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Example sentences for "gave him"

  • Then the sultan rose up, and called his whole court to follow him, and went out to meet the gazelle, who, bounding up to him, gave him greeting.

  • Hans, and, without waiting for an answer, gave him a kick which sent him flying down the stairs.

  • Next morning he gave him a scolding and said, "Are not good brick elephant lines and a little tent carrying enough, that thou must needs go elephant catching on thy own account, little worthless?

  • It gave him confidence in himself, and when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki was ready to be petted.

  • He easily enough felt that it gave him away, but what in truth had everything done but that?

  • This added to his own sense of having gone far with her-gave him an early illustration of a much shorter course.

  • Surprise, it was true, was not on the other hand what the eyes of Strether's friend most showed him while she gave him, stroking her gloves smoother, the time he appreciated.

  • This circumstance, becoming known, rendered him so odious that he had to leave the community in which he practiced, and it is believed that he never entirely recovered from the shock it gave him.

  • It gave him no trouble until two months before the time of report, when he asked to have the lump removed, thinking it was a stone.

  • When Clovis was visited by the Bishop of Toulouse he gave him a hair from his beard and was imitated by his followers.

  • So I gave him a little more eau-de-vie, and he took it most submissively.

  • The Snowes lost every sheep they had, and nine out of ten horned cattle; and poor Jasper Kebby would have been forced to throw up the lease of his farm, and perhaps to go to prison, but for the help we gave him.

  • He let at me with his left hand, and I gave him my right between his eyes, and he blinked, and was not pleased with it.

  • Then I gave him a little weak brandy and water, which he drank with the greatest eagerness, and made sign to me for more of it.

  • Gave him strength to stand firm against the efforts of his natural tenderness, when he was ordered to sacrifice his son.

  • He gave him also a copy of the edict which was hanging up in Susan, that he should shew it to the queen, and admonish her to go in to the king, and to entreat him for her people.

  • And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis.

  • And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty to do whatever he had a mind.

  • And Adad found great favour before Pharao, insomuch that he gave him to wife the own sister of his wife, Taphnes, the queen.

  • I gave him a golden recommendation and took my leave of the ladies.

  • He came from South Carolina; and believing his seed and name were perished there to-day, I gave him a descendant.

  • Instead you should praise and give thanks to the immense goodness of God, our Lord, because He gave him to you and it was His wish to take him from you for His own good, and He has placed him in the glory of paradise.

  • After the hermit king had thrown the lance, he quickly reached for his sword, and drawing as close to the Moorish king as he could, he gave him a mighty blow on the head.

  • Then the boy got off and gave him a hard thrashing, and knocked him about the head; then he got up again and tried to make him leap the gate, kicking him all the time shamefully, but still the pony refused.

  • He did not see me and I gave him a box on the ears that laid him sprawling on the floor.

  • I gave him a friendly greeting by way of good fellowship, but did not ask him any questions.

  • Charles Stuart, a gallant Royalist officer, who had been created Earl of Litchfield by Charles I.

  • I gave him an anisette and tried to find out what his trouble was.

  • None of the servants were about, so I myself went into the kitchen and gave him a piece of bread.

  • Here, take this," and he gave him a sheet of crested paper folded in four, which was lying beside him.

  • She sacrificed him, with her eyes open, for you and Nellie--gave him up so that you could have this farm.

  • Mentally, he realized all the dramatic significance of what had happened, but it gave him none of the elation he had expected.

  • He was struck with her trim pump, and the several inches of silk stocking that flashed before his eyes, so unaccustomed to noticing dainty details, gave him a mingled sensation of delight and embarrassment.

  • He fancied this was because of the sardonic pleasure its superlative phrases gave him, but the truth was it held him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gave him" 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:
    anything good; broken bone; commanding officer; five years; found native; gave away; gave chase; gave each; gave evidence; gave expression; gave great; gave himself; gave his; gave notice; gave occasion; gave place; gave utterance; gave vent; gave way; headlong speed; looking south; more times; parliamentary vote; public servants; such are; understand what