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Example sentences for "most people"

  • The Parliament, as we have seen, although contending for privileges and against measures beneficial to most people in the country, was yet popular, for it was continually defying the court.

  • Most people in the world have to work, most aristocracies to govern The English gentleman of the eighteenth century farmed his estates, acted as a magistrate, took part in politics.

  • It is this trait--absorption in self--pervading society more or less, that makes it so unsatisfactory to most people in it.

  • The sudden accumulation of millions of money is a mystery to most people.

  • Most people reason in a circle: their minds go round and round, always in the same track.

  • As sodium chloride, or common table salt, it is taken in great quantities by most people.

  • To most people, medical and lay, the various diseases stand out clear and individual.

  • Most people would be better off if they took but two meals a day.

  • Salt, to most people, means but one thing, sodium chloride or table salt.

  • It is quite common for such people to take lunches, which may consist of candies, ice cream, cakes, milk or buttermilk and various other things which most people do not look upon as real food.

  • Most people that I speak with are in doubt how we shall do to secure our seamen from running over to the Dutch; which is a sad but very true consideration at this day.

  • It is not required of him, that he should have the names of even the seventy families of plants at his finger-ends, though that is not beyond the reach of most people.

  • This phrase might seem to most people only a pleasant hyperbole; but I am not quite sure that it was so intended.

  • XI Self-control TO most people self-control means the control of appearances and not the control of realities.

  • To hurry quietly is to most people an unknown thing, but when hurry is a necessity, the process of successive effort in it should be pleasant and refreshing.

  • My own wife felt much the same way with myself, and yet we lived as happily as most people.

  • Indeed, I believe, thank goodness, I have as little religion as most people.

  • The Japanese, as most people know, excel in the art of gardening and the dwarfing of trees and shrubs.

  • Wrestling, as most people know, is a favourite amusement of the Japanese, and wrestling matches excite quite as much interest as boxing used to do in this country.

  • This is, as most people know, simply a corruption of the Portuguese name for the deity.

  • The women, as most people know, carry their babies on their backs instead of in their arms.

  • Most people, out of respect for Cicero, paid no regard to this edict, offering him every attention and escorting him on his way.

  • Teasing has been the form so far, but now one or the other has to die, and it is not as invariably the bull as most people suppose.

  • But it is not all cutting up, as most people think.

  • He had keen intellectual perceptions, and could recognise the beauty of honour and worth as well as most people; and the contrast between himself and the others who surrounded him presented itself in a very forcible light to Jack.

  • Most people believe a lie more readily than the truth.

  • Mr. Edgeworth's life was most extraordinary, comprising in fact three or four lives in the place of that one usually allowed to most people, some of us having to be moderately content with a half or three-quarters of existence.

  • One may acknowledge the great progress which people have made since Mrs. Barbauld's day in the practice of writing prose and poetry, in the art of expressing upon paper the thoughts which are in most people's minds.

  • As for Church Row, as most people know, it is an avenue of Dutch red-faced houses, leading demurely to the old church tower, that stands guarding its graves in the flowery churchyard.

  • As a matter of fact, his attack upon such claims led most people to classify him with the agnostics.

  • To most people a voyage following two years and a half of unremitting labour would have been an occasion for a holiday.

  • She was astonished, indeed, but she did not represent to Lucy that what she had to do was impossible or even vicious, as most people seemed to suppose.

  • Her objects, no doubt, were her own interest and her own pleasure, which are more or less the objects of most people; but she intended no harm.

  • And then she smiled happily, and added, as if to herself, "Most people are.

  • Most people, as Rose was well aware, found his conversation boring.

  • Most people don't know what the word constipation really means.

  • Most people starting a fast begin with an overly acid blood pH from the typical American diet that contains a predominance of acid-forming foods.

  • Having an empty colon is actually a pleasant and to most people a thoroughly novel experience.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "most people" 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:
    bell rang; double company; fur his horrd horrt; further consideration; green above; holy convocation; horse racing; made world; many knights; most beautiful; most cases; most excellent; most happy; most important; most interesting; most men; most people; most probably; not think; scarce knew; stewed fruit; the right; there any; towards morning; what sense; who would have thought