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Example sentences for "for the simple reason"

  • The Recorder really was in rather a tight place, for the simple reason that he could not have proved his title without the deeds, and that he could not bring the theft of them home to Rush.

  • No time has been spent in research into that matter for the purposes of this book, for the simple reason that at least enough must needs be said concerning the place after the Romans first knew it.

  • My reply to this was, that I preferred a life on the sea to any other, and that I left Captain Brannon, for the simple reason that I did not like either him, or the man who had placed me under his control.

  • I shall not startle my leaders with a recital of any remarkable adventures we had with the hostile Indians: for the simple reason that we had none.

  • I profess to have a horror of that mode of death: for the simple reason that I have made trial of it, and found the sensation anything but pleasant.

  • It is impossible to be too emphatic at the outset about it, for the simple reason that it is bad enough for the golfer to have to think at the moment of making his stroke about the things which actually do matter.

  • The rhythm of many a swing is utterly spoilt by this advice, for the simple reason that, generally speaking, it is tremendously overdone.

  • The confusion of thought involved even in the attempt to state such a condition shows it to be perfectly inconceivable, for the simple reason that it is self-contradictory and self-destructive.

  • I believe with all my soul that it is still able to embrace the most daring scientific speculations, for the simple reason that it is hardly concerned with them at all.

  • If the pilot be unaccompanied and entirely dependent upon his own resources he cannot hope to fire vertically above him, for the simple reason that in so doing he must relinquish control of his machine.

  • But Mr. Seward knew better than to say any such thing, for the simple reason, that this was not the thing which was demanded of him, although he had written a lengthy despatch to prove that it was.

  • But adventurous though our trappers were, they had not penetrated so far perhaps into the wilderness as had the French, for the simple reason no doubt that ways of communication were less frequent and difficult to come across.

  • We were not desirous of an open rupture with France, our hereditary enemy, for the simple reason that we were not ready.

  • Such proud experiences never fall from the lips of an English beggar, for the simple reason that he lives on the working and middle classes.

  • A barrel-house stiff is the most despised of all stiffs, for the simple reason that he is a physical wreck and, though a swaggerer and a loud talker, is as powerless in action as a babe.

  • XIX Charity in Strange Quarters A fine house is seldom worth a beggar's notice, for the simple reason that it has too many people to consult.

  • It had never occurred to him in his life to feel ashamed of his station or that of his family, for the simple reason that he had never made pretension to anything higher or more exalted.

  • For the simple reason, my boy, that I know and feel how the cleverness which imposes upon others has never imposed upon myself.

  • A man can be a Christian to the end of the world, for the simple reason that a man could have been an Atheist from the beginning of it.

  • The child's impulse need not be explained to the police, for the simple reason that it could not be explained to anybody.

  • A man must not be asked why he is talkative or silent, for the simple reason that he does not know.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the simple reason" 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 five; for good; for indeed; for love; for that; for the same reason; for the time being; for they know not what they; for three; for thy; for which; forced labour; foreign court; foreign invasion; form boys; former ages; former lecture; former letters; former place; formerly written; forty days; forty weeks; forty year; forward movement; forward pass; made believe