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Example sentences for "for they"

  • And I think if I go with the ambulance I'm certain to find a show, For they have to send the Medical men wherever the troops can go.

  • And the boys are madly cheering, for they've struck the flow at last, And it's rushing up the tubing from four thousand feet below Till it spouts above the casing in a million-gallon flow.

  • I did not think they were the proper terms, for they belonged to the narrow world of our common experience.

  • Therefore he could fraternize with him, for they were on the same side.

  • They can be far greater than men, for they can go straight to the heart of things.

  • I had explained to Peter all about this formality, but I was glad we went in together, for they made us strip to the skin, and I had to curse him pretty seriously to make him keep quiet.

  • But I think, too, they can be more entirely damnable than anything that ever was breeched, for they don't stop still now and then and laugh at themselves .

  • And yet these were kindly dispensations, for they at least enabled the poor things to rise from the dead now and then, and look upon life when a steamboat went by.

  • How to regard them is the question--for they are so discontinuous with ordinary consciousness.

  • My speech seemed entirely under the control of the Spirit within me; I do not mean that the words which I spoke were not my own, for they were.

  • Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun: but if a man live many years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.

  • The only difficulty is to choose, for they are so abundant.

  • His second conclusion is that "comets are of elemental and sublunary nature; for they are an exhalation hot and dry, fatty and well condensed, inflammable and kindled in the uppermost regions of the air.

  • They are very easily examined, for they are to be found on all the battlefields of science; but on that field they were used with more effect than on almost any other.

  • When the King of Northgalis saw Sir Ector and Bleoberis lie on the ground then was he wroth, for they came on his party against them of Surluse.

  • And they fought so long, tracing and traversing, till they fell bleeding to the earth; for they were so sore wounded that they might not stand for bleeding.

  • And not for then there was none enchantment, for they at the tournament were earthly knights.

  • God forbid, said King Mark, for they be six and we but two.

  • He replied, “that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not;” for they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.

  • Tob 13:13 Rejoice and be glad for the children of the just: for they shall be gathered together, and shall bless the Lord of the just.

  • Tob 12:16 Then they were both troubled, and fell upon their faces: for they feared.

  • Now when the Danes saw their own goods driving about on the sea, they who were in advance turned about to save them; for they thought it was easier to take what was floating freely about, than to go on board the Northmen to take it.

  • King Olaf did not permit this man's destruction after he had reached the forest, and restored him also to his health and hearing; for they had so long tortured and beaten him that he had become deaf.

  • There was a man present who replied, "Ye need not seek after them, for they intend to seek you.

  • He thus kept his feasts this winter also; but the spring after people got but little seed into the ground, for they had to buy the seed-corn.

  • And it is well they happened to be of this class, for they would be very hard to tell, were their narration ever so indispensable.

  • These disappointments were numerous, for they ensued on almost every sound, but his constancy was not shaken.

  • Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old man is twice a child.

  • On safeguard he came to me, and did curse Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely Yielded the town.

  • In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note, But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote.

  • I do despise them, For they do prank them in authority, Against all noble sufferance.

  • The next moment the sound became very loud, rather too loud, I thought, to proceed from her wheels, and then by degrees became fainter.

  • The kitchen won't contain half of them," said his niece.

  • We now ascended to the field, where I showed the postillion his chaise.

  • We sat down, and Belle made tea and did the honours of the meal.

  • Fortunately Lord Decimus was one of those sublimities who have no occasion to be talked to, for they can be at any time sufficiently occupied with the contemplation of their own greatness.

  • But the field was not yet won, for they retreated in close order toward the East gate, resolved to hem the attackers within the city walls.

  • Then Robin stepped to the edge of the scaffold, while the people grew still as death; for they desired to hear the last words uttered to the victims.

  • Back down the hill and across the moor went the company speedily, for they feared a rescue.

  • The Gargoyles seemed to realize this, for they sent a few of their band time after time to attack the strangers and draw the fire from the little man's revolvers.

  • They selected one of these at a venture and hurried along it as fast as they could go, for they had no idea when the mother dragon would be back and were very anxious not to make her acquaintance.

  • Yes; for they eat of the dama-fruit, as we all do, and that keeps them from being seen by any eye, whether human or animal.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for they" 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:
    excellent quality; for good; for just; for once; for our; for that; for the last time; for there; force against; force the; forced labour; forcing himself; foreign authors; foreign born; foreign debt; foreign exchange; foreign ministers; foreign mission; foreign origin; foreign parts; forest reserves; forlorn hope; form some; former note; forming part; forty feet