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Example sentences for "express"

Lexicographically close words:
expoundeth; expounding; expounds; expres; expresly; expresse; expressed; expressely; expresses; expresseth
  1. It is usual to express the results in terms of what is called the migration constant of the anion, that is, the ratio of the amount of salt lost by the anode vessel to the whole amount lost by both vessels.

  2. Besides enabling us to express the extension in any direction and the changes of relative direction of any filaments of the body, the components of strain also express the changes of size of volumes and areas.

  3. To express this theory analytically, let the middle plane of the plate in the unstrained position be taken as the plane of (x, y), and let normal sections at right angles to the axes of x and y be drawn through any point.

  4. Vita Karoli Magni, but there is no express statement to this effect.

  5. The New Zealand express train is called the Ballarat Fly .

  6. The writer would add all of his twelve numerals together, and then the sum would express the whole truth about the Taj, and the truth only--63.

  7. We must remember that these pupils had to do their thinking in one language, and express themselves in another and alien one.

  8. Then Pallant, shocked and pained: 'I can only express my profound surprise that in response to my simple question the honourable member should have thought fit to indulge in a personal attack.

  9. By every teaching of the Immoderate Left she had a perfect right to express herself in any way she pleased, but the curtsey revolted him.

  10. That was his only way to express his emotions, so to speak.

  11. After all, she had as much right to express herself as he purposed to take for himself; and Midmore believed strongly in the fullest equality of the sexes.

  12. Then I realised that it was not bees nor locusts that had darkened the skies, but the on-coming of the malignant English thunderstorm--the one thing before which even Deborah the bee cannot express her silly little self.

  13. I am now, Sir, directed by the United States to express to you the grateful sense they entertain of your early efforts in their favor.

  14. This supposition is made, that I may have an opportunity, thus early, to express my sentiments on the mode of appropriation.

  15. You express an apprehension lest the union between France and America should be diminished by accounts from your side of the water.

  16. Mr Jay informs me, that he expects soon to be under the necessity of protesting the bills drawn on him; that Dr Franklin had hitherto saved that necessity, but that he cannot advance much more, unless by the express order of Congress.

  17. Congress have directed you further, to express to the King their reliance on a continuation of his friendship and exertions.

  18. Roquebrune, for eighty thousand livres, being in part payment of the one hundred and forty thousand livres, which you were so kind as to advance, and for which I beg leave again to express my grateful sense of obligation.

  19. I thank you for the sentiments you express in my favor.

  20. And it ought to be remembered, that contingencies are generally speaking a kind of expenses, which though justified by necessity are unprovided for by express appropriation, and which therefore ought as much as possible to be avoided.

  21. If the plan proposed as an alternative be adopted, it will from the nature of the case be an express national compact between the United States and each individual State.

  22. Surely, Sir, it was not kind to place me in a situation where I must appear either to refuse the performance of an important public service, or to break the most solemn engagements and contradict the most express declarations.

  23. To express definition as an absolute measure, use instead of printed matter, a white sheet of paper upon which a series of heavy lines are drawn at intervals equivalent to their thickness.

  24. I found it difficult to express my gratitude.

  25. I dared not slap or speak rudely, for great Danes are gifted with acute sensibilities; and if I were to be so ill-judged as to express displeasure by an unpleasant gesture, she would remain broken-hearted and aggrieved for the rest of the day.

  26. I wonder how Berta would express it with literary vividness.

  27. When I heard Mr. Dickens read scenes from Nicholas Nickleby, the tone of voice in which he personated Smike sent a chill through me, for I had never before heard the human voice express such hopeless despair.

  28. But--such was his reluctance at receiving gifts--weeks passed and he neither had them opened or brought to his house from the express office.

  29. To express calm acknowledgments to a man for his conduct in a matter which has been to him one of unmitigated disaster and calamity, requires an amount of composure which few people possess when at the height of personal happiness.

  30. He attended her to her carriage with a tender devotion which could not express itself in words.

  31. They were called "Forest Sisters," a name which may well express the poetry and peace of their life and surroundings.

  32. Still her plays express but a very small part of the whole gamut of human emotions and experiences, just as her life was lived in an intellectual world narrow from the point of view of to-day or of the great intellectual age of antiquity.

  33. Mahaut was, in truth, the first wealthy individual of the age to spend her substance with the express purpose of surrounding herself with beauty of every kind.

  34. It served also to express the fact that the formations of the Earth's crust stand in some kind of order.

  35. The jaws, tongue, and lips are used not only to express strong irritation or gratification; but that very moderate flow of mental energy which accompanies ordinary conversation, finds its chief vent through this channel.

