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Example sentences for "must not"

  • They are both helpless--one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything.

  • He must not say to the sinner, "Go and sin no more," because the sinner cannot help it.

  • He must not look a winged horse in the mouth.

  • If the change-worshipper wishes to estimate his own progress, he must be sternly loyal to the ideal of change; he must not begin to flirt gaily with the ideal of monotony.

  • One other circumstance we must not forget: that he had no school-learning; of the thing we call school-learning none at all.

  • One other thing we must not forget; it will explain, a little, the confusion of these Norse Eddas.

  • One remark I must not omit, That royal or parliamentary grants of money are by no means the chief thing wanted!

  • For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds.

  • It must not be supposed that these are the superstitions of a bygone age which reason has definitely banished.

  • I hope he is well; but tell him he must not think of me.

  • All this may strike you as harsh, but I felt I must not lose my present advantage, and my son's future welfare should not be sacrificed to any mistaken tenderness for this man's feelings.

  • Brilliant success, of course, I did not look for, but some degree of security from positive failure was indispensable: I must not take my son to starve.

  • I scarcely noticed it at the time, but afterwards I was led to recall this and other trifling facts, of a similar nature, to my remembrance, when - but I must not anticipate.

  • But in her sisterly affection she took Mr Jonas to task for leaning so very hard upon a broken reed, and said that he must not be so cruel to poor Merry any more, or she (Charity) would positively be obliged to hate him.

  • We must not be too hard,' he said, 'upon the little eccentricities of our friend Slyme.

  • It must not be inferred from this position of humility, that the youngest Miss Pecksniff was so young as to be, as one may say, forced to sit upon a stool, by reason of the shortness of her legs.

  • There was a little blush, and then this answer, "I must not hope to be ever situated as you are, in the midst of every dearest connexion, and therefore I cannot expect that simply growing older should make me indifferent about letters.

  • It must not be: and yet the danger of a renewal of the acquaintance!

  • We must not be nice and ask for all the virtues into the bargain.

  • But it must not be forgotten that John Barleycorn is protean.

  • From this it must not be concluded that I was merely weak.

  • But I know that I must not do this; that he would not like it, that Fanny would be angry, that Mrs General would be amazed; and so I quiet myself.

  • I must not make a martyr of myself, when I am one of so large a company.

  • It must not, however, be supposed that these woods at all equal in splendour the forests of Brazil.

  • It must not, however, be supposed that they live on fish.

  • In most cases it must not be overlooked, that the birds have discovered their prey, and have picked the skeleton clean, before the flesh is in the least degree tainted.

  • What though she be dead, must not we also die?

  • It must not be," said Robin Hood: "our constitution admits no privilege.

  • But it must not be thought that because the German manufacturers of armaments were ahead of their contemporaries they dominated the situation.

  • Prose must be rhythmical, and it may be as much so as you will; but it must not be metrical.

  • But it must not be forgotten that in some languages this element is almost, if not quite, extinct, and that in our own it is probably decaying.

  • It may be anything, but it must not be verse.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "must not" 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:
    must ask; must assume; must away; must believe; must confesse; must contrive; must endeavor; must fall; must first; must here; must judge; must mention; must obey; must own; must part; must perish; must pray; must regard; must remember; must send; must speak; must suffer; must then; must think; must write; mustard seed