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Example sentences for "much"

Lexicographically close words:
mption; mque; mselle; mua; mucha; muchacha; muchacho; muchachos; muchas
  1. The complete success of this wheel has attracted much attention and affords further evidence of the wide range of adaptability of the Leffel turbine.

  2. The labors of the judges in this department were much lighter in the last exhibition than in the preceding one, and we are happy to say, were, in our opinion, so far as the award of premiums is concerned, much more fairly performed.

  3. It has been tried, but, we believe, without much practical success.

  4. These polished instruments, wrought with much care, seemed intended for use by the hand rather than for insertion in a handle or socket, or attachment to a shaft by means of a strap or withe.

  5. Boys and girls earn nearly as much as men.

  6. We find in this pocket-book much of interest to gas consumers, as well as to gas makers.

  7. It must be remembered that on the quantity and quality of food, much depends, not only with Pernyi but with all caterpillars.

  8. This splice is not, however, very strong, and is only used when there is not time to make a long splice, which is much the best.

  9. After much study and many delays, the casts of the Hadrosaurus were completed, and numerous smaller skeletons prepared.

  10. The voluminous comparison of this engine with those previously exhibited, seems unnecessary, and we think not in good taste in such a report, however much it may possess of scientific interest.

  11. He'd heard and read too much about the starvation, pestilence, peonage and other ills plaguing those Indian villagers.

  12. Don't lecture me--I know as much econ as you do!

  13. With some, perchance, 'twas as much envy as pity of one to whose lot fell so many nights of delight.

  14. Son," said the friar, "these sins are natural and very trifling; and therefore I would not have thee burden thy conscience too much with them.

  15. But Ricciardo, seeing that she was still much ruffled in spirit, was resolved not to let her go, until he had made his peace with her.

  16. Much of his comment is instructive, greatly surpassing his predecessors.

  17. Sokrates--is very much the same as that of Menander a century afterwards about Krates.

  18. Much of the advice given by Sokrates, Aristippus appears to have followed, though not from the reasons which Sokrates puts forward for giving it.

  19. In other respects, the dialogues of this class are greatly diversified among one another: they have only the one common attribute--much debate, with absence of affirmative result.

  20. Even Stallbaum, though full of harshness towards those Sophists whom he describes as belonging to the school of Protagoras, treats the Megaric philosophers with much greater respect.

  21. The age of Leukippus is not known, but he can hardly have been much younger than Anaxagoras.

  22. And there is never much talk of theaters, actors, and plays but some one is apt to say: "Ah, but you should have seen Joe Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle!

  23. West noticed how willing Samuel was to do his pictures over and over again, so he took much pains with him.

  24. He laid out a city himself on the Delaware River and called it the City of Brotherly Love, because he hoped there would be much love and harmony in the colony of Quakers.

  25. Surveying is the science of measuring land so that an owner will know just how much he has, how it lies, and what it adjoins, so that he can cut it into lots and set the measurements all down on paper.

  26. Except for this one fault, Louisa was a good child, so she felt much ashamed that she had caused her mother, whom she loved dearly, so much worry.

  27. The father could not give him much money, hardly more than enough to get him across the ocean, but he could cut cameos to pay for his lessons.

  28. He really did not know how much land he owned, for King Charles the Second had given an immense amount of land to his grandfather.

  29. For as much as thirty years men in Europe and America had been trying to make vessels run by steam when Fulton finally succeeded in doing it.

  30. You are a clever young man and can do much for the world!

  31. Her father admired it and then answered: "Yes, it is so much nicer than any other girl has that it may make some of the poorer ones unhappy.

  32. A friend who knew how much the composer liked that said once: "Mac, something dreadful happened a few weeks ago.

  33. You can see from this that they were very much in earnest.

  34. He had grown very wise by much reading and study.

  35. He was very much ashamed of himself and shed a good many tears over his shyness.

  36. Fortunately the family was then living in Worcester, near Boston, and it did not cost much to get there.

  37. At the end, amidst much suppressed tittering, there would come a chorus of "Thank you very much!

  38. How I felt or thought it is difficult to express clearly, but this much is certain that to be clear about the meaning of words is not the most important function of the human understanding.

