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Example sentences for "none"

Lexicographically close words:
nonconformity; nondescript; nondescripts; nondimeno; nondum; nonentities; nonentity; nones; nonessential; nonetheless
  1. At midnight, therefore, Moti Guj strode out of his pickets, for a thought had come to him that Deesa might be lying drunk somewhere in the dark forest with none to look after him.

  2. He had--none knew this better than I--but they were the notions of other men.

  3. This is no more open water than Trafalgar Square is a common; the free levels begin at Ushant; but none the less Dick could feel the healing of the sea at work upon him already.

  4. There is none better or bolder among my people to clear a block of the river when the logs stick fast.

  5. None of your bridal airs and graces with me!

  6. Hannasyde was quite different from Phil Garron, but, none the less, had several points in common with that far too lucky man.

  7. Between a lip-strap and an ordinary leather guard there is no great difference; between one Waterbury watch and another there is none at all.

  8. None the less you have seen fit to disregard it and have followed Gadsby's example--as I betted you would.

  9. None whole or clean, " we cry, "or free from stain Of favour.

  10. There will be none till the Southern Soudan is reoccupied by our troops.

  11. Saumarez held the balance-hair true between them, and none but himself could have said to which side his heart inclined; though every one guessed.

  12. She had an intuition that none of the other students' rooms looked like hers.

  13. With a forced laugh, which concealed none of her real feelings, she stood up and prepared to leave the room.

  14. My dear, there have been several such girls at St. Benet's, and none of them has been idle; they have been best and first among our students.

  15. At last, opening a case, she proceeded to dispose of some trinkets, none of which, with the exception of the pink coral set, was of very high value.

  16. Your Aunt Raby is not the first woman who has fainted and got out of her faint again and been none the worse.

  17. Old Song XXIII A WREN'S NEST Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care, Is none that with the little wren's In snugness may compare.

  18. Even so, poor bird, like thee None alive will pity me.

  19. She replies, in accents fainter, 'There is none I love like thee.

  20. Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.

  21. Nay, frown not, if it hath been told unto me, I am like your lordship as ever may be; And if you will but lend me your gown There is none shall know us in fair London town.

  22. At the last there came commandment For to set the ladies free, With their jewels still adorned, None to do them injury: 'Alas!

  23. His daughter he said nothing to, Nor none else, (though full well they knew That he was dead a month before,) For fear of grieving her full sore.

  24. The gradient was stiff, as usual, and the path none too good.

  25. The worshipper of Diana must be prepared to sacrifice everything else at her shrine; he must go far afield, and be prepared to live hard and work hard, and even then it may befall that his trophies of the chase are none too plentiful.

  26. There are a few ornamental varieties of the European chestnut, but none worthy of any special attention.

  27. But for the larger-growing varieties, forty to fifty feet between the trees is none too much space, when planted for their nuts and not for timber.

  28. As with the butternut, there are no varieties of the black walnut in cultivation; at least, none propagated by means which will insure the perpetuation of their varietal characteristics.

  29. This much of its history had somehow escaped me, and, as it would appear from the following correspondence, the chances were none too good of finding it.

  30. Here is a fine bustle below stairs, all the servants running to and fro, and none of them fast enough!

  31. I will not take upon me to pronounce, that the late Marquis was criminal, or to say what was the crime of which he was suspected; but, concerning the punishment our daughter Agnes hinted, I know of none he suffered.

  32. It is none of my concerns to enquire what it was about, but I believe you know it was so.

  33. The latter lingered at the door several minutes after they were seated, and none of the party seemed to have courage enough to say--Farewell.

  34. All this grand furniture, but you can now hardly see what it is for the dust, and our light is none of the best--ah!

  35. In these chambers every thing appeared as when he had last been here; even in the bed-room no alteration was visible, where he lighted his own fire, for none of the domestics could be prevailed upon to venture thither.

  36. None the less, it is remarkable in execution and in truth.

  37. None of the others can compare with yours.

  38. None the less he could still revisit the companions of his childhood, his brothers and his nephews, whom he delighted to receive at all hours in the pretty little brick house that he had had built on the family property.

  39. But none the less he had one preference, and he could avow it unashamed, for its object was one of the most extraordinary of all masters of design and colour: Correggio.

  40. It is a commonplace of conversation to say that none can foretell where the movement which during the last half century has set in with all classes is to stop.

  41. But having dragged none down in his descent, nor disclosed any secrets of the prison house, he kept friends who helped him in his adversity.

  42. During the period now spoken of, with the exception of mining, the great staple industries of the United Kingdom have none of them increased, while agriculture has decreased.

  43. As for the men who were the early captains of railway industry, they none of them secured more than modest competences.

  44. If none of these things have to be done the lads may be called into the chamber which serves the resident for the purpose of study and pupil-room.

  45. None is more likely to be written by an English clerk as the indubitably British Miller.

  46. You fancy that between the expressions "quantity of producing labor" and "value of producing labor" there is none but a verbal difference.

  47. None that was known to his murderer," replied The Masque, "else had he met no better fate than his unhappy father.

  48. The great storm had whistled and raved around them; but hitherto none had penetrated the sylvan sanctuary which on every side invested this privileged city.

  49. She passed over the wall with her attendant; and they found themselves in a narrow lane, close to the city walls, with none but a few ruinous outhouses on either side.

  50. And, as a pledge for the sincerity of my discoveries, I will first of all communicate a dreadful secret, known, as you fondly believe, to none but your highness.

  51. Oh drat that wash, e shan't have none of thiccy.

  52. When the surgeon came, he pronounced that none of her limbs were broken, but that the shock to the brain, and the whole system, had been so severe, that the only chance of recovery consisted in perfect quiet.

  53. I braced myself with the remembrance, that while none of my family ever laid claim to genius, the limner's faculty had never been wanting among them.

  54. The latter none of us ever possessed; but taste and the knack of adaptation had seldom been alienated.

  55. So deep a sense pervades all classes in this English country, that want of money is an indictment, which none but the culprit may sign.

  56. I told him, "None whatever;" and the answer seemed at once to please and frighten him.

  57. Yet none of them ever took the smallest liberty with him, unless it were one to love him.

  58. The subject of these elegant strictures regarded her all the time, with that pleased pity which none but a great Poet so placed can feel.

  59. None could tell who he was, or what had become of him; though the farmer, at our entreaty, searched all the villages round.

  60. The mountain sides from right and left, straight as if struck by rule, steeply converge, like a high-pitched roof turned upside down; so steep indeed that none can climb them.

  61. But the other hens has not laid none at all.

  62. You have no cellar, and I suppose they have none in London.

  63. Certain it is that none of Mr. Rety's words or looks could be adduced as an authority for all or any of the above surmises.

  64. Do you mean to tell me that none of the villagers helped her?

  65. None of them ever lost a single head of cattle; and now that my family are in distress, there is not one of them but thinks that this is as it ought to be.

  66. Society's none of the best in the other cells, I dare say," responded the notary, as he settled down for the night.

  67. Than the family of the Retys none can be more ancient; and it cannot therefore be a cause for wonder that the village of Tissaret came in for a few spare rays of that dazzling brilliancy which surrounded its masters.

  68. Mr. Catspaw rubbed his hands for joy when he saw that none of the members of the court were likely to cross his plans by an excess of philanthropy.

  69. I hope none of the gentlemen will hunt on our fields.

  70. There was little or no competition in their business; there were no rich men, and none that seemed over-anxious to become so.

  71. Julia and I have worked hard; but we're none the worse for it.

  72. She is so fair None can compare; And, oh, her slender waist divine!

  73. No species of poetry is more ancient than the lyrical, and yet none shows so little sign of having outlived the requirements of human passion.

  74. These habits must be acquired early, or they will never appear easy or graceful; they will necessarily be formed by those who see none but good models.

  75. But you have none of you yet told the reason.

  76. Whilst this absurd analogy satisfied the mind, no discoveries were made in vision, none were attempted.

  77. Saxton looked at him a minute; a hundred different fits showed in his eye, but the hurry of his mind let none stay long enough for action.

  78. We pulled for the schooner right away, but none too quick for me.

  79. IV THE FIGHT The next day my friend Mrs. Gray waylaid father, and told him fervently she didn't want me teachin' her Sandy none of my fool tricks.

  80. I am astonish to hear that, for of all men I have seen none is so kind to the people as Senor Holton; and I am moved to say, 'Pepe, you lie!

  81. In Prizrend, after every rainfall, the people drink muddy water in which none of our soldiers would care to wash.

  82. But they must face poor means of communication (though to Constantinople and to Trieste there is an excellent train service) and scanty accommodation of any kind--almost none of good quality.

  83. As I travelled in the trail of the Bulgarian army, I found it impossible to imagine that an army had passed that way, because there was none of the litter which is usually left by an army.

  84. The Turk was the tax-collector, the official, the soldier, and did none of these things well.

  85. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

  86. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  87. There was none which he must distort more, in which he must suppress more vital words, which he must more habitually disobey.

  88. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

  89. Christ knew, as none of us ever have known or shall know, what the death and extinction of all joy means; what it is to be alone; what it is to feel deserted of men and deserted of God.

  90. It is a thought which possessed the minds of all the apostles,--of none more than St. John.

  91. But if there was such a truth to be told, should we not be rather startled to find that there was none to tell it?

  92. The spectacle of no appalling crime, of none of those hideous and revolting acts which we know from the Jewish historian were perpetrated at the time, and in which the religious sect of the day had its full share.

  93. As none came, he set forth to win by the strong arm the land which he claimed of right.

  94. But that this could be was because that conquest was wrought by the Bastard of Falaise and by none other.

  95. It was William's combined wisdom and good luck to provide himself with a counsellor than whom for his immediate purposes none could be better.

  96. Still, if Harold's accession was perfectly lawful, it was none the less strange and unusual.

  97. But, as military exploits, none are more memorable than the winter marches which put William into full possession of England.

  98. It was sound policy to act as king of the whole land, to exercise a semblance of authority where he had none in fact.

  99. William, as ever, shed no blood; he harmed none of the men who had become his subjects; but Le Mans was to be bridled; its citizens needed a castle and a Norman garrison to keep them in their new allegiance.

  100. Others had claimed crowns; none had taken such pains to convince all mankind that the claim was a good one.

  101. Now none of these accounts come from contemporary partisans of Harold; every one is touched by hostile feeling towards him.

  102. As none dared to seize him, the King seized him with his own hands.

  103. It is their care to do right to all men which has given us such strange glimpses of the inner life of an age which had none like it before or after.

  104. But none the less honour is due to the men whom the duty of the moment bade to withstand him.

  105. In the hands of diplomatists like William and Lanfranc, all these arguments, none of which had in itself the slightest strength, were enough to turn the great mass of continental opinion in William's favour.

  106. Of those writers who mention the bequest or promise none mention it at any time when it is supposed to have happened; they mention it at some later time when it began to be of practical importance.

  107. And the fragile things ring an echo in our hearts that none of the jewel-like flowers nestled in the warm turf on the slopes below could waken.

  108. There is a wisdom in its ways, none the less wise because it is not the wisdom of the West.

  109. She has six ounces at a time; once before she goes to sleep, and then none till she wakens in the morning.

  110. The film formed after which none of us had ever seen recovery.

  111. She told us that she constantly came into contact with Temple women, none of whom had chosen the life as she and her fellow-ascetics had chosen theirs.

  112. And Arulai closed the class with a short prayer that none of the babies might ever be like the Unmerciful Servant.

  113. It should be added that often the Temple woman having daughters of her own dedicates them, and as a rule it is only when she has none that she adopts other little ones.

  114. Puck has none of Pickles' faults, and a good many of her virtues.

  115. For the person who moved up to a position beside the towering black Indian was none other than Madge Kennedy.

  116. No story of personal experience is more confounding to the modern reader, and none holds a truer picture of the time.

  117. Let him have outgone all the ancient examples of captains and kings, none of all his acts makes so much to his glory, as Callisthenes to his reproach'.

  118. You sinners are; and such a share As sinners may expect; Such you shall have, for I do save None but mine own elect.

  119. More solid fruits require a longer time, Each Season hath its fruit, so hath each Clime: Each man his own peculiar excellence, But none in all that hath preheminence.

  120. Many messages went back carried by friends who lingered at Cowes for the last look at the vanishing sails, but none better worth record than the words which hold the man's deep and tender soul.

  121. Twere extream folly should I dare attempt, To praise this Author's worth with complement; None but herself must dare commend her parts, Whose sublime brain's the Synopsis of Arts.

  122. And thus my pains with better things I lost, Which none had cause to wail, nor I to boast.

  123. Whatever may have come over afterward, there were none of the heirlooms to be seen to-day, in the shape of family portraits, and plate, china or heavily carved mahogany or oak furniture.

  124. Now, among the modifications of thought introduced by Christianity, there is perhaps none more pregnant with important results than the harmony which it has established between religion and morality.


  125. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "none" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    church; devotions; duty; evensong; liturgy; matins; meeting; noble; none; novena; office; prayer; prime; revival; service; vesper; vigil


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    none beside; none but; none conventional short form; none effect; none else; none former; none knew; none like; none local long form; none local short form; none more; none note; none other; none other name under heaven given; none shall; none the; none whatever; none will