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Example sentences for "its place"

  • Some hidden machinery was then set in motion, and the trap-door returned to its place.

  • A grand avenue, two hundred and forty feet wide, was planned by Charles in its place, and the magnificent approach called the Long Walk laid out and planted.

  • Finding the foundation and walls of Saint George's Chapel much dilapidated and decayed, Edward the Fourth resolved to pull down the pile, and build a larger and statelier structure in its place.

  • She was in the very act of moving them through her fingers at the moment that the prince fell a victim to his impatience, and her heart sank when the first pearl remained fixed in its place.

  • The baker, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surprised at my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke the truth, produced another piece of money in its place.

  • The baker perceived this, and declined to take it, demanding another in its place.

  • The magician flew into a terrible passion, and throwing some more powder on the fire, he said something, and the stone rolled back into its place.

  • Not a single chair of the whole set was ever seen out of its place—not a single Miss Willis of the whole four was ever seen out of hers.

  • In its place was a handsome shop, fast approaching to a state of completion, and on the shutters were large bills, informing the public that it would shortly be opened with ‘an extensive stock of linen-drapery and haberdashery.

  • The oldest heaver present proved to demonstration, that the moment the piers were removed, all the water in the Thames would run clean off, and leave a dry gully in its place.

  • I told her that I had seen him, and that he had requested me to tell her what I have already written in its place in these sheets.

  • It had set me thinking a good deal at the time, as I have mentioned in its place; but my absorption in my own affairs, my experience of the family, and my hearing nothing more, had gradually ended in my dismissing the subject.

  • An old red-brick mansion, used as a school, was in its place; and a fine old house it must have been to go to school at, as I recollect it.

  • Then Ethel related many pleasant, piquant scenes between the two families at Monk-Rawdon, and especially that one in which the room of the first Tyrrel had been opened and his likeness restored to its place in the family gallery.

  • It was demolished; in its place, a few improvised and wretched barracks distributed here and there a small ration of moldy and indigestible bread.

  • Up to this time no room has yet been found, either in the law or in minds, for this very plain truth; its place is taken and occupied in advance by the two errors which, in turn or both at once, have led the legislator and opinion astray.

  • But I shall say more of this in its place.

  • Then a crash told them that the drawbridge had been lowered to its place.

  • The wings were very big, and more beautiful than you can possibly imagine - for they were soft and smooth, and every feather lay neatly in its place.

  • It needed both hands to keep it steady in its place.

  • Some he placed in his pocket, some he returned to its place.

  • He had only restored to its place a small phial she had seen there before.

  • Simply pushing the cupboard back into its place, I waited for the next night that I might bury the body, though upon the whole it was in a tolerably safe hiding-place.

  • I reserved the sloop, therefore, and the guns, for their service another way, as I shall observe in its place.

  • What there was really in this shall be seen in its place; for however I came to form such things in my dream, and what secret converse of spirits injected it, yet there was, I say, much of it true.

  • In putting the funnel back in its place, she noticed something faintly shining in the obscurely lit vacant space at the side of the jar.

  • Midwinter carefully restored the paper to its place in his pocketbook.

  • He put back the slip of paper in its place, and closed the book.

  • Everything shall be put neatly, and everything shall be put in its place.

  • I can't doubt, after what you have told me, that the restoration of the Moonstone to its place on the forehead of the Indian idol, is the motive and the justification of that sacrifice of caste which I alluded to just now.

  • With that, he looked back, and nodded at this dead plant, and then cast his eyes about him in walking out of the yard, as if he were considering what other pot would go best in its place.

  • The sudden exclusion of the night, and the substitution of black darkness in its place, warned me that the man had closed a shutter.

  • We got a chair out, ready for Mrs. Joe's alighting, and stirred up the fire that they might see a bright window, and took a final survey of the kitchen that nothing might be out of its place.

  • But if the whiteness stay in its place, and be not very clear, it is the sore of a burning: and therefore he shall be cleansed, because it is only the scar of a burning.

  • And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place.

  • But if it stay in its place, it is but the scar of an ulcer: and the man shall be clean.

  • If on the seventh day the evil seem to have stayed in its place, and not lower than the other flesh, he shall cleanse him: and his clothes being washed he shall be clean.

  • And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.

  • There is nothing that requires so much to be kept in its place as religion, and its place is what?

  • But if you do not put it in its place, you may just as well have nothing to do with it.

  • I would simply do that with one or two; because the moment you cut off one, a hundred other heads will grow in its place.

  • Religion out of its place in a human life is the most miserable thing in the world.

  • Keep religion in its place, and it will take you straight through life and straight to your Father in heaven when life is over.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its place" 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:
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