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Example sentences for "giving them"

  • There are other strong points belonging to those who cultivate poise, which, judiciously employed, unite in giving them an incontestable superiority over the majority of the people they meet.

  • This last fault is nearly always indulged in by the timid, whom it soothes, not simply because of its maliciousness, but because envy seems to them to condone their own inertia by giving them an excuse for their lack of action.

  • By the act the klipspringers had been avenged, though there was little idea of giving them vengeance in the minds of the young hunters.

  • You, with the interest you possess, have certain prospects of promotion, and you will be giving them all up, and be separated from your family, if you were to marry a Russian and settle down in this part of the world.

  • Even when they did stop, the enraged creatures hovered round them, giving them no rest, and keeping them constantly on the watch to ward off their threatening beaks.

  • If there are not a sufficient number of bees on the comb, I shake off some from another frame, directly into the hive, and shut them all up, giving them a supply of water.

  • He then confined a swarm, giving them no honey, but an abundance of fruit and pollen.

  • He made himself master of all Romagna and the duchy of Urbino, and gained the affection of the inhabitants--particularly the former--by giving them a prospect of the advantages they might hope to enjoy from his government.

  • At this island we wooded, watered, and refitted our ships, giving them a heel to clean their sides as low as we could, which took up much time, and occasioned both companies to be much on shore.

  • This so roused the zeal of the Dominicans that they immediately appealed to Spain, and in 1769 obtained an edict, giving them a due share in the missions of Lower California.

  • Menecrates says that bees contract a malady of the bowels from their first spring pasture on the blossoms of the almond and the cornel cherry and are cured by giving them urine to drink.

  • Besides, it was known, that those in Rebellion had sent to desire them to come over to their Party, giving them Notice of the Spaniards they had kill'd.

  • Our Men encourag'd them, giving them to understand that they should be able to deal with those People.

  • Montano describes them as having flat, broad noses, underhung jaws, and receding foreheads, giving them an appearance of stupidity.

  • The principal people of the place came out to meet them, and led them by the arms into the town, giving them one of the large houses to lodge in during their stay.

  • May our Lord open their eyes who read this, by giving them experience; and then however slight that experience may be, they will immediately understand it.

  • It seemed as if Thou wert looking for nothing else but that I should be willing and ready to receive them; accordingly, Thou didst begin at once, not only to give them, but also to make others know that Thou wert giving them.

  • This prayer is like the sobbing of little children, who seem on the point of choking, and whose disordered senses are soothed by giving them to drink.

  • But as in placing his sons in these exalted positions his only aim was to aggrandise and consolidate his own power, he himself ordered their retinues, giving them officers of his own choosing.

  • It is only fair that I should treat them, seeing that I am the cause of giving them so much trouble.

  • The hind wings are broadly sown with gray scales, giving them a hoary appearance.

  • The eggs are always higher than broad, with the surface at the base more or less pitted, giving them a thimble-like appearance.

  • They thought it charity to send her into the other world, with two small children whome also they killed; so we left that place, giving them to the fishes their bodyes.

  • This was done uppon this consideration, that they should be allwayes under our protection, giving them wherewithall to make them merry & remember us when they should be men.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "giving them" 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:
    being always; blockaded port; gather together; give her; giving away; giving birth; giving effect; giving her; giving him; giving lessons; giving life; giving orders; giving rise; giving spirit; giving the; giving vent; good comfort; hard bread; indirect taxes; isosceles triangle; land and; none more; population concentrated; pressed down; second person; the fountain