  39. Not that he had much of the gift of song in his voice; but then he was not altogether tuneless, and one could get a fair idea of the intended melody.

  40. It was not so much the little less or more that he objected to as the failure to be up to the standard.

  41. Rajendrahal, the present Sahitya Parishat would have doubtless found the matters it is now occupied with left in a much more advanced state by that one man alone.

  42. So at home we had to go through much more than what was required by the school course.

  43. In the process of making a new beginning much in the way of superfluous preliminary has to be gone through.

  44. Afterwards, much of it was, with slight changes, incorporated in the Valmiki Pratibha, and this play ceased to be separately published in my works.

  45. Who the king might be I never cared to inquire; where his palace is still remains undiscovered; this much was clear--the king's palace was within our house.

  46. At home we had advanced in Bengali much further than the subjects taught in the class.

  47. These insist on trying to sum up the account and find out exactly how much of the lesson imparted can be rendered up.

  48. The bad rails had suffered so much from my constant caning that they must have longed to give up the ghost had they been alive.

  49. The rule of the servants came to an end; I saw to it with many a device that the bonds of my school life were also loosened; nor to my home tutors did I give much scope.

  50. And this fourth continent could be further proved to be, as regards its fauna, much more different from Africa, which lies so near to it, than from India which is so far away.

  51. This 6th sub-race were a much more law-abiding people than their predecessors.

  52. Marcellus speaks of seven islands in the Atlantic, and states that their inhabitants preserve the memory of a much greater island, Atlantis, "which had for a long time exercised dominion over the smaller ones.

  53. The following remarks will attempt to deal merely with the leading characteristics which differentiate their habits from our own, and these will be chosen as much as possible from the great Toltec era.

  54. These first three sub-races are spoken of as the "red races," between whom and the four following there was not at first much mixture of blood.

  55. Stoliezka was much struck with the affinities of certain of the Cutch fossils to African forms; and Dr.

  56. The ancestors of the Irish elk, too, roamed in herds about the hill sides in much the same way as our Highland cattle do now--too wild to allow of easy approach, but still under the control of man.

  57. In such an empire as the Toltec, agriculture naturally received much attention.

  58. Footnote 5: Ceylon and South India, it is true, have been bounded on the north by a considerable extent of sea, but that was at a much earlier date than the Tertiary period.

  59. Beulah received Evert Beekman naturally, and without the least exaggeration of manner, though a quiet happiness beamed in her handsome face, that said as much as lover could reasonably desire.

  60. Even mother dislikes that--there is too much of the Major of Foot in it.

  61. Still an excitement prevailed the rest of the day, for the sudden arrival of a guest always produced a sensation in that retired settlement; much more likely, then, was the unexpected appearance of the only son and heir to create one.

  62. He is too old--it is risking too much to let him quit the house.

  63. And why not as much to you as to any of us?

  64. Prophecies often produce their own fulfilment, in cases of much greater gravity than this; and it is not surprising that our captain found himself strengthened in his notions by the circumstance.

  65. Every man has some good quality or other; and, I much fear, some bad ones also.

  66. I took as much stone as was necessary, and then used wood, which is more easily worked, and which is also drier.

  67. Not much on that side of the water, sir; though he was reasonably well in the ground on Long Island.

  68. Far from it, sir; we deem it so loyal to drink it, that it is said the port and sherry of the different messes, at Boston, are getting to be much neglected.

  69. It is safe to say that Actions and Reactions will react favourably on all unprejudiced readers; and for this relief much thanks.

  70. Last year appeared Das hohe Lied, which, although it lacks the morbid horror of much of Sudermann's work, is the most pessimistic book he has ever written.

