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Example sentences for "meet"

Lexicographically close words:
meerkat; meerly; meers; meerschaum; meeserable; meete; meeter; meetes; meetest; meeteth
  1. It appears to me that one of the questions to be answered is whether there is sufficient combined HCl present to meet all the requirements for digestion.

  2. VI It chanced his lips did meet her forehead cool.

  3. Consumed by a hopeless love, I implore your pity, and you return me hate: no other happiness in view but that of gazing on you, my unconscious eyes seek you, and I tremble to meet your looks.

  4. Avaunt such puerile ideas--don't we every day meet resistance more or less feigned at the first conquest?

  5. The hour approaches at last, when I shall be able to see you: I fly from you with the more haste, in order the sooner to meet you again.

  6. I must own, I did not expect to meet such a name in a letter from you.

  7. Well; be it so: but since you never found it out till then, it is much to be apprehended you will never meet it again; the loss would be irreparable.

  8. I dare say my reasons will meet your approbation.

  9. I shall again meet this perfidious woman; I will resume my power over her.

  10. Notice sent to me on this road where you wish the interview to take place, will meet me.

  11. Tis where the Agreeable Thought, and the Tender, meet together, and have besides, the Addition of Simplicity.

  12. Now, we may read, I fear, some Number of the Pastorals of the ordinary Length, before we shall meet with this Pleasure.

  13. Sophy told the Swain he would meet him there agen in the Evening, and read him some more of the Minutes he had put down for his Direction, and withdrew; and the Shepherd drove his Lambs to the Covert of the Shades.

  14. Let us see if milk will meet these wants.

  15. Mother's milk being nearly the same, having only a larger proportion of water, will for the first year of our baby's life meet every demand the system can make.

  16. The laborer requires one thing, the growing child another, the man or woman whose labor is purely intellectual another; and to understand how best to meet these needs, demands a knowledge to which most of us have been indifferent.

  17. That training is imperatively demanded for rich and poor alike, is now unquestioned; but the mere taking a course of cooking-lessons alone does not meet the need in full.

  18. In five minutes the streets and banks of the river were black with people rushing to meet the steamer, and the shout that greeted her at the wharf was loud and genuine.

  19. It made me feel quite ashamed of not having taken more interest in the progress of current events, to meet a party of emigrants driving miles through these solitudes to hear what I had passed heedlessly by when close under my hand.

  20. The purchaser had paid from time to time one-half the purchase money, when a series of bad seasons and failure of crops made it impossible to meet the subsequent payments.

  21. The girls meet one evening a week in the library for practice, and enter into it more as recreation before study than as serious work.

  22. The usual method now is to advertise the lectures in the Boston papers a week or more in advance; and then all persons desiring to attend meet at a designated place, and receive tickets in the order of their coming.

  23. President Seelye had to meet all sorts of objections to higher education for women.

  24. But Nan never got the gift; for, to her great dismay, her hostess dropped the basket with a crash, and flew across the room to meet a tall shape pausing in the shadow of the door.

  25. When invasion came, they at once took to arms, as volunteer common-soldiers, went to meet the enemy, and remained in the field until he had fallen back to the coast.

  26. She was before her easel, as of old; but the pale nun had given place to a blooming girl, who sang at her work, which was no prim Pallas, but a Clytie turning her human face to meet the sun.

  27. Perhaps nowhere more than in Flanders do we meet with a systematic oppression of a vernacular idiom.

  28. If it meet their approbation, the means best adapted for the purpose are to be maturely considered; but if otherwise, it is his intention to return the gallery to Europe.

  29. The catacombs yielded any number of the bodies of martyrs, and Rome became a huge manufactory to meet the demands for wonder-working relics from every part of Christendom.

  30. But we are on surer ground when we meet the geographer Strabo, who lived in the reign of Augustus.

  31. Only before the walls of Tours did the invaders meet with a rebuff from Charles Martel and his Franks, which arrested their advance in Western Europe; as, in a more momentous defeat before Constantinople by Leo III.

  32. Further than this there is no need to pursue its career until, with wholly changed fortunes, we meet it as a tolerated religion under a so-called Christian Emperor.

