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Example sentences for "fall into"

  • Formerly the seignior of Blet enforced, in this case, the right of redemption which has been allowed to fall into desuetude.

  • If he becomes a widower and has no children, they send deputations to him to entreat him to remarry, in order that at his death the country may not fall into a war of succession or be given up to the encroachment of neighbors.

  • To assume that egoistic pleasures may be relinquished to any extent is to fall into one of those many errors of ethical speculation which result from ignoring the laws of biology.

  • The utilitarian is, in fact, liable to fall into a similar error to that already noticed on the part of those who claim that egoism is the foundation of all morality, present as past.

  • However, it is true that the Greeks were, as a people, too little in earnest and too superstitious to fall into doubt of the national mythology.

  • The above "blanket treatment" will frequently give great relief, and will sometimes cause him to fall into a sweet sleep.

  • Sucking of the thumb will often make a cross infant contended and happy, and will frequently induce a restless babe to fall into a sweet refreshing sleep.

  • The convulsionaries of St. Medard, as they were called, assembled in great numbers round the tomb of their favourite saint, the Jansenist priest Paris, and taught one another how to fall into convulsions.

  • One day he had magnetised his gardener; and observing him to fall into a deep sleep, it occurred to him that he would address a question to him, as he would have done to a natural somnambulist.

  • S: Not against Him can you cause (any) to fall into trial, 037.

  • S: And the guilty shall see the fire, then they shall know that they are going to fall into it, and they shall not find a place to which to turn away from it.

  • Condemn us not if we forget or fall into error; our Lord!

  • The control over Europe had passed out of the hands of Metternich and Louis Philippe to fall into those of Nicholas, Schwarzenberg, and Napoleon III.

  • God has put us in a situation in which our neighbours will not allow us to fall into indolence or apathy.

  • The mistakes which the most superior understanding is apt to fall into.

  • That we fall into no sin:' no, an adverb used idiomatically, instead of we do not fall into any sin.

  • That we fall into no sin:' no is a definitive or pronominal adjective, not compared, and relates to sin.

  • Has any one been ever able to answer his question: Speed an arrow from the limits of the world--will it fall into nothing, into nihility?

  • I heard his confession; he repented of his sin, and determined no more to fall into it.

  • That he may give proof at length of his admirable skill in recovering from such a distemper, that no flesh might have ground to despair, in the most dead condition they can fall into.

  • Shew whence it proceedeth, and how the soul cometh to fall into it.

  • As the ideal flatteries, for whose sake the gods have been brought down from Olympus, are but too apt to fall into mawkishness, this antidote on such occasions is certainly deserving of commendation.

  • A constant disposition to this mode of feeling ends necessarily, in the long run, by weakening the character, and makes it fall into a state of passivity from which nothing real can issue, either for external or for internal life.

  • Placed in positions of this kind, the genius whose essence is elegance is sure infallibly to fall into platitudes, and that virtue which only results from natural causes drops down to a material sphere.

  • God does not exactly lead us into temptation; but He allows us to fall into it.

  • Our good Lord in His kindness instituted another Sacrament, by which we could once more be freed from sin if we had the misfortune to fall into it after Baptism--it is the Sacrament of Penance.

  • God wished Adam to have a companion; so one day He caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, and then took from his side a rib, out of which he formed Eve.

  • The new tax on inheritance(6) was allowed to fall into abeyance or was perhaps directly abolished.

  • If Cicero has not allowed himself to fall into an anachronism when he makes Africanus say this as early as 625 (de Rep.

  • It is easy to see that many teachers, by giving lessons continually, particularly to pupils without talent, are led, even with the best intentions, to fall into a mere routine.

  • As I have said before, it does not depend upon much practising, but upon correct practising; and that the pupils shall not be allowed to fall into errors.

  • Laws, like customs, may cease to have a significance, and they may be modified or allowed to fall into desuetude.

  • So may the individual select an end, fall into error in his choice of means, and, as a result of experience, resolve to substitute for such means others which are better adapted to carry out his purpose.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fall into" 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:
    action stations; audible voice; became the; fall asleep; fall back; fall down; fall from; fall upon; fallen down; fallen leaves; fallen timber; fallen tree; fallen trees; fallen woman; falling back; falling bodies; falling body; falling down; falling short; falling stars; falls back; glass tube; hundred and twenty years; realise that; thou speakest; will gather them together