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Example sentences for "items"

Lexicographically close words:
itching; itchy; item; itemized; itemque; iter; iterate; iterated; iteration; iterative
  1. A list of reliable cycle repairers, of hotels which cater for cyclists, besides an almanack and other items usually found in pocket books, are contained within its covers.

  2. Of lesser items connected with racing there are several, the numerous club subscriptions for one thing being no small matter.

  3. Let a woman, keep an account of all she spends, for herself and her family, for a year, arranging the items under three general heads.

  4. At the end of the year, the first and largest account will show the mixed items of necessaries and superfluities, which can be arranged so as to gain some sort of idea how much has been spent for superfluities and how much for necessaries.

  5. Cooking fuel is one of the most costly items in the daily needs of the Chinese people.

  6. Let us then suppose that the two items mentioned will take up one half of this sum, that is, sixty millions of dollars a day which will still leave us a balance of sixty million dollars a day.

  7. This I gave to the Colonist readers some years ago, and the items regarding View Street were some of them.

  8. I had the opportunity of reviewing the first year's numbers, and jotted down all items I thought of interest.

  9. In the Victoria Gazette of 1858 appear several items regarding this street.

  10. The former of these items would be hard to understand by people of the present day, "at the foot of View Street.

  11. Some of these items of intelligence the doctor had heard before, for Jan periodically wrote to him.

  12. Jim Clark, the supper items imparting to his inside a curious feeling of emptiness.

  13. No explanation is made of this item, but it at once suggests the necessity of a thorough investigation in order to determine the items claimed by applicant as operating expenses of the United Railroads over a series of years.

  14. Furthermore, he submitted himself to rigorous cross-examination regarding the items of his account.

  15. Attention should be called to the fact that a line connecting the two points representing these items on Fig.

  16. There are four items in Table 1 which vary materially from the general consensus.

  17. As the grades are light in both cases, this feature of train resistance is larger than in items including heavier grades.

  18. Examining the items in the table having grades in excess of 10 miles, it will be noted that 16% is about all the weight on drivers which can be utilized by the current supply of steam.

  19. Indeed, there is no definite record of what expense items were included or neglected in such percentages.

  20. He becomes numbered and labelled from the hour of his birth, and the gathering items of his existence are duly recorded—not in the annals of history—but in the registry of the police.

  21. From this year the items on the Singhalese list carry us up to the year 665 B.

  22. Whatever may be the case with regard to the several items of the statements of the Greeks about the worship of Dionysus and Heracles, they make it certain that in the fourth century B.

  23. According to the statement of the native Singhalese, Chandragupta ascended the throne 162 years (and the various items agree with this total) after Buddha's death, i.

  24. I sought for items of interest about our waterways.

  25. Not only am I hearing news items of moment to every good citizen but you girls are being trained in composing essays worth while.

  26. Another mentioned items on agriculture, and still others spoke of news on manufactures, music, art, flowers, and Nature crafts.

  27. This neutral back-ground furnished an excellent contrast for the gay blankets, rush mats, birch-bark articles, and other items that are made and decorated by Woodcrafters during their meetings.

  28. Here also the Woodcrafters saw life-sized groups of Indians in wax, the individual costumes and customs of each Tribe being faithfully depicted by the clothes, items of camping outfits, and other things.

  29. Elena Marsh, the artistic member of the Band and the chosen Tally Keeper, now read the reports and mentioned a few items of interest that had occurred since leaving the Camp on the Bluff.

  30. Local newspapers busily printed these attractive items of public intelligence, and the consequence was that the cottage at Northborough was for some months quite besieged with visitors, all come to congratulate.

  31. Parker Clare and his wife, with bitter tears, entreated their son not to leave them; and John himself, though slightly incredulous about some of the items in the tales of his friend Burridge, began to be seriously alarmed.

  32. A dozen or more of such items will start the ball rolling in glorious shape," he said to Hill, "and boom Rockhaven to beat the cards.

  33. To this end they fill the press with columns of false reports, fictitious statements, and items of apparent news for one purpose--to deceive.

  34. A sign on the adjoining building announced—in English—that tattooing was done on the premises, next door was a Chinese grocery whose windows were heaped high with strange items of food including a variety of dried fish and meat.

  35. There were no small items being displayed just then,” he said.

  36. A host is expected to display his skill and imagination in combining delicate flavors, not his wealth or extravagance in being able to buy the most expensive items he can find.

  37. The Chinese apparently believed that if one is to duplicate the lakes and mountains, then all the items normally seen in the countryside should be there, including the artifacts of man.

  38. Thus, after abstracting all the entries relating to the Cambridgeshire estates, and subjoining a list of houses held in Cambridge itself, it proceeds to add up all the items independently, and record their total values to the Abbey.

  39. For instance, it might be reasonably urged that these copies may have omitted certain items in the returns, just as Domesday Book omitted others.

  40. And here I may remark that one of the most important items of this seeing is exactly the fact that in many cases we can see only very little.

  41. Thus the unvarying items of a landscape happen to be those for which precise words cannot be found.

  42. He ran briefly over what he knew, or at least those items which were likely to become public knowledge soon.

  43. And are there many valuable items missing?

  44. Rand was taking down the junk with which Walters had infiltrated the collection and was listing and hanging up the recovered items when Fred Dunmore, wearing a dressing-gown, strolled in.

  45. For another, Lane Fleming had kept his collection clean of the two-dollar items which dragged down so many collectors' average values.

  46. Racks lined the walls, under the windows, holding long-guns and swords; the pistols and daggers and other small items were displayed on a number of long tables.

  47. He stood by the desk for a moment, looking down at the recovered items and the pile of junk on the floor.

  48. None of the stolen items have turned up here, so there's nothing to connect the thefts with the death of Rivers.

  49. They have undertaken to cover as separate items each condition which affects a worker's relation to his job.

  50. One of the important items was the purchase of Hazíratu’l-Quds for future National Spiritual Assemblies.

  51. And he paid for his pleasure in more honourable coin than many a vain woman has laid down since daughters of Eve commenced drawing fops around them--namely, the adjectived items of hospitality above mentioned.

  52. That is to say, she was little more than an animal with the gift of speech, added to one or two small items of knowledge which divide men from beasts.

  53. After successfully carrying through the purchase of mourning stationery and attending to other important items connected with sorrow in its worldly shape, Arthur Agar went back to Cambridge.


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