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Example sentences for "man who"

  • He was not in the least likely to have accepted a story from a man who, though known as an essayist, had not yet published anything in the way of a long story, on the ground merely of three chapters of prologue.

  • Her employer and all concerned experienced much difficulty in getting at the truth of the forgery, particularly through her clever implication of a man who had no easy task in freeing himself.

  • The main story of the check involved a man who worked in the same office.

  • Longard[19] reports an interesting case of a chronic liar and swindler, a man who on account of the peculiarities of his swindling was placed under custody for study.

  • We asked him to analyze out for us a couple of moral situations, one being about a man who stole to give to a starving family.

  • A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.

  • A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.

  • Law) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

  • Helen could hardly restrain herself from saying out loud what she thought of a man who brought up his daughter so that at the age of twenty-four she scarcely knew that men desired women and was terrified by a kiss.

  • If ever Miss Rachel marries, Chailey, pray that she may marry a man who doesn't know his ABC.

  • When the detective departed my friend rose and made his preparations for the day's work with the alert air of a man who has a congenial task before him.

  • It's easy to see a man who is master of his own house.

  • I have not seen a man who, if he turned his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty.

  • A man who's not yet fifty years old, and who's said to be worth several millions.

  • He reascended the stairs, very much after the manner of a man who is being dragged into a dentist's office, and followed Madame d'Argeles into a small boudoir at the end of the gambling-room.

  • The coal-merchant smiled the ghastly smile of a man who sees no way of escape from imposition, and has, therefore, resolved to submit with the best grace possible.

  • A man who is determined to blow his brains out if he is defeated, is a terribly dangerous adversary.

  • I am delighted with you, Mr. Smith, for it is so seldom in this desert that I meet with a man who is gentleman and scholar enough to continue a quotation, however trite it may be.

  • He sat down and leaned his head upon his hand like a man who is fagged out.

  • Lord Charles shrugged his shoulders with the air of a man who is but half convinced.

  • Speaking for myself, I cannot imagine any higher mission for a woman of culture than to go through life in the company of a man who is capable of such a research as that which Dr.

  • He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

  • I cannot make a singer of you, so it was my business to find a man who could.

  • They said of it that no man who amounted to anything in New York could be elected a member, because any man on his way up could not but offend one or more of the important persons in control.

  • And he's the sort of man who doesn't hesitate to take what he needs.

  • Because I cannot but resent a low scandal about a man who wishes to marry my daughter.

  • There must be good in a man who will do that.

  • We have not thought it necessary in the previous course of this narrative to mention these trivial little domestic incidents: but the reader may be assured that they can't unfrequently occur in the life of a man who lives on nothing a year.

  • A man who was in intimate attendance on a king must be a person of importance.

  • It must be something connected with the war, if a man who was a great diplomat and the companion of kings came in secret to talk alone with a patriot who was a Samavian.

  • A lad who might make a brave soldier cannot be disdained, but a man who is cruel is a fool.

  • The stairs were crowded and the man who was at the head of them could only move slowly.

  • I guess a man who had as many personalities as the Graf was amusing after-dinner company.

  • For she was going into the unknown with a man whom she hated, a man who claimed to be her lover.

  • A man who is accustomed to solitude gets this extra sense which announces like an alarm-clock the approach of one of his kind.

  • Are you sorry for a man who is ill and depressed," he asked one day, "or do you despise him?

  • You do sometimes hear of a man who won't work and lets his wife support him, but it's very seldom, and they are always the low kind that other men look down on.

  • To her far-seeing and highly experienced old mind it seemed the bearing of a man who was "up to something.

  • Come, come, now," said the waiter, with the sullen air of a man who is forced into giving advice.

  • His mannerisms stamped him as a man who had a correct sense of his personal superiority.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    almost every; character and; living room; lord duke; man should; manual labour; manufactured articles; manufacturing industry; many dialects; many difficulties; many diseases; many enemies; many good; many individuals; many languages; many millions; many other; many people; many persons; many prisoners; many quarters; many teachers; many thousand; many votes; many wounded; solemn assembly