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Example sentences for "everything"

Lexicographically close words:
everybody; everych; everyday; everye; everyone; everythink; everytime; everyway; everywhere; everywheres
  1. Having spoken to them thus, he next commanded to prepare everything and to set all in order, since at dawn of the next day a battle would be fought.

  2. To those then who choose to act, for the most part gain is wont to come; but to those who reckon for everything and shrink back, it is not much wont to come.

  3. He was oblivious to everything but the sight before his eyes.

  4. But its glass windows were shattered, and fragments of everything it had contained were scattered about.

  5. She will accompany the expedition and take stenographic notes of everything we observe," added her father, to Larry's amazement.

  6. Gordon prepared to stake everything upon his one slim chance of disabling that fearful tentacle before Arlok could bring it into action.

  7. Can you think of any good reason why I shouldn't go, when girls are flying around the world and everything else?

  8. If we only reflected how 'queer' everything must appear to a mind newly arrived on such an earth as ours, children's questions would not appear at all foolish.

  9. At this period they see everything as it were upside down, and are sometimes tormented by strange fancies, which will vanish when the tissues of their flesh and of their characters become firmer.

  10. You have no idea how that girl has enjoyed everything since she has been away," observed Mrs. Hunt to her husband.

  11. He sees and appreciates everything that I could wish to have him notice.

  12. The higher one went in Mrs. Hunt's house the less splendid everything became.

  13. They were talking to me about it last night, and I told them that I would engage to have everything ready in time; but you must be consulted.

  14. Mrs. Hunt pursued her way up the steps, examining and remarking upon everything she saw.

  15. I shall not confide to him the peculiar circumstances of my departure, leaving you at liberty to act in this respect, as in everything else, according to the dictates of your will and pleasure.

  16. Lewis attended to the purchase of everything before leaving; and the orders are all in the hands of a competent upholsterer whom he has employed, as is also the key of the house.

  17. It was easy to strip ourselves of everything when we thought we were going to die.

  18. In everything else he was large and splendid.

  19. She's your youth--she's everything vigorous that you were.

  20. Everything in it shone with intense cleanliness and polish.

  21. Everything that he had said might be quite true.

  22. Then again to his host, "You sent us out there where everything was censored.

  23. Of you alone it's true that everything lies before you.

  24. The normality of everything on which his eyes rested did its best to reassure him--the mellow evening sunlight in the friendly room, the flowers in the rockery, the toy-boat on the pond.

  25. I believe that we find everything that we've lost or longed for, if we'll only press on.

  26. Everything that he had heard about her, including his first meeting with her, had served to daunt him.

  27. I told you pretty well everything across the telephone.

  28. He made nothing; he lost nearly everything he had.

  29. The fact that this noble consciousness gives a distinct direction of its own to everything that fills the human soul, is another proof of its power to transform the spiritual life.

  30. This testifies eloquently how incomplete stories are felt to be as long as they can tell only of events and persons without connecting everything with a definite locality.

  31. When by the foundation of Carthage they gained an establishment in Northern Africa, they exerted an influence on the Libyans which almost suppressed everything native.

  32. Everything heathen received a Jahveistic sense, the heathen form a Jahveistic significance, the heathen substance a Jahveistic form.

  33. On the other hand, the entrance of a more advanced stage of civilisation does not imply the utter banishment out of human society of everything connected with the preceding, though, speaking generally, this was now passed and gone.

  34. He has forgotten everything sensuous and earthly, and sees and touches only gods and divine things.

  35. Not everything that has the look of a poetical or rhetorical figure is one.

  36. As in other literatures, so in Arabic, darkness is the term of comparison for everything black.

  37. Then we who had been down in Egypt came home and found everything changed.

  38. Well, when everything had been settled to everybody's satisfaction, there was a religious ceremony such as had never before been seen under the canopy of heaven.

  39. Then we'd take their cannon, their money, their ammunition, and everything they had that was worth carrying away.

  40. In spite of the bold front that we put on, everything went against us; although the army performed feats of wonderful courage.

  41. Finally, when he was comfortably seated on his throne, he was so thoroughly the master of everything that Europe waited for his permission before it even dared to sneeze.

  42. So let everything alone at first, and by and by we'll get all there is.

  43. We marched and marched, and everything began to shake again.

  44. I have committed every kind of debauch, I have done everything .

  45. By having wished, you have ended by begetting belief, and by implanting in yourself a fixed idea, disguised under the name of grace, round which everything now clings.

  46. Enervated by the ceremony of taking the habit, stunned by the blow with which the priest had assailed him as they left the church, he now felt an anguish almost physical, in which everything ended in confusion.

