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Example sentences for "for all"

  • My head does not need re-stuffing, as my body does, for all that it requires is to have the face touched up with fresh paint occasionally.

  • You may make Oz invis'ble as soon as you please, for all I care.

  • Do what you will with the girls for all I care.

  • For all which I am wearing a good deal for yon boat.

  • He thrust away his glass once and for all, and sat straight up in the chair where he had been previously lolling.

  • Jdt 16:16 For all sacrifice is too little for a sweet savour unto thee, and all the fat is not sufficient for thy burnt offering: but he that feareth the Lord is great at all times.

  • Mac 11:43 Now therefore thou shalt do well, if thou send me men to help me; for all my forces are gone from me.

  • Sir 37:28 For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing.

  • For all that, the fight was but beginning.

  • But, for all that, Ellis pocketed the purse with nonchalance.

  • For all reply, Dick pointed with his finger.

  • And his promise, for all it is but young, is still the likelier to be made good.

  • And, as for all he heard him late impart, 'Twas prompted by revenge, 'twas false and vain.

  • LXX When either steed would nimbly spring from ground, As the spur galled and gored his bleeding flank, He on that little bridge no footing found; For all to narrow was the scanty plank.

  • But, for all that, they were, in one sense, the truest and most substantial things which the poor minister now dealt with.

  • For all that I was much better, ate all the time, and had no fever.

  • Take it for all in all, it was huge fun: even Fanny had some lively sport at the beginning; Belle and I all through.

  • I have had my dinner, father, for all that,' said Meg, coming nearer to him.

  • For all this, Toby scouted with indignation a certain flying rumour that the Chimes were haunted, as implying the possibility of their being connected with any Evil thing.

  • He could not plunge down wildly through the opening in the floor; for all power of motion had deserted him.

  • For all that I could see and hear, the only human creature in the neighbourhood of the lake and the plantation was myself.

  • The risks we have run already are, it may be, trifles compared with the risks that threaten us in the future, but the venture shall be tried, Marian, for all that.

  • You will find, young ladies, that HE never speaks without having excellent reasons for all that he says.

  • But he had given me one chance of looking under the smooth outer surface of him, for all that.

  • I will never consent to make such a return as that," she said, "for all I owe to the faithful servants who are employed in my house.

  • Not a word did he say about the business, however, for all that.

  • I dare say I had deserved his reproof--but I was not going to help him to set traps for Rosanna Spearman, for all that.

  • For all I can tell, everybody in the house may have known where the jewel was, last night.

  • She was glad, for all sorts of reasons, that Madame de Chantelle and Effie were still at Ouchy with the governess, and that she and Owen had the house to themselves.

  • He's not half as bad as he looks, for all he's so crabbed.

  • The good men durst not force him against his will; they say, rather, that the worshipful man is of good life who will keep watch in such manner throughout the night without drink or meat, for all that he seemeth to be right weary.

  • He maketh the King take water of the lady, and the same service did she for all of them.

  • Oh for all I know, to her too--to any, to every woman.

  • Yes, but there are women who are for all your 'times of life.

  • For all of room and space we call the void Must both through centre and non-centre yield Alike to weights where'er their motions tend.

  • For all I may devise or find To pleasure thee is nothing: all things are The same forever.

  • Well, this sleep may be forever, Without desire of any selfhood more, For all it matters unto us asleep.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for all" 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:
    for about; for anything; for here; for life; for some time past; for the express purpose; for the second time; for they were not; forced labour; forced laugh; forced myself; foreign court; foreign goods; foreign lands; foreign powers; foreign prince; foreign wars; forest life; forget what; forked branch; form line; former chapters; forty dollars; forty hours; silence followed; work will