  71. Who was this writer who knew so much of the nature of dogs and men?

  72. Of how much practical agricultural value he found the Mantuan bard, we shall never know.

  73. But this peculiar element in the style goes much farther than isolated phrases.

  74. It is wholly worth while to get this point of view; and if in practical life one does not really believe in it, it is capable of yielding much pleasure.

  75. It is a permanent picture of a certain period of American history, and this picture is made complete, not so much by the striking portraits of individuals placed on the huge canvas, as by the vital unity of the whole composition.

  76. Now in Der Katzensteg, the patient Moon follows the heroine about with much the same assiduity, and accuracy of aim.

  77. It will probably be answered that this sweeping condemnation is not of much value against the emphatic approval of the British public and the aforesaid chorus of critics in praise of the new Genius.

  78. She went, I believe, before it was light, For of Reynard she felt much fear; So quickly she thought she would see each sight, And return ere he should appear.

  79. At least, if she can stand this test, I would do this much for her--give her a small escort to Chinon, with a letter to the Dauphin.

  80. It would take too long were I to tell you all, messires; but so much will I tell.

  81. Much had been done; but much yet remained to do.

  82. French have had too much of this of late.

  83. The Maid had much to ask of Sir Guy, but her questions were not such as one would have guessed.

  84. So certain was she that before long she would be upon her way, that at Poictiers she composed that letter to the English King, his Regent, and his Generals which has been so much talked of since.

  85. But now I fought my way to her side with irresistible fury, though there was such a struggling press all about her that I had much ado to force my way through it.

  86. Although we were knights, we neither of us possessed great wealth; indeed, we had only small estates, and these were much diminished in value from the wasting war and misfortunes of the country.

  87. She was never too much occupied to receive those who came to her, and instantly he had her ear.

  88. King, whose foolish head and cowardly heart were under other influences than that of the Maid, to whom he had promised so much such a short while since.

  89. Nevertheless, the streams were still much swollen, and in some places the ground was so soft that it quaked beneath our horses' feet.

  90. There are now two men, one of whom is a man too much upon the earth.

  91. They described a sort of ogive much resembling the mitre of the Magi, and by their fantastic character gave still more intensity to the character of the building.

  92. He had purchased the bed of Ikmalius and proposed to substitute it for the bed wrought after the Oriental fashion, which he declared had never been much to his taste.

  93. Mr. and Mrs. Wilton were as much pleased as the children with this little story of Grandy's reminiscences.

  94. Thou art right,' said Opocco, 'God in heaven does not much surpass me!

  95. The captain was very much displeased, and I regretted extremely that a foolish wish of mine should have caused so much annoyance, and felt it my duty to endeavor to alleviate the boy's sufferings as much as possible.

  96. I am much obliged to you for going out of the track to tell us these strange 'sayings and doings' of the Burmese.

  97. From that moment it refused to eat, and died of hunger and suffering on the fifth day, almost as much regretted as one of the crew would have been.

  98. Nevertheless, the whole place exhibits a business like appearance, much more so than most cities in this lethargic part of the world.

  99. To get out the old water-cock, it was necessary to make the ship heel so much on her larboard side as to raise the outside of this apparatus above water.

  100. Much of the interior is covered by immense forests, inhabited by wild animals, and aboriginal tribes of human beings almost as wild.

  101. All these articles are much valued, particularly the indigo for dyeing woollens, for the weaving of which there is a loom in every house.

  102. The population of Tasmania has of late years much increased, for, owing to its eligibility, the tide of emigration has been strong.

  103. The chief value of these animals is in their ivory tusks, which, being harder than those of the elephant, and not so liable to turn yellow, are much more esteemed by dentists.

  104. Her uncle had never been very much to her, and she found it as difficult to concentrate her mind on this melancholy business of sickness and dissolution as if it were a sermon.

  105. It wouldn't be worse for a little grease," the landlord allowed, in a voice which was not much more melodious than the creaking sign.

