Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "each family"

  • On encamping at night, the camels and flocks belonging to each family took up their proper position in front of the respective tents, near the fires which were immediately kindled for cooking.

  • Each family, if lucky, can save from ten to twenty bags of corn and beans, of a bushel and a half each; besides a quantity of dried pumpkins.

  • Each family has a large earthen jar, into which is carefully collected every thing that may be used as manure; when the jar is full, there is no difficulty of converting its contents into money, or of exchanging them for vegetables.

  • Great Britain is supposed to average about one hundred and twenty persons on one square mile, and that to each inhabitant there might be assigned a portion of five acres, or to each family five-and-twenty acres.

  • The news of her illness plunged the whole city into mourning; each family felt as if it were about to lose a mother, and day and night heaven was besieged by one uninterrupted supplication that she might be spared yet longer.

  • On this occasion, each family brought to the place appointed the bones of the relatives who had died since the last celebration.

  • Each hamlet was independent; so was the head of each family in the hamlet; so was each child in the family.

  • There will then remain one million two hundred and sixty thousand which, at five souls to each family, amount to two hundred and fifty-two thousand families, rendered poor from the expense of children and the weight of taxes.

  • As each family in turn gets the use of the public baking-oven, it is necessary to start soon after Purim to prepare the special flour used for matzos.

  • Each family is forced to bake its own matzos, as none can be bought from abroad.

  • As each family's turn comes round for the use of the bakehouse, those who help always wash very carefully and put on clean overalls; also new cooking-utensils are always used.

  • There is a field of family conservation which has been until lately almost wholly neglected by women; a field which must be mastered by them, the field of combination of all family interests in behalf of each family need.

  • The fact that business and pleasure alike take the different members of each family on different ways all the week and Sunday, too, make each age represented in the household influenced chiefly by its own set of friends.

  • Some one must attend to the needs of each family in these vital particulars which underlie all problems of public and private health.

  • Amongst the Gournditsh-Mara Tribe (Lake Condah, West Victoria) "each family camped by itself.

  • During seasons when all the members of the tribe are not congregated together, each family hunts on its own grounds.

  • Each family assembled at the house of the eldest brother to celebrate the feast; and those who had no elder brother went to the house of their next relation of greater age.

  • The feast being over, each family contributes a certain sum in token that they make restitution of their unlawful gains.

  • M146) Amongst the Dinkas, a pastoral people of the White Nile, each family possesses a sacred cow.

  • The whole number of families in England, allotting five souls to each family, is one million four hundred thousand, of which I take one third, viz.

  • The Communal revision list determines the number of shares into which the land must be divided, and the number of shares to be allotted to each family.

  • Relocated Footnote 12: Each family, represented by its male head, obtained a certain tract or lot for cultivation and use, Zurita (p.

  • This is shown by the presence of a matron in each household, who made a division of the food from the kettle to each family according to their needs, and reserved what remained for future disposal.

  • Each family or tribe received a portion of the soil for perpetual enjoyment.

  • Fire-places and chimneys have been added to the principal room of each family; but it is evident that they are modern, and that the suggestion came from Spanish sources.

  • Each family had a garden, we raised what we wanted.

  • You know the Revells are well known in Anne Arundel County, consisting of a large family, each family a large property owner.

  • We had 60 slaves on the plantation, each family housed in a cabin built by the slaves for Nellums to accommodate the families according to the number.

  • Metal implements and utensils The wa'-say is the only metal implement employed at all commonly in the area; it is found in each family.

  • Only one or two cargoes are grown by each family, so little space is needed for storage.

  • Each family cooks a chicken in the fireplace on the second floor of the dwelling.

  • Each family has a house for itself; though when a young couple marry, they commonly go to live with the parents of one or the other for some years.

  • Each family makes a detailed annual report to the presiding ministry, and a daily diary of events is kept.

  • They have a library of about two hundred volumes in each family, exclusive of strictly religious books; and almost all the younger people can read music, one of the members being a thorough teacher and good musical drill-master.

  • Bird skins or mounted birds, at least one representative of each order and, better still, of each family of the birds which pass through or remain in your neighborhood; specimens in a museum may also be used.

  • Try to get one of each order at least and, among the perching birds, one of each family.

  • The characteristics and examples of each family.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each family" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common sight; each brigade; each cheek; each coil; each copy; each edge; each feather; each foot; each fresh; each great; each line; each night; each pair; each period; each step; each subject; each thing; each time; each tribe; each unit; each vessel; either because; good horse; little spirits; seen enough; there seems