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Example sentences for "lection"

Lexicographically close words:
lect; lected; lectern; lecteur; lectio; lectione; lectiones; lections; lectisternium; lecto
  1. Cause he couldn't go to 'lection An' shake paw-paw.

  2. I'd like to know what difference it makes about the 'lection anyway?

  3. The idear of Hank actin' like a idjit when the 'lection depends on him!

  4. So we ended by pickin' a 'lection committee.

  5. He was all excited over somethin' else--the 'lection of a sheriff.

  6. Him have pappy and all de colored folks go to de 'lection box and vote.

  7. Things quiet down then but us no more go to de 'lection box and vote.

  8. They 'vised them to have nothin' to do wid deir husbands if they didn't go to de 'lection box and vote for Moses.

  9. The question of the reëlection of Douglas to the Senate now came before the people of Illinois.

  10. They set to work to prevent his reëlection to the presidency.

  11. The result of all this confusion was the reëlection of Grant.

  12. What's that ye promised to tell me 'lection day?

  13. What did ye promise ter tell me 'lection day?

  14. Pears ter me ter be right comical ter hev ter remind ye o' what I promised ter tell ye 'lection day," she said.

  15. No star a-waggin' a tale aroun' the sky air haffen ez dangerous ter yer 'lection ez him.

  16. On 'lection day I brung in 1500 Niggers to vote de Democrat ticket.

  17. The lection obtained by this sors sacra proved to be the opening chapter of the Fourth Gospel.

  18. The lection was neither appointed beforehand nor chosen by the ecclesiastic officiating; it was left to the guidance of chance, or rather, as the Czernovese themselves believed, to the will of the Deity.

  19. These Independents were opposed to the reëlection of Senator Chandler.

  20. In 1890 his bill was so unpopular that it resulted in his own defeat for reëlection to Congress.

  21. His defeat for reëlection to Congress ultimately made him President of the United States; for the following year the Republicans of his State elected him Governor, which was a stepping-stone to the Presidency.

  22. For some unaccountable reason there had been a falling out between Senator Alcorn and himself, for which reason Senator Alcorn decided to use his influence to prevent the reëlection of Senator Ames.

  23. He appeared to have conceived the idea that it was possible for him to make a speech on the floor of the Senate that would insure his reëlection even by a Populist Legislature.

  24. And I s'pose then the idee come to him that he would shet him up, and keep him there till after 'lection wus over.

  25. There is bad folks in Jonesville 'lection day,--bad men, and bad women.

  26. It is the opening of the war to defeat his reëlection next fall.

  27. His reëlection gave to the President an opportunity for bringing before the world his international aims.

  28. The 'lection comes on soon, and it'll be a good time for you to begin.

  29. I found the tall editor a setting there counting up some 'lection figgers, and he looked eenamost tuckered out.

  30. They'd brought in some more 'lection news.

  31. Every elector, it was well known, would be a Republican, and as such would vote for the reëlection of Monroe and Tompkins.

  32. Dere's gwine ter be nary 'lection h'yer ef it really troubles you ladies dat 'er way.

  33. Why, I thought I had the whole c'lection already.

  34. I never saw a c'lection yet that had any sense to it, when it comes to that," Peace reluctantly admitted.

  35. What does Henderson Meadows use his c'lection of stamps for?

  36. But what good will a c'lection of buttons be?

  37. I've got as big a c'lection as I want now and still they keep a-coming.

  38. These facts cost him a great many votes at the time of his reëlection in 1884, and are not yet forgotten.

  39. He dwelt upon its merits until it was affecting, and showed us, to prove his assertions, more marks on the sassafras-trees than I ever saw on a tavern door ’lection time.

  40. As fer’s my reck’lection serves, I ha—ant.


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