  33. You get down from that ladder and go out to the Long Walk and Miss Mary will meet you and bring you here.

  34. No one went to meet or speak to them and they seemed to open doors and look into rooms.

  35. She was very much absorbed in her own little boy and girl, and was rather glad to hand the child over to the woman Mr. Archibald Craven sent to meet her, in London.

  36. Go and meet him," he said; and Mary flew across the grass to the door under the ivy.

  37. During all that first day's journey, her one fear had been that some one she would meet might recognize her and report the fact in Greenvale.

  38. Night seemed creeping up from it to meet her.

  39. Another deer was captured, more birds secured, and when evening came plans to meet the situation were discussed.

  40. Long months must elapse ere he and she could meet again, and in prospect they seemed an eternity.

  41. An enemy we can meet in the open need not appall us; but an enemy who creeps up to us by day, or still worse by night, in a vast wilderness, becomes a panther and an Indian combined.

  42. Here was a self-evident duty thrusting itself upon her, and how to meet it with justice to herself, her husband, and her own conscience, was a problem.

  43. A danger which we know actually exists, we can avoid or meet squarely; but one merely imaginary becomes irksome and really more annoying.

  44. The parts of speech and rules of subtraction and division seemed complete chaos, and when homeward bound, she loitered slowly along, hoping Ray would make amends and meet her on the way.

  45. They crossed and recrossed the street to meet her, and a battery of curious eyes was focussed on her for two hours.

  46. Possibly he might come and meet her occasionally on the way home from school; and when vacation came, how many long rambles they would take in the dear old woods, with no such ogre as the half-breed to spoil them.

  47. Almost did she feel that to meet him would be worth more than to see any one else in the world.

  48. If ye like, ye can go with me to the station to meet her.

  49. Each of the hotels sent a conveyance to meet every train, with a loud-voiced emissary to announce the fact of free transportation.

  50. She knew Ray must come on the stage, and eager for a sight of his face as only love can make one, she meant to be the first to meet and greet him.

  51. She will meet and mingle with more people, and improve faster.

  52. V FROM THE "D" BLOCK WARDS If you walk up the corridor at half-past four on certain afternoons of the week you will meet a mob of patients trooping from their wards to the concert-room.

  53. But I have seen the same sort of patient, well enough to walk about, meet his folks on visiting afternoons at the hospital gate.

  54. But he hobbles sprily to meet her, and his salute is no mere peck, but a smacking kiss, so noisy that it makes everyone laugh.

  55. We orderlies meet each convoy at the front door of the hospital.

  56. Off he goes, to the railway-station to meet the hospital train and evacuate its stretchers.

  57. These latter the boys, though they little suspected it, were destined to meet again.

  58. But, after all, we've got to get used to it all for we may meet worse in the jungle.

  59. At Hawaii, Japan, Egypt and Gibraltar they meet experiences unforeseen and eventful.

  60. The Motor Cycle Chums of the Northwest Patrol The Great Northwest is a section of vast possibilities and in it the Motor Cycle Chums meet adventures even more unusual and exciting than many of their experiences on their tour around the world.

  61. And so, till we meet them in the next volume of this series, we will wish the lads and their friends good-bye.

  62. Livestock raising is the most important agricultural activity; poor soils limit the islands' ability to meet domestic food requirements.

  63. Tegucigalpa will probably implement tighter fiscal and monetary policies to keep inflation low and meet commitments to the IMF.

  64. To meet increased competition from both the EU and Central European countries, Austria will need to emphasize knowledge-based sectors of the economy and deregulate the service sector, particularly telecommunications and the energy sector.

  65. However, unemployment remains nearly 14%, and Buenos Aires still depends on foreign capital to meet the bulk of its financing needs.

  66. Faced with a multitude of economic difficulties, the government has fallen in arrears on long-term external debt and has been struggling to meet the stipulations of foreign aid donors.

  67. The Salvation Army authorities in New York were all prepared to meet this need.

  68. When I think of England-where almost every man you meet is but a piece of a man!

  69. One of these lying on a litter greeted the lassie from Indiana, just come back to New York from France to meet the boys when they landed: "Hello, Sister!

  70. Perhaps in the future I'll meet her again, In that world where no one knows sorrow or pain; And when that time comes and the last word is said, Then place on my bosom her band of red.

  71. Besides, how could they spare the workers to meet the new demand without taking them from places where they were greatly needed at home?