  106. Bob will have a great deal too much to eat and drink, and he'll be ill the day after.

  107. A woman's small hand would not have had much chance of escape from such a clasp as that.

  108. Much as usual, thank you, miss," the girl replied.

  109. I shouldn't much fancy him for mine," said Scarlett reflectively.

  110. You are always welcome to be here as much as you please, but of course you will attend to your own affairs.

  111. There were two illustrations, but I didn't care much for them; I didn't think they were good enough.

  112. Well, Devonshire's a nice county, not that I know much of it.

  113. Well, go on, Barbara, tell me how much you remembered.

  114. He would not have cared to confess how much he was troubled by his uncle's silence.

  115. You find it convenient to forget that one can say as much about any old dotard however decrepit.

  116. It avails nothing, but the succour of God is much every way.

  117. I am not ignorant that, as you said a few minutes before, it would be much safer for me to attend only to the care of my soul, to relinquish altogether every bypath and follow the straight path of the way of salvation.

  118. Nothing, only that I am much amazed I to think I should never yet have wished what I have believed I always wished.

  119. And how much more grave a matter ought one to think it in regard to the soul, where a relapse is so much more rapid and dangerous.

  120. Some have thought, and the idea was expressed by one of his correspondents, that his love for Laura was very much of a literary pose.

  121. For the common herd of men these may be what to them seem more important; but in reality there is nothing of more importance, and nothing ought to be esteemed of so much worth.

  122. Think, moreover, how much you have added to her fame, and of what she has subtracted from your life: how you have ever been jealous for her good name, but she has been always regardless of your very self and condition.

  123. Let me own also that I dread very much the rocks ahead if life should be prolonged, and so would provide beforehand for this double wish of mine to blend with my work for the Muses some simpler occupation in household affairs.

  124. Not to repeat what you have been long well aware of, you have Seneca's letter[40] on this subject, and it is very much to the point.

  125. I would to Heaven I could say as much of my soul, but I am afraid that in it there is what is more than a match for me.

  126. All that you have seen to-night has been make-believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!

  127. Thereupon the duke seized the opportunity of practising this mystification upon him; so much did he enjoy everything connected with Sancho and Don Quixote.

  128. Not so much now that the meat-shortage is over.

  129. It does not do to betray one's age by expressing too confidently the idea that much of all the goings-on of Deborah and her friends Gillian and Antonia seems impossible.

  130. Later in the day Edward came in to tea, much annoyed.

  131. Anyhow, William is going abroad--so much so that, if he went any farther, he would be on his way home again.

  132. Before much injury had been done the fire was twice suspended in order to afford opportunity for an arrangement, but this was declined.

  133. There is much reason to believe that other cases similar in character to those particularly referred to in the accompanying papers will at an early day require vigorous measures and the exhibition of a strong military force.

  134. Soon thereafter the political affairs of Nicaragua underwent unfavorable change and became involved in much uncertainty and confusion.

  135. We can desire nothing in regard to them so much as to see them consolidate their strength and pursue the paths of prosperity and happiness.

  136. They had exhibited not only the power to achieve, but, what all history affirms to be So much more unusual, the capacity to maintain.

  137. He perceived, and of course admitted, that the Constitution, while conferring on the General Government some power of action to render navigation safe and easy, had of necessity left to Congress much of discretion in this matter.

  138. With Spain no new difficulties have arisen, nor has much progress been made in the adjustment of pending ones.

  139. In making communication of this fact it has been deemed by me proper also to lay before Congress the considerations of indispensable public duty which have led to the adoption of a measure of so much importance.

  140. He professed himself "much pleased to part with seven of his teeth to oblige the old man Chappewee, and had no objection to dip his paws in the head waters of the Coppermine, provided he were carried thither.

  141. In a short time he found himself so much recovered as to be able to commence his journey, but he suffered greatly from hunger, not being able to see any large animals.

  142. Some of them were much more fervent in the business than the others, and seemed to chant, peep, and mutter, with a great degree of warmth and vigour.

