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Example sentences for "grand thing"

  • Well, sir, it must be a grand thing to injye good books, but it must be grander still to injye anny kind iv books.

  • It wud be a grand thing if it cud be straightened out.

  • It is a dreadful responsibility--albeit a grand thing--to be in possession of so simple a truth of such vast importance; and yet to get nobody ever to listen.

  • It is a grand thing to get hold of a fine piece of rock and to exercise faith about it.

  • But what a grand thing it is to live in the spirit of Christ!

  • Yet it is a grand thing for an unconverted person to be under a ministry that God blesses, and with a people that pray for conversions.

  • Eh, Davie, it's a grand thing to have the rest and the quietness of the Sabbath-day.

  • And as for the new milk-house, with ice in it, and running water, it would be a grand thing.

  • It would be a grand thing to have a hundredweight or two of honey, as he says we might, and never kill the bees.

  • It is a grand thing to be a soldier of the Lord.

  • It is a grand thing to come to the end of life and be able to say, `I have fought the good fight; I have kept the faith.

  • Yet it must have been a grand thing to follow such a leader as Moses.

  • Sure 'tis a grand thing, Doctor, to be a priest.

  • Strong muscle is a grand thing to have, but everything depends on how you use it.

  • It would be a grand thing if every minister felt strong enough in body to thrash any man in his audience improperly behaving, but always kept back from such assault by the fact that it would be wrong to do so.

  • It is a grand thing to have a man with whom God is, to entrust one's business to.

  • What a grand thing it is to have a meddling fellow who takes everything out of your hands, isn't it?

  • It's the truth, maybe, and yet I'm told it's a grand thing to see a young girl walking the road.

  • It'd be a grand thing if I'd sup handy the way I wouldn't be destroying myself groping up across the bogs in the rain falling.

  • Tis a grand thing, imagination; I've got it masel, tae some extent.

  • The state's a grand thing--a great thing.

  • It's a grand thing, human nature, for a' the dreadfu' things it leads men tae do at times.

  • They clear the table in no time, it's a grand thing, for it saves the servants trouble.

  • His religion is a cloak, and that is a grand thing for a pick-pocket.

  • It was a grand thing to have a wife like that, but her advice nettled him now just a little, because it seemed to imply a doubt of his efficiency--and that was quite onnecessar.

  • A loang Arts course is a grand thing for a clairgyman.

  • Eh, but it's a grand thing a gude education!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grand thing" 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:
    dearest mother; fair degree; felt like; good only; grand army; grand ball; grand council; grand juries; grand jury; grand marshal; grand officer; grand opera; grand scale; grand style; grande dame; grandfather said; grandpa said; height from; last updated; little grated; mayor parte; negro girl; opened them; packet service; plain terms; remained alone