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Example sentences for "for they were not"

  • Now these Romans were at present forced to make the best resistance they could; for they were not able, in great numbers, to get out at the breach in the wall, it was so narrow.

  • This was no better than a dream of theirs; for they were not able to lie hid either from God or from the Romans.

  • B and C, we may say, cannot be causes of a, since on its second occurrence they were not present; nor are D and E, for they were not present on its first occurrence.

  • Then we may reason thus: b and c are not effects of A, for they were not produced by it in the second experiment; nor are d and e, for they were not produced in the first.

  • And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

  • And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.

  • And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

  • According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the children of Israel did to them.

  • According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.

  • Yet still he had passed the highest commendation on himself; for he tells us that those who did anything wrong, and were found fault with, used to say, it was not worthwhile to blame them; for they were not Catos.

  • But the Wheat and the Rye were not smitten, for they were not grown up.

  • And the Flax and the Barley was smitten; for the Barley was in the Ear, and the Flax was bolled, but the Wheat and the Rye was not smitten, for they were not grown up.

  • Kings, Gentile kings, they shall be so taken with the sight of the outward glory of it; for they were not suffered to go into it; no uncircumcised were admitted in thither.

  • For they were not able to ward him off, but some were corrupted by bribes.

  • For they were not, like many, collected from all quarters, and they did not settle here after expelling the earlier inhabitants, but they sprang from the soil and it was both their mother and country.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for they were not" 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:
    eight years; face full; for having; for more; for the common benefit; for the first time; for the third time; force against; force their; force them; foreign body; foreign exchange; foreign immigration; foreign land; foreign ports; foreign service; foreign wars; forest reserves; forked tail; former experience; former letters; formidable force; forty days and forty; forty hours; forty rods; stand upon