  143. She grew to be so cross and cruel, exacting so much from Indians, and making so much noise, that the Great Spirit changed her into a huge rock; the entire shape of which remained many years.

  144. Another attempt was necessary, and, after much persuasion, the musk-rat was induced to make it.

  145. But, awkward and grovelling as he was, and much as they laughed at him, he succeeded in performing it, by burrowing under the road in the sky, until he reached and cut asunder the snare which bound the sun.

  146. After the beautiful maidens had laughed, and chattered, and questioned, as much as they would, they left the Nanticoke to enjoy his slumbers.

  147. One evening, during the winter season, when snow covered the earth, and ice locked up the waters of the Great Lake, it chanced that this happy Chippewa hunter remained out much later than usual.

  148. Knowing the land, I sent pedlars north and west to collect such stuff, and what I bought for pence I sold for much gold in the Germanies and throughout the French cities.

  149. I think a man cannot strive whole-heartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.

  150. All through the long day, and through much of that twilight which is the darkness of a Norland summer, he was abroad on his own errands.

  151. Our army and navy's nothing much to boast of, and the South is far better prepared.

  152. She was a long way from death in spite of the cackle of idiot chirurgeons, and there was much savour still in the world.

  153. Next, I haven't got much in the way of talents.

  154. The black hair was cut short like a soldier's, and the small secret face had the clear tan of one much abroad in wind and sun.

  155. The French court was in no humour for his tale, being much involved in its own wars.

  156. That way lies much gold, and gold will buy pardon for all offences.

  157. When I set out on a business I like to weigh it, that I may know how much is to be charged to my own wits and how much I must leave to God.

  158. I haven't been sleeping much lately, and I've been casting up my accounts.

  159. For that way, ran the tale, lay a great Roman house, a palace of King Kristni, where much gold was to be had for the lifting.

  160. Much was in cipher and contractions, but some names stood out damningly.

  161. Ah, he is as much the greater as the sun is greater than a star.

  162. Stanton had changed much since the night in the Springfield store.

  163. She was as much to blame as he; and for her unworthiness was he to be left to suffer?

  164. Indeed no practical idea of his, however much brooded over at night, had ever lived to bear fruit in the morning; not once had he ever embodied in action an impulse toward atonement!

  165. In the meantime, the caitiff minister had reached his manse, and found a ghastly loneliness awaiting him--oh, how much deeper than that of the woman he had forsaken!

  166. All the next day Maggie was ill at ease, in much dread of the appearance of a mother.

  167. The minister could not, the soutar thought, have learned much of the truth concerning God; for it seemed to wake in him no gladness, no power of life, no strength to be.

  168. Isy told them as much as she could without breaking her resolve to keep secret a certain name; and wrote to Mr. Robertson, telling him where she was, and that she had found her baby.

  169. In character she was much beyond him; and in breeding and consciousness far more of a lady than he of a gentleman--fine gentleman as he would fain know himself.

  170. He was acting with a selfishness too much ingrained to manifest its own unlovely shape; while in his mind lay all the time a half-conscious care to avoid making the girl any promise.

  171. Now comes the much discussed "Chorus of Headless Wives," which is a distinct prophecy of Debussy.

  172. Then, using the same words, they sing as much as possible in unison to the end of the scene, which closes with a fantasy of capricious arabesques and a series of trills on notes seldom heard from any but the high-est-priced human lips.

  173. A number of the Zambals, including their leaders, hear mass with much reverence, and even confess to the priests, saying that many of their men have come on this raid through fear, rather than their own inclination.

  174. The inclosed Fruit is no harder than Butter in Winter, and is much of the colour of the purest yellow Butter.

  175. Our troops found there much food, various jewels of silver and gold, and many bells of the sort those people use--all which was given to our Indians.

  176. As for me, it is certain that nothing gladdened me so much as to see myself away from the sea, among my friends, and where I could say mass.

  177. Yet all that hardship and misery (in which he had the greatest share) cured him completely; and he fattened so much that he did not appear to be the same man.

