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Example sentences for "lists"

Lexicographically close words:
listings; listless; listlessly; listlessness; listning; lit; litanies; litany; lite; litel
  1. He had gathered up the lists and stuffed them into his pocket, and had turned away with one bitter and awful phrase.

  2. Sally telephoned to my father's secretary and asked him to spend the winter with us, and make out lists for week-end parties, and to be generally civil and useful.

  3. He took the lists from his pocket and showed them to her.

  4. He gave the lists to Wassaquam, who studied them through attentively, holding them to the lamp.

  5. There, then--these lists now made it certain--that event had happened by which that life had been blighted.

  6. I should not have considered the finding of those lists 'nothing.

  7. Alan got up and moved about the rooms; he went back and looked over the lists and clippings once more; then he moved about again.

  8. After the police had gone, he called Wassaquam into the library and brought the lists and clippings out again.

  9. We Northerners are cold-blooded, and needed not so many price-lists of absolution for sins of the flesh as the fatherly Leo sent us.

  10. Max hastened to obey and the lists were made out amid a good deal of pleasant chat, now grave, now gay.

  11. We will take your lists in turn, beginning with Max's and ending with Gracie's," the captain said.

  12. We have been making out lists of Christmas gifts and would like to have your opinion and advice in regard to some of them.

  13. The name of the Marquess of Montacute was foremost in those delicate lists by which an eager and admiring public is apprised who, among their aristocracy, eat, drink, dance, and sometimes pray.

  14. The progress of our endeavours will of necessity be very much interrupted, except the learned world will please to send their lists to the Chamber of Fame with all expedition.

  15. I have also long lists of persons of condition, who are certainly of the same regiment with these banditti, and instrumental to their cheats upon undiscerning men of their own rank.

  16. But I do assure them, their lists shall be examined with great fidelity, and those that are exposed to the public, made with all the caution imaginable.

  17. In the mean time, so ill-natured are mankind, that I believe I have names already sent me sufficient to fill up my lists for the dark room, and every one is apt enough to send in their accounts of ill deservers.

  18. The six sheets were loose in a thin portfolio, but standing on a shelf above the desk were a number of fat volumes, one of which I took down, and saw that it contained similar lists running back several years.

  19. As I have told you, we call these sheets in the office our visiting lists, but to make the visiting lists complete you need what we term our encyclopaedia.

  20. Some asked for lists of absent-minded men, with the hobbies of each, and for these lists, prizes of from one shilling to six were offered.

  21. It is hardly likely that their absence from the lists of praefecti[298] is due to deliberate exclusion on the part of the imperial government.

  22. Lastly, a word must be said about a group of regiments which do not appear in the above lists and are too numerous to be passed over.

  23. The casualty lists become a deep mystery when compared with the losses of machines admitted by the respective war departments.

  24. The losses among German aviators, taken from the regularly published casualty lists issued by the German Government, were twenty-four killed, and eleven wounded, during the month of January.

  25. During the month of February, for instance, the British announced the loss of six aeroplanes--yet the casualty lists showed a loss of sixty-two officers and men!

  26. There are lists of advertisements attached to publications of the later Stuart era showing that a large variety of popular productions brought the printer or stationer twopence or a penny.

  27. We owe to the entrance into the lists of sundry members of the medical profession a temporary emergence from oblivion and respite from the waste-basket of what the booksellers describe in their catalogues as "Rare Early Medical.

  28. It matters little that you will find the most complete lists wanting in important particulars, for ample opportunity is given to add necessaries at the first town.

  29. In preparing our lists of supplies we derived great assistance from Buzzacott's "Complete Camper's Manual.

  30. There are sundry other members of the Vanni family, some of whom were on the lists of the Masonic Guild before they are found as painters.

  31. The hereditary aspect of the lists of Masters certainly displays this right of heritage very strongly.

  32. The lists of the Comacine Guild begin with a few masters, who are seemingly members of three or four families only, the men of the Buoni, Antelami, and Campione schools forming the aristocracy of the Guild.

  33. I have tried to make some slight chronological arrangement, and some intelligible lists of the names of the Masters at different eras.

