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Example sentences for "giving the"

  • A little conversation on the subject of the inquiry, giving the child an opportunity to hear and to use language in respect to it, is often all that is required.

  • Giving the up stage a good start of us, we resaddled and started for Oakville, slightly crestfallen but still confident.

  • This trail foreman was about thirty years of age, a quiet red-headed fellow, giving the name of Frank Nancrede, and before we had covered half the distance to the ranch I was satisfied that he was a cowman.

  • We had some little trouble explaining to Don Mateo the necessity of giving the bill of sale to my employer, who, in turn, would reconvey the stock to the contractors.

  • Mr. Hungerford Pollen has described this cabinet fully, giving the subjects of the ornament, the Latin mottoes and inscriptions, and other details, which occupy over four closely printed pages of his museum catalogue.

  • In this voyage, as already mentioned, Ojeda was accompanied by Americus Vespucius, who usurped the right of giving the New World his own name America, which still continues universal.

  • When I presented them before Cortes, they saluted him with great reverence, giving the title of Lopelucio, which signifies lord in their language.

  • Take it if you like," said the officer, giving the girl an apple.

  • Inform the prince that labor has begun," said Mary Bogdanovna, giving the messenger a significant look.

  • On the night of the 29th of September the diabolical idea occurred to him of giving the coup de grace to the prestige of the friars by making them pass through the streets of Ilagan conducting and playing a band of music.

  • The policy of giving the governor-general an official residence in Baguio is in accord with that which gives him one at Manila.

  • If this were really the case, people would no more think of giving the suffrage to a man who could not read, than of giving it to a child who could not speak; and it would not be society that would exclude him, but his own laziness.

  • There is another mode of giving the head of the administration as much independence of the Legislature as is at all compatible with the essentials of free government.

  • Democracy, thus constituted, does not even attain its ostensible object, that of giving the powers of government in all cases to the numerical majority.

  • Jones did not intend to detain the workmen any longer than till he got out of the reach of the British, when he would not have cared for their giving the alarm.

  • You have nothing to say for her save that she clears her name by giving the signal,' Laura burst out on his temperate 'Addio,' and started to her feet.

  • This exclamation was addressed to a cavalier who was dismounting from his horse about fifty yards down the street, and who, giving the reins to a mounted servant, advanced to meet the Signor Antonio.

  • I came charged with several proposals for giving the alarm.

  • Giving the sailor a piece of money in return for his civility, Dantes proceeded onwards; but ere he had gone many steps he heard the man loudly calling him to stop.

  • Villefort, giving the key to d'Avrigny, again bade farewell to the strange doctor, and retired to his study, where he began to work.

  • Early on the following morning a letter from Lady Carbury was put into Mr Broune's hands, giving the story of the money as far as she had been able to extract it from Sir Felix.

  • In almost all that she had said she had spoken the truth, though doubtless not all the truth,-- as which among us would in giving the story of his life?

  • He, who was to spend a fortune in giving the Emperor a dinner, was of course entitled to be present at other places to which the Emperor would be brought to be shown.

  • You'll have to do the same now, only instead of giving the paper to any one you'll have to leave it in a banker's hands to draw the money for yourself.

  • This faith in tradition, as giving the basis of all our best life, is perhaps nowhere so expressively set forth by George Eliot as in The Spanish Gypsy.

  • It was sent to Blackwood for publication, and his nephew has given a full account of the reception of the manuscript and the details of giving the work to the public.

  • George Eliot shows her characters to the reader by analyzing their motives and by giving the history of their development.

  • That portion of it in which Savonarola gives his views of marriage may here be reproduced, not as giving the doctrine of the Church, but as presenting the positivist conception of marriage as interpreted by George Eliot.

  • I shall also follow Emmons in giving the Scorpion a 32-pound carronade instead of a 24.

  • As my purpose in giving the tonnage is to get it comparatively, and not absolutely, I have given it throughout for both sides as estimated by the American method of that day.

  • We admire Marit for her appreciation of the beautiful goat; for her obedience to her Grandfather; for her sorrow at giving up the goat; for her generosity in giving the neck-chain with it; and for the childish comradeship she gave to Oeyvind.

  • That was usual enough; but everything was different, and the charm is in giving the child a real surprise at every step.

  • His markings of deep black and rich tan are good, and his coat is entirely free from the bare patches which so often mar the appearance of these toys, giving the suggestion of delicacy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "giving the" 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:
    beside him; but few; came away; considerable measure; giving birth; giving effect; giving lessons; giving life; giving notice; giving orders; giving power; giving spirit; giving the; giving them; giving vent; gold letters; honoured friend; light cruisers; lone hand; lower temperature; musing tone; she walked; short circuits; sugar industry; time wore; turning point