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Example sentences for "goes"

Lexicographically close words:
goede; goeing; goen; goer; goers; goest; goeth; goffered; gog; goggle
  1. He goes to stir the city before a soul is ready.

  2. It was clear and straight as a voice that goes up in the night.

  3. Rather draw lots for another fifteen to bare their breasts and bandage their eyes, and march out in the grey morning, while the stupid Croat corporal goes on smoking his lumpy pipe!

  4. If they beat him, down goes another Venetian pyramid.

  5. You're no more than a bit of mechanism--happy if it goes at all!

  6. He goes to her in the fittest preparation for the pangs of jealousy.

  7. Fire that goes to flame is a waste of heat, my Sandra.

  8. If he says a thing to his wife, she goes true as a bullet to the mark.

  9. She returned from the Ultenthal last night, and goes there this morning, which is a sign that Captain Weisspriess lives.

  10. I hang upon the boundaries like light Along the hills when downward goes the day I feel the silent creeping up of night.

  11. He assures me it goes as Time himself, and Time, my friend, you know, has the intention of going a great way.

  12. The whisper goes that I was once admired by him," said Violetta.

  13. She is a woman who goes on missions, and carries a husband into society like a passport.

  14. Milan burns bad powder, and goes off like a drugged pistol.

  15. You have heard that Carlo goes to Brescia.

  16. His fame goes back to such as gave; the accident of an accident succeeds him in the presidential chair; only the man, not the officer, goes home to God, with what of goodness and piety he had won.

  17. But, if men continue to enforce the fugitive slave law, I do not know how soon it will end; I do not care how soon the Union goes to pieces.

  18. But Mr. Webster goes on: "It is not too much to say, that to these State laws is to be attributed the actual and practical denial of trial by jury in these cases.

  19. Hence the aristocracy of wealth, illiterate and vulgar, goes unrebuked, and debases the natural aristocracy of mind and culture which bows down to it.

  20. In despotic countries, little is thought of this latter; and it goes hard with a man whom the government complains of, even if there is no positive statute against the crime charged on him, or when he is innocent of the deed alleged.

  21. So the frontier of civilization every year goes forward, further from the ocean.

  22. The crown perishes with the head that wore it; but the character lives with the immortal man who achieved it; and it is of no consequence whether that immortal man goes up to God from a throne or from a gallows.

  23. Show them the fact, who will not hear the speech; the deed goes where the word fails, and life enchants where rhetoric cannot persuade.

  24. My heart goes out to him, and watching his neat, quick work with Golddust, I begin to understand the look of thrift about the yard.

  25. Indeed, the missionary goes on to tell how, being loaned for a day to a brother missionary up west, the horse had returned in the evening much excited, but not much the worse, with a pair of shafts dangling at his heels.

  26. He goes on arranging for a post here and a station there, and it never occurs to him that it ain't really actual.

  27. The punishment is, that political virtue goes unrewarded, and in due course crime is the only refuge to most.

  28. He goes about talking to the sheikhs as though we were all eating off the same corn-cob, and it seems to stupefy them; they don't grasp it.

  29. Human nature is like the earth: the deeper the plough goes into the soil unploughed before, the more evil substance is turned up--evil that becomes alive as soon as the sun and the air fall upon it.

  30. For the like of her goes mad with hurting, and the mad cut with a big scythe.

  31. But, if through your expediency he is killed like a rat in a trap, and his work goes to pieces--all undone!

  32. Give him the earldom and the estates, and his work in Egypt goes to pieces; he will be spoiled for all he wants to do.

  33. He goes on to particularise, observe in what terms: "very often a knowledge of several languages, sometimes too some notion of physics and mathematics.

  34. It goes against the grain to admit that great effects may have had small causes, that Cleopatra's nose may have made a difference to the Roman Empire.

  35. This evolution has already produced satisfactory results, and will produce more if it goes on as well as it has begun.

  36. The regular observance of these maxims goes a great way towards making scientific historical work easier and more solid.

  37. But history provides us with no sure means of determining the action of these hereditary differences between men; it goes no further than the conditions of their existence.

  38. Illustration] The first thing was a general chorus of "there goes Bill!

  39. There may be tragedy behind the curtain; but, before the public, life goes to a merry tune.

  40. The man loves his art, goes to all lengths to achieve the results he desires, would rather invent a successful sauce than inherit a million, is as proud of his canneton a la presse as is a painter or poet of his masterpiece.

  41. She will blossom out gorgeously for Grand Prix, if she goes shabby during the rest of the year.

  42. Too gay," says Madame of the chic Parisian set, with an expressive shrug of her shoulders, but one goes to the Elysees all the same.

  43. If he likes it, he buys it,--and she goes back to her work.

  44. Renoir goes down upon her knees, rips a stitch here and there, gathers the material up in her quick fingers.

  45. All the smart set of Paris goes to la Boulie to flirt, to gossip, to drink and smoke and play cards and meet friends.

  46. She goes to Tangiers; for, after all, Tangiers is France, and in the French quarter of that picturesque place one finds a limited edition of Parisian society.

  47. The cocotte goes where the money-spending crowd is to be found, where she may show her frocks and her jewels and her beauty, where recklessness and extravagance and excitement are in the air.

  48. Everything that goes to make up feminine coquetry and charm interests him.

  49. Bring here my tablets, boy:--how goes the news?

  50. And then, to have it said, "there goes the signora for whom signor so and so hanged himself.

  51. His mother is prompt to nourish him and solicitous in her care for him if he falls ill, but, as far as possible, she goes her own way and leaves the little fellow to go his.

  52. I need only add that the relations among the various members of the Indian family in Florida are, as a rule, so well adjusted and observed that home life goes on without discord.

  53. And that he goes many times to a theatre without me--what is it?

  54. Everything goes its wonted course, and if perchance a thing go wrong at times, it is at most a mere object of curiosity and not worth serious consideration.

  55. He goes but to see a noise that he heard.

  56. Yet, and this was the curious part of it, they were dissimilar in almost everything that goes to make up a human being.

  57. In the instance of the male parent, throughout the realm of nature, it is apt to have an accidental aspect or to acquire one as time goes by.

  58. That goes well, and should go better," she said to herself.

  59. Pride will be your ruin; it goes before every sort of fall.

  60. Soon a small quantity will no longer suffice; a larger portion must effect what formerly was done by the smaller; this goes further and further, until finally the drinker becomes--a drunkard.

  61. This latter may be felt by every one who goes to bed with a full stomach.

  62. Our earth turns on its axis once in every twenty-four hours, and goes also round the sun once a year.

  63. The former has taken alcohol; it goes into the blood, arrives in the brain, and excites the nerves to increased action.

  64. The results have shown that fat taken alone is injurious, and goes off again without having been of any use to the body; while, on the other hand, fat-producing food greatly assists the fattening of animals.

  65. And above, in the atmosphere, a warm wind, the south wind, goes continually from the equator to the pole.

  66. If there be no wind, the moistened air will remain around the wet object, and the drying goes on very slowly.

  67. If but for a moment in the stomach, it is absorbed there and goes immediately into the blood.

  68. But there is the following difference between them: the one goes to the country twice a week and buys cattle and brings it to market, where he sells it again.

  69. When a man like that lets go--nothing left to hold on to--he goes down hill at ten times the pace of an ordinary chap.

  70. She told my maid, and if we didn't listen to our maids' gossip how much would we really know about what goes on in this town?

  71. At his death, without legal heir, it goes to a cousin.

  72. But there are moments in life when honor as well as virtue goes overboard.

  73. Archæological Journal) goes minutely into their construction, and the several parts the various bishops of Norwich played in their design.

  74. The evidence which goes to support this theory is taken from the Registrum Primum.

  75. A stone coffin lid found here in 1848 goes to confirm this.

  76. When water, not in very great body, runs in a rocky bed much interrupted by hollows, so that it can rest every now and then in a pool as it goes along, it does not acquire a continuous velocity of motion.

  77. He never loses himself and his subject in the splash of the fall--his presence of mind never fails as he goes down; he does not blind us with the spray, or veil the countenance of his fall with its own drapery.

  78. They swing their boughs about, anywhere and everywhere; each stops or goes on just as it likes, nor will it be possible, in any of their works, to find a single example in which any symmetrical curve is indicated by the extremities.

  79. For when error goes to the inmost depths, and reaches to the very center of life, both spirit and soul grow and adhere together, and the delusion can not otherwise be dispelled than by the violent separation of the two.

  80. Such as understanding, there can be no doubt, must either be defective in its organization, or imperfectly and falsely developed; and so it goes on deceiving itself and propagating error among others.

  81. Consequently, without proper end or aim, it goes on continually revolving around itself as a center, and within its own charmed circle.

  82. Reason would wish to suppress or at least to dispense altogether with fancy, while fancy, caring, for the most part, but little or nothing for the reason, goes its own way.

  83. It belongs not to nature, but to life; it is not derived from the latter by way of figure or illustration, but is a part and constituent of it, and goes to the very root and soil of the moral life.

  84. The wheel goes round with a whirl, The yellow hemp is unwound, She turns it round and round, She is playing like a girl.

  85. You think of a woman fainted on a day of harvest, There are postillions in the courtyard of the hospital; Afar goes by a hunter of elks, become a nurse.

  86. His listless dream goes wandering without goal; He is not one who would be passion's slave; And no remorse, nor memory from its grave May haunt the leisure of his empty soul.

  87. You sink your lids like a curtain, When Love goes by, a flame; You know your sorrow is certain, And age to you is shame.

  88. In neckerchief and slackened apron goes The girl to graze the cows at dawn's first peep; Under the willow shade herself she throws To finish out her sleep.

  89. Jane, "she goes on about Delphiniums now, and doesn't tell any more about sunflowers!

  90. I have sat me down under foreign skies Afire with an Orient glow; I have seen the moon gild the desert sand, And silver the Arctic snow, But the thought of you Jenny Allen, Goes with me where I go.

  91. The clouds that vex the upper deep Stay not the white sail of the moon; And lips may moan, and hearts may weep, The sad old earth goes rolling on.

  92. He decides to leave the islands, and goes (1653) to Macasar; the hardships and perils of that voyage are vividly related.

  93. He goes again to Mindoro, with another priest, and while there a threatened attack by pirates sends the Indians in flight to the hills, which compels the fathers to return to Manila.

  94. Having returned to Manila, he goes to Bataan, where he and others are grievously annoyed by goblins or demons, for several months.

  95. The Ilocans go, without orders, across the river, to form an ambush against the foe; Arqueros goes to their aid, followed by Peralta.

  96. But if he once exhibits fear of the cura, or the cura gets angry at him, it is very difficult for him to show clearly what is in his breast when he goes to confess.

  97. The following instance is an edifying one, and goes far to confirm our statement.

  98. She goes back to Portsmouth to-night; I shall remain till the morning.

  99. You know, Madame Levi, how important it is that the fish should be properly dried before it goes through the ordeal of fire.

  100. On a warm day it goes up, on a cold day it goes down; in zero weather it takes all the time of a determined man to head it off from becoming a large, inconvenient refrigerator.

  101. Under the proscenium arch of the fireplace the flames supply actors and scenery, and the show goes on indefinitely.

  102. The experience of innumerable young married couples with kitchenettes goes to show that life can be conducted under that solution, especially when the couples are young and but recently married.

  103. We've marched by night to catch the foe, Yet spite each bold endeavour, Crises may come and crises go, But this goes on for ever.

  104. A couple of our Sussex fellows have just ridden in; their lot strike camp and return as far as Rietfontein this evening, and so this letter goes with them.

  105. News or no news, given the opportunity, I religiously once a week contribute to the English mail bag; so here goes for a really short letter.

  106. If you ask a British soldier, "How goes it?

  107. It almost goes without saying that we have to don, and never leave off, in the daytime, the cobalt blue uniform and huge red tie so dear to the controllers of these establishments.

  108. As we are under orders to leave here and join Clements to-morrow, I am writing so as to catch the mail which goes out on Thursday.

  109. This goes on until all have touched the marrow and broken it into small pieces.

  110. For this princess they very often set apart a small piece of cultivated land as a present, putting little pots of beer in it for her to drink when she goes on her rounds.

  111. This goes on till there are about forty or fifty men sent off to fetch the bride and party.

  112. Talking goes on all the time--relating anecdotes, questioning and arguing as to which regiment danced the best, looked the best, or distinguished itself the most in any way.

  113. No one but a lunatic goes into a strange rapid in a poor light, to say nothing of complete darkness.


  114. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    goes away; goes back; goes down; goes over; goes through the town