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Example sentences for "for the"

  • For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists.

  • Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class.

  • Free trade: for the benefit of the working class.

  • For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.

  • Most of us hearers were in shadow, for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted, and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated.

  • Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.

  • Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears.

  • I lay down on the edge, for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy.

  • My brother could not hear it for the traffic in the main thoroughfares, but by striking through the quiet back streets to the river he was able to distinguish it quite plainly.

  • I turned, and as I did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion.

  • The public would be fairly warned of the approach of danger, and elaborate measures were being taken for the protection of the people in the threatened southwestern suburbs.

  • We have chanced to come in for the thick of it," said I, "and that is all.

  • Stent and Ogilvy, anticipating some possibilities of a collision, had telegraphed from Horsell to the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence.

  • In answer to the demand for a "mechanical proof that Bacon is Shakespeare" I have added a chapter shewing the meaning of "Honorificabilitudinitatibus," and I have in Chapter XIV.

  • When they got home Marilla put Davy to bed and made him stay there for the rest of the day.

  • It's neatness and tidiness for me for the rest of my natural life, I suppose.

  • I'll write and ask her if she'll lend it for the occasion," said Anne.

  • And as for the twins, I don't know what is to become of them.

  • You would have told us that we seemed born for each other, or some nonsense of that kind, which would have distressed me beyond conception; my cheeks would have been as red as your roses; I would not have had you by for the world.

  • The wheels have been fairly worn out these ten years at least--and as for the body!

  • There was not a single point in which we differed; I would not have had you by for the world; you are such a sly thing, I am sure you would have made some droll remark or other about it.

  • I had fifty minds to buy it myself, for it is one of my maxims always to buy a good horse when I meet with one; but it would not answer my purpose, it would not do for the field.

  • For the whole of the first day they wandered about in the midst of deafening confusion, utterly lost; and it was only at night that, cowering in the doorway of a house, they were finally discovered and taken by a policeman to the station.

  • When he had nothing to do for the moment, he would stand round fidgeting, dancing, with the overflow of energy that was in him.

  • The shape went slowly along, but without much exertion, for the snow, though sudden, was not as yet more than two inches deep.

  • The situation was perhaps equally unendurable for the man.

  • Fine pages are all very well for the schoolmaster, but I do not appreciate them at all.

  • As Polyte says, all this is for the sake of letting you know that you must do your best to behave well, if you want to prove to me that you are not ungrateful for my interest in you.

  • Maurice de Saxe adored the theatre, either for itself or for the sake of the women connected with it.

  • The letters in which Baronne Dudevant tells, day by day, of her home life are too enthusiastic for the letters of an unhappy wife.

  • The course of events in London did not run so well as I had hoped, for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty.

  • For the matter of that, why should McFarlane?

  • When the detective departed, my friend rose and made his preparations for the day's work with the alert air of a man who has a congenial task before him.

  • I have been followed from London Bridge Station, and I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me.

  • For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional.

  • For the omissions of the last session, some excuses may be allowed.

  • For the moment, the dreams of my youth and the hopes of my manhood were completely fulfilled.

  • The operation was a hazardous one for the lender as well as for the borrower.

  • Her silks and furs were drawn about her, for the air of Mars is chill after the sun has taken his quick plunge beneath the planet's western verge.

  • With outstretched tail and foaming jaws it charged straight as an arrow, for the body of the thoat and the mighty creature of destruction that stood with forepaws upon the slate-grey side, waiting to defend its meat.

  • At touch of the man's hand upon her flesh the girl went pallid beneath her coppery skin, for the persons of the royal women of the courts of Mars are held but little less than sacred.

  • You will pay more than this for the life of Achmet ben Houdin, my sister's son," he said.

  • When the time came, therefore, for the ape to return from the wings in reply to an encore the trainer directed its attention to the boy who chanced to be the sole occupant of the box in which he sat.

  • Rolling it over he sought beneath it for the money.

  • For the 1990s the government intends to encourage private economic activity and to foster the gradual process of turning Saudi Arabia into a modern industrial state that retains traditional Islamic values.

  • For the mid-term, Armenia's economic prospects seem particularly bleak because of ethnic strife and the unusually high dependence on outside areas, themselves in a chaotic state of transformation.

  • For the moment, Lithuania will remain highly dependent on Russia for energy, raw materials, grains, and markets for its products.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for the" 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 indeed; for several; for the time being; for the year ending; for they were not; for this; for though; for you must know; force pump; force under; foreign court; foreign intervention; foreign money; foreign stamps; foreign tongue; forest life; forgive those who trespass; forgiving sins; form and; former occasion; former slave; former voyage; formerly related; forty miles; forty shillings; forty yards