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Example sentences for "follow the"

  • Rochefort remained for a moment in thought; then, as they were only a day's journey from Surgeres, whither the cardinal was to come to meet the king, he resolved to follow the advice of Athos and go with them.

  • Let us leave him to follow the road to the camp protected by his esquire and the two Musketeers, and return to Athos.

  • The novice, seeing Milady in bed, was about to follow the example of the superior; but Milady stopped her.

  • The shadow doth not more naturally follow the body, than cuckoldry ensueth after marriage to place fair horns upon the husbands' heads.

  • Her senses had much of that delicacy for which the red people are noted, and she often thought she could follow the trail of an enemy, if she wished to track one through the forest, as unerringly as if she were a Pequot or a Mohegan.

  • She determined to follow the lead of the strange hint her nightmare had given her.

  • She recollected Master Gridley's mistake about their destination, and determined to follow the hint he had given.

  • And finally, follow the winding of the pellucid stream until it is ejected through a narrow passageway into the turbulent Colorado.

  • Here the plateau opens out, but we leave it in order to follow the creek, on the Berry Trail down to the river.

  • Before paying particular attention to the vast forms that crowd the interior of the Canyon, let us follow the "build" of the massive wall on the north side.

  • At first we follow the trail by which we came.

  • Then Lysander ordered the swiftest of his ships to follow the Athenians, and as soon as the crews had disembarked, to watch what they did, sail back, and report to him.

  • It is great glory to follow the Lord: for length of days shall be received from him.

  • When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.

  • Two generations, with John Stuart Mill, talked of this stationary period, which was to follow the explosion of new power.

  • The mind was thenceforth to follow the movement of matter, and unity must be left to shift for itself.

  • When closely watched, she seemed making a violent effort to follow the man, who had turned his mind and hand to mechanics.

  • Carefully as he had tried to follow the Kaiser's career, he had never suspected such refinement of policy, which raised his opinion of the Kaiser's ability to the highest point, and altogether upset the centre of statesmanship.

  • The Arabs and their herds must follow the example of the wild beasts, and live as wild and wandering a life.

  • After hunting and exploring for some days in this neighbourhood, I determined to follow the bed of the Royan to its junction with the Settite.

  • Their method was to follow the tracks of an elephant, so as to arrive at their game between the hours of 10 A.

  • It is by no means easy to follow the windings of Chinese politics.

  • The third article is, that the Government omitted to follow the advice of the Duke of Wellington, who had left at the Foreign Office a memorandum recommending that a British ship of war should be stationed in the China sea.

  • I might, Sir, if I chose to follow the example of the honourable gentleman the Secretary of the Board of Control, advert to many other matters.

  • Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin.

  • But those who, when the law has been well preached to them, follow the law, will pass across the dominion of death, however difficult to overcome.

  • The Indian boundary line was to follow the line of the Treaty of Greenville and beyond it neither nation was to acquire land.

  • Congress was obviously reluctant to follow the lead of the radicals who clamored for war with Great Britain.

  • He was resolved not to follow the practice of his Federalist predecessors and address Congress in person.

  • As a juryman his conscience obliges him to sweat blood and water in the effort to follow the debates of a trial; he never laughs, not even if the judge, and audience, and all the officials laugh.

  • I, who could have chosen between Felix and Monsieur de la Peyrade, and did not dare to follow the ideas of my heart!

  • Isnard proposes to follow the example of the Roman senate which, to allay discord at home, got up an outside war: between old Rome and France of 1792, indeed, there is a striking resemblance.

  • Repression is impossible; the department writes to the Minister that "at this time it would be impolitic to follow the matter up.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "follow 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:
    being anxious; being entirely; broken voice; certain weight; follow after; follow her; follow him; follow nature; follow thee; follow their; follow them; followed closely; followed her; followed them; following legislative; following the; foreign ministers; its object; large stream; many towns; must obey; opera buffa; persons employed; rather stout; runaway slave; thrown from