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Example sentences for "for their"

  • He must be made acquainted with the real situation of the Poor--with the extent and magnitude of their misfortunes and sufferings, before it can be expected that he should enter warmly into measures calculated for their relief.

  • Mac 5:16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them.

  • It was in vain that Cedric expostulated with his guards, who had too many good reasons for their silence to be induced to break it either by his wrath or his expostulations.

  • It was a token of the Brethren's mission of peace; and it reminded them that the future settlement was to be a "House of Bread" for their evangelists.

  • For their missions to the heathen the Moravians have long been famous; and, in proportion to their resources, they are ten times as active as any other Protestant Church.

  • As he came to know these professors better, he found that a man could be orthodox without being narrow-minded; and they, for their part, also found that a man could be a rigid Pietist without being a sectarian prig.

  • They must work with their hands for their living, and be willing to spend their money on the poor.

  • To him therefore the succession to the Norland estate was not so really important as to his sisters; for their fortune, independent of what might arise to them from their father's inheriting that property, could be but small.

  • They came to terms with her, though her price was rather high for their pockets.

  • He ran after them (for their footsteps in the dew betrayed their flight), and at last entered their accustomed dwelling.

  • Hence, he said, it had been manifest with what zealous loyalty they had kept their love for their king, because they had not endured to survive him.

  • They would have to depend chiefly upon the neighboring savages for their subsistence.

  • Their situation was now desperate, for their stock of provisions was reduced to three beaver skins.

  • Their insulated position afforded the means, of which the Indians from motives of piety were willing to avail themselves, for their preservation.

  • It was assumed in part by the haravecs, or poets, who selected the most brilliant incidents for their songs or ballads, which were chanted at the royal festivals and at the table of the Inca.

  • A genus of marine flagellate Infusoria, remarkable for their unusually large size and complex structure, as well as for their phosphorescence.

  • As the men were paddling for their lives.

  • This shows that the Hebrews believed that God gave them guardian angels for their protection.

  • And the king said to the messengers that stood about him: Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, for their hand is with David, because they knew that he was fled, and they told it not to me.

  • For it is certain that our God is so offended with sins, that he hath sent word by his prophets to the people, that he will deliver them up for their sins.

  • Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.

  • But with this difference, that these poor knights have only for their fare a bob or flirt on the nose, and in the evening a morsel of coarse mouldy bread.

  • Nor did he hesitate to attack the Popes, to whom he was indebted so deeply, for their neglect of Rome and the Papal States, as well as for the evils which he thought had fallen upon Italy owing to the withdrawal of the Popes to Avignon.

  • Its supporters, claiming for themselves the liberty of interpreting the Scriptures according to their own judgment, maintained that they had divine sanction for their teaching.

  • The members lived in their own homes according to a scheme of life drawn up for their guidance, meeting only for certain spiritual exercises.

  • I plead now for you, for them, for their children, for every one.

  • Young girls, and their mothers and aunts, vexed at a marriage they had dreamed of for themselves or for their families, could not forgive the Spanish ladies for their happiness, as authors cannot forgive each other for their success.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for their" 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 about; for aught; for just; for myself; for such; for your; forced labor and sexual; forced laugh; fore part; foreign capital; foreign commodities; foreign immigration; foreign influence; foreign influences; foreign nations; foreign pollen; foreign powers; foreign yoke; forest products; forget the; former chapters; former president; former slave; former state; forty acres; forty days and forty