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Example sentences for "for not"

  • The planter and his wife were found on the sofas where they had been confined; and they seemed to be still paralyzed with terror, for not a few Union men had been hung or shot in the State within the preceding year.

  • Wall, it wuz jest about as wild a idee that Ferdinand had to listen to; I d'no that he wuz any more to blame than they would be for not hearin' to it.

  • I thought of how he had been scorfed at and jerred at for not thinkin' as other folks did.

  • For not bringing us together sooner; for now I have seen her, I already look back with regret to the time I have lost without the pleasure of knowing her.

  • Strange indeed," cried she, "for not one of them can I comprehend!

  • Some victuals and drink, worthy masters, I pray, For not a warm morsel we've tasted to day.

  • He is alone surrounded by the Godhead; His mansion is in truth an heavenly kingdom, For not of earthly moulding are these forms!

  • The hammer down heave, Till the cover it cleave:-- For not till we shatter the wall of its cell Can we lift from its darkness and bondage the bell.

  • And with some reason he thinks so; for not seldom he takes up a foreign idea and tires of it before it is current elsewhere.

  • For not he that commendeth himself is approved, as St. Paul saith, but whom the Lord commendeth.

  • But his taste and wealth have done nothing to perpetuate his name, for not a trace remains that can indicate to what person or to what family it belonged.

  • Then Teutamidas spake, and said, "My friend, I envy thee for thy happy lot, for not often in the world of men may fathers reap such glory from their children as thou hast won from Perseus.

  • For not only at the Dionysian ceremonies, but on many other festive occasions, the people clamored for free admission, confirmed in their demands by the demagogues.

  • For not so much to his own strength as to your laziness does he owe his present aggrandizement.

  • For not even in respect of honour does he so bear himself; and yet it is the greatest of all such objects, since it is the cause of power and wealth being choiceworthy, for certainly they who have them desire to receive honour through them.

  • For not as yet had any tidings come Of that wild fray to Aias stormy-souled, Nor to Achilles, waster of tower and town.

  • For not by hook or by net could this vast leviathan be caught, when sailing a thousand fathoms beneath the sunlight.

  • For not by night, even, had Fedallah ever certainly been known to slumber, or go below.

  • For not only Æsculapius, mentioned in this list, but Apollo likewise learnt of him the medicinal arts.

  • Yet there is reason to doubt of the fact: for not one of them produces any good voucher for what they suppose.

  • So difficult is it to hear so as to understand, or to speak so as to be understood; for not only is it necessary to use right words, but with right accents, or you may often convey the very reverse of what you mean.

  • It's of no use for me to bully you, my lads, for not giving me ideas, when I can find none myself.

  • Weston, excepte grace doe greatly swaye with him, he will hate us ten times more then ever he loved us, for not confirming y^e conditions.

  • And now to be so greatly blamed, for not fraighting y^e ship, doth indeed goe near us, and much discourage us.

  • But he was deceived, for not a man opened his mouth, but all were silent, being strucken with the injustice of y^e thing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for not" 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 love; for the common benefit; for the most part; for they are foolishness unto him; for they were not; for when; forbid them; forced loan; forcing himself; foreign birth; foreign debt; foreign government; foreign interference; foreign travel; forest reserves; forget what; forked branch; forked tongue; form part; form water; formal declaration; former chapter; formerly written; forming part; forty hours; forty thousand