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Example sentences for "for two"

  • Cecilia was not disposed to be pleased with Louisa at that instant, for two reasons; because she was jealous of her, and because she had injured her.

  • Middleton, "one quarter of an hour sooner, for two months to come, than the rest of your companions.

  • For two cents I would have done these things, too; but nobody offered me two cents.

  • For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist.

  • There were also less agreeable visits--for two or three times reports were spread that the cardinal had nearly been assassinated.

  • The number of lights had been intentionally diminished, but the young woman could not conceal the traces of the fever which had devoured her for two days.

  • For two hours I talked of indifferent matters, laboriously feeding the conversation; for two hours my mind was quite made up to do my duty instantly--and at each particular instant I postponed it till the next.

  • One can not buy and pay for two cents' worth of clams without trouble and a quarrel.

  • For two years he was a perfect nightmare to me.

  • For two days, therefore, I devoted my attention to Mlle.

  • Last year he persuaded us that he was going into a monastery: he stuck to it for two months.

  • But when they saw that the enemy preferred a regular siege, they were delighted, I am told and reassured, for the thing would drag on for two months at least.

  • At these moments he would become conscious that his ideas were sometimes in a tangle and that he was very weak; for two days he had scarcely tasted food.

  • For two or three minutes Loring gazed through his loophole, and then, still with some doubt in his heart, but with a little more color in his checks, he prepared for the second part of his performance.

  • For two hours, at least, I could ramble undisturbed through my grounds, and much as I had once enjoyed these grounds, they never afforded me the pleasure they gave me now.

  • He has raised no crop to speak of for two years.

  • For two years no syllable was heard of him.

  • The General Office is pledged to sell to us in preference to any one else, for two and a half.

  • For two years he wandered through Arizona, living in the desert, in the wilderness, a recluse, a nomad, an ascetic.

  • In this way Thiepval was encircled so that the garrison there--the 180th Regiment, who had held it for two years--knew that they were doomed.

  • Yet they were the people who for two years at least had denounced the war, had sent up petitions for peace, and had written to their men in the trenches about the Great Swindle and the Gilded Ones.

  • Your people complain with some bitterness, that you have ruled them rigorously for two-and- twenty years.

  • So, the case went on, and there was nothing but talk for two months.

  • PETER'S The splendid and tiresome ceremonies of Holy Week set in; also the rain, which held up for two days.

  • Mamma said it would never do for two capitalists to have their eggs in the same basket.

  • Well, for two days I have striven to win him an audience, and now through my sole influence, behold!

  • When this had gone on for two or three minutes, Grey Dick stumbled and fell.

  • For two minutes or more they fought, for the armour of both was good, and one was full of rage and the other of despair.

  • For two-score years I wandered and starved over you, and the Lady Om ever wandered and starved with me.

  • For two cents I'd kick the face off of you right now," he snarled.

  • On departing from Toul we intended to breakfast at Nancy, for every stomach had been empty for two days; but the civil and military authorities came out to meet us, and prevented us from executing our plan.

  • They will gossip about the affair for two days, and on the third it will be forgotten.

  • For two years he had indeed advanced with rapid strides; but England was not discouraged.

  • That proves nothing; for two or three good ideas do not constitute a good system.

  • I bought it for two bits in one of the bookstores.

  • Nevertheless, for two or three days after her return, Mr. McClosky followed his daughter about the house with yearning eyes, and occasionally with timid, diffident feet.

  • For two hours he lay there, crushed and broken-limbed, with a heavy beam lying across his breast, in sight of all, conscious and patient.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for two" 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:
    cannot tell; for anything; for man; for once; for then; forbid them; force pump; foreign body; foreign commerce; foreign commodities; foreign land; foreign parts; forest trees; formal education; formal vote; former note; former paper; formerly called; formerly related; formerly written; fortified place; forty days; forward policy; its mother; libero arbitrio; similar fate