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Example sentences for "for there"

  • There can be but one room below, for there is but one chimney.

  • Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow.

  • The regulation was, indeed, not easy to evade, for there was no other sitting-room in the dwelling.

  • It was shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt Their little landlord god and I would soon have fallen out; Was I to touch my hat to him?

  • It was shift, boys, shift, for there wasn't the slightest doubt It was time to make a shift with the leprosy about.

  • For there is a judgment of after ages which few great writers have ever been able to anticipate for themselves.

  • The epithet is very appropriate, for there is something truly divine in being able to argue as you have done for the superiority of injustice, and remaining unconvinced by your own arguments.

  • He looked like some acolyte--a weary acolyte, for there was no spring in his walk or nerve in his carriage.

  • The second was to miss not a word, for there lay my chance.

  • Sleep, my lord, for there is wild work before us.

  • For there was a lighted window in the wall we had descended.

  • We carried our scanty luggage to a droschke, for there seemed to be no porters.

  • On the right side of the river is a large suburb called Triana, communicating with Seville by means of a bridge of boats; for there is no permanent bridge across the Guadalquivir owing to the violent inundations to which it is subject.

  • We had one fricasseed, the gravy of which was delicious; and afterwards a roasted one, which was brought up on a dish entire.

  • AND DEAR SIR,--I write in the greatest hurry.

  • His companion was a black man, and I did not need to see his face to know that it was Thurid, for there was no other of the First Born north of the ice-barrier.

  • In an instant I was on the alert, for there could be no wood within that buried river that had not been man brought.

  • My first thought was to look beyond the draperies at the back of the throne, for there it was that I had seen Thurid.

  • And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

  • Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

  • Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

  • For there thei no werres made, Be cause it was bareigne and povere, Wherof thei mihten noght recovere; 2320 And thus poverte was forbore, He that noght hadde noght hath lore.

  • Thus stant Envie in good espeir To ben himself the develes heir, As he which is his nexte liche And forthest fro the heveneriche, 3150 For there mai he nevere wone.

  • If they are not savages they must be friends; for there is no Christian nation upon earth but will do us good rather than harm.

  • Then ye two shall some time after make an attack on Gunnar, but still ye must not seek him at home, for there is no thinking of that while the hound is alive.

  • Then she fared to Bergthorsknoll, and told Njal all this talk; and Njal thanked her, and said she had done well, "For there would be more wickedness in his falling on me than of all men else.

  • Asgrim took it up in such a way as was seldom his wont; for there was a bar to his suit, and the bar was this, that he had summoned five neighbours to bear witness, when he ought to have summoned nine.

  • For there we were joined by the Aisne, already a far- travelled river and fresh out of Champagne.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for there" 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:
    democratic government; for half; for his; for many; for once; for she; for the former things are passed; for thy; force under; forced smile; foregone conclusion; foreign bodies; foreign commodities; foreign port; foreign trade; foreign workers; forgive them; former chapters; former state; former voyage; formerly mentioned; formerly written; fortnight before; fortunate enough; forty minutes; forty pounds