  47. It is clear," thought Durtal, "that the soul is everything in these people, and their faces are modelled by it.

  48. Everything must be sacrificed to the one primal necessity of such persons--a smoke.

  49. Everything seemed to run through my brain, and in vain I summoned all my will power to overcome an overwhelming sleepiness.

  50. A diphtheritic patient should be quarantined, and everything connected with the sick room thoroughly disinfected.

  51. Lady McIntyre and Sir William were everything that was kind and hospitable.

  52. He gave me a feeling, too, that he'd make everything all right.

  53. Greta said everything would be all right.

  54. Can't you understand what it means to me that he should say, 'For the sake of everything we care for, I must come and help him!

  55. You remember my saying to you at Lamborough that we'd found everything except a pinch of white powder?

  56. He could see that blank horror at the tragedy obscured for the moment everything else in life.

  57. Everything depended upon his getting there in time.

  58. To try to make up a little; to do everything we could do just because I felt there'd never be any other chance.

  59. And then in a markedly different tone, "I've turned everything out of.

  60. Don't you see that if I were to do everything in my power, this business has gone too far?

  61. Yes," she owned sadly; "he thinks about saving everything except himself.

  62. It would be everything to have him out of England till the war is over.

  63. No--even if he had gone quite mad and forgotten everything that would hardly be possible.

  64. Well, be that as it may, we'd better make the round of the house and be sure that everything is safe!

  65. And nothing was more so than this insistence on her part that anything Californian was superior to everything European.

  66. And now upon the train, from the moment of our departure from the Grand Central Terminal, everything I admired elicited a chorused response, "Wait until you see California!

  67. I want to make sure that he thinks everything is all right before I go to bed.

  68. Then suddenly--he did everything suddenly--he spoke directly to me.

  69. The watchman denied having heard or seen anything out of the way," Sebastian went on, "and they went over the whole place together, to make sure everything was all right.

  70. We went swimming together and riding together and everything when we were kids.

  71. She was so beautiful that everything she put on became her, and so tall that everything had to be altered.

  72. You have everything in the world to be happy about!

  73. In point of fact everything was removed from not only my mind but from the other portions of my anatomy which delicacy prevents my dwelling on.

  74. Everything here was in profusion, and the best of its kind.

  75. These are petty and accidental uses; just as if a stronger race were to kill us in order to make buttons and flageolets of our bones; for everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

  76. But Casimir spoilt everything by his intervention.

  77. He had performed everything which Kuczuk Pasha had commanded him in his own way.

  78. He lifted the torch and lit up everything around him.

  79. It was he who had deceived the heart of the innocent girl by his devilish artifices, so that when she heard and saw him she forgot everything else.

  80. The fire burned everything down to the very water's edge.

  81. Well, my son, I lay it upon your soul to let me know everything that he does or intends to do during his stay at St. Petersburg.

  82. This land is the Paradise where everything for which men toil and labour elsewhere, grows of its own accord.

  83. Let everything which is dear to man become his abhorrence.

  84. His birth, his rank, his riches--everything would entitle him to the role of leader.

  85. You want everything to be just as you like it.

  86. We lost America because we behaved like cads to the colonists, and we'll lose everything if we continue to play the counter-jumper trick.

  87. If he succeeded in persuading people to do things which he suggested to them he was only able to do so after prolonged discussion, sometimes only after everything else had failed.

  88. The decent thing is to go to Gilbert and tell him everything .

  89. What I can't understand is why you wish to spoil everything by silly proposals to .

  90. It seemed to him that here was the whole Irish problem, that when this was solved, everything was solved .

  91. But now, since he had fallen in love with Sheila Morgan, it seemed to him that everything in the world was beautiful; and lying here in the long grass, he yielded himself to the loveliness of the earth.

  92. Old Widger says there will be a lovely lot of blackberries in September if everything goes well.

  93. That would be like Ninian, to go and spoil everything without thinking for a moment of what he was doing.

  94. If only Mary and he were a few years older, they could become formally engaged, and then everything would be all right, but Mary was so young .

  95. You're a novelist, and novelists are supposed to know everything nowadays!

  96. They've been well looked after by the English, and they're near everything .

  97. When everything is considered the form or shape of a flying model will serve to make a large flyer.

  98. Indeed I owe everything to Luigi," said Angelo, affectionately.

  99. You are going to be good, and do everything I tell you, like a dear," and she tapped his cheek affectionately with her finger.

  100. As a result, the city government not only stood still, with its hands tied, but everything it was created to protect and care for went a steady gait toward rack and ruin.

  101. The faith of the scientist who sees order, regularity and unfailing law is quite as great as that of a preacher who believes everything he reads in a book.

  102. Everything that is in the Universe is natural; the supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

  103. I tell her everything I know, or guess, or imagine, so as to get it straight in my own mind," he said to John Fiske.