  72. Joint councils are occasionally necessary, when it is customary for proper representatives of each section of the Board to meet together.

  73. Trained to meet emergencies of every character--to leap into the breach, to span the gulf, and to do it without waiting to be told how.

  74. Will meet you at Salvation Hostel day after to-morrow morning.

  75. The multifarious efforts to meet the needs of the poorest of the cities' poor, alone, kept everyone on the strain.

  76. I am indeed grateful for this last thought from an organization which did so much to meet his living needs and to lessen the hardships of his service in France.

  77. There is always a cheerful welcome awaiting us there and I have yet to meet a sour-faced cleric behind the counter.

  78. You have had to enlarge enormously your program and readjust your work in order to meet the need of the vast number of soldiers and sailors serving our country overseas; and you must have funds to help you.

  79. The next day the doctor happened to meet the lassie who sang and told her he had a letter that had been handed to him for censorship that he thought she would like to see.

  80. Was the queenly woman who came to meet and greet me, indeed the Annie of old days?

  81. Nowhere but here did ever meet Sweetness so sad, sadness so sweet.

  82. Sometimes he would meet her on these occasions, and if he passed by without attracting her attention, she would chide him when told of it afterward.

  83. Mere children can meet on a pleasure excursion and in a moment of fun or infatuation walk over to a justice of the peace and be married.

  84. We never hear of one of these except through the occasional one who is so unfortunate as to meet death.

  85. When any trouble actually comes we find strength enough to meet it, and, anyway, it usually is not half as bad in the reality as in the prospect.

  86. The nervous system is being readjusted to meet the changed conditions.

  87. So I met the young man first in company with friends a couple of times, then he wished to make an appointment to meet me alone and, through the kindness of my friends, I met him out at night several times.

  88. If one of them should suddenly meet her husband on the street walking with another woman, what a curtain lecture he would receive that evening; or if not that, he finds his wife wearing the air of one who considers herself much abused.

  89. In her spare time she should lie under the trees and enjoy nature or a good book, or she should go to some gathering where she will meet those who will refresh her intellectually.

  90. If possible go to social affairs where you meet people.

  91. These folds meet at their anterior (front) end.

  92. Dorset, and Devon, the New Forest in Hampshire is the English district where one is most likely to meet with this species.

  93. The landing ring was visible on the screen now, coming slowly up to meet us.

  94. We'll meet at this end of the big hall we passed back there.

  95. Unless you think maybe we'll meet the Hunters hiding under a loose stone.

  96. If you see anybody hanging around the lobby when you come back, don't come up; give me a call and I'll meet you.

  97. I went to meet him, threw all my weight into a right haymaker and felt it connect.

  98. Foster turned to meet him, staggering, and raised heavy arms.

  99. I heard of it from your son Algernon last night at the Balfours', and I happen to be very anxious to meet one of the ladies you have invited.

  100. You must not go and fall in love, like Miranda, with the very first man you happen to meet with, because he comes from the Normal School at Geneva.

  101. If your mother won't allow you to see me, how are we ever to meet and consult about it?

  102. I write now to beg of you to be there, as I am going, and I am particularly anxious to meet you and have a little conversation with you on a subject of importance.

  103. I can't say why, but at that moment, in spite of my intense desire not to meet Cesarine again, I felt I would have given whole worlds if he would have pressed me to come in spite of myself.

  104. She told me all the gossip of Richmond, and whom I should meet at the rector's, and what a dull little town it was.

  105. She rose to meet me with her sweet simple little English smile.

  106. They went back once more into the house, and I crept away, afraid of being discovered, and returned to the yacht, sick at heart, not knowing how I should ever venture again to meet Cesarine.

  107. I did not know how to look at her or how to meet her.

  108. I turned my eyes away: I dare not meet hers.

  109. Earl Derby that Sir John would make one of the train which followed him on his going to meet King Henry VII.

  110. He swore a furious oath, I trow, And clenched his iron hand, As he rode forth to meet his son, The monarch of merry England.

  111. She ran down the path to meet him; and she could not help noticing that he looked more sedate than usual, appearing harassed and disquieted, betraying more obviously the approach of age and infirmities.

