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Example sentences for "little else"

  • A modern church on the Hill of Tara is bad enough, but a new building on the Rock of Cashel is little else than a profanation.

  • Where it finds its most congenial surroundings, little else that is profitable to man will grow.

  • When summoned by the servant to meet a strange clergyman alone in the library, at the request of Lord Cashel, she felt that his visit must have some reference to her lover; indeed, her thoughts for the last few days had run on little else.

  • Gillius de Vi et Natura Animalium is little else than a compilation from Ælian and other ancient authors, though Niceron says that the author has interspersed some observations of his own.

  • The Bees of Rucellai is a poem written with exquisite sweetness of style; but the critics have sometimes forgotten to mention, that it is little else than a free translation from the fourth Georgic.

  • The Rhetorique Française of Fouquelin (1555) seems to be little else than a summary of rhetorical figures.

  • There is little else to record except this: that from the time of his first triumph Dickens held his place as the most popular writer in English.

  • You will find all these and little else in The Garland, The Token and many other popular collections of the period; but you will find none of them in Bryant's first or last volume.

  • Between these two influences, nature without and puritanism within, the poet grew up; in their shadow he lived and died; little else of consequence is reflected in the poems that are his best memorial.

  • Many talked of little else but of the freedom they had gained.

  • If their daily task of labour be but fulfilled, little else perhaps is thought of.

  • I had written to them only two letters, during my absence; for I had devoted myself so much to the great object I had undertaken, that I could think of little else.

  • Mr. Fletcher was known as a very strict man of business, and as little else.

  • When we climbed back up the road in the morning, we had an opportunity to see the marvelous engineering, but there is little else to see, the view being nearly always very limited.

  • She talked of little else, until in her small world there grew up a vast expectation of magnificence, of which hints appeared from time to time in the newspapers, mysterious allusions to Roman luxury, to Nero and his Golden House.

  • With the exception of the solitary pile of masonry rising in the centre, the ruin consisted of little else than of shattered brickwork.

  • The wars between the tribes, the ghazou, and their struggles with the Turks, are inexhaustible themes for verse, and in an Arab tent there is little else to afford excitement or amusement.

  • I had written to them only two letters during my absence; for I had devoted myself so much to the great object I had undertaken, that I could think of little else.

  • We may boast of our religion; it is little else at last, but self-righteous phariseism!

  • Their religion is little else, but legalized hypocrisy.

  • It must be long yet before I can help them effectually, and meantime the bright youth of my little Else, and the very life of our toilworn patient mother, will be wearing away.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little else" 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:
    little attention; little cabin; little celery; little difficulty; little east; little fortune; little forward; little giant; little gold; little grey; little grim; little honey; little inclined; little joke; little less; little man; little money; little orange; little room; little saint; little shudder; little voice; little worth; little yellow; must needs; saith the