  104. The other planets, too, must be round or they could not exist, and so they also had this same quality of gravity in common with the Earth--a drawing in of everything toward the center.

  105. He sold everything from cough-syrup to blue ribbon; and some of the things he sold on time to philosophers who sat on nail-kegs every evening, and settled the coal strike.

  106. Gradually it dawned upon the theologians that a God who could set in motion natural laws that worked with beneficent and absolute regularity was just as great as if He had made everything at once and then stopped.

  107. Everything can be done when the right man takes hold of it: the sum of one thousand pounds was appropriated by the Treasury for Charles Darwin's use in bringing out a Government report of the voyage of the "Beagle.

  108. Henceforth, the life of Linnæus flowed forward like a great and mighty river--everything made way for him.

  109. Everything that man did was noted and written down.

  110. Darwin, Hooker and Huxley, all got their scientific baptism on board of surveying-ships, where time was plentiful and anything but fleeting, and most everything else was scarce.

  111. I have everything I want, everything I can use is right here; why should I think of uprooting my life?

  112. And Well-Well will have chewed everything chewable in the car, also the legs of the sayis, by the time I get back," she exclaimed.

  113. If they had asked Damaris about the myth, she would have told them everything quite simply and truthfully.

  114. Not Miss Coop; she was staying behind, of course, to have everything in readiness for Miss Hethencourt, who would doubtless be very tired and a little frightened.

  115. In the meanwhile his dwellings, his servants, his horses and everything he was possessed of were hers.

  116. Come over here, Coop, please, and tell me everything you can about Miss Damaris.

  117. They had fought over everything until they had smashed their engagement.

  118. Jane Coop took up a corner of the big white apron she insisted upon wearing, and pleated it between her fingers as she told her grace everything with a surprising lucidity.

  119. Certainly everything should be ready in the quickest possible time.

  120. Just before your return, just to see if everything was quite all right.

  121. Filled with reveries of the past--my eyes closed to everything without--sleep had indeed overtaken me as I sat listening to the old church-clock.

  122. He'll pick up everything that comes along.

  123. You pay for just what you order, and no more, and they charge high for everything but bread.

  124. Aunt Melinda had taken everything off the kitchen stove and put everything back again, and here now was Mrs. Ogden back again, hugging her son.

  125. The poor mountaineers had been so long destitute of instruction, that everything had as it were to be begun with them from the beginning.

  126. They treated everything in the houses they occupied as if it were their own, and an assignment of billets was little loss than the consignment of the premises to the military, to use for their own purposes, during the time they occupied them.

  127. What would I not give to resemble them in everything laudable!

  128. They were savage at not finding anything to plunder, their predecessors having removed everything in the shape of booty.

  129. When the character of the young applicants was approved, their studies then proceeded, like everything else connected with the proscribed religion, in secret.

  130. Everything valuable had been destroyed by bands of Rapparees.

  131. Perhaps this delight in Germanism went too far in many respects; it fostered hatred and scorn of everything "foreign," and was the cause of the long hair and cap, pike and broad shirt collar worn by many a pupil.

  132. The warehouses of the capital no doubt contained everything that could be needed, no matter how or when, but Berlin seemed to me too small for all the trash that was dragged out of the houses in that March night.

  133. My mother had unpacked our trunks and arranged everything in order.

  134. We doubtless owed our initiation on the second day into everything which was done by the pupils, both openly and secretly, to the good impression made by Martin.

  135. Lady Dimdale knows everything about music; I mean to ask her.

  136. It was perfectly delightful that everything had gone off so well.

  137. The best thing you can do," she said, "is to do everything you can to help your hostess.

  138. In spite of being not only fine, but snug and warm as one always feels when cold weather first comes and one gets into a winter dress, everything seemed disappointing.

  139. The germ of something wonderful was perfectly distinct, but I tried the impossible with it, and when the electric light business assumed commercial importance, I threw everything overboard for that.

  140. The tendency of such a faculty must be toward a lawless defiance of everything sacred, a passionate, impulsive self-will and selfishness, resulting in lawless profligacy.

  141. Oh, I am convinced of his generosity too," said this lively lady; "he cannot lift a spoonful of soup to his mouth without bestowing a share on everything round.

  142. Everything appeared to be kept in the highest possible order, and announced the opulence and rank of the proprietor.

  143. I am such an auld fool, that everything I look on seems the thing I want maist to see.

  144. A very slight spark will kindle a flame where everything lies open to catch it.

  145. Were everything to happen in the ordinary train of events, the future would be subject to the rules of arithmetic, like the chances of gaming.


  146. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "everything" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggregate; all; assemblage; complement; entirety; everything; lot; package


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    everything about; everything around; everything considered; everything else; everything possible; everything that; everything they; everything was; everything will