  34. He seems to be aware that his acquaintance cheer him to the lists "for their particular amusement.

  35. We have had of late correct lists of these works; but no one seems as yet to have given any clear notion of their spirit and their manner.

  36. There is something inexpressibly melancholy in the long lists of Zions, and Bethels, and Mount Sions, where the pastor and the people scarcely live.

  37. The Baptists also have a fine College in the Regent's Park, the students of which also occasionally are in the class lists of the London University.

  38. It also gives lists of the divinities controlling or belonging to each mountain range, and the sacrifices suitable to them.

  39. It contains lists of mountains and rivers, with valuable notes on their mineral productions, fauna and flora.

  40. Lord Crawford's sectional catalogues of his library, already referred to, are the most valuable lists I know of for student purposes, but I believe very few people have ever seen them.

  41. But of course all these were mere lists and criticisms of books, not detailed bibliographies of carefully collated works.

  42. There are valuable lists of, and information upon, pamphlets of most descriptions and of all periods in the volumes of the 'Cambridge History of English Literature.

  43. There are useful lists of books which issued from the early presses of Scotland by Mr. H.

  44. There does not seem to be any monumental bibliography of architectural books, but you will find useful lists in Mr. W.

  45. This interesting little volume is really a list of books (under their authors' names) which also contain lists of authors.

  46. Cambridge History of English Literature' contains useful lists of works on the drama.

  47. But these were mere lists of books, sometimes eulogies of an individual work, printed for the most part by one particular press and issued by the actual printer.

  48. Directly lists of books that peculiarly commended themselves to the Christians began to appear.

  49. When any close observer of life writes down his lists of saints he will always find that he has been compelled to canonize many who, like their Master, have been made "perfect through suffering.

  50. If it remembers Beau Brummel and Beau Nash at all, it enrolls them in its lists of ridicule.

  51. In the first two centuries such leaders as Irenaeus, Clement, and Tertullian present their lists which show some of our present books omitted, some other books included, and still other books declared as good but inferior.

  52. When we make up the mournful lists of the many thousands whose lives have gone out in these contests, we can debit them against the spirit of greed.

  53. The series were composed in the following manner: After the twenty-eight numbers for four series had been chosen, the words which entered a given series were selected one from each of a number of lists of words.

  54. These lists were words of like-sounded vowels.

  55. When the wedding is to be a large church affair, invitations are sent to all those whose names appear on the visiting lists of the two families.

  56. Thus, they refer to their calling lists of the preceding winter, in deciding on whom to make the first calls.

  57. Therefore, those who enter the lists to win life's battles must expect, if they would reach their goal, to wage the fight not only by the old methods but by the new.

  58. One pair of these lists is sent by mail and another by special messenger.

  59. MAKE LISTS of the persons voted for and the number of votes for each.

  60. In the General Register in the seventh section of this Act mentioned, separate lists shall be kept of boats and vessels used for pleasure navigation by private owners, and of boats and vessels let for hire.

  61. Lists to be kept of private boats and boats for hire.

  62. The following lists show what oarsmen in eights or fours represented their respective Universities from year to year, whether in matches or at regattas.

  63. Lists of the winners of these various honours from year to year will be found elsewhere in this volume.

  64. Each captain of a college crew is requested to send in the names of ten or more candidates for these trials; but it is not safe for a president to rely entirely upon the lists so furnished to him.

  65. When the lists are all made out they are printed and published in the 'Boating Calendar.

  66. Lists of winners and competitors from year to year, with notes as to the course rowed, will be found in 'Tables' later on.

  67. He would delight in overcoming obstacles--the bigger the better,--for his heart was valiant and the prize no smaller than those which the ancient knights went out to battle for in the lists of love.

  68. In that time she had been witness to a dozen of his encounters in the lists of love, or what he chose to designate as love, and had seen him emerge from each with an unscarred heart and a smiling visage.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amphitheater; auditorium; background; bowl; campus; canvas; circus; cockpit; course; field; floor; forum; ground; gymnasium; hall; locale; marketplace; mat; milieu; palaestra; pit; place; platform; precinct; purlieu; range; ring; scene; scenery; setting; site; sphere; stadium; stage; terrain; theater; walk