  112. Didst thou meet with a bundle of provender in the graveyard that thy stomach did not warn thee to breakfast?

  113. To remain would be certain destruction; to go on, might only be hastening to meet it.

  114. We can but meet the enemy at the worst, and there are three chances of escaping for one of drowning, which way soever we take, at a blind venture.

  115. I durst not stir to meet it, through these perilous paths, if our night's lodging depended on it.

  116. Thus do I live, and this I do sustain, Till gracious Fortune make us meet again!

  117. His Excellency asked him, "If he would meet him at two o'clock, at the opening of the approaches?

  118. We therefore, upon the necessity, think it meet to gather all our men into strengths [fortresses]; and with the same to defend your pieces to the uttermost.

  119. We saw them meet together a good distance off, towards the cliff, and one of the seamen said they were holding a parliament, and he hoped they had punishment enough and would make up their minds to go back to their own island.

  120. Now don't you go for to be too kind, master," says Billy, as I went down to meet them.

  121. I was now minded to strike up from the shore, but was a little timid of approaching so near the course of the hot flood, not knowing but that we might meet another torrent and suffer a scalding.

  122. This made us see how needful it was to take thought beforehand, though we never succeeded in foreseeing all the difficulties that we should meet with, and I suppose no one ever did.

  123. Wabberley touched his forelock in the old mechanical fashion, and without a second look at me he hobbled away, and as he came to the gate, whom should he meet but Billy, walking up to the house with his eldest son, a boy of twelve.


  124. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepted; accommodate; accord; acknowledged; adapt; adhere; adjoin; adjust; admitted; advantageous; advisable; affront; agree; answer; applicable; approach; appropriate; approved; apropos; apt; assemble; assembly; assignation; assimilate; auspicious; avail; balanced; ball; bang; bear; beard; becoming; befitting; bend; bout; brassy; brave; brawl; brazen; breast; bump; bunch; butt; cannon; carom; caucus; center; centralize; challenge; chance; civil; clash; clinch; close; clot; cluster; cohere; coincide; collect; collide; colloquium; commission; committee; communicate; compatible; compete; competition; comply; compose; concentrate; conclave; concourse; concur; conflict; conform; confront; congregate; congruous; connect; contend; contest; convene; convenient; convention; conventional; converge; convocation; cope; copulate; correct; correspond; council; couple; crash; cross; crowd; crunch; customary; dance; dare; date; decent; decorous; defensible; defray; defy; deserved; desirable; diet; discharge; discipline; ditto; doubles; due; echo; embrace; emulate; encounter; endure; engage; engagement; envisage; equal; equitable; even; event; expedient; experience; face; fair; favorable; feasible; feel; felicitous; festivity; fete; fight; fill; fit; fitting; fixture; flock; focus; follow; forgather; formal; fortunate; forum; foul; foursome; front; fulfil; fulfill; funnel; fuse; game; games; gather; gathering; genteel; get; good; greet; gymkhana; happen; happy; harmonize; have; heed; hit; hive; hold; honor; horde; housewarming; huddle; hurt; hurtle; impinge; intersect; jockey; join; joust; just; justifiable; justified; keep; knit; knock; know; lawful; league; legal; levee; level; light; likely; link; luck; lucky; mass; match; matching; measure; meet; meeting; merge; merited; mill; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; muster; nip; obey; observe; opportune; orthodox; palaver; panel; party; pass; pay; pick; pinch; play; plenum; politic; present; press; profitable; proper; propitious; providential; qualify; quorum; race; rally; reach; receive; received; reception; recognized; recommendable; reconcile; rectify; regard; regatta; rencontre; rendezvous; respect; right; rightful; ripe; rise; risk; rival; running; runoff; satisfy; seance; seasonable; seemly; seethe; serve; session; settle; shape; sit; sitting; slam; smack; smash; soiree; spend; sport; square; stand; stem; stream; stretch; strike; stumble; suffer; suffice; suit; suitable; summon; surge; sustain; swarm; symposium; synod; tally; taper; taste; test; throng; tie; tilt; timely; touch; tournament; tourney; traditional; trial; turn; turnout; undergo; unite; urbane; useful; vie; warrantable; warranted; wise; work; worthwhile; yield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    meet again; meet her; meet him; meet his; meet once; meet the; meet thee; meet their; meet them; meet together; meet with; meet you; meeting held; meeting with; meetings were