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Example sentences for "for its"

  • For its introduction of French words, this work occupies a prominent place in the development of the English language.

  • For its effectiveness, the Arcadia relies on poetic language and conceptions.

  • Unlike Euphues and the Arcadia, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity is more valuable for its thought than for its form of expression.

  • I deem it advisable under these circumstances to submit the treaty in its modified form to the Senate, for its advice in regard of the sufficiency of the assent of the Senecas to the amendments proposed.

  • When New Orleans has at last been reached, the boat is sold to be broken up for its materials, and the trader returns by steamer to get ready for another voyage down.

  • During the pendency of the measure, and when the prospects were unfavorable for its passage, Judge Willson was chosen by the Cleveland Bar to proceed to Washington and labor in the interest of the bill.

  • When the war broke out he was an earnest and unshrinking supporter of the Government, and his means were freely used for its support, and for the comfort of the soldiers who were fighting its battles.

  • Hovering in those blest paths afar, The wheeling planets seem to trace, My spirit found some islet-star, And chose it for its dwelling-place.

  • I went down to see that the arrangements were perfected for its movement.

  • The faculty lingers in my memory, and I have the same reverence and affection for its members, though sixty-five years out of college, that I had the day I graduated.

  • Every active-transitive verb or participle has some noun or pronoun for its object, or some pronominal adjective which assumes the relation of the objective case.

  • This has these for its plural; that has those.

  • He soon became president of the Jamestown colony and labored strenuously for its preservation.

  • We study Macbeth for its psychology, its revelation of human nature, its ethics, more than for its accurate exposition of the Scottish history of the time.

  • Certainly the German character is in no way so little remarkable as for its humor.

  • For its effect on poetry we cannot say as much; and its traditions had themselves become pedantry in another shape when Lessing made an end of it.

  • But the man whom the genius takes possession of for its pen, for its trowel, for its pencil, for its chisel, him the world treats according to his deserts.

  • Mrs. Clemens and Clara were willing to go night after night and hear that tale time and again, for its effect on each new, audience.

  • As for its owner, he had no suspicion of these momentous happenings for a considerable time.

  • The record already given of his life and work supplies the outline of the picture; but a few more personal details are required for its completion.

  • I am induced, on second thoughts, to subjoin one of these, for its testimony to the moral atmosphere into which the child had been born.

  • The chair, sacred to my sire, and venerated by me for its age, and for our long intimacy.

  • Does he mean that what is here called the positive method of thought is not equally spontaneous to the human mind as the theological, but depends on it for its development?

  • For its cultivation, the temperature of a warm greenhouse is required, though during summer it may be placed in a sunny position in a frame out of doors.

  • For its cultivation, this plant requires a warm house always; but care should be taken to give it plenty of fresh air and as much light as possible.

  • For its cultivation, a warm-house temperature appears most suitable; it bears a close resemblance to E.

  • For its cultivation it may be treated as recommended for M.

  • For its cultivation, the treatment advised for Phyllocactuses will be found suitable.

  • Nay, let me lose such glory: for its sake I cannot leave one living thing I loved.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for example; for some unknown reason; for the first time; for the former things are passed; for the greatest part; for the same purpose; forced myself; forces were; foreign body; foreign commerce; foreign enemy; foreign markets; foreign money; foreign nation; foreign parentage; foreign parts; forest tree; forgiving sins; formed part; former letter; former paper; former part; former state; forming the; fortnight since; forty rods