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Example sentences for "encourage them"

  • As soon as it was daylight the Natives began to bring off Mackrell, and more than we well know what to do with; notwithstanding I order'd all they brought to be purchased in order to encourage them in this kind of Traffick.

  • It also is as if he had said, Forget not this, for this is the key of all the rest, and the great support to the saints in prayer, or while they wait upon God in any of his appointments to encourage them to hope.

  • Wherefore pity them, pray for them, encourage them; they need all this: guilt hath overtaken them, fears of the wrath of God hath overtaken them.

  • Finding after this the Athenians ill affected and highly displeased with him, he tried and endeavored what he could to appease and re-encourage them.

  • Demonax, a messenger sent in by Archelaus, was the first who told them of Lucullus's arrival; but they disbelieved his report, and thought he came with a story invented merely to encourage them.

  • For children are very prone to it; and unwise correction frighteneth them into lies to save themselves, as indulgence and connivance do encourage them to it.

  • But we can not afford to encourage them, because of their bird-eating habits.

  • If a few wild birds are known to be already at home on your place, encourage them.

  • As nearly all are insect eaters, we are benefiting mankind when we encourage them.

  • Take heed thou smile not upon them, to encourage them in small faults, lest that thy carriage to them be an encouragement to them to commit greater.

  • He was sociable, cheerful, fond of innocent amusements, and delighted to encourage them.

  • For her own safety she was obliged to encourage them; yet she hated them all, and would at any moment have abandoned them all, if, in any other way, she could have secured herself.

  • He desired me to encourage them, which I performed with all earnestnesse.

  • And this was the speech which Judas made to encourage them.

  • On the other hand, no other nation of the world has so much as we to be thankful for and to encourage them.

  • He set to work to encourage them, and to make his task easier, a ship laden with stores and with additional settlers now arrived.

  • To encourage them to stay on their little crofts, where they are frequently on the verge of want, is unkind and very bad policy.

  • Buy of one that has been baptized: one shouldn't encourage them to remain heathens, you know.

  • I knew of nothing more to say to encourage them, and after a time their depression began to affect me also.

  • I was senior now, and my business was to encourage them.

  • We said brave things to encourage them, for it is not good that one's officers should doubt.

  • Therefore, we should discourage the child who shows a tendency to analyze too closely the motives of its action, and refrain from presenting to them in our stories any example which might encourage them to persist in this course.

  • It is more helpful to encourage them in the use of it, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, where we are fearful of expressing ourselves in this way, and when we do the gesture often lacks subtlety.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encourage them" 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:
    being invited; best adapted; but indeed; civilian life; clock noon; dash away; each bottle; encourage merit; encourage them; even keel; feathers white; first minister; form column; good meat; good old; lower back; power supplied; public penance; school education; shall mention; single state; stone unturned; wild creatures