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Example sentences for "many times"

  • He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast.

  • But the historian, being captived to the truth of a foolish world, is many times a terror from well-doing, and an encouragement to unbridled wickedness.

  • He made his way back towards the house, full of illusion, trusting to that chance which had served him so many times in his life.

  • Many times in his long professional life had the veil been lifted for him--a little.

  • He would never depart from the tannery house, but Cynthia went to him there, many times a week.

  • She might look upon it again--many times, perhaps--but a conviction was strong in her that its daily possession would now be only a memory.

  • For the moment, the delusion that his power was still limitless prevailed, and her faith whole again, so many times had he mended a world all awry.

  • Many times was a head lifted from a small pillow, straining after the meaning of the squeaky noises that came up from below!

  • Many times in her life had she believed herself to have had this sensation, and yet had known nothing of these aches and ecstasies!

  • The princess wondered why Tirant did not want to stay in the palace despite all the emperor's pleas, for he had wanted to many times before.

  • Tirant remounted his horse and tried many times to talk to him, but the duke scarcely uttered a word.

  • She answered: "It is only logical that you've lost the prize of all your efforts so many times, my lord, with your neglect and lack of persistence.

  • She took him aside and gave him the blouse, kissing it many times to make him more content.

  • I have seen it many times since; I have seen it at Claymore Tavern.

  • I had heard launched in full forensic eloquence so many times in accusation against the wretches I had hardly regarded as being in the same human class as myself, rang in my ear as though intoned from the very mouth of hell.

  • Many times it is with our desires as it is with saffron,[14] it will bloom and blossom, and be ripe, and all in a night.

  • Thus therefore he went back, carefully looking on this side, and on that, all the way as he went, if happily he might find his roll, that had been his comfort so many times in his journey.

  • Wild or mad men, if they deck or array themselves with ought, as many times they do, why, the spirit of their wildness or frenzy appears even in the mode and way in which they do it.

  • She said to him ever so many times, graciously waving her tail, 'My son, when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw.

  • A Tortoise can't curl himself up,' Mother Jaguar went on, ever so many times, graciously waving her tail.

  • As many times as I have crossed that plank, in my day!

  • Many times in the day it recurred to her, still a bewilderment and a puzzle, as far from solution as ever.

  • Many times he had said to her how he hated the odor; but his mother was so fond of it, that it must always be that the veranda and the house would be full of it.

  • She has forbidden me many times to hang anything to dry on the fence there; and if I had only washed it when she first told me, two days ago, all would have been well.

  • I have--many times," replied the long thin man.

  • As it has been so many times--O Sue, my wife, why not!

  • To Mr. Phillotson the surprise was not great; like the lady in the story he had been played that trick too many times to be unprepared.

  • Many times when I was upon the Road I have been ready to stamp with my feet at the hindrance of an ox-cart in the way, or a mere cloud of dust.

  • I shall see thee again, I think, many times,' and he cantered off down the road.

  • That must be because he had caught her napping and knew that this time she couldn't possibly get away from him as she had so many times before.

  • You have fooled us many times, and now it is our turn.

  • Many times from a safe hiding-place he had hungrily watched Farmer Brown's boy shut the biddies up.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many times" 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:
    many books; many branches; many countries; many days; many distinct; many eggs; many evils; many flowers; many generations; many girls; many have; many horses; many hundred; many important; many individuals; many islands; many kings; many knights; many pages; many places; many small; many sorts; many tears; many towns; many ways; many years