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Example sentences for "find the"

  • The castings of Coalbrookdale gradually acquired a reputation, and the trade of Abraham Darby continued to increase until the date of his death, which occurred at Madeley Court in 1717.

  • When nearly full, a little green glass broken into small fragments was spread over the top, and the whole covered over with a closely-fitting cover.

  • He was so fortunate as to find the owner of the other or Broseley half of the ferry equally anxious with himself to connect the two banks of the river by means of a bridge.

  • In 1575 we find the Earl of Shrewsbury presenting to his friend Lord Burleigh "a case of Hallamshire whittells, being such fruites as his pore cuntrey affordeth with fame throughout the realme.

  • When the day dawned, the maid arose, being in great concern to find the object of her quest.

  • My first care, after putting myself under this necessary course of preparation, was to find the Doctor's house.

  • Put your hand into the breast pocket of my great-coat on the chair yonder, and I think you'll find the letter.

  • I called the attention of the other operators to the crowd, and we sent a messenger boy to find the cause of the excitement.

  • Hence it is not surprising to find the stock-room not only a museum, but a sample-room of nature, as well as a supply department.

  • The family prospered and must have enjoyed public confidence, for we find the name of Thomas Edison, as a bank official on Manhattan Island, signed to Continental currency in 1778.

  • I rushed out to find the signalman, but before I could find him and get the signal set, the train ran past.

  • I'm not sure I am spelling "calomel" correctly because I failed to find the word in my small dictionary.

  • I often woke up with him lying in his bed nursing his bottle with the light on, but not one time did I ever wake up to find the light on after he had gone to sleep.

  • While I was trying to find the answer to that question, I got straddle of the little Scout to sit and rest and think.

  • Some 20 years later we find the family in Concho County somewhere near Paint Rock or in between Paint Rock and where the little town of Melvin now stands.

  • He expected to find the Hallowells in a tenement in some more or less squalid street overhung with railway smoke and bedaubed with railway grime.

  • But most of the working women--those who keep on at it--don't find the man.

  • Tarzan had felt it necessary to find the girl's father that night, for fear he might start on his homeward journey too early in the morning to be intercepted.

  • They ran for the gates, to wreak dire vengeance upon the foolhardy perpetrator of the outrage; but they suddenly realized that they did not know which way to turn to find the foe.

  • As far out as he could reach he felt nothing, nor could he find the bottom of the black abyss that yawned before him, though, clinging to the edge of the floor, he lowered his body into the darkness to its full length.

  • Where in the wide world to find The far, faint traces of a bygone crime?

  • Three times she deceived herself; she thought she never again would find the mill, when she entered a meadow just opposite Rocreuse.

  • He was growing accustomed to Fauchery and was beginning at last to find the presence of his wife's husband infinitely advantageous to him.

  • Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.

  • Will you lend me this club to hold in my hand while I go to find the bones of your son and to snatch them from the people of the ghosts?

  • Will you get up, go to find the dog's cattle and drive them to a certain place, and hide them there?

  • Upon our arrival we find the 'sets' are already in progress; a 'set' being a dance like a very intricate and very long quadrille.

  • And they said to one another, "Surely, if it were so great a task to find the heart of this maze, we should be mad to stir from the spot, lest we lose it again.

  • The thing now was to find the girl; then he and Peter would start even, and the battle to the best man.

  • Then out into the night, Harmony to the Siebensternstrasse, the tall soldier to find the dancer at her hotel, or failing that, at the Ronacher Music-Hall.

  • If he had wanted to find the cows he'd have gone at seven o'clock in the morning.

  • Michaud joined Blondet in laughing at the countess's terror; then the bailiff showed the two wanderers the way to find the tilbury.

  • The countess, well pleased to find the steward's wife a charming young woman, made presents to her and to the children, with whom she occasionally amused herself.

  • He now wished to find the sources of the Avonne, which the general and the countess daily extolled in the evening, making plans to visit them which were daily forgotten the next morning.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "find the" 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 water; deductive reasoning; fair start; find from; find grace; find herself; find many; find mention; find myself; find nothing; find only; find that; find themselves; find traces; find water; find words; find you; finding myself; great pains; half acres; high voice; interior finish; stamens numerous; weekly paper; will need; yellow spot