  178. His account of the rebellion is much shorter than Diaz's.

  179. We had a delicate large English Dog; which the Governour did desire, and had it given him very freely by the Captain, though much against the grain of many of his Men, who had a great value for that Dog.

  180. The seventh edition of his voyages, published in 1729, is a composite work, and contains much that is not Dampier's own.

  181. Though at the same time the fool predominates so much over the knave, that I am told he is generally the dupe of his own art.

  182. So little like a Jew, and so much like a gentleman!

  183. And, seriously, I very much doubt whether the character of a nun would not become me best.

  184. But sure, sir, you have too much gallantry and honour to betray me, whose fault is love?

  185. When blest with the smiles of my fair, I know not how much I adore: Those smiles let another but share, And I wonder I prized them no more!

  186. Dearest Sir, You must, doubtless, be much surprised at my flight with your daughter!

  187. My resignation will be much easier, the thought of the last hour sweeter, and the inevitable consequences less to be feared.

  188. The Governor, Chevalier de Montmagni, welcomed them with much cordiality, but had views of his own in the Quebec colony, which were not favorable to an establishment at Montreal.

  189. On arriving at Quebec, I found myself very much indisposed, and was obliged to remain in the hospital a few days, as the ship was to depart when the wind became favorable.

  190. Perrot, wife of the Governor of Montreal, determined to return to France, for the benefit of her health, which was much impaired.

  191. He prepared a much more considerable fleet than any that had been hitherto attempted, and sailed again from France in 1604.

  192. But these were distributed with much reserve.

  193. He was truly an apostle in their midst, attracting them as much by affability, as by the benefits he conferred, and it was his greatest pleasure to act as sponsor for them in baptism.

  194. She was received into the community as soon as she arrived at the proper age, and died happily, after laboring twelve years in the mission school where she was instrumental in effecting much good among her own people.

  195. Almighty God in His inscrutable wisdom had so arranged matters that the Institute of Sister Bourgeois should be born in a stable, like His own divine Son, the Sisters being much happier there than if they were lodged in a palace.

  196. Only one circumstance of these early years could she ever be induced to mention, and of this she sometimes spoke with great bitterness of soul, and much exaggeration.

  197. Rama, though much moved by his brother's request, declines to return because he must fulfil his vow of exile.

  198. It is impossible even for the Sanskrit scholar who has not lived in India to appreciate fully the merits of this later poetry, much more so for those who can only become acquainted with it in translations.

  199. For the second, with its more developed notions about Yoga and its much more pronounced view as to the unreality of phenomena, looks like a later addition.

  200. Much the older of the two is the Vaiceshika, which is already assailed in the Brahma-sutras.

  201. Their use of poetical figures is, however, much less frequent and elaborate, occasionally not going beyond the simplicity of the popular epic.

  202. Vowel contractions occur much more frequently, while the hiatus has grown rarer.

  203. These wedding ceremonies, preserved much as they are described in the Sutras, are still widely prevalent in the India of to-day.

  204. Though pessimism is not unknown to the old Upanishads, it is much more pronounced here, doubtless in consequence of Sankhya and Buddhistic influence.

  205. Though betraying much confusion of ideas, these early speculations are of great interest as the sources from which flow various streams of later thought.

  206. In this transitional age must have been composed the more ancient poems which are lost, and in which the style of the earliest preserved hymns, already composed with much skill, was developed.

  207. At all times fathers by a son Much darkness, too, have passed beyond: In him the father's self is born, He wafts him to the other shore.

  208. In its twenty-three stanzas occur some highly imaginative analogies, worked out with much originality.


  209. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    much accustomed; much affected; much alarmed; much concerned; much entitled; much extolled; much for; much from; much gratified; much grown; much haste; much indebted; much interest; much matter; much misery; much more; much moved; much nearer; much obleeged; much oxygen; much people; much salt; much stronger; much surprise; much talk; much the