  36. Even the pleasant sensation of warmth felt on getting to the fireside out of a winter's storm, will similarly express itself in the face.

  37. Merely hinting thus much, however, by way of showing that there are many analogies to justify us, we go on to express the opinion that there exists a relationship of this kind between music and speech.

  38. It is the invention of general symbols serving to express the numerical relations of entities, whatever be their special characters.

  39. While certain articulations express the thought, certain vocal sounds express the more or less of pain or pleasure which the thought gives.

  40. It is the invention of general symbols serving to express the relations between numbers, as numbers express the relations between things.

  41. Comte has here so inconsistently used to express the relations of the sciences--branches of one trunk--is an approximation to the truth, though not the truth itself.

  42. Those to whom only the surface of things is visible are prone to express wonder at the love and enthusiasm of the San Franciscan for his home city.

  43. It did not please the king and he was not slow to express his disapproval.

  44. Not many years ago the average farmer was glad to express his contempt for what he styled "book farming".

  45. It was the first expression of the unsatisfied yearning of the artist for beauty and the power to express it.

  46. You must remember that your success depends upon how well you can express your thought and feeling through your face and hands and body.

  47. And his words did not at all express the feelings which she wanted to utter.

  48. We might say more, but in our city's characteristic mode we express by deeds far better than by words.

  49. They think this an apt occasion on which publicly to express the sincerity of that opinion.

  50. In consequence of this delay we did not reach Kansas City until half-past ten at night, when a portion of the public met us to express in rather a marked manner their extreme disapprobation.

  51. I remember Mr. Boyd told me how he had heard Rhodes often express great trouble and surprise at my attitude towards him.

  52. But if I go on to express my admiration of Sir Louis Mallet this will cease to be an autobiography and become something in the nature of Bossuet's eulogies, so ardent was my cult for Cobden's friend.

  53. When the hospital doors closed, I respected the English working-man as much as ever, and added to that respect a love and sympathy which I may record, but shall not attempt to explain or to express in detail.

  54. Jowett, the Master of Balliol, evidently felt the Stracheyphobia very strongly, or perhaps I should say felt it his duty to express it very strongly.

  55. Naturally, I was eager to express my regret, and went down at once to the House of Commons and sent in for him.

  56. I feel for the reasons that I have already given that I am not managing to express my personal feeling about Roosevelt.

  57. It is possible that it arises also in the attempt to prevent me from exercising the rights of conscience, that is, the right to think and to express my views.

  58. At any rate, their view being what it was, I have no sort of doubt that they were quite right to express it as plainly and as generously as they did to me.

  59. In others, it is the subject of an express or tacit arrangement with a particular fish-curer.

  60. I suppose the people express themselves well pleased with the change that has been made?

  61. Yes; they are deficient in that sturdy independence, if I may so express it, which characterizes the peasantry throughout the rest of Scotland.

  62. Does the line express whether it is to be paid in goods or in money?

  63. But although this lease does not contain an express condition that the tenants are to fish for you, it gives you a power of ejecting them?

  64. In all such cases the debt is incurred on the express or understood condition that the man shall deliver his fish next season, and where the advance consists of boat and lines, until it is altogether paid off.

  65. Are you aware that the men sometimes express a wish that they should know the price of fish earlier in the season than is the case at present?

  66. The writer says, 'Having fulfilled my promise to write you, I have to express the hope that this confidential communication may receive your kind consideration.

  67. Did the men express any fear of being turned out of their holdings?

  68. Human speech has never yet completely expressed human intellect, and it certainly never will completely express human sentiments.

  69. What Thurstane felt he could only express by recalling random lines of the "Paradise Lost.

  70. Homer praises Telemachus as much as any one of his heroes, and yet he gives him the epithet of Nuttios, Silly: and the Grecians generally use the same word to express children, as a token of their innocence.

  71. It has to express total inadequacy of imagination and will, spiritual anaemia, dull respectability, gross sentimentality, a cultivated pettiness of heart.

  72. Let me try and express how in my mind this matter of negative terms has shaped itself.

  73. Jack, if your father calls you by your other name you must not express any surprise.

  74. I heard you were home, and sent off an express to Patty and the mother last night.

  75. But he could express as much of joy and welcome in his face and manner as could Captain Daniel with his heartier ways.

  76. Realism, or, to express it more clearly, detailism, is the realizing of the whole subject-matter or motive of a picture in exact detail.

