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Example sentences for "incurs"

Lexicographically close words:
incuriously; incurre; incurred; incurrere; incurring; incursion; incursions; incurved; incurving; incus
  1. Besides the forfeiture of the goods, the exporter incurs the penalty of 3s.

  2. A man is punished for religion, when he incurs a penalty for its profession or exercise, to which he was not liable on any other account.

  3. When the rich alone govern, the interest of the poor is always endangered; and when the poor make the laws, that of the rich incurs very serious risks.

  4. A man by the attachment of his organs to sensual pleasure, incurs certain guilt; but having wholly subdued them, he thence attains heavenly bliss.

  5. Whoso, therefore, shows mercy to him contradicts the purpose and incurs the displeasure of God.

  6. We have shown somewhat of the mysterious way in which man acts upon these invisible denizens of his soul-world, and by which he incurs a certain responsibility.

  7. Additional causes may be the greater danger which the officer-class incurs in war, and, in former times, the executioner's axe.

  8. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage.

  9. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold.

  10. Light is discerned by itself because by itself it incurs into the eye.

  11. Defn: One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.

  12. A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade.

  13. The kind of liability a person incurs who indorses in that way is set forth in Section 65.

  14. The indorser of a bill of lading incurs no liability by his indorsement.

  15. No man ought to be called into the services of his country, and receive less than will defray the expenses he incurs by performing his duty.

  16. Laying a heavy duty on molasses incurs the necessity of allowing a drawback on country rum.

  17. It is only when it sacrifices to the interests of its own body wider interests still, and subordinates patriotism or morality to the narrower sentiment attaching to a special law of honour, that it incurs the reprobation of the moralist.

  18. A man incurs a debt with a tradesman which he has no intention or no reasonable prospect of paying, knowing that the tradesman has no grounds for suspecting his inability to pay.

  19. Every Minister looks long before he incurs that penalty, and no one incurs it wantonly.

  20. Every industry, every home, contributes to the waste problem; each incurs a certain proportion of residue which it cannot use.

  21. For evasion, too, of those penalties and burdens in the care and maintenance of the Unfit, which a nation justly incurs by such social wrongs and maladministrations as are largely responsible for disease and defect.

  22. Voluminous pleasantry incurs the censure of that tedious trifling which it designs to expose.

  23. If he is incontinent he incurs a similar penalty.

  24. The Dyak girl selects a husband for herself, and, while she remains single, incurs no disgrace by cohabiting with as many as she pleases.

  25. The male, the real delinquent, incurs no legal punishment, and but little social reprobation.

  26. If the philosopher meddles with their pursuits, he is not merely found incompetent, but also incurs general derision; because his incompetence becomes manifest even to the common-place citizens.

  27. The lender incurs less risk, and a larger proportion, therefore, of the holders of capital are willing to be lenders.

  28. A person removed from office on suspicion incurs infamy if his offence was fraud, but not if it was merely negligence.

  29. It is easy to conjecture that, on this principle, it will be long before the Church incurs the needless guilt of an “Improved Version.

  30. By this ceremony the officiating priest is supposed to take upon himself the sin of the departed soul; and if, in its performance, he commits any mistake, he incurs certain destruction from the wrath of the Deity.

  31. For the man who becomes a tyrant incurs all the natural and ordinary dangers in which a tyranny involves him, and has no remedies against them save those of which I have already spoken.

  32. For he who would be greatly loved, if he swerve ever so little from the right road, becomes contemptible; while he who would be greatly feared, if he go a jot too far, incurs hatred.


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