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Example sentences for "for this"

  • Ill fare our ancestor impure, For this we may thank Adam!

  • For this extremity of pessimism to be reached, something more is needed than observation of life and reflection upon death.

  • Nevertheless, dogmatism will doubtless continue to condemn us for this confession.

  • For this reason he refused to borrow money for any of his enterprises.

  • For this reason: It was a rigid rule of the association that its members should never, under any circumstances whatever, give information about the channel to any 'outsider.

  • He cannot stop with merely thinking a thing is so and so; he must know it; for this is eminently one of the 'exact' sciences.

  • For this reason: the distance between New Orleans and Cairo, when the 'J.

  • It is for this reason, in the words of the law, that one cannot acquire a just title to a thing by labor alone.

  • For this reason, sir, I have enlisted in a desperate war against every form of authority over the multitude.

  • For this reason, in studying the beliefs and opinions of a people, the presence is always detected of a fixed groundwork on which are engrafted opinions as changing as the surface sand on a rock.

  • But now, I pray thee, for this day do thou Cheer at my feast thine heart, and with the morn Shalt thou go forth to battle worthy of thee.

  • For this we have no satisfactory explanation to offer.

  • For this man, Anster, came from Fife, where the Gaelic is still spoken.

  • For this business'll not be near as dear as ye suppose--not even the ship part of it.

  • You ought not so slightly to speak of this matter; for this I will boldly affirm, even as my good companion hath done, that no man can know Jesus Christ but by the revelation of the Father; [Matt.

  • As for this man, I know that he is blinded by the god of this world.

  • Thou believest with a fantastical faith; for this faith is nowhere described in the Word.

  • For this is the way with these common people; they will work up an enthusiasm one minute, and an hour later it will have fled away and left them cold and empty.

  • The Gods in Their due time will doubtless smite me for this impiety.

  • Kindly return this as soon as possible, and we will then place ourselves in communication with the Comrade you propose for this position.

  • Two men, or a man and a boy, would be told of for this purpose to this district.

  • It will be borne in mind that our Army system of government largely prepares us, if it does not qualify us, for this task.

  • For this reason; the administration of the Casual Wards is mechanical, perfunctory, and formal.

  • For this reason: prostitution is a word applied to only one half of the vice, and that the most pitiable.

  • For this reason in olden times no open sinner was allowed to be present at the mass.

  • For this reason it is dreadful and horrible in our times to be a bishop, pastor and preacher; for no one any longer knows this testament, to say nothing of their preaching it, although this is their highest and only duty and obligation.

  • For this reason, too, their suffering is always an offence and harmful to them, and yet they go and do some good works, as they think, and are not aware of their unbelief.

  • For this is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing is and goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse the times of prosperity.

  • Instructed thus no further question make The twain elected for this enterprise, But humbly yielded to obey his word, For what the hermit said, that said the Lord.

  • I've always wanted to go down there--long before I ever got in for this.

  • How lucky you got here just when she was coming on for this.

  • He had picked out the foolish Aladdin for this purpose, intending to get the lamp and kill him afterward.

  • For this was a fairy, who had taken the form of a poor country woman, to see how far the civility and good manners of this pretty girl would go.

  • She fainted away, for this is the first expedient almost all women find in such cases.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for this" 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 another; for instance; for the; for the year ending; for these; for what; foraging expedition; force under; forced himself; forced march; foreign born; foreign languages; foreign money; foreign parentage; foreign port; foreign soil; foreign troops; foreign vessels; forest reserves; former occasions; former visit; formerly called; forty rods; forty year; this earth; under cover