  77. Only thus, by this fidelity to the very nature and spirit of a place, can the picture be made to express the essence of its life, which is really the heart of the whole mystery.

  78. In this four hours nature keeps comparatively still long enough for you to caress her with your brush, and if you would truly express what you see, your work must be finished in that time.

  79. So it came about that in searching to express these new qualities, never before seen upon a block, the technic of the new school was developed.

  80. It is unnecessary for Inness to cover his ground with snow to make his picture express a certain degree of cold, neither is it necessary for Monténard to fill his Provençal roads with clouds of dust to show how hot they are.

  81. But here I pause, though I had the language of a Solomon or a Shakespeare I should never be able to express my contempt for the senator who would consent to appear clothed in the borrowed or bought fabric of another's rhetoric.

  82. And then they were required to express it in their own language, after their natural methods, and in accordance with the stage of knowledge which their time had reached.

  83. He who has not been thus inspired, may not be able to understand how the meaning of the characters on the plates was made clear to the translator so that he could express it in his own language.

  84. The believers in his genius lacked words to express their sense of his greatness.

  85. We are not accustomed to express our thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "express" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; advice; affect; affirm; agile; airmail; allege; announce; apparent; approve; argue; articulate; assert; asseverate; attest; aver; avouch; avow; axiomatic; bearer; bespeak; betoken; brandish; breakneck; breathe; caddie; carrier; categorical; certain; character; characterize; chime; chorus; clear; close; coherent; communicate; communication; communique; complete; conceive; concentrate; conclusive; concrete; connected; connote; consign; consistent; constant; contend; convey; conveyer; coolie; correspondence; couch; courier; crisp; crush; crystalline; dangle; dashing; decided; decisive; declare; defend; defined; definite; definitive; delicate; delineate; deliver; demonstrate; denote; depict; describe; detailed; determinate; develop; different; differentiate; direct; discernible; disclose; dispatch; display; distill; distinct; distinguished; divulge; downright; dramatize; draw; electric; elevated; embark; embassy; embody; emissary; emit; emphatic; enact; entail; entire; enunciate; esoteric; especial; even; evidence; evident; evince; evoke; exact; exceptional; exhibit; expedite; expeditious; explicit; export; expound; express; extraordinary; faithful; fast; final; fine; fixed; flat; flaunt; fleet; flier; flourish; flyer; flying; formal; formulate; forward; frame; frank; freight; freighter; funicular; galloping; give; global; hasty; have; headlong; highlight; hint; hold; identify; illuminate; illustrate; impart; implicit; imply; import; incarnate; indicate; indisputable; individual; individualistic; indubitable; inerrant; infallible; infuse; inner; insist; intend; interurban; intimate; involve; letter; limited; limn; limpid; lip; lively; local; look; lucid; luminous; mail; maintain; manifest; mark; materialize; mathematical; mean; mercurial; message; microscopic; minute; monorail; mouth; nice; nimble; note; noteworthy; noticeable; nuncio; observable; obvious; outline; outright; paint; palpable; parade; paragraph; particular; pass; patent; pellucid; perceivable; perceptible; peremptory; perfect; perform; personal; perspicuous; phrase; picture; pinpoint; plain; porter; portray; positive; post; posthaste; precipitate; precise; predicate; present; press; private; proclaim; produce; profess; prompt; pronounce; protest; publish; put; quick; raise; rapid; reckless; refine; refined; register; release; religious; remit; render; represent; respective; reveal; rigid; rigorous; round; runner; running; say; scientific; send; several; severe; shape; ship; shipper; show; shuttle; signalize; signify; simple; singular; sketch; snappy; soak; sound; spanking; speak; special; specific; speedy; spell; spotlight; square; squeeze; state; steep; stevedore; straight; straightforward; strict; style; submit; subtle; subway; suggest; swift; symbolize; take; tangible; telegram; tell; testify; token; total; train; translucent; transmit; transparent; transporter; trucker; tube; turn; unambiguous; unconditional; underground; undeviating; undoubting; unequivocal; unerring; unfold; unhampered; unhesitating; univocal; unlimited; unmistakable; unmitigated; unqualified; unquestioning; unreserved; unrestricted; utter; vent; very; visible; voice; wagoner; wave; whisper; whole; winged; word; wring; write


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    express herself; express himself; express itself; express money; express myself; express provision; express terms; express the; express their; express them; express themselves; express train; express wagon; express what; express words; expressed great; expressed himself; expressed their; expressed thus; expresses himself; expressing their; expressly said; expressly stated