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Example sentences for "give place"

  • And when he was come, he cried to the Latins, "Give place: I only will deal with Pallas.

  • Let us give place, still keeping our faces to the foe, for men must not fight with gods.

  • Therefore I give place, for I see Ares lording it through the ranks of war.

  • Will it give place to flexure and low bending?

  • It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.

  • Victorious York did first, with famed success, To his known valour make the Dutch give place; St. 19.

  • Sin, sickness, and death must dis- appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal man.

  • Give place to the honourable presence of my friends: for I want my house, my brother being to be lodged with me.

  • He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth.

  • Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak.

  • To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage.

  • To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.

  • Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.

  • Wherefore he saith to his saints, and to all that are forward to revenge themselves, Give place, stand back, let me come, leave such an one to be handled by me.

  • Fourthly, Suppose your meetings in some cases were lawful, yet since by the brethren they may be managed better, you and your meetings ought to give place.

  • Give place, leave such an one to be handled by me.

  • This notion of a complex sentence is not more common than Greene's; nor is it yet apparent, that the usual division of sentences into two kinds ought to give place to any tripartite distribution.

  • The definitions, which constitute so large a portion of the former, being omitted as soon as they are thoroughly learned, give place in the latter, to the facts and principles of syntax.

  • It is ascribed to him, not upon the supposition that he invented it; but because common sense continues to give place to the authority of his name in support of it.

  • Give place, give place to Honest Recreation; Give place, we say now, for thy consolation.

  • If ye will know, the best physick Is to give place to Honest Recreation; Give place, we say now, for thy consolation!

  • Providence disappears to give place to the grossest fatalism.

  • Spoliation by means of war is not an accidental, isolated, and transient fact; it is a fact so general and so constant as not to give place, as regards permanence, to labour itself.

  • For the moment, one would have been led to believe that the human heart itself had been about to undergo a grand transformation, and to throw off the yoke of self-interest, in order to give place to the principle of sympathy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give place" 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:
    annual average; district judge; give birth; give command; give effect; give every; give her; give himself; give life; give money; give security; give some; give testimony; given cause; given every; given number; given only; given point; given subject; given thing; given year; gives himself; gives rise; gives them; glass slide; rich wife