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Example sentences for "for that"

  • You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

  • All Tulare County, all the San Joaquin, for that matter, knows you.

  • I was born too late for that," he declared, "for that, and for many other things.

  • Those before him and around him were not as the types of Woollett, where, for that matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female.

  • For that matter, anyone who was a comrade of the captain's was enough to frighten them to death.

  • Mac 7:12 Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at the young man's courage, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

  • Mac 9:7 When Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.

  • His milk he always drinks in a withdrawing room, that it may not be discovered, for that would be too apparent, nor has he any other shift to evade the discerning eye of the observers.

  • As for that wife of yours, I've always had a fancy for her myself, and I shall know how to find a use for the woman.

  • As for that," she said, with a gesture, "I would not come if you asked me.

  • Oh, as for that, I could go back and be fan-girl tomorrow.

  • And it seemed to me a cruel kindness to do that sweet young creature, letting her know that her father had written her mother down so shamefully; for that's what he did, I suppose.

  • For that I am a real democrat--like you, monsieur.

  • He apologized to me for that of his mother.

  • I asked him if in his journeys he had never been attacked by robbers; he answered no, for that he generally travelled in company with others.

  • Vaya, I was not going to expose myself to the resentment of those three and to that of their friends; I live too near the Hay Market for that.

  • He answered that whoever told me he was a schoolmaster lied, for that he was a friar of the convent and nothing else.

  • She said that a young man, a great Constitutionalist, had given it to her some months previous, and had pressed her much to read it, for that it was one of the best books in the world.

  • God, if I could make you some little return for that!

  • An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that sort of sepulchre where there was life, was a strange instant.

  • For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us.

  • For that I return thanks to the immortal gods.

  • A regicide ending in a senator; for that is the way they always end.

  • What's it all of it for, if it ain't for that?

  • If it wa'n't for that, I shouldn't know enough to come in when it rains.

  • You know I go in for that sort of thing, Anna.

  • And, as for that, I wonder what he'd have to say to such as she is.

  • For that matter, however, there was something already beginning to be rather affectionate in the attitude of each of them.

  • For that reason in itself it was incumbent upon a man to get even with her in one way or another.

  • And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

  • Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire.

  • For that, to help me do the real work in the picture, I want Lite Avery.

  • For that, you must know, was what had first endeared her so to the public; the human quality that compelled instinctive response from those who looked at her.

  • As for that, we have no business, when our friends are gone," said the Lion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for that" 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 his; for man; for the greater part; for thou shalt not; foraging expedition; forbid them; forbidden fruit; force their; foreign grain; foreign soil; foreign states; foreign wars; forest land; forest products; forest tree; forest trees; forever free; form part; former note; former president; former work; fortified place; fortnight later; fortunate enough; forty pounds; forty shillings