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Example sentences for "hires"

Lexicographically close words:
hired; hireling; hirelings; hirer; hirers; hiring; hirpling; hirselfe; hirsute; hirt
  1. In addition to the usual method of employing convicts in the penitentiary or on state farms, Alabama, like other southern states, also hires its convicts to labour for private individuals.

  2. The person who hires a ship in this way occupies during the currency of his term the position of shipowner.

  3. If an apprentice hires his time from his master as is not unfrequently the case, especially among the non-praedials, he pays a dollar a week, which is two thirds, or at least one half of his earnings.

  4. Mr. Gordon hires his people on Saturdays, and he expressed his astonishment at the increased vigor with which they worked when they were to receive wages.

  5. There a large village or a compact township levies fifteen kopeks from each of the twelve hundred souls and hires a teacher for 180 roubles for the winter.

  6. Here a rich innkeeper hires a teacher for his children for five roubles and board, and the neighbouring peasants join him, by adding two roubles for each of their boys.

  7. If the Commune is not well-to-do and is small, it hires quarters from a peasant, or establishes a rotation, and the teacher passes from hut to hut.

  8. Here a small village hires a soldier for eight roubles for the winter, and he goes from house to house.

  9. Thus, for example, a village of twenty souls hires a transient man at two roubles a month to teach the children.

  10. The boss must know how to do the things he hires others to do.

  11. Above all, the manager, like the boss, must know how to do things he hires others to do, and the things we have said concerning the boss is likewise true of the manager, for the manager is the next step below the boss.

  12. You hires my boat, and you hires me to row; but not to go on about other people’s business.

  13. Simonds buys the furniture, Burke hires the house--the Carlson Cottage--and the full arrangements are made for the butchery of their victim.

  14. What statute recognizes a distinction between the laborer and the man who hires him?

  15. There is the man who hires a band to play to him during the voyage.

  16. You cannot tell the difference between a millionaire and one of his clerks, except that the former has an expensive motor-car and the latter hires a taxi or a victoria, or travels by electric tramcar.

  17. How Owlglass hires himself to a Tailor; and how well he executes his Master's Orders.

  18. How Owlglass hires himself to a Tailor; and how well he executes his Master's Orders 60 XV.

  19. An Athenian hired his flute-players as a modern European noble hires his band.

  20. Each girl receives monthly from five to six dollars and her board, and almost every one of them hires a room in the neighborhood for the purpose of prostitution.

  21. He installs all the necessary machinery and other equipment, hires capable labour, and determines the kinds and quantities of hats for which he thinks that he can find a market.

  22. This is unquestionably what happens when a man hires out his land to another.

  23. You bet it does--that's what the company hires me for.

  24. I don't propose to run the risk of damage and loss with a road that hires kids for its most important work.

  25. That's what the company hires me for, isn't it?

  26. A fellow that hires another to croak a man for him for one hundred bucks ain't got no license to call nobody names.

  27. He hires and fires everybody and pays everybody.

  28. By its means the Government, instead of making the citizens pay by taxation for the war as it goes on, hires a certain number of them to pay for it by promising them a rate of interest, and their money back some day.

  29. By borrowing, the State hires those who have a margin to put part of it at the disposal of the State at a time of national crisis, instead of taking it from them outright.

  30. Payed for 2 horse hires to Preston, 3 shilings and 6 pence.

  31. Payed for horse hires when I went out and meit the provest, 6 shilings and 6 pence.

  32. The co-operative credit society which the blind headman established not only buys and sells for its members in the ordinary way but hires land for division among the humbler cultivators.

  33. When the holder of a 5-chō holding prospers he buys a second farm and more horses and implements, and hires labour for the busy period.

  34. Nobody hires land in order to make a profit out of it; at least nobody for such a purpose hires a large tract of land; but each individual cultivates his own estate, whether it be of wide or of narrow extent.

  35. Us hires a wagon and rambles over to de C'lumbia River.

  36. Two yeahs in France, an' lately I lef' de Pullman railroad people whut hires sleepin' cah po'tehs.

  37. A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

  38. The cheap rowdies he hires for his operations on these waters come through here with bootleg booze and try to wreck my house.

  39. A new boss ought to know a few things about the man who hires him.

  40. He who hires a servant hires him for his need; not to stand still like a slipped camel!


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