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Example sentences for "just for"

  • Just for now, for this hour on Saturday afternoon, there was a respite: no new link was forged in the intolerable sequence of events.

  • Just for a few seconds there was nothing in the world for him but her, nor for her anything but him.

  • Just for a little she let him weep his fill, but her yearning for him would not be withstood.

  • Even if she was all wrong, and her plan failed, wouldn't it have been rather nice, just for a month or two, to fancy they were going to be happy?

  • Yes; just for a change," Susy serenely acknowledged.

  • Couldn't you stay at home till after breakfast, just for once?

  • Come on, just for a bit of turn, to pass the time away.

  • Just for a moment or two they wrestled playfully, until the scent of Sheeta, the panther, brought them to their feet, alert and wary.

  • Just for a second was the lion motionless with surprise and in that second Jack Clayton put to the crucial test an accomplishment which he had practiced at school.

  • Just for an instant--and then the fact of the train reassured him.

  • Just for an instant the sight of that familiar figure, quiet there before him, had given him an unpleasant start.

  • There was a column called the 'Hints to Beauty' column, and sometimes I read it just for fun, it was so funny.

  • Just for healing," the mother said gently.

  • Either then or for the New Year;--just for a day or two.

  • And Nora might have had him just for lifting up her hand.

  • I tell her if she'd go to Dawlish,--just for a week.

  • Just for fear of a scandal and because she had known disagreeable things!

  • I have learned the truth, that you did not marry me just for my uncle's money.

  • She was ill and lonely, and must stay in his arms--just for to-day.

  • I forgot his claims at odd times, just for a minute or so, but he is a real bugbear--a sort of matrimonial bogey-man.

  • Just for a minnit I was mixin' it up with the night you nearly ran down that bloomin' hooker off the Irish coast.

  • Wish I was a man, that's all--just for an hour!

  • Then, when I've got a start, I can take in a ragamuffin or two, just for a relish.

  • I'm not going to be lectured and pummelled by everyone, just for a bit of a frolic.

  • Ambitious girls have a hard time, Laurie, and often have to see youth, health, and precious opportunities go by, just for want of a little help at the right minute.

  • Just for an instant the crowd fell back, and then the man who had first spoken, cried angrily: "Hasn't somebody got the nerve to knock that cub down?

  • Just for an instant Jet was on the point of telling this brother messenger the whole story, but he checked himself in time and replied: "I should think they'd want to after playin' such a trick on me.

  • You know you wanted to go just for yourself as well.

  • The thumps and kicks I have had for peering into parcels, and turning of letters inside out,--just for curiosity.

  • The blankets I have been made to dance in for searching parish-registers for old ladies' ages,--just for curiosity!

  • Still in her green draperies and silver wreath, Patty stepped out on the veranda, saying, "Just for a tiny minute, then.

  • Just for a few days, till Miss Galbraith can get some people down from New York.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "just for" 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:
    book about; eighteen hours; free person; just above; just and; just below; just enough; just government; just like; just love; just men made perfect; just possible; just previous; just proportion; just referred; just simply; just stated; just sufficient; just the; just went; just west; just wish; justify himself; justifying faith; justly regarded; white chalk