. Iverson was sent to attack the First Corps on Seminary Ridge, and O'Neill and Doles went forward about 2.

  33. Schimmelpfennig now threw forward Von Amberg's brigade to intervene between O'Neill and Doles, and to strike the right flank of the latter; but Doles avoided the blow by a rapid change of front.

  34. Both Doles and Ramsey claim to have had sharp encounters there.

  35. This isolated Von Amberg's brigade, and Doles claims to have captured the greater portion of it.


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