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Example sentences for "healthy"

Lexicographically close words:
healthier; healthiest; healthily; healthiness; healths; heap; heape; heaped; heapes; heapeth
  1. She was now building the hostel for the old people, finding work on the estate for the young and healthy and looking after the neglected children; she had built a new school-house.

  2. And now my throat tickled and my nose itched, and I was headed straight for a healthy bark.

  3. Healthy amid the pestilence of decaying death, of chill from nights spent sometimes waist deep in water; or chattering with cold as misty morning finds him saturated with its clammy cold.

  4. Is it healthy to go in swimming with so many clothes on?

  5. He still looked like a carpenter, but smelled like a rose garden, for he learned to take a bath every few minutes and perfume himself, so the old-fashioned perspiration that had been so healthy for him would not be noticed.

  6. They are passed on wherever they are found, to the next station, and thus they are kept in healthy circulation throughout India.

  7. No Mrs. Gamp has ever leant over the banister and declared to the expectant father below that it was "a fine healthy Commander-in-Chief.

  8. As for medicine, bless them, they're so healthy that they'll never need a copper coin's worth!

  9. Does not every one wish and pray that heaven and earth may stand for ever, that his country and family may prosper, that there may be plenty in the land, and that the people may be healthy and happy?

  10. I was merely a big, healthy animal, fit only for hard, physical work.

  11. As a good healthy tonic, it should appeal to the scrupulous woman who cannot even amuse herself without a purpose; it has elements of excitement to attract the more adventurous.

  12. Fox-hunting is not merely an idle amusement; it is an outlet for man's natural instincts; a healthy way of making him active, and training his character.

  13. It is only healthy and normal that any human being possessed of native power should wish to show his credentials by turning possibility into fact accomplished.

  14. The spontaneous violence which healthy children do to etiquette often proves a relish.

  15. This sounds more like a gloomy young prig than a healthy 12-year-old boy.

  16. This is a general term for cases where the tissues gradually turn brown or black in patches which die and dry up, the dead area sometimes spreading slowly and invading the usually sharply demarcated healthy tissues around.

  17. These, and numerous other experiments of the same kind, prove that the healthy root-hair is a living instrument for taking up dilute solutions out of the soil, and holding them in the sap-cavity for a time.

  18. A healthy lass like she, if I may make so free?

  19. His father was fifty-five, a very healthy man,--likely to live for the next twenty years.

  20. There is a style of letter-writing which seems to indicate strength of purpose and a general healthy condition on the part of the writer.

  21. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

  22. The subject to which they now requested my attention related to the healthy change of air by which we all hoped that Miss Halcombe and Lady Glyde might soon be enabled to profit.

  23. But for its sanatoria, Meran might be a cheerful place; their ubiquity reminds a healthy man too often that the air is really good.

  24. For, normally, he was cheerful and strong, full of the tides of healthy living; and this appalling lassitude swept the very basis of his personality into Nothingness and the desire for death.

  25. Never was the man of spirit subjected to ennui, if his body was exposed to fatigue; never did the man healthy of body fail to find life light, if he had something to engage his mind.

  26. He is as frank as Walt Whitman (and as shameless) concerning the mysteries of life, and as healthy (and as coarse) as Rabelais.

  27. The truth is, Walt was not the healthy hero he celebrates in his book.

  28. Both came East for health and change, though all were as healthy as kittens.

  29. I fear we have not had winter enough to make a healthy and profitable summer.

  30. A healthy condition of our animal life is, as we know, most important for the healthy condition of our spiritual life; and we dare never ignore the animal life so long as we are not quit of it.

  31. It would further result that this pleasure is an aim which can never be attained but by moral means, and consequently that art, to tend and perfectly attain to pleasure, as to a real aim, must follow the road of healthy morals.

  32. It is in fact a healthy nature that acts in the child; and in a world where healthy nature would be the law, he would be perfectly right to act so.

  33. A modest doubt in the infallibility of the pope met with the punishment of parricide and the infamy of sodomy; its sentences resembled the frightful corruption of the plague, which turns the most healthy body into rapid putrefaction.

  34. The major was much struck at the robust and healthy appearance of the boats' crews, and still more at seeing most of them without any other covering than a shirt and trowsers, although at the very moment it actually snowed.

  35. But, generally, damask roses will not thrive in the wood, and a ruder growth, if healthy and pure, we wish rather to see there.

  36. Diseases that infest the valley, such as ague, never touch them; but they are subject in youth to attacks upon the nerves, which one would not expect in so healthy a class.

  37. Very strange was this vision of an exalted and sensitive existence, which seemed to invade the next sphere, in contrast with the spontaneous, instinctive life, so healthy and so near the ground I had been surveying.

  38. She had done so; she required what was detestable to arouse her, because she had lived at such high pressure that any healthy diversion was vapid and stupid to her.

  39. But I do not think it is a very noble sport, or a very healthy one.

  40. It was said of a certain family that a drop of its blood was as good as a great coat, so hardy and healthy were its sons.

  41. Yet how can a healthy boy awake in the morning dejected?

  42. Thus by the humble and narrow environment of my childhood was it made doubly dear to me; the very limitations themselves enforcing and promoting the growth of wonder and healthy imagination.

  43. And 'the healthy mind in the healthy body' is one of the great thoughts of the past.

  44. And would they be worse mothers if their brains were keen and their bodies strong and their hearts brave with the healthy work and intelligent life that everybody should have, men and women alike?

  45. It is 'the healthy mind in the healthy body,' as the sculptor feels it.

  46. Some time afterwards, to their great joy, twins were born to them, two healthy boys.

  47. Don't you think that it is a shameful thing for a man like you, young and with a good, healthy appearance, to be demanding charity of people?

  48. I think a healthy theatre should be able to support the works of serious playwrights.

  49. Then I met some people at the National Institute of Mental Health who were interested in the norms of healthy behavior.

  50. The delight in healthy outdoor sports continues with the athletically inclined, and ought to be fostered as a safety valve for surplus energy, a diverter of self-centered thought, and a tonic for excitable nerves.

  51. A surplus of activity is generated in the body, and it must be expended if the child is to be in a healthy condition, as well as in a normal, happy mental state.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "healthy" 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:
    healthy action; healthy animals; healthy child; healthy condition; healthy state