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Example sentences for "good sir"

  • But at first sight I felt afraid lest I should be incurring a loss--lest you should be wishing to outwit me, good sir.

  • Good sir, allow me to represent to you that I am a Government officer.

  • Somehow he seemed secretly to be saying to himself, "My good sir, you are talking the most absolute rubbish, and nothing but rubbish.

  • Yet how unfortunate it is that the harvest should have proved so poor as to have prevented me from earning anything on my--But why should you be in such a hurry to depart, good sir?

  • Good sir, good Kifa Mokievitch," servants and neighbours would come and say to the father, "what are you going to do about your Moki Kifovitch?

  • All at once a voice called out, "Of course his bills are worth four hundred pounds; but, my good sir, four hundred pounds to a man in my position is not worth the getting.

  • I'll show you who's master here, my good sir.

  • It is foul weather in us all, good sir, When you are cloudy.

  • Not so hot, good sir; I come to bring him sleep.

  • That is not the way to prepare for serious study, my good sir.

  • I do not like it, my good sir, nor do I like people who have the impudence to puff their smoke up one's very nose.

  • Just as I was turning away his red moustache moved a little, and he said in French: "I do not like people to smoke when I am dining, my good sir.

  • You pay as you swear, good sir, royally," replied Tristram.

  • You alarm yourself without reason, good Sir Thomas," replied Herne, in a slightly sneering tone.

  • That I can pardon; but, my good sir, that is not all.

  • I; 'you do not know, my good sir, the only thing on earth that could afford me enjoyment.

  • Do not, my good sir,' said I to him, 'allow me to be treated with indignity.

  • And do you think, good sir, that I have no greater regard for my cousin, than to assist in carrying on an affair between you two, which must end in her ruin, as well as your own?

  • O, good sir, there is nothing in them, indeed.

  • What better, my good sir, could be expected in love derived from the stews, or in friendship first produced and nourished at the gaming-table?

  • Pray, good sir," said he, "be pleased to sit down.

  • The same, my good sir, he must assuredly be; it would be injustice even to the meanest of the people to suppose there could be found among them TWO persons doomed to bear a name so shocking to one's ears as this of Vanbeest Brown.

  • Why, my good sir, you will understand me only to mean that I am something deficient in the practical knowledge of the ordinary details of justice business.

  • Upon my honour, my good sir, I have never been able to bear the smell of a tallow-candle since.

  • I will inquire into it, my good sir,' said the learned Baronet.

  • Yes, my good Sir, and there will be no better in which to look for a government.

  • Not at all, my good sir, I said; I am trying to understand them; and I wish that you would be a little clearer.

  • What defence will you make for us, my good Sir, against any one who offers these objections?

  • Have no fear, good sir,' I answered; 'you have seen and touched John Ridd.

  • But where on earth did you get the money for them, my good sir?

  • But I understand that you simply terrified them, my good sir?

  • My good sir," the old woman continued in a stentorian voice, "what are you standing THERE for, with your eyes almost falling out of your head?

  • My good sir," the General began, "may I ask you what this is that you have gone and done?

  • Do you understand, then, what it is that you have entailed upon me--upon ME, my good sir?

  • Good sir, Cleonymus had no kneading-trough, but kneaded his bread in a round mortar.

  • My good sir, what is the matter with you, O father